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Artemisinin: A Cancer Smart Bomb

July 31, 2011 - Artemisinin: A Cancer Smart Bomb

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WHO: Artemisinin is a powerful remedy against malaria

June 30, 2023 -

Artemisinin, a natural constituent derived from the Artemisia annua plant, also known as sweet wormwood, as well as its derivatives, are described by the WHO as "powerful medicines known for their ability to swiftly reduce the number of Plasmodium parasites in the blood of patients with malaria."

In order to effectively control malaria once it starts spreading, powerful anti-malarial medicines are necessary, of which artemisinin and its various derivatives ...

Artemisinin from sweet wormwood treats not just malaria but also CANCER

July 05, 2023 -

Research published in the journal Pharmacology & Therapeutics explains that repurposing drugs for other purposes, such as artemisinin for cancer, "can significantly shorten new therapeutic discovery pathways, ensuring greater accessibility and affordability globally."

"Cancer is a leading cause of death globally and the majority of cancer related deaths occur in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) where conventional treatment options are often limited by financial ...

Ancient Chinese Remedy Shows Potential in Preventing Breast Cancer (press release)

September 13, 2006 - Ancient Chinese Remedy Shows Potential in Preventing Breast Cancer (press release)

Wednesday, September 13, 2006 by: NewsTargetTags: health news, Natural News, nutritionIn a new study, two University of Washington bioengineers found that the substance, artemisinin, appeared to prevent the onset of breast cancer in rats that had been given a cancer-causing agent. The study appears in the latest issue of the journal Cancer Letters.�Based on earlier studies, ...

Anti-cancer herb extract found to be ten times more effective when combined with aminolevulinic acid (ALA)

September 24, 2017 -

The team came to this conclusion after conducting a study based on one of their previous works. In the earlier study, they noticed that the parasite-killing effect of artemisinin was triggered by heme. This iron-containing compound serves as the non-protein component of biological molecules like hemoglobin, which in turn feeds the malaria-causing parasites that infest red blood cells. Once digested by the parasites, the heme stimulates artemisinin into action....

Chinese shrub offers best cure for deadly malaria

February 04, 2007 - artemisinin to fight malaria. Doctors from four countries � India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Myanmar � conducted a study of more than 2,000 patients with severe malaria, splitting them so some received quinine and others received artemisinin. The study, which ran from June 2003 to May 2005, had to be stopped because the number of people dying while fighting the disease with quinine was much higher than those given artemisinin.The study helped confirm ...

Counterfeiting, short supply hamper powerful Chinese herbal malaria drug

December 19, 2006 - Counterfeiting, short supply hamper powerful Chinese herbal malaria drug

Tuesday, December 19, 2006 by: Jessica FraserTags: healing herbs, Traditional Chinese Medicine, malariaLi Guiqiao, a professor at the Tropical Medicine Institute at Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said he first used artemisinin on malaria patients when he was a village doctor in China's Yunnan province in 1974, at the government's request. Within hours, all 18 of his ...

Purple mangosteen found to be a powerful remedy for malaria

August 16, 2018 -

One out of every two people in the world can fall prey to malaria. Most cases and deaths involving the infectious disease are caused by Plasmodium falciparum, a parasitical protozoan that is spread by the female Anopheles mosquito.

Plasmodium parasites can quickly develop resistance to antimalarial treatments. These include the standard compound artemisinin and any partner drugs taken alongside it during artemisinin combination therapy (ACT).

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Sermon 21: Bitter WORMWOOD is a powerful ANTI-PARASITIC natural medicine, reveals Bible nutrition educator Mike Adams

August 29, 2024 - artemisinin. A 2018 study in Nature Communications cited by Adams found that artemisinin and its derivative compounds kill the parasites responsible for malaria in two ways – damaging proteins and inhibiting the function of proteases (protein complexes) inside the parasites.Sweet wormwood also exhibits healing properties

According to the Health Ranger, malaria happens when mosquitoes inject the disease-causing parasites in the bloodstream when the insects ...

Sweet wormwood is a powerful alternative to chemotherapy – and it’s 1000x more effective

October 31, 2018 - artemisinin, and it’s been used in Chinese medicine for thousands of years to boost the immune system and stop parasites. In fact, its name is due in part to the fact that it is so good at expelling roundworms, threadworms and tapeworms by creating an environment in the intestines in which parasites struggle to survive.

