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Although sweet wormwood grows wild around the world, virtually all of the cultivation is in the hills of China and Vietnam.

Artemisinin is a compound naturally found in the Chinese Sweet Wormwood plant effective in the treatment of malaria.

Artemisia annua (sweet wormwood)

Doctors Without Borders wants to introduce artemisinin, a chemical that Chinese herbalists first derived 30 years ago from the sweet wormwood plant.

The drug, artemisinin (pronounced are-TEM-is-in-in), is a compound based on qinghaosu, or sweet wormwood.

The starting compound artemisinin is isolated from the plant Artemisia annua, sweet wormwood, a herb employed in Chinese traditional medicine.

Rural healers identified qinghao as what the West calls Artemisia annua, or sweet wormwood, a spiky-leafed weed with yellow flowers.

World health authorities have recently embraced artemisinin, a 2,000-year-old Chinese herbal extract of Artemisia annua, the sweet wormwood plant, as the most important new anti-malarial.

One compound was effective, sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua), which was used for "intermittent fevers," a hallmark of malaria.

He straight replied: "To drink up the sweet wormwood of affliction I have been brought thus early by the tears Stream'd down my Nella's cheeks.

The natural compound artemisinin, isolated from the sweet wormwood plant (Artemisia annua), and some semi-synthetic derivatives are important antimalarial drugs containing the 1,2,4-trioxane ring.

But in the last two years, a new crop, qinghao, or sweet wormwood, has been crowned king, driven by a desperate need in the tropical world for new malaria treatments.

The raw material comes from China and Vietnam, although the source plant, Artemisia annua, known as sweet wormwood or Chinese wormwood, grows wild even in the United States.

Known in the West as Artemisia annua, or sweet wormwood, the herb that contains artemisinic acid grows wild in many places, but supplies vary widely and so does the price.

For example, in the valleys of central China, a fernlike endangered weed called sweet wormwood grows, that is the only source of artemisinin, a drug that is nearly 100 percent effective against malaria.

Holley is investing heavily in increased production of sweet wormwood, as evidenced by acre after orderly acre of plantations of the bushy plant draped across a sweltering valley not far from here.

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By 1971, her team had made 380 extracts from 200 herbs, and discovered the extracts from Qinghao (Artemisia annua, sweet wormwood) looked particularly promising in dramatically inhibiting Plasmodium growth in animals.

The medicine, called ASAQ, is a pill combining artemisinin, invented in China using sweet wormwood and hailed as a miracle malaria drug, with amodiaquine, an older drug that still works in many malarial areas.

Artemisinin is 100 percent effective against malaria, but it derives from a weed called sweet wormwood that only grows in China and Vietnam and costs $2.40 for a course of treatment - a steep price for the world's poor.

Xu Qianmin, a farmer who gets his seeds from Holley, said his arrangements with the company prevented him from talking about the uses of sweet wormwood, probably, he said, because there may be more commercial hopes for the plant.

Confusion over dynasties seems to have given way nowadays to confusion over all the fuss being made over sweet wormwood, an ancient folk remedy for colds and fevers, even as trade in the herb begins to line people's pockets.

The new drugs will combine forms of artemisinin, a relatively new malaria drug developed in China from the sweet wormwood plant, with one of two established drugs, amodiaquine and mefloquine, which act more slowly but linger in the blood.

And, said Daniel Berman, a director of the Doctors Without Borders campaign for cheaper lifesaving drugs, Dr. Urbani was pushing Vietnamese farmers to grow more sweet wormwood, a plant that can produce artemisinin, a new malaria cure.

Sweet Annie seems safe for most adults when taken by mouth.

Not enough is known about the safety of applying sweet Annie directly to the skin.

The safety of using sweet Annie during the last 6 months of pregnancy is not known.

At this time there is not enough scientific information to determine an appropriate range of doses for sweet Annie.

The tea of sweet Annie might cause upset stomach and vomiting.

If you have allergies, be sure to check with your healthcare provider before taking sweet Annie.

Many researchers are investigating new ways to increase the amount of artemisinin in sweet Annie.

Sweet Annie is used most commonly for malaria.

Taking sweet Annie tea for 4-7 days might improve symptoms and decrease the number of active parasites in people with malaria.

The appropriate dose of sweet Annie depends on several factors such as the user's age, health, and several other conditions.

As long as your soil is well drained, you can easily grow sweet Annie, which is basically a weed.

Sweet Annie is an herb.

