Nobel Prize Awarded to Chinese Herbal Medicine Researcher!
Scientist Youyou Tu was awarded the nobel prize in medicine for her work on the malarial curing medicine, Artemisinin. She discovered this compound from the Chinese herb Artemisia annua (qinghaosu 青蒿素), or sweet wormwood, which was documented over 1,700 years ago.
“Tu has always maintained that she drew her inspiration from the medical text of a fourth-century Chinese physician and daoist alchemist named Ge Hong 葛洪 (ca 283-343).”
It is exciting to not only see ancient herbal medicine used in present day pharmacology successfully, but to have THE premier scientific institution award her such a prestigious honor.