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Artemisinum.

Dear friends,

Can you please offer any advice on the propogation of Artemisinin.

Artemisinin is a new antimalarial drug of Chinese-Vietnamese origin,
derived from the herb Artemisia annua L., locally known as "qing hao" '
sweet wormwood or annual wormwood, and belonging to the family of
Asteraccae.

This plant has been used for many centuries in Chinese traditional
medicine as a treatment for fever and malaria.

The earliest record of the medicinal use of "qing hao" was found in a
recipe discovered in a tomb dating from 168 B.C. (Qinghaosu Antimalaria
Coordinating Research Group, 1979; Klayman, 1985).

Chinese chemists isolated the substance responsible for its medicinal
action from the leafy portions of A. annua L. in 1972.  They named the
crystalline compound "qinghaosu".  In the West it was called artemisinin
(Klayman, 1985).

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

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