Apr 30, 2021
‘The Recipes for #FiftytwoAilments contains the first known mention of #qinghao #青蒿 #wormwood in #history . Though it appears here in a recipe against female #hemorrhoids in later #Chinese medical texts wormwood was recommended for treating #intermittentfevers . In the 1970s, #artemisinin was isolated from #Artemisiaannua (a kind of wormwood) and shown to have #antimalaria properties. #archive https://www.instagram.com/p/COSexbJBaOM/?igshid=gvf9rh1tg0i4