Artemisia annua synthesizes and accumulates a variety of secondary metabolites. Some of
the biologically active secondary metabolites substantiate the claim made in traditional …

Artemisinin, a sesquiterpene lactone containing an endoperoxide bridge, has been isolated
from the aerial parts of Artemisia annua L. plants. It is effective against both drug-resistant …

A comprehensive overview of this genus, Artemisia examines all aspects of the herbs uses
and applications, its mode of action and clinical importance. Following a comprehensive …

Malaria has been treated for over 350 years with quinine and quinine-derived drugs.
However, in several areas of the world, some strains of the malarial parasite Plasmodium …

Artemisia annua L. is an aromatic-antibacterial herb that destroys malarial parasites, lowers
fevers and checks bleeding, and of which the secondary compound of interest is artemisinin …

In the early 1970's, a potent and essentially non-toxic antimalarial agent was isolated from
qing hao (Artemisia annua), a plant used in Chinese folk medicine for some 20 centuries …

Treating secondary metabolites in cell cultures of plants with potential usage in the
pharmaceutical industry, this volume concentrates on the individual plant species, their …

Despite the importance of Artemisia annua L. as the only source of the anti-parasitic drug
artemisinin, little is known on the effects of biotic and abiotic stress on artemisinin …

The hexane extract of the aerial part of Artemisia annua yielded three new cadinanes along
with several known compounds of which five have been isolated for the first time from this …

For more than three centuries we have relied on the extracts of the bark of Cinchona species
to treat malaria. Now, it seems we may be changing to the leaves of a Chinese weed …