IT IS easy, in the arrogance of scientific advance, to forget that less than a century and a half ago most medicines were herbal remedies. To this day, some of the best-known, including aspirin, morphine and digitalis, are either made from plants or based on plant molecules. So the fact that artemisinin, the newest treatment for malaria, is derived from a plant used for that purpose in China for well over 2,000 years should be no surprise. The earliest recipe consulted by artemisinin's discovere...
IT IS easy, in the arrogance of scientific advance, to forget that less than a century and a half ago most medicines were herbal remedies. To this day, some of the best-known, including aspirin, morphine and digitalis, are either made from plants or based on plant molecules. So the fact that artemisinin, the newest treatment for malaria, is derived from a plant used for that purpose in China for well over 2,000 years should be no surprise. The earliest recipe consulted by artemisinin's discovere...
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