In ancient times, malaria was also a common disease that threatened our ancestors, just like Africa now.
Our ancestors kept exploring and put forward Artemisia annua as a drug to treat malaria in Fifty-two Diseases Prescriptions.
In order to help Vietnamese soldiers in Vietnam overcome malaria, China established the "523" project team, and many units participated in scientific research.
Among them, the North Research Institute led by Tu Youyou is one of them.
Inspired by "Hold Artemisia annua once, dye it with two liters of water, and take it all" in Elbow Jifang (written by Ge Hong), Tu Youyou adopted a low-temperature ether extraction scheme to extract artemisinin, which achieved great success.
This kind of inspiration is crucial. Squeezing juice instead of decoction medicine inspired Tu Youyou to extract artemisinin successfully.
Now artemisinin has become the gospel and holy medicine for malaria patients in Africa, which has contributed greatly to the benefit of one party.
Note: In the past, the curative effect of traditional Chinese medicine decoction on malaria was unstable. After artemisinin was successfully extracted, the curative effect was stable and 100% was cured.