indhana :

General Use:

It is an ingredient in the spirit absinthe, and is used for flavouring in some other spirits and wines, including bitters, vermouth and pelinkovac. As medicine, it is used for dyspepsia, as a bitter to counteract poor appetite, for various infectious diseases, Crohns disease, and IgA nephropathy.

Therapeutic Uses:

Epilepsy, paralysis, hemiplegia, sciatica, bradycardia, loss of appetite, indigestion, gall bladder disorders, Crohns disease, Dysmenorrhea

Systemic Use:

Its use has been claimed to remedy indigestion and gastric pain, it acts as an antiseptic, and as a febrifuge. For medicinal use, the herb is used to make a tea for helping pregnant women during pain of labor. A dried encapsulated form of the plant is used as an anthelmintic.

Administration:

Wormwood is taken in the form of infusion and decoction. The dried – pulverized herb is used for this purpose. Along with powdered herb, the extracts and tinctures in liquid or solid forms are also available which are used for oral administration. Wormwood is often combined with other medicinal herbs according to the ailment to be treated.

Externally, the drug is applied for poorly healing wounds, ulcers, skin blotches and insect bites.

Pharmacological:

The herb has always been of a great botanical and pharmaceutical interest and is used in indigenous systems of medicine as a vermifuge, an insecticide, acaricide, cardiac stimulant , antispasmodic, antiseptic and diuretic, and for the treatment of chronic fevers and hepatitis, stomach aches, restoration of declining mental function and to improve memory . Its essential oil has antimicrobial, antifungal, neuroprotective , antimalarial , and antidepressant activity

Kotakkal Ayurveda - Mother land of modern ayurveda

indhana - Artemisia absinthium Linn. - Asteraceae