noun

• another term for qinghaosu

  ‘The team started with the Chinese herbal medicine, artemisinin, which has anti-malarial properties.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘One way of tackling this problem is to simplify the treatment by using rectal quinine or rectal artemisinin or artesunate, which could be given promptly even at basic health facilities.’
  • ‘The two most important groups of drugs for malaria treatment are still based on quinine or artemisinin.’
  • ‘The Chinese have been using artemisinin for more than 2000 years to treat a variety of ailments.’
  • ‘In the following decade, Chinese scientists based at the institute devised an inexpensive synthetic version of their antimalarial drug artemisinin.’