Ai Ye

Folium Artemisiae Argyi (Aiye) Argy Wormwood Leaf Argy Wormwood Leaf is the dried leaf of Artemisia argyi Levl. et Vant. (Fam. Compositae). The drug is collected in summer before flowering, removed from foreign matter, and dried in the sun. Description: Mostly crumpled and broken, short petioled. When whole, ovate-elliptical, pinnatipartite, segments elliptical-lanceolate, margin irregularly dentate; upper surface greyish-green or dark yellowish-green, sparsely pubescent and glandular-punctate, lower surface densely greyish-white tomentose. Texture soft. Odour, delicately aromatic; taste, bitter. Identification Powder: Greenish-brown. Non-glandular hairs occurring in two types: one type T-shaped, with a elongated and bent apical cell, unequally 2-armed and a 2-4 celled stalk; the other type of uniseriate, 3-5 celled, with a very long and twisted apical cell, frequently broken. Glandular hairs paramecium-like in surface view, consisting of 4 or 6 oppositely-overlapped cells, devoid o