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Artemisia scoparia

Species of flowering plant

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The English common name of Artemisia scoparia is virgate wormwood, capillary wormwood, or redstem wormwood. In Mandarin Chinese it is known as yīn chén (Traditional: 茵陳) and it is an important traditional Chinese medicine, and is considered interchangeable with Artemisia capillaris for that purpose. Its pollen can be allergenic.

Chemical constituents

  1. Capillarisin
  2. Chlorogenic acid butyl ester
  3. 6,7-Dimethylesculetin
  4. Isosabandin
  5. Magnolioside (isoscopoletin-β-D-glucopyranoside)
  6. 7-Methoxycoumarin
  7. 7-Methylesculetin
  8. Sabandin A
  9. Sabandin B
  10. Scoparone (6,7-dimethoxycoumarin)
  11. Scopoletin
  12. β-Sitosterol
  13. Capillin

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