A short summary of the history of ARTEMISIA

A short brief Note about Artemisia:

Naturally occurring plant compounds represent a largely untapped source of potential chemotherapeutic molecules to control different types of cancers with very minimal side effects.

One such phytochemical is artemisinin, which is a sequiterpene lactone that was isolated from the aerial portions of the Artemisia annua plant (more commonly known as Afsanteen or sweet wormwood for more than 3000 years in AYURVEDA, the Traditional Medicinal System of Treatment in sub-continant ).
The seeds of ARTMESIA are freely available in Pakistan,Iran, India,Bangladesh with the name" Khak-seer ".
Artemesia plant was discovered by PROPHET ENOCH (HAZRAT IDRESS AS) .He used Artemisia for Wounds and Fevers 7000 years BC .

The sub­­-continant practitioners have utilized this herb in dried form of whole plant or boiling the dried herb or to make paste of fresh plant to treat a variety of illnesses, such as intestinal parasitic infections, hemorrhoids,Wounds and fever for about 3000 years .
Amazingly, i found that the people of Iran, Tajikistan ,Uzbekistan and some provinces of Afghanistan i.e Qunduz, Tahkhar,Mazar e shareef are taking fresh & newly grow Artemesia Leaves with cucumber,carrot,Onion etc as Salad with food.
When I was collecting data for these countries where people used Artemisia as salad,amzzingly i came to know that the Cancer is very very rare in these countries.But that will be more investigated for further Research on Artemisia.

Artemisia is not a Chinese herb ,but it is found in china as well as found in Africa,South America,Europe,Asia as such a global medicinal plant.In Africa and Asia Artemisia is used for fevers and wound from thousands of years. Artemisia is one of the mainstream drugs used in sub continant medicinal system and have very good results.

The chinese scientist discoverd the mode of action of Artemisia in 1972 ,prof Tu yu yu and her team made this great achievement and honoured a Nobel Prize in 2015 but the Chinese claim is wrong that Artemisia is a chinese medicinal plant.

In 1876~98 some German Chemists worked on Artemisia but unfortunately their work is no longer availabe after world war II.





A.Saeed, May 2019