Plant Details

Accepted name:: Artemisia herba-alba Asso [Asteraceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
al shih	Other	Phenolics in Moroccan Med. Pl. Spp. (Mouhajir et al., 2001)
armoise	Other	ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009)
armoise blanche	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) Trad. Med. in Africa (Mahomoodally, 2013)
barbary santonica	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
barbary worm seed	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
blanche armoise du maroc	Other	ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009)
bo'ailhran	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
chih	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
desert wormwood	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) Trad. Med. in Africa (Mahomoodally, 2013)
ghurayrah	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
ifessi	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
izri	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
moroccan wormwood	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
semen-contra de barbarie	Other	Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
sheeh	Other	Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011)
sheih	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
shih	Other	Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994) Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) Trad. Med. in Africa (Mahomoodally, 2013)
tirkha	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
white wormwood	Other	National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014)
wormwood	Other	Healing Potential of Med. Pl., Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2000) Israeli Trad. Med. (Lev, 2006) Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000) Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002) Trad. Med. in Africa (Mahomoodally, 2013)
شيح	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998) Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011) Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
غريرة	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
‫شيح‬	Other	National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
whole plant		Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
Branch		Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002)
Branch		Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000)
Aerial parts		Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
foliage		Israeli Trad. Med. (Lev, 2006)
aerial parts		Phenolics in Moroccan Med. Pl. Spp. (Mouhajir et al., 2001)
leaves, bark		Trad. Med. in Africa (Mahomoodally, 2013)
leaves, flowers		Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
leaves, aerial parts	essential oil	ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 9 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Artemisia aragonensis Lam. Encycl. 1: 269 (1783).
Artemisia billardiereana Besser Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 9: 81 (1836).
Artemisia lippii Kunze ex Besser Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 8: 32 (1835).
Artemisia ontina Dufour Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 7: 294 (1820).
Seriphidium herba-alba (Asso) Soják Čas. Nár. Muz., Rada Přír. 152: 22 (1983).
Artemisia gallica subsp. maroccana Pau Cat. Fl. Rif Orient.: 61 (1934), nom. nud.
Artemisia herba-alba var. communis Ferch. Acta Bot. Gallica 144: 153 (1997 publ. 1998).
Artemisia herba-alba var. desertii Ferch. Acta Bot. Gallica 144: 154 (1997 publ. 1998).
Oligosporus lippii (Kunze ex Besser) Poljakov Trudy Inst. Bot. Akad. Nauk Kazakhst. S.S.R. 11: 170 (1961).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Artemisia aragonensis	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Artemisia aragonensis Lam.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Artemisia billardieriana Besser	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Artemisia herba alba Asso	Phenolics in Moroccan Med. Pl. Spp. (Mouhajir et al., 2001)
Artemisia herba alba Asso.	Med. Pl. in the Med.: Project Rubia (Gonzalez-Tejero et al., 2008)
Artemisia herba-alba	Herbal Med. in Jordan (Abu-Irmaileh & Afifib, 2003) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000) Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002) Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Artemisia herba-alba Asso	Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994) Healing Potential of Med. Pl., Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2000) Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998) National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020) Trad. Med. in Africa (Mahomoodally, 2013) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2022 (WHO-UMC, 2022) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Artemisia herba-alba Asso herba-alba	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Artemisia herba-alba Asso.	ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009) Israeli Trad. Med. (Lev, 2006) Med. Herbs Israel (Said et al., 2002) Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011)
Artemisia lippii Besser	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Artemisia ontina Dufour	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Seriphidium herba-alba (Asso) Soják	WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2021 (WHO-UMC, 2021) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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