Artemisia herba-alba, called Shih is a medicinal herbal plant found in the wilds. The biodiversity of this plant is heavily subjected to loss because of heavy grazing, land cultivation and collection by people to be used in folk medicine. In the current study, two cryopreservation dependent techniques to conserve the shoot-tips of in vitro grown Shih were evaluated: encapsulation-dehydration and encapsulation-vitrification. Shoot-tips of Shih were encapsulated into sodium-alginate beads. In encapsulationdehydration, the effect of sucrose concentration (0.5, 0.75 or 1.0 M) and dehydration period (0, 2, 4 or 6 h) under sterile air-flow on survival and regrowth of encapsulated shoot tips were studied. Maximum survival (100%) and regrowth (27%) rates were obtained when encapsulated unfrozen Artemisia herba-alba shoot tips were pretreated with 0.5 M sucrose for 3 days without further air dehydration. After cryopreservation the highest survival (40%) and regrowth (6%) rates were achieved when Artemisia herba-alba shoot tips were pretreated with 1.0 M sucrose for 3 days without further air dehydration. Viability of Artemisia herba-alba shoot tips decreased with increased dehydration period. In encapsulation-vitrification, the effect of dehydration of encapsulated Artemisia herba-alba shoot tips with 100% PVS2 for various dehydration durations (10, 20, 30, 60 or 90 min) prior to freezing was studied. After cryopreservation the dehydration of encapsulated and vitrified shoot tips with 100% PVS2 for 30 min resulted in 68% survival and 12% regrowth rates. Further conservation techniques must be evaluated to increase both survival and regrowth percentages.