Today, We Salute Tu Youyou, The Discoverer of Artemisinin

Today (April 26th)

is the 16th "National Malaria Day"

Malaria is one of the most serious infectious diseases in the world

From the fear of "malaria" to malaria-free

China's road to malaria elimination

China's road to malaria elimination cannot be achieved without artemisinin

and its discoverer, Tu Youyou

In the 1960s, falciparum malaria was rampant

In 1969, at the age of 39, Tu Youyou was given an urgent assignment

Led a team of researchers to compile the classic texts and visit famous doctors

More than 200 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines

More than 380 kinds of extracts were screened and repeatedly explored

The 191st experiment was successful

Tu Youyou and her team finally developed artemisinin

Since its introduction in the 1970s

Artemisinin-based antimalarial drugs

have become life-saving drugs in malaria-infested areas

According to WHO's incomplete statistics

Artemisinin has saved millions of lives

has saved the lives of millions of people

Tu Youyou and her teacher Lou Zhizen researching Chinese medicine in the 1950s.

In 2015, Tu Youyou won the award for

"research on the combination of Chinese and Western medicines

proposed the therapies of artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin"

received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

This is a Chinese scientist

for scientific research conducted in China

The first Nobel Prize in Science

It is the highest award in Chinese medicine to date

It is also the highest award for achievements in Chinese medicine

As a tenured researcher of the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine

recipient of the highest national science and technology award

For more than 60 years

Tu Youyou has never stopped practicing TCM research

Artemisinin, dihydroartemisinin

Compound Artemether, Dihydroartemisinin Piperaquine Tablets ......

They are widely used in anti-malaria clinics

She also went abroad and eventually influenced the world

She once said:

"The motherland needs me, I have no choice."

China achieves the goal of eliminating malaria by 2020

June 30, 2021

World Health Organization declares China malaria-free

Cases of malaria infection in China

Reduced from 30 million in the 1940s to 0

This is a remarkable feat

Hats off to Tu Youyou!

Hats off to all the researchers!

Artemisinin is a sesquiterpene lactone drug with peroxy group extracted from artemisia annua, a traditional Chinese medicine. It has the characteristics of high efficiency, quick effect, clearing heat, eliminating deficiency fever, killing protozoa, and low toxicity, etc. At present, the curative effect of artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) used to treat malaria around the world has reached more than 90%. Has been widely used in the treatment of malaria in countries around the world. It has a powerful and rapid killing effect on the erythroid phase of Plasmodium, and can control clinical attack and symptoms quickly. At the same time, chicken coccidiosis, porcine pereplasmosis, toxoplasmosis, Yin deficiency fever, humid heat jaundice, vivax malaria, falciparum malaria, cerebral malaria and anti-chloroquine malaria have outstanding effects.