Sweet wormwood or annual wormwood is annual plant from wormwood genus (Artemisia).

The medicinal properties of sweet wormwood are known and medically confirmed. The active substance artemisinin is isolated from sweet wormwood. It is used to treat malaria in Africa and Latin America and shows active effect against parasites and viral infections such as COVID-19.

The plant grows up to 150 cm/ 5ft in height. The stem is upright, bare, branched. The root is small and spindly. It has delicate feathery green leaves with a specific and very aromatic smell, they are 2 - 10 cm/ 0.8 - 4 inches long and 2 - 4 cm/ 0.8 - 1.6 inches wide. The flowers are small and yellow, 2 mm/ 0.08 inches in diameter, gathered in flower heads at the tops of the stems.

Sweet Wormwood is a modest plant with no special requirements and pests that attack it. Since it grows quickly and expands in height and width, it is necessary to provide it with enough space for growth. Sweet Wormwood is a modest plant with no special requirements and pests that attack it. Since it grows quickly and expands in height and width, it is necessary to provide it with enough space for growth.

The seeds are sown in the spring. When sowing sweet wormwood outdoors, it is best to do it in the spring after the danger of the last spring frosts has passed. If it is sown indoors, sowing can be done as early as February. The seed is covered with a thin layer of soil, and it will germinate even without this thin layer because it needs light to germinate. When the plants sprout, it is necessary to plant them at a distance of about 90 cm/ 3ft from each other so that each plant has enough space for its growth.

As soon as the branches of sweet wormwood reach a length of 20 cm/ 8 inches, they are ready for harvesting. Individual leaves can also be harvested before the plant and flowers bloom. Wormwood is best harvested during July and August, while the seeds are collected in autumn.

Artemisinin, which is produced in the plant and was first isolated in 1971, has long been successfully used in traditional Chinese medicine as an anti-malarial agent and to strengthen immunity. In 2015, the Chinese pharmacist Tu Youyou received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for her contribution to the research of artemisinin, which has been administered to approximately 200 million patients suffering from malaria since the 1960s.

Successes in the treatment of other diseases have also been recorded in traditional Chinese medicine. During the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, a herbal preparation was developed in Madagascar to combat the disease. In 2020, a study by M. S. Nair et al confirmed that the extract of sweet wormwood in vitro prevents the reproduction of the SARS-Cov-2 virus, the cause of the coronavirus pandemic.

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