Sentences with phrase «from sweet wormwood»

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).

The journey from sweet wormwood seed to harvest to finished drug is slow.

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«It is derived from a Chinese plant — sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua)-- and based on Chinese use of that plant as a drug,» he says.

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.

The bottleneck lies in limited harvests of the shrub from which the drug is extracted, Artemisia annua (sweet wormwood).