From which ancient book did Tu Youyou find artemisinin?

Tu Youyou discovered artemisinin from ancient medical books in Luofu Mountain. Tu Youyou, a female pharmacist in China, won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of artemisinin. Her important inspiration came from the Elbow Back Emergency Prescription written by Ge Hong, a famous medical scientist in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, who studied in Luofushan, Huizhou, Guangdong. In Luofu Mountain Scenic Area, there is a Artemisia annua garden dedicated to commemorating Ge Hong's outstanding contribution, and a memorial stone tablet is built to commemorate the source of Artemisia annua abuse treatment.

Ge Hong, a famous medical scientist and alchemist in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, once practiced alchemy in Luofu Mountain, known as the first mountain in Lingnan. During this period, he compiled the earliest medical first aid manual in ancient China, and it was also the earliest teaching material to popularize Chinese medicine knowledge among the people.

Brief introduction of Tu Youyou

The Tu Youyou Nobel Prize event means that Caroline Medical College in Sweden announced in Stockholm on October 5th, 20 15 that Tu Youyou, a female scientist from China, shared the 20 15 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine with a Japanese scientist and an Irish scientist in recognition of their achievements in malaria treatment and research. Tu Youyou thus became the first person so far.

A native scientist in China who won the Nobel Prize in Science, and the first scientist in China who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, thus realizing the breakthrough of China people winning the Nobel Prize in Natural Science.