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News and Articles on Qinghaosu
News Bytes of the Week—In Judo, Blue Is Not Best Feb 16, 2008
One of the few effective strategies against malaria a mosquito-borne disease that claims the lives of more than a million people a year in Africa and Asia is artemisinin, or qinghaosu, a compound derived from the Chinese herb artemisia (wormwood). But there has been a growing black market for pills passed off as artemisinin-based, leaving duped buyers vulnerable to the potentially deadly condition. (Scientific American)
Malaria breakthrough raises spectre of drug resistance Apr 19, 2006
Artemisinin is extracted from the leaves of Artemisia annua, or sweet wormwood, and has been used for more than 2,000 years by the Chinese as a herbal medicine called qinghaosu. The parasite that causes malaria has become at least partly resistant to every other treatment tried so far. (Nature News Service)
New malaria treatment guidelines issued Jan 22, 2006
Artemisinin, also known as qinghaosu, is a sesquiterpene lactone extracted from the leaves of Artemisia annua (sweet wormwood), used in China for treatment of fever for over a thousand years. It is a potent and rapidly-acting blood schizontozide and is active against all Plasmodium species. (Pan American Health Organization)
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