Artemisia Annua

Artemisia annua, sweet wormwood, annual wormwood, Nagdona, Daman

Botanical Name : Artemisia annua

English Name : sweet wormwood, annual wormwood

Hindi Name : Nagdona, Daman

Sanskrit Name : Nagdamani

Description

Artemisia annua, or popularly known as sweet wormwood is a plant common in USA, most of the Europe, China and In India.

This plant is a member of Asteraceae plant family.

This is a much branched, glabrous, sweetly aromatic annual plant. This plant grows to a height of about 2 meters.The leaves are bi or tri pinnatified, linear to lanceolate. The flowers are yellow, appear in loose pinnacles.

Usage

The whole plant contains an essential oil Artemisimin, and flavanoids.

Gujarati: Nagdamani, Sukhdarshan

Marathi: Nagdamani, Nagdavan

Kannada: Manjepatre, Urigattige

Bengali: Nagdoun

Tamil: Makkippu

Malayalam: Makkippuvu, Masipatri

Telugu: Masipatri

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