• Botanical Name: Artemisia Vulgaris L.
• Family: Compositae
• Flowering and fruiting: April - May.
• Parts Used: erial parts.
• Distribution: The plant is very common throughout Nepal at an altitude ranging between 1200-3400m. Himalayan, China, Korea and Japan.
• Method of Extraction: Artemisia Oil is obtained by steam distillation of the aerial parts of Artemisia vulgarisL.

Description:

A tall shrub up to 1m. Leaves alternate, entire, larage, ovate, acute, lower petioled, upper sessile or petioled; leads numerous, discoid, very small, globose, Flowers few, tinged with green and yellow or purple.

Specification of Artemisia
1. Organoleptic Properties
Appearance	Fluid liquid.
Color	Pale yellow or yellowish.
Aroma	Fresh-camphoraceous, somewhat biter sweet.
2. Physico-chemical Properties
Specific gravity	0.8786 to 0.9265 at 250C.
Optical rotation	(-) 13.25 degree to (-) 29.35 at 25degree C
Refractive index	1.350 to 1.49 at 250C.
Acid number	2.49 to 6.5
Ester number	25.05 to 55
Ester number after acetylation	65 to 90
Solubility	Insoluble in alcohol.
3. Chemical constituent:
Thujone, cineol, pinene.
4. Uses
In perfumery and as a flavoring agent