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Herb of the annual mugwort. The isolated active ingredient is artemisinin, the basis for the currently most effective antimalarial agent. In traditional Chinese medicine, the tea of annual mugwort (Artimisia annua) is used effectively against malaria. The discovery of the active ingredient artemisinin by Youyou Tu was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2015. In addition to malaria, artemisinin is effective against a variety of cancers: breast, prostate and intestine.
