An important element of the “Artemisia vulgaris project” are the two main tables (Table A and Table B), which form an integral part of the project. These tables present the content of the doctoral dissertation (in Polish language) in a graphically simplified and shorten form.

Table A presents the analysed sources from antiquity to the mid-sixteenth century; Table B presents sources from the mid-sixteenth century to the present day and TCM.

In both tables, on the ordinate (vertical) axis, are presented 32 sources (or groups of sources) which had been analysed in detail in the doctoral dissertation in chronological order from antiquity to the 21st century; the last row in Table B contains information on TCM. Table A presents 20 sources, Table B presents 12 sources.

The abscissa (horizontal) axis presents 19 parameters of the holistic and materialistic medicine nomenclature against which each source was analysed and evaluated:

1. author, title, publication date/print date
2. name of the plant,
3. primary qualities (2 out of 4) (dry/warm),
4. head / psyche,
5. {Shen},
6. chest / heart,
7. {Fire} / {Upper Warmer},
8. Stomach,
9. {Spleen},
10. {Middle Warmer},
11. {Liver},
12. intestine,
13. {Kidney} / urine bladder,
14. {Water},
15. {Lower Warmer},
16. females’ ailments,
17. {extraordinary meridian CHONG MAI / thrusting vessel (acupuncture route)},
18. external applications,
19. others

NOTE: Terms marked with curly brackets { } belong to the glossary of TCM (although numbers 9,11,13 have their equivalents in EBM too). The doctoral dissertation (in Polish language) explains all applied TCM terms in a “Glossary of basic terms used in TCM” (Chapter V, page 206). The glossary in the doctoral dissertation is NOT arranged in alphabetical order!

The nomenclature of the above-mentioned parameters and their composition in this order result from an integrative (i.e. materialistic and holistic) analysis of the medicinal properties of mugwort, obtained from reading and analysing the scientific sources mentioned in the bibliography of the dissertation.

All holistic terms in the tables (including TCM) have been highlighted in yellow. The purpose of this distinction was to highlight both the scope and importance of the holistic aspect in this project.

The terms of materialistic medicine are highlighted in orange in the tables. Their presence in the pre-19th century period (considered to be the beginning of evidence-based medicine – EBM era) is due to their unchanged clinical transmission for thousands of years, identical to that of today, even if expressed in an ancient form, e.g.: „suffering from (kidney) stones”, „ikterita (jaundice)”, „ascites (ascites)”, „exitura ani (rectal prolapse)”, „menstruation enhances (emmenagogum)”, „uterine pains” and others.

In Table B, in the rows: KOMMISSION E, A.VULGARIS IN XXI CENTURY, TCM, the following parameters are described in Arabic and Roman numerals respectively:

• KOMMISSION E – 29 fields of application of mugwort herb and root from monography of Kommission E – Arabic numerals (p. 168-169 dissertation)
• A.VULGARIS in the 21st century – 16+ new proven lines of biological activity of mugwort – Arabic numerals (p. 159-161 dissertation)
• TCM – 29 disorder patterns (BianZheng) from Chapter III/2 – Roman numerals (p.170 of the dissertation)

NOTE: the same number of disorder patterns (BianZheng/TCM) and fields of application in the monography of Kommission E (29) is coincidental and has no substantive meaning. 5 disorder patterns (BianZheng) are clinically identical with 5 fields of application and therefore have both Roman and Arabic numbering.

In addition, in Table B, in the source: KOMMISSION E, a pink table containing 11 fields of application has been highlighted. The significance of this table is described in the dissertation on pages 189-191.

From the separation of the two main tables, four auxiliary tables were created:

Table A/H and Table B/H containing only the nomenclature of holistic medicine;

Table A/M and Table B/M containing only the nomenclature of materialistic (non-holistic) medicine.

The purpose of this separation was to facilitate the evaluation and analysis of the content of both types of medicine, as well as to graphically illustrate the amount of information contained in each. Data on authors and titles of works, publication date/printing date and plant names were considered common and were presented in the same way for both types of medicine.

In addition to the tables posted on www. for direct viewing, all tables have also been made available in .pdf to download and print. The author of the project strongly recommends printing the tables in colour, in A3 format (or larger) for a better visual perception.