The field of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) represents a vast and largely untapped
resource for modern medicine. Exemplified by the success of the antimalarial artemisinin …

A long history of use and extensive documentation of the clinical practices of traditional
Chinese medicine resulted in a considerable number of classical preparations, which are …

Traditional medicines provide fertile ground for modern drug development, but first they must
pass along a pathway of discovery, isolation, and mechanistic studies before eventual …

As one of the major contemporary alternative medicines, traditional Chinese medicine
(TCM) continues its influence in Chinese communities and has begun to attract the …

Malaria is an ancient infectious disease that threatens millions of lives globally even today.
The discovery of artemisinin, inspired by traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), has brought in …

TCM-based medications have been used for millennia in China and have always been
“different” from current Western-based medicines in that they frequently are still mixtures of …

Traditional Chinese Medicines (TCM) are rapidly gaining attention in the West as sources of
new drugs, dietary supplements and functional foods. However, lack of consistent …

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared by Professor Youyou Tu, focused
worldwide attention on artemisinin, a natural product antimalarial drug inspired by traditional …

Artemisinin and its derivatives represent the most important and influential class of drugs in
the fight against malaria. Since the discovery of artemisinin in the early 1970s, the global …

During the first stage of our work, we investigated more than 2,000 Chinese herb
preparations and identified 640 hits that had possible antimalarial activities. More than 380 …