Wellcome Collection
Ming herbal: (painting): Sweet wormwood
Unknown artist
Lettering: Sweet wormwood (qinghao, Artemisia annua), similar in appearance to [common] wormwood, bears yellow flowers, bears seeds the size of millet, bitter in sapor, cold, and non-poisonous. Indicated for scabies (jielai), scaly, itchy eruptions (?) and malign sores, to eliminate wind, and to treat heat lodged in the joints…
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