The journey from sweet wormwood seed to harvest to finished drug is slow. (discovermagazine.com)
Rather than wait months for sweet wormwood to grow on farms or try to cobble the drug together with artificial chemistry, Keasling wanted to create it simply by pouring sugar in a tank, then using engineered microbes to make the drug via a chemical pathway of his own creation. (discovermagazine.com)
In it, author Ge Hang advises febrile patients to «take a handful of sweet wormwood, soak it in a sheng [about 1 liter] of water, squeeze out the juice and drink it all.» (discovermagazine.com)