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Artemisia Species
Published in Mahendra Rai, Shandesh Bhattarai, Chistiane M. Feitosa, Wild Plants, 2020
Suroowan Shanoo, Jugreet B. Sharmeen, Mahomoodally M. Fawzi
It is also commonly known as European sage, lady’s love, oldman wormwood, and is grown in France, India, Italy, Spain, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. In ancient Greek and Roman systems of traditional medicine, Artemisia abrotanum L. was employed to relieve respiratory complications to enhance the clearing of the respiratory tract and improve breathing, and as a spasmolytic. The leaves are useful for gastrointestinal problems and aid digestion, menstrual flow as a febrifuge, antispasmodic, and serve as an anthelmintic (Thomson 1826).
The sixteenth century
Published in Michael J. O’Dowd, The History of Medications for Women, 2020
Remedies thought to have expulsive properties were drunk as a decoction with lukewarm wine. These included galbanum, juniper berries, pennyroyal and southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum, a uterine stimulant). Fumigation to ‘suffume the secreates with perfumes’ was also thought good for the purpose, but if the ‘odoriferous and swete smellynge thynges: as ambre’ (amber, the resin of various coniferous trees, antispasmodic and stimulant), ‘muske’ (dried secretions from the preputial glands of the deer, Moschus moschiferus, antispasmodic and stimulant), frankincense (olibanum from Boswellia species, an antiseptic and used to relieve menstrual pain in traditional Chinese medicine), or Gallia muscata were unsuccessful then fumes of ‘such thynges, the whiche stynck or haue abbominable smel: as asafetida, castorum, mans here or woman’s here burnt, pecockes fethers burnt’ were conducted to the birth canal. Sneezing was provoked with powder of hellebore or pepper. Once the placenta appeared, the midwife was to receive it tenderly and softly ‘leste it breake’.
In Situ Cultivation of Artemisia annua
Published in Tariq Aftab, M. Naeem, M. Masroor, A. Khan, Artemisia annua, 2017
Some authorities have elevated Besser’s sections to the subgenus level and reduced the number of subgenera to three, by combining Abrotanum with Absinthium to form the subgenus Artemisia, which was further divided into three sections: Artemisia, Abrotanum, and Absinthium. The shrubby members of the subgenus Seriphidium, endemic to North America, have been recognized as being closely related, distinct from the Old World Seriphidium, and grouped together in the section Tridentatae of the subgenus Seriphidium. Many authors have not accepted this assignment and have argued that the New World Tridentatae and the rest of the New World Seriphidium species should be considered as separate taxonomic entities. A similar close relationship among different species of the Abrotanum was recognized, leading them to be grouped in the subsection Vulgares (Colin, 2002).
Reliability of antioxidant potential and in vivo compatibility with extremophilic actinobacterial-mediated magnesium oxide nanoparticle synthesis
Published in Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine, and Biotechnology, 2019
Kavitha Kandiah, Thenmozhi Jeevanantham, Balagurunathan Ramasamy
Among the synthesized MgO NPs, SSA10 showed high yield in MgSO4 (115 mg), which is lesser than that obtained from chemical synthesis (190 mg) and magnesite soil-assisted synthesis (480 mg); however, the microbially obtained and green-synthesized MgO NP yield was higher than that reported previously [11,21–28]. Ibrahem et al. [35] reported the highest MgO NP yield at 56 mg/100 ml while using Aspergillus niger. Similarly, Dobrucka [21] and Anatharaman et al. [22] synthesized 10 nm MgO NPs from Artemisia abrotanum and 8.6 nm from Aloe vera and obtained a maximum of 65 mg yield and used them for various environmental applications.