Sentences with phrase «for sweet wormwood»

Since I do not have an article on any of these herbs, I will tell you my preferred vendor for sweet wormwood: Artemisinin.

One of the best known of these derivatives is the antimalarial drug artemisinin, the biotech moniker for the sweet wormwood plant that the Chinese have been using for ages to subdue fever.?

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Artemisinin and several derivatives are derived from qinghao, also known as sweet wormwood or Artemisia annua, a plant long known for its fever - reducing abilities.

In 2002 he learned of the dire need for synthetic artemisinin, a compound derived from the sweet wormwood plant, which is 90 percent effective against the parasite that causes malaria and has few side effects (malaria kills some 3 million people a year).

Artemisinin, also known as Qinghaosu and sweet wormwood, has been used by herbalists in China for over 2000 years.

A recent study found that sweet wormwood can kill up to 12,000 cancer cells for every one healthy cell it may affect.