-- Acupuncture -- -- Moxibustion -- Shiatsu Massage -- Esthetics -- ChiropracticArtemisia
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Botanical name |
Artemisia capillaris |
| Pin yin name | Yin Chen, Yin Chen Hao, or Mian Yin Chen | |
| Pin yin description | (yin means mat or carpet; chen means to display; the sprouts grow out from the old dried stems and a field of the plants looks like a soft carpet in the spring; hao refers to this general group of plants, the Artemisias; mian means soft; Mian Yin Chen refers specifically to the sprouts, the part used | |
| Other common names | Oriental Wormwood, Virgate Wormwood, Capillaris. See also: Artemisia vulgaris (Mugwort or Common Mugwort) | |
| Part used | Sprout (collected in spring when 60 cm high; old stems removed) |
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| Taste | Bitter | |
| Nature | Slightly Cold | |
| Traditional Chinese uses | Clear damp-heat, resolve the surface | |
| Traditional Chinese applications | Damp sores with pruritis; jaundice. Artemesia vulgaris' use: Mugwort is used in the practice of traditional Chinese medicine in a pulverized, aged, and recompounded form called moxa. The British RCT yielded results that indicate that moxibustion of mugwort was indeed effective at increasing the cephalic positioning of fetuses who were in a breech position before the intervention. Since it also causes uterine contractions, it has been used to cause abortion. It also plays a role in Asian traditional medicine as a method of correcting breech presentation. This method is termed moxibustion. |
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| Possible unwanted effects | None | |
| Herb drug interactions | None | |
| TCM and other contraindications | Qi deficiency with normal urination | |
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