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Artemisia Cina

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Adverse Effects of Herbal Drugs

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Artemisia cina O.C. Berg et C.F. Schmidt, a member of the Asteraceae family, belongs to the large genus Artemisia that comprises over 100 species. Synonyms are A. cina Berg, A. cina (Berg) Willkomm., and A. mogoltavica Poljak [3]. A. cina is a shrubby aromatic plant, a xerophyte, growing in semi-desert areas where extremes of temperature, both high and low, prevail. This species prefers a saline sandy soil. A. cina is native to the steppe-areas East of the Caspic Sea, in Afghanistan and in the Southern Ural region [1,2]. Vernacular names for A. cina are wormwood, levant wormseed (E); Wurmsaat, Zitwersamen, Wurmsamen, Zitwerbeifuβ (G); semencine and barbotine (F) [3,4]. The unexpanded flowerheads of the plant have been used medicinally because of the anthelmintic action of santonin (see below), and are known as santonica, Cinae anthodia, semen contra, semen Cinae, Santonica semen, flos Cinae, Zitwersemen and Zitwerblüte [3,5].

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  1. Royal Dutch Association for the Advancement of Pharmacy, Alexanderstraat 11, 2514 JL, The Hague, The Netherlands

    Peter A. G. M. De Smet

  2. Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte, Seestraße 10, 13353, Berlin, Germany

    Konstantin Keller

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    Rudolf Hänsel

  4. College of Pharmacy, Dalhousie University, B3H3J5, Halifax, Canada

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Woerdenbag, H.J., Van Uden, W., Pras, N. (1997). Artemisia Cina. In: De Smet, P.A.G.M., Keller, K., Hänsel, R., Chandler, R.F. (eds) Adverse Effects of Herbal Drugs. Adverse Effects of Herbal Drugs, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60367-9_2

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