青蒿

Noun

 * , especially the dried aboveground parts of the species

Usage notes
青蒿 commonly refers to, from which the anti-malarial compound artemisinin was extracted.

The definition of stems from editions of  prior to 1977, which erroneously assigned the binomial name A. apiacea to the name 青蒿, based on the supposed distinction between it and. This has been rectified in the 2010 edition of the Pharmacopoeia, which explains that 青蒿 is the “dried aboveground parts” of 黃花蒿. Many publications have attempted to clarify the confusion, including the article “Research on the true species of the traditional Chinese herb qinghao” (1987), written by the pharmaceutical chemist who discovered artemisinin.