reviewAngewandte Chemie International EditionAug 4, 2016Closed access

Artemisinin—A Gift from Traditional Chinese Medicine to the World (Nobel Lecture)

Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College

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Abstract

Malaria has long been a devastating and life-threatening global epidemic disease in human history. Artemisinin, the active substance against malaria, was first isolated and tested in the 1970s in China. The important role played by traditional Chinese medicine in the discovery of artemisinin is described by Y. Tu in her Nobel Lecture.

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Keywords
  • Artemisinin
  • Malaria
  • China
  • Traditional Chinese medicine
  • Traditional medicine
  • Medicine
  • Alternative medicine
  • Plasmodium falciparum
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Good health and well-being
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