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You should only take medicines prescribed by a qualified medical practitioner (a Doctor). Doctors are trained on which combinations of drugs are save together and which drugs are appropriate for each INDIVIDUAL person. DO NOT SELF MEDICATE.
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Is artemisinin polar or non polar?
Artemisinin, as pure substance has a slightly polar character.
What is an artemisinin?
An artemisinin is a variety of antimalarial dug derived from the sweet wormwood shrub, and used in traditional Chinese herbal medicine for malaria.
What is an artesunate?
An artesunate is a drug, belonging to the artemisinin group, used to treat malaria.
Why does the World Health Organisation discourage the use of artemisinin as a monotherapy for malaria treatment?
An artemisinin is a powerful medicine that quickly reduces the parasites in a malaria sufferers blood. The World Health Organisatiob (WHO) has discouraged the use of these because the parasites have started to become resistant to the treatment.
Can breast cancer be treated with wormwood?
one of the sesquiterpene lactones, artemisinin, has shown promise as a treatment for breast cancer.
How exactly does Artemisinin kill the malaria parasite?
I know it is because of artemisinins unusual peroxide bridge... but how exactly i don't know
What is an annual wormwood?
An annual wormwood is an Asian aromatic herb, Latin name Artemisia annua, which is the source of the antimalarial drug artemisinin.
How can you control a parasite borne disease?
That would completely depend on what the disease is. Though often times using an artemisinin derivative is used to fight parasite-borne diseases.
What have recent studies indicated about the use of mugwort as a medicinal?
Has been shown to have antimalarial properties and a group of researchers in Mississippi has shown that artemisinin is toxic to several different types of human cancer cells.
What alternative treatments are there for malaria?
The Chinese herb qiinghaosu (the Western name is artemisinin) has been used in China and southeast Asia to fight severe malaria, and became available in Europe in 1994. Because this treatment often fails, it is usually combined.
What Nobel prize did Tsui Chyu won?
Tsui Chyu did not win a Nobel Prize. However, Tu Youyou, a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015 for her discovery of artemisinin, a drug used to combat malaria.
Is Amatem an Antimalarial drug?
Yes, Amatem is a trade name for a new class of antimalarials called ACTs (Artemisinin-Lumefantrine Combination Therapy), used to treat uncomplicated malaria in areas where there is a high rate of chloroquine resistance such as in SE Asia and West Africa.