Sweet Annie contains a chemical called artemisinin that seems to be effective against the parasites that cause malaria.

A. You are probably thinking of Artemisia annua, aka sweet Annie.

Sweet Annie should not be used alone for malaria since it may only inactivate the parasites that cause malaria, not actually kill them.

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"Dearest, sweetest Annie."

Allergy to ragweed and related plants: Sweet Annie may cause an allergic reaction in people who are sensitive to the Asteraceae/Compositae family.

Sweet Annie is sometimes applied directly to the skin for bacterial and fungal infections, arthritis and other joint pain, bruises, nerve pain, and sprains.

There is some concern that if sweet Annie tea is used alone instead of in combination with usual malaria treatments it might only inactivate the malaria parasites, not actually kill them.

People with AIDS sometimes use sweet Annie to prevent an often fatal type of lung infection called pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) that is caused by a fungus.

Pregnancy and breast-feeding: Sweet Annie is LIKELY UNSAFE when taken by mouth during pregnancy.

Animal studies show that drugs made in the laboratory from artimisinin, a chemical found in sweet Annie, can cause death of the fetus or birth defects when used early in the pregnancy.

IF you have the urge to snip a snapdragon or sniff sweet Annie, your instincts might very well lead you to Warrups Farm in Redding, one of the few in the state that grows flowers as a pick-your-own crop.

The starting compound artemisinin is isolated from the plant Artemisia annua.

An extract from qinghao (Artemisia annua) was effective but the results were variable.

This would replace the relatively expensive process of extracting it from the Artemisia annua shrub.

A. You are probably thinking of Artemisia annua, aka sweet Annie.

This enzyme i present in Artemisia annua.

Cytotoxic terpenoids and flavonoids from Artemisia annua.

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It is a semi-synthetic derivative of artemisinin, a natural product of the Chinese plant Artemisia annua.

Rural healers identified qinghao as what the West calls Artemisia annua, or sweet wormwood, a spiky-leafed weed with yellow flowers.

One compound was effective, sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua), which was used for "intermittent fevers," a hallmark of malaria.

The natural compound artemisinin, isolated from the sweet wormwood plant (Artemisia annua), and some semi-synthetic derivatives are important antimalarial drugs containing the 1,2,4-trioxane ring.

Artemisinin is not soluble in water, therefore Artemisia annua tea was postulated not to contain pharmacologically significant amounts of artemesinin.

Randomized controlled trial of a traditional preparation of Artemisia annua L. (Annual Wormwood) in the treatment of malaria.

'Artemisia annua' is a common herb and has been found in many parts of the world, including along the Potomac River, in Washington, D.C.

ILs can extract specific compounds from plants for pharmaceutical, nutritional and cosmetic applications, such as the antimalarial drug artemisinin from the plant Artemisia annua.

Purified from the Artemisia annua plant, the drug is too rare and expensive for many of the people who need it, which has prodded researchers like Keasling to action.

Qinghaosu, later named artemisinin, was cold extracted in a neutral milieu (pH 7.0) from the dried leaves of Artemisia annua inspired by Ge Hong's recommendation.

Artemisinin (from Artemisia annua) is the active ingredient in the antimalarial combination therapy Coartem produced by Novartis and the World Health Organization.

Isoprenoid biosynthesis in Artemisia annua: cloning and heterologous expression of a germacrene A synthase from a glandular trichome cDNA library.

The raw material comes from China and Vietnam, although the source plant, Artemisia annua, known as sweet wormwood or Chinese wormwood, grows wild even in the United States.

Known in the West as Artemisia annua, or sweet wormwood, the herb that contains artemisinic acid grows wild in many places, but supplies vary widely and so does the price.

Extracts of the plant 'Artemisia annua', containing the compound artemisinin or semi-synthetic derivatives (a substance unrelated to quinine), offer over 90% efficacy rates, but their supply is not meeting demand.

Although it is an effective, proven treatment for malaria, current methods of producing artemisinin (found naturally in the plant Artemisia annua) are considered too expensive to cost-effectively eliminate malaria from developing countries.

Artemisinin, an antimalarial agent from sweet wormtree Artemisia annua, used in Chinese medicine since 200BC is one drug used as part of combination therapy for multiresistant Plasmodium falciparum.

Clinically useful drugs which have been recently isolated from plants include the anticancer agent paclitaxel (Taxol) from the yew tree, and the antimalarial agent artemisinin from Artemisia annua.