Artémisia tea

Artémisia During the Vietnam War, Americans were treated with chloroquine to avoid catching malaria chloroquine to avoid catching malaria. The Vietnamese, unprotected, feared the disease more than the American GIs. They then appealed to China to help them fight the disease. This is how the Chinese passed on the secrets of artemisa tea to them and the plant was discovered by Westerners. A 7-day treatment would have been enough to prevent and / or treat the Asian soldiers against malaria. Currently, in some African countries, this same remedy is still administered successfully. It is also mainly in Africa, Asia and Madagascar that this plant is still cultivated for its medicinal benefits. A rich and powerful plant Three active ingredients are found in the leaves of Artemisia annua: sesquiterpene alcohols, sesquiterpene lactones and sesquiterpene acids. It is also rich in flavonoids, polyines, sterols, coumarins and triterpenes. In flowers, sesquiterpene lactones can be extracted, such as artemisinin, thujones, hydroxycoumarin, flavonolglycosides, polyins, tannins, coumarins.