In the early 1970's, the active ingredient of sweet wormwood was identified as artemisinin (qinghaosu) a powerful, though unstable in vitro antimalarial.

The crusade launched by the Chinese government in the late 1960s to search for cures for malaria ultimately culminated in the discovery of artemisinin.

Artemisinin and its semisynthetic derivatives are a group of drugs used in the treatment of malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum. It was discovered in 1972 ...

Artemisinin (Qinghaosu), a new antimalarial drug, was discovered in China in the early 1970s. The discovery of artemisinin is attributed to You-You Tu, ...

The discovery of artemisinin. The story of artemisinin began in China in the late 1960s. After a brief respite, lasting only a few decades, malaria was once ...

29 июл. 2016 г. · Artemisinin was discovered during the Chinese “Cultural Revolution” in the 1970s, at a time when scientific research was not allowed, and ...

22 окт. 2024 г. · The isolation is reported of artemisinin (qinghaosu), a drug remarkably effective against malaria, from the aerial parts of Artemisia annua ...

20 сент. 2022 г. · Jamie Durrani tells the story of how a wonder drug against malaria was discovered from a plant in a secret Chinese military project.

As the first-line antimalarial drugs, artemisinins gained wide acceptance after the emergence of resistance to chloroquine in the 1950s.

It took two decades, but finally the WHO recommended artemisinin combination therapy as the first line of defense against malaria.