from Hacker News

Patients with drug-resistant malaria cured by plant therapy

by UhUhUhUh on 4/25/17, 1:09 PM with 8 comments

• by HillaryBriss on 4/25/17, 3:44 PM

  it's interesting that the dried leaf formulation was more potent than the extract alone:

  ...dried leaves of the Artemisia annua plant delivers 40 times more artemisinin to the blood than does the drug based on the chemical extract of the plant.

• by petard on 4/25/17, 1:51 PM

  Let's hope this doesn't get patented by the big guys.