What is Chinese herbs mugwort used for?

It is also known as Artemisia Vulgaris in Latin, which is a perennial herb in the composite family. Regularly it can be found along open hillsides, grassy areas, and margin of forests. The best harvesting timing is from May to July when their leaves are in their utmost luxuriance while without blooming yet. And drying in ventilated shade is the way to make them with best medicinal effect.

Mugwort leaves are shrunk and wrinkled with short stalk after drying. The intact one is in oval shape, with pinnate parted in elliptic-lanceolate, irregular margin with coarsely sharply serrate. The upper surface is grayish-green with sparse pubescence and glandular dots; Lower surface is covered with thick whitish pubescence. The preferred one should be with thick leaf, green in color, whitish on lower surface, thick pubescence, and rich aroma.

What is mugwort herb used for?
It is bitter, acrid, and warm in nature. And Liver, Spleen, and Kidney are the three Channels it effectively acts on.

Main clinical usage and indications are spitting blood, nosebleed, menstrual disorders, hemafecia, uterine bleeding, period pain, bleeding during pregnancy, restless fetus, chest and abdomen pain due to cold, diarrhea and prolonged dysentery, abnormal vaginal discharge, eczema, sores and ringworm etc.

Usual dosage is from 3 to 9 grams in decoction.