Anomalocaris Posted October 7, 2015 #1 Share Posted October 7, 2015 (edited) Could ancient textbooks be the source of the next medical breakthrough? The discovery that won the latest Nobel Prize for Medicine wouldn’t have been much of a revelation to doctors in ancient China. Pharmaceutical chemist Tu Youyou established that the compound artemisinin could treat malaria in the early 1970s. But the plant the chemical comes from, Artemisia annua L. (sweet wormwood), was used to treat fevers perhaps caused by malaria as early as the third or fourth century CE. Read more Edited October 7, 2015 by Anomalocaris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted October 7, 2015 #2 Share Posted October 7, 2015 why could ? why still questioning ? At least its not one of those Scientists boggled headline ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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