Common Armoise

The common armoise ( Artemisia vulgaris ) is a long-lived herbaceous plant of the family of the Astéracées (Made up), commune in the moderated areas, sometimes cultivated like plants decorative.

Other common nouns: armoise lemongrass, artémise, royal grass, handing-over.

Plant known since antiquity. The Gallic ones named it “ponema”, but the name of sound kind comes from the Latin name of the goddess Artémis, who had also as a role to protect the sick women.

Botanical characteristics

long-lived being able to reach one meter even more, recognizable herbaceous Plant with its hurled stem, its dark green foliage, its flowerheads duveteux, tightened and very abundant on the branches, and its flowers yellowish or purple with a strong odor (even unpleasant for some). The Floraison takes place from July to October. The ruffled sheets release an odor similar to the Absinthe.

Culture

Is in a wild state close to the houses, the debris, on the roadside and along the railways, where it flowers abundantly during the summer (cf Liste of the principal bad grasses).

Use

Therapeutic use

Armoise (Artemisia vulgaris) is an analog of the Absinthe ( Artemisia absinthum ). Thus it presents to strong amount a toxic character. Several properties are recognized to him: Tonic, Febrifuge, Antispasmodique, Vermifuge and stomachic. In Infusion, it regularizes the cycle Menstruations and with the Ménopause. Is also used it to look after a urinary Infection. Put in the shoes, this plant would have like virtue to decrease tiredness during walk. Front, was used it to aromatize beer and to stuff turkey. It has a bitter taste and sweetened.

In Chinese Medicine, one uses it to make Moxas: sticks of armoise sechee which one makes burn near the points of the meridian lines to heat them. This principle east uses in Moxibustion and is an alternative to the Acupuncture and the Acupression.

Traditional uses