Herba Artemisiae Scopariae:Yin Chen,Artemisia capillaris,folk legend and fascinating applications!

Contents

• Botanical Info of Herba Artemisiae Scopariae.
• Plant Descriptions and Habitat:Artemisia capillaris.
• Food Uses of Artemisia capillaris.
• Legend:Yin Chen and Qing Hao.
• Constituents and Phytochemicals.
• Medicinal Uses of Yin Chen,Artemisia capillaris seedling.
• Liver and Gall-Baldder protection of Yin Chen,Artemisia capillaris seedling.
• Research Update:Herba Artemisiae Scopariae.

Legend:Yin Chen and Qing Hao.:

A folk tale or legend about this herb got translated from classical chinese literature as below:

 According to legend,end of Eastern Han Dynasty,wars frequent,successive crop failures,epidemic disease spread,the masses have no means to live. One spring,Hua Tuo accept a female patient,she is slim and bones,eyes apricot yellow,abdominal distention and sick up,Hua Tuo knows she got " epidemic jaundice",treat with care months,no recovery,but even serious.Hua Tuo has no other methods,only told her back home to put house in order.Surprisingly,1 year later Hua Tuo met her again,she was still alive and fine then,looks great,Tuo feels strange and asked her who treated,the lady told Hua Tuo that as highly skilled doctor as Hua Tuo could not treat her disease,she never planned to see others,no taken any other herb.Hua Tuo feels more curious:"no taken herbs,how the disease got treated?Ever taken some special things?"The Lady said:"nothing,crop failures these days,no rice to eat,we survive and eat Ye Hao as food." Hua Tuo know at once,"Oh,Ye Hao could treat epidemic jaundice."

 After that,Hua Tuo use Ye Hao to treat epidemic jaundice,this disease is hepatitis what we called todayt.But later,Hua Tuo noticed some patients got well after eating,but some others cannot be treated.Hua Tuo feels puzzled:"Is there any other reasons?"After visit many patients,Hua Tuo knows the collect date of Ye Hao showed some difference.Taken the Ye Hao collected at March,every patients got well,taken Ye Hao after april,all patients seems could not be treated.

 Hua Tuo go to field and observe carefully,wild field Ye Hao colored dark green grey when seedling at March the spring,but become greenish after april.All patients who eat the grey green seedling got treated,yet other who eat the greenish leaves no effects.This means the grey color Hao collected at Feb or March has the best effects for treatment of epidemic jaundice.

 With practices,Hua Tuo discovered that the greenish Hao could not treat epidemic jaundice,but it can be used to clearing Heat of Deficiency type,prevent malaria and cooling blood.To make a difference and easy to identify with for folks,Tuo gave another name for the grey color Hao which can treat epidemic jaundice,name "Yin Chen",to difference it with another greenish Hao which can be used to clearing Heat of Deficiency type,prevent malaria and cooling blood,"Qing Hao",doggerel born for this:"San Yue Yin Chen Si Yue Hao(March Yin Chen April Hao)".

the legend of "San Yue Yin Chen Si Yue Hao"

Reference:

• 1.Herba Artemisiae Scopariae:Yin Chen,Artemisia capillaris,folk legend and fascinating applications!

This article written and edited via herbalist of MDidea Extracts Professional. They run a range of online descriptions about this herb,including general information related and summarized updating discoveries from findings of professional scientisits this field related.Describe style aimed to form a useful detecting literature space where the intertwined threshold and related questions raise out and visualize themselves.

♣ last edit date:22nd,Oct.2010.