Medicinal Actions

Antibacterial, Antimalarial, Antiplasmodial, Antipyretic, Antitumor, Antiviral, Cytotoxic, Herbicide, Immunodepressant, Immunostimulant, Parasiticide, Phagocytotic, Protisticide, Schistosomicide, Schizonticide, Teratogenic, Viricide

Primary Conditions Treated

Bitter Abscess Bacteria Boil Cancer Cerebrosis Clonorchis Cold Diarrhea Dysentery Dyspepsia Escherichia Fever Flu Gas Hemorrhoid Immunodepression Infection Itch Leishmaniasis Lupus Malaria Malaria Prevention Night Sweats Ophthalmia Parasite Parasitemia Pneumonocystis Salmonella Scabies Schistosomiasis SLE Sore Staphylococcus Thrombosis Tuberculosis Tumor Virus Xerostoma

General Dosage

General; 4.5–9 g plant in decoction; 3 g plant juice/day for malaria; 30 g plant or decoction; 10–20 g/day dry herb or 20–40 ml fluid extract; higher doses suggested for malaria and lupus; 50 mg/kg artemisinin for 3 days; 300 mg/day artemisinin for 50 days for SLE or 30–54 g herb/day.