Artemisinin represents a showcase example not only for the activity of medicinal herbs
deriving from traditional chinese medicine, but for phytotherapy in general. Its isolation from …

The world is experiencing a cancer epidemic and an increase in the prevalence of the
disease. Cancer remains a major killer, accounting for more than half a million deaths …

Artemisia annua L. is used throughout Asia and Africa as tea and press juice to treat malaria
and related symptomes (fever, chills). Its active ingredient, artemisinin (ARS), has been …

Cancer is the leading cause of human death which seriously threatens human life. The
antimalarial drug artemisinin and its derivatives have been discovered with considerable …

Artemisinin and its derivatives have shown broad-spectrum antitumor activities in vitro and in
vivo. Furthermore, outcomes from a limited number of clinical trials provide encouraging …

Secondary metabolites from plants can serve as defense against herbivores, microbes,
viruses or competing plants. Many compounds from medicinal plants have pharmacological …

Artemisinin is the crucial ingredient of artemisia annua, a traditional Chinese medicine used
for the therapy of malaria in China for hundreds of years. In recent years, the anticancer …

Preclinical investigation and clinical experience have provided evidence on the potential
anticancer effect of artemisinin and its derivatives (ARTs) in the recent two decades. The …

Artemisia annua L., also known as sweet wormwood, sweet annie, sweet sagewort and
annual wormwood (Chinese: qngho), is a common type of wormwood that is native to …

Artemisinin, a sesquiterpene lactone derived from the sweet wormwood plant Artemisia
annua, and its bioactive derivatives exhibit potent anticancer effects in a variety of human …