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Sweet wormwood, drugs derived

Sweet wormwood contains the compound artemisinin. Artemisinin and compounds derived from sweet wormwood are widely used as antimalarial drugs (Meshnick 2002). [Pg.94]

However, the most modern drugs in our armoury to fight malaria infections are derivatives of artemisinin. This natural product originates from the sweet wormwood, Artemisia annua), a traditional Chinese herbal medicine, which had already been in use for malaria treatment some 1,300 years prior to quinine, albeit its active principle was only discovered in the 1970s. [Pg.455]


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