Pure artemisinin or Qinghaosu, is the active constituent of the herb Artemisia annua (sweet wormwood). Good quality Artemisia annua contains less than 1% of artemisinin, so pure artemisinin provides hundreds of times more of the active constituent artemisinin than the whole herb itself. Research has shown artemisinin to be particularly beneficial in balancing the microbiology of the GI tract.*
Artemisia has been used by herbalists in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for more than a thousand years in the treatment of many illnesses, such as skin diseases and parasites like malaria.*
