SWEET ANNIE ANNUAL WORMWOOD

SWEET ANNIE, ANNUAL WORMWOOD (Artemisia annua L.) ++

Activities (Sweet Annie) :
Antibacterial (1; DAA; FAY); Antimalarial (2; FNF; WO3); Antiplasmodial (2; DAA; FNF); Antipyretic (1; DAA; KEB); Antitumor (1; FNF; KEB; WO3); Antiviral (2; FNF); Bitter (1; KEB); Cytotoxic (1; DAA; KEB; WO3); Herbicide (1; DAA; FNF); Immunodepressant (1; KEB); Immunostimulant (1; DAA; KEB); Parasiticide (2; DAA; KEB); Phagocytotic (1; KEB); Protisticide (1; DAA); Schistosomicide (1; X10729713); Schizonticide (1; DAA; KEB); Teratogenic (1; DAA; KEB); Viricide (1; FNF).

Indications (Sweet Annie) :
Abscess (f; DAA; FAD); Bacteria (1; DAA; FAY); Boil (f; FAD); Cancer (1; FNF; KEB; WO3); Cerebrosis (f; DAA); Clonorchis (1; KEB); Cold (2; FAD); Diarrhea (f; FAD); Dysentery (f; DAA; FAD); Dyspepsia (2; FAD); Escherichia (1; FAY); Fever (1; DAA; FAY; KEB); Flu (2; FAD); Gas (1; DAA; FAD); Hemorrhoid (f; FAY); Immunodepression (1; DAA; KEB); Infection (f; FAY); Itch (f; WO3); Leishmaniasis (1; KEB); Lupus (f; KEB); Malaria (2; DAA; FAD; FNF; WO3); Malaria Prevention (2; FAD); Night Sweats (f; DAA; FAD); Ophthalmia (f; DAA); Parasite (2; DAA; KEB); Parasitemia (1; DAA); Pneumonocystis (1; KEB); Salmonella (1; FAY); Scabies (f; DAA; WO3); Schistosomiasis (1; X10729713); SLE (2; KEB); Sore (f; WO3); Staphylococcus (1; FAY); Thrombosis (f; DAA); Tuberculosis (f; DAA; FAY); Tumor (1; FNF; KEB; WO3); Virus (2; ABS; FNF); Xerostoma (f; FAY).

Dosages (Sweet Annie) :
General; 4.5–9 g plant in decoction (FAY); 3 g plant juice/day for malaria (FAY); 30 g plant (dry leaf) or decoction (FAY); 10–20 g/day dry herb or 20–40 ml fluid extract (1:2) (for all KEB’s Chinese posologies, these ratios apply) (KEB); higher doses suggested for malaria and lupus (KEB); 50 mg/kg artemisinin for 3 days (KEB); 300 mg/day artemisinin for 50 days for SLE or 30–54 g herb/day.

Contraindications, Interactions, and Side Effects (Sweet Annie) :
My secretary, Judi, is allergic to the nonflowering material, even in a sealed envelope (JAD). May cause allergy or dermatosis (FAD).

Extracts (Sweet Annie) :
Contains half a dozen or more antiviral compounds, some proven synergic. One naturopathic physician, Dr. S. Morris, on ecotour in Ngorongoro Crater, where all mosquitoes are malarial, took a tincture of Artemisia annua instead of chloroquine or Lariam, like the rest of us were taking for malaria prevention. None of us got malaria. Subsequently, that’s what I have taken as preventive in Amazonian Peru, where even my shaman caught malaria. Whole herb is more active than artemisinin; gelatin capsules of herb is 3.5 times more effective than artemisinin for clearing parasitemia in mice. Capsules are better than chloroquine for fever and malarial symptoms (KEB). Artemisinin is slightly active against Escherichia coli, Enterobacter spp., Klebsiella, Proteus spp., Serratia marcescens, Staphylococcus aureus, and Streptococcus faecalis (MIC >32 µg/ml) (KEB). Perhaps doubting empirical wisdom, Klayman questions how the ancient Chinese could have recognized the antimalarial activity when it takes such a large batch of plants to produce a small amount of qinghaosu (the substance artemisinin). Perhaps the answer will be found by testing (whole-herb coldwater) extracts in human beings (DAA).