Mugwort chemical constituents and pharmacological research.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 14 Mugwort chemical constituents and pharmacological research [Keywords:] mugwort Keywords:: Artemisia; chemical composition; pharmacological effects Mugwort Artemisia vulgaris L., also known as Artemsia argyi grass, for the perennial wild Asteraceae Artemisia herbs. Mugwort for our traditional Chinese medicine, to leaf medicine, ancient medical books recorded as ‘bleeding to drugs’, is one of gynecological medicine commonly used. Mugwort has a warm by the bleeding, cold-dispelling pain, regulating menstruation tocolysis, dehumidifying itching, pass through the rolling and other effects [1]. For Shaofu Leng Tong, after cold is not transferred, Gong cold sterility, hematemesis, Nvxue, uterine bleeding by more than the next pregnancy, blood; outside the governance of the skin itching. Although the medicinal plants used in popular habit for thousands of years of history, but the medicinal mugwort composition and use of scientific analysis, then begins in modern times. In recent years, a lot about the mugwort in pharmacognosy, chemical composition, pharmacological effects, clinical application, process and quality control, etc. were reported. This article far as Mugwort in the chemical composition, pharmacological research conditions are summarized below. 1 Studies on chemical constituents The medicinal part is the Artemsia argyi mugwort, a medicinal function Artemsia argyi chemical substances contained in them comes from having studied the chemical constituents of Artemisia are mainly volatile oils, flavonoids, eudesmane, triterpenes and trace chemical elements such as [ 2]. 1.1 Mugwort volatile oil constituents of Artemisia whole plant volatile oil content of 0.20% ~ 0.33% [1]. In 1985 Liang-feng et al [3] first reported the chemical composition of volatile oil from Artemisia to 1,8 - cineole as the main compound of the volatile oil (39.45%) for nearly 40 different compounds, mainly α -orientalis-ene, pinene , camphene, sabinene, 1 - oc