Researchers from the University of Washington have found that a compound made of a highly concentrated form of wormwood and iron can be more than ...

If a natural cure for coronavirus is ever proven, this Chinese Medicine herb is likely to be the one (and no, we don’t sell it)

March 17, 2020 - artemisinin / sweet wormwood has a "100% cure rate" for treating drug-resistant malaria, at least in a small trial involving 18 patients (all of whom were cured). As Herbs.news writes in this important story:

A study led by Pamela Weathers, a professor of biology and biotechnology at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), published in the journal Phytomedicine, describes how the Artemisia annua plant, commonly known as sweet wormwood or sweet annie, saved 18 patients ...

Drug-resistant Malaria? Medication has failed for the first time

February 08, 2017 - artemisinin combination therapy (ACT), which is now the frontline treatment for malaria in many parts of the world. ACT consists of combining a drug in the artemisinin family (in this case, artemether) with a drug from another family in order to help bypass the growing problem of artemisinin-resistance.

"Frontline doctors should be alert to the possibility of artemisinin-based drugs failing, and assist with the collection of detailed ...

Scientists look at the purple mangosteen to treat malaria

July 24, 2018 -

The study was conducted by the Maranatha Christian University. Its findings were published in the journal BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

The researcher believed that future studies should track down the specific means by which the bioactive compounds of purple mangosteen suppress malaria. Identifying the most important compounds could lead to the development of a complementary treatment that boosts the effectiveness of artemisinin-based ...

Herbal medicine achieves stunning 100% cure rate for malaria after all pharmaceutical drugs left patients to DIE

May 15, 2017 -

The Artemisia annua plant, also known by the common name "sweet wormwood," and a derivative of the plant called "artemisinin" is often used in what is called "artemisinin combination therapy," or ACT for short. The chemical extract is used in combination with other drugs in an effort to combat malaria. But, a new report has documented how even though the pharma treatment and the plant may have a common compound, the two are worlds away from each other in terms ...

Why does Africa have such low rates of severe covid-19 infection and mortality?

September 10, 2021 -

Youyou Tu was able to isolate and synthesize artemisinin from the herb, sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua). The discovery has led to a novel therapy against malaria. William Campbell and Satoshi Omura cultivated dozens of strains of streptomyces bacteria and isolated avermectin. Renamed ivermectin, this bacterium was made into a blockbuster drug and become a novel therapy against roundworm infections. Today, ivermectin is showing promise for covid patients, and even ...

Chinese medicine herb discovered to prevent tuberculosis infections

April 06, 2017 - artemisinin as a tuberculosis treatment.

"We must note that tests in humans are a long-way away. First, we would have to conduct more studies, including to assess the interactions of the compounds we have identified with TB drugs. If we used artemisinin, we would have to make sure that resistance to this medicine does not develop, as is the case today for some malaria patients," Dr. Abramovitch stresses.

The results are published in the journal Nature ...

Herbal medicine and medical breakthroughs

a long time ago - artemisinin could treat malaria in the early 1970s.

“Tu discovered the properties of artemisinin (qinghaosu in Chinese) after reading traditional Chinese texts that dated to this era listing medicinal herb preparations. The route to the discovery and its dissemination was not easy due to both the difficulties of trawling through and testing hundreds of plant samples and the political climate in China in the 70s. Fortunately, persistence paid off and artemisinin ...

FDA warns against ivermectin to treat covid, but India uses it successfully for health care workers

March 10, 2021 - artemisinin is a powerful treatment for malaria and shows antiviral activity against covid-19. Like ivermectin, artemisinin is also an effective treatments for parasitic infections such as schistosomiasis.

The FDA’s suppression of ivermectin as a covid-19 treatment is the tip of the iceberg, as so many powerful phytochemicals are waiting to be used to heal people with respiratory illness. Hospital systems are operating in a stone age when it comes to understanding ...

Wormwood: An ancient cleanser and detoxifier

October 23, 2024 - artemisinin and thujone, which disrupt the cycle of parasites – making it difficult for them to survive. Wormwood also continues to be studied for its potential in treating malaria and schistosomiasis (also known as bilharzia or snail fever). Schistosimiasis is a tropical disease where parasitic flatworms infect the intestines or the urinary tract.

In a large clinical trial, researchers found that both Artemisia annua (also known as sweet wormwood) and Artemisia ...