Children in Uganda recover from malaria faster when taking an herb-based combination therapy than when given standard drugs, solidifying the herbal drugs as frontline treatments for malaria in Africa.
Artemisinin is made from the leaves of the Chinese wormwood shrub (SN: 2/7/04, p. 94), and the drugs artesunate and artemether are derivatives known to kill the parasites that cause malaria.
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