Artemisinin Herbal Extract Cures Malaria, Breast Cancer and Leukemia

Novartis Coartem Drug Eradicating Childhood Malaria

Artemisia annua (Sweet Wormwood, Sweet Annie, Sweet Sagewort 1) herb is a tropical plant used to treat malaria and is toxic against breast cancer and prostate cancer. Also, the herb has shown favorable pre-clinical results against leukemia and other cancer cells. 2 The herbal plant has bright yellow flowers and camphor smell scent. The average height of Artemisia annu two millimeters tall with a single stem and leaves 2.5 - 5 centimeters length. 2 "The Chinese call the plant Qinghao (artemisia annua) and have long used it for a multitude of medicinal uses." Artemisia annu dates back to 168 BC, suggested treatment for hemorrhoids. During the past two millennia Sweet Annie formidable treated fevers. Many flower arrangements, floral wreaths and ornamental decorations display Sweet Annie. 3 Artemisia annua native herb plant of China and Vietnam, as well grown in East Africa. The Indonesia government developed large scale cultivation of the herb, recognizing the importance of the herb main ingredient, treatment against multi-drug-resistant strains of falciparum malaria. 5 Main ingredient in Artemisia annua Swiss drug-maker incorporates to produce ant-malaria drug. 1

Most dangerous type of malaria (infectious disease) is falciparum transmitted by female mosquitoes. 4 Falciparum malaria causes up to 400 million infections and more than a million deaths a year. 1 Victims of falciparum malaria endure a rapidly high fever, as a result frequently lose consciousness and die of brain damage. 6