Herbal Cure for Malaria

Practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine have discovered the best cure for malaria is a shrub that grows predominantly in Guangdong province China. Sweet wormwood (also known as Artemisia annua) has been used in Chinese herbal medicine for more than 1,600 years and was primarily prescribed for people suffering from high fevers.

Artemisia used in combination with other drugs has proven to be very successful in treating patients with malaria, and Artemisinin based combination therapies (ACTs) have become more common in fighting the disease. By itself Artemisia (which is usually prescribed in the form of a tea) is not an effective cure; this is because of the low concentration of the plant, however, when used in conjunction with modern science and treatments the plant has shown more promise than anything else available.

For many years Quinine was the preferred drug to use in fighting malarial infections. Quinine is a drug that is produced by scraping the bark of the South American Cinchona tree, and can be found most commonly in tonic water. In 2005 both Quinine and Artemisia went into trials to prove which was better at fighting malaria. Artemisia has been conclusively proven to have a higher success rate in fighting a malarial infection.

Although the medicinal properties of Artemisia have been known for hundreds of years, the knowledge was lost for much of that time. It was not until the 1960's when the Chinese government began a large scale campaign to find an effective cure that the plant was again uncovered as a potential cure for the malaria parasite. In some cases the plant is able to bring a case of severe malaria under control in about 2 hours. The plant is now being used by doctors around the world to treat malaria and is no longer limited to being used exclusively by practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

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