The integrative therapeutic portrait of a medicinal plant collects, contains and combines information from various written sources relating to its healing medicinal qualities, into a given whole. In the case of mugwort, this information, due to the structure of its historical transmission, has been analysed not only from a medical perspective (indications, nosology, therapy), but also from a philosophical and cultural one (holism/materialism - role of the therapist, organisation of therapy in different medical systems), as well as from a spiritual (monotheism/polytheism, role of deities).

Due to the resulting diversity of information, the main difficulty in creating such a portrait is to integrate the obtained information obtained around the predefined research problem set. A way of such integration is to organise them according to the preset (most important) characteristics. It should be noted that the original set of characteristics can be revised in the course of acquiring information, if the conclusions of the analysis so far require such a revision. For the same reason, further (new) features may be added to the integration portrait.