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Two bright yellow flowers of Skytanthus acutus Meyen.
Kew Science | Read & Watch

Finding novel treatments for malaria

… is a chemical that occurs in sweet wormwood or qinghao ( artemisia annua ), a traditional chinese medicine, which was …

Bright yellow flowers of gorse
Kew Science | Read & Watch

Ethnoveterinary medicine: Can you help?

… is used to treat mastitis and sternal abscesses, mugwort ( artemisia vulgaris ) to treat zinc deficiency, self-heal ( …

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Plants and the evolution of anticancer drugs

… diseases such as malaria (artemisinin from sweet wormwood;  artemisia annua ) and pain (aspirin, originally based on a …

Tree trunks.
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New Kew discoveries for 2018

… of fungus that feeds on the allergenic eurasian weed,  artemisia  (ragweed). … plant discoveries most of kew’s …

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Failure to tap into the myriad uses of plants and fungi is costing people and planet, says new report

… to treat inflammation, high blood sugar and scorpion stings artemisia baxoiensis, located in tibet, is closely related to the antimalarial species artemisia annua three new species from the genus oenothera …

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