Sweet Annie Essential Oil
Sweet annie (Artemisia annua) is also known as Chinese wormwood or sweet wormwood. Although it is in the same genus as both wormwood (absinthe, Artemisia absinthium) and mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), each of these herbs have different uses and should not be confused.
For more than 1,500 years, sweet annie tea was used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to treat fevers, although the herb fell out of favor for a few centuries. In 1970, a TCM handbook from the 5th Century was discovered and stimulated interest in sweet annie. Although originally used to treat fevers, sweet annie was not used specifically for malaria.
| Botanical Name: | Artemisia annua (L.) Merr. |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Synonyms: | Sweet Wormwood, Sweet Annie, Sweet Sagewort or Annual Wormwood |
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| Extraction Method: | Steam Distillation |
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