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Suggested Serving: Serving is 100 mg 2 x daily or as directed by your physician. At regular servings this equals 60 total servings per bottle.
Artemisinin or Qinghaosu (pronounced: Ching-hao-su) is an extract from the plant Artemisia annua (sweet wormwood) or Qinghao (pronounced: Ching-hao).
Artemisia annua is a plant with a strong aroma, containing camphor and essential oils. It is a robust plant that grows in many areas of the world. However, only plants grown in special agricultural and geographic conditions contain artemisinin. The best high-yielding samples have been collected from the steep hills at altitudes over 4,500 feet around Youyang County, City of Chongqing in Szechuan Province, China.
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Artemisinin
Artemisinin is an extract of the Artemisia annua plant, also referred to as sweet wormwood, or 'qing hao' (pronounced Ching-hao). The herb contains camphor and essential oils giving it a strong aroma. It was used in traditional Chinese medicine as far back as the 4thcentury, by soaking and crushing the fresh herb, without the use of heat, to provide the most potent effect1. Artemisinin can also be obtained from two related plant species, A. apiacea and A. lancea, but it isA. annua that provides the largest quantities of the Artemisinin extract2. The plant was described as “cool” in nature (yin) and was used to treat irregularities in internal heat including chill and fever2,3,4.
Modern western medicine did not embrace the usefulness of Artemisinin until the second half of the 20thcentury. Malaria infections were on the rise due to the emergence of parasites that were resistant to commonly used antimalarial drugs of the time, primarily Chloroquine. In 1967, China began a systematic investigation into all traditional herbal medicines, with the hope of finding a new antimalarial drug2,3,4. Artemesinin was discovered to be the most promising4.
After years of research into its chemical structure and pharmacology, Artemisinin, and derivatives of it, are now considered among the most effective, fastest acting, and least toxic treatments available for resistant forms of malaria5,6,7. The effectiveness of Artemisinin as a broad-spectrum antiparasitic agent has also shown promise in fighting the world’s second most widespread parasitic disease, Schistomiasis8,9. It has also been used to balance the microbiology of the intestinal tract and treat ailments such as Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, and hemorrhoids4, and as a hormonal balancing agent for premenstrual syndrome discomfort4. Recent research is also suggesting that Artemisinin may have beneficial effects in response to a wide variety of cancers, including melanoma10, pancreatic11, leukemia12, colon13, and many others.
The Artemisinin sold by BioPure Healing Products is obtained from plants grown in the mountains near Chongqing in the Szechuan Province of China. At over 4,500 feet elevation, these special high altitude and geographical conditions produce healthy plants with high yields of excellent quality Artemisinin.
References
1 Wright CW, Linley PA, Brun R, Wittlin S, Hsu E. Ancient Chinese methods are remarkably effective for the preparation of artemisinin-rich extracts of Qing Hao with potent antimalarial activity. Molecules. 2010 Feb 4;15(2):804-12.
2 The discovery of artemisinin (qinghaosu) and gifts from Chinese medicine. Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award. Nature Medicine. Volume 17, Number 10, October 2011.
3 Hsu E. The history of qing hao in the Chinese materia medica. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2006 Jun;100(6):505-8.
4 Rowen, Robert Jay. Artemisinin: from malaria to cancer treatment. Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients. Dec 2002.
5 http://www.malariasite.com/malaria/artemisinin.htm
6 http://www.rsc.org/Education/EiC/issues/2006July/Artemisinin.asp
Artemisinin and a new generation of antimalarial drugs. Education in Chemistry. July 2006.
7 Price RN, Nosten F MD, Luxemburger C MD, Kuile Fo-ter MD, Paiphun L, Chongsuphajaisiddhi T MD, White NJ FRCP, Nosten F. Effects of artemisinin derivatives on malaria transmissibility. The Lancet, Volume 347, Issue 9016, Pages 1654-1658, 15 June 1996.
8 http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/schistosomiasis/health_professionals/index.html
9 http://www.parasiteclinic.com/4/TREATMENT.html
10Buommino E, Baroni A, Canozo N, Petrazzuolo M, Nicoletti R, Vozza A, Tufano MA. Artemisinin reduces human melanoma cell migration by down-regulating alpha V beta 3 integrin and reducing metalloproteinase 2 production. Invest New Drugs. 2009 Oct;27(5):412-8. Epub 2008 Oct 28.
11 Chen, H, Sun, B, Pan, S, Jiang, H, Sun, X. Dihydroartemisinin inhibits growth of pancreatic cancer cells in vitro and in vivo. Anti-Cancer Drugs: 2009 Feb;20(2):131-140.
12 Kim SH, Chun SY, Kim TS. Interferon-alpha enhances artemisinin-induced differentiation of HL-60 leukemia cells via a PKC alpha/ERK pathway. Eur J Pharmacol. 2008 Jun 10;587(1-3):65-72. Epub 2008 Apr 1.
13 Riganti C, Doublier S, Viarisio D, Miraglia E, Pescarmona G, Ghigo D, Bosia A. Artemisinin induces doxorubicin resistance in human colon cancer cells via calcium-dependent activation of HIF-1alpha and P-glycoprotein overexpression. Br J Pharmacol. 2009 Apr;156(7):1054-66. Epub 2009 Mar 9.
14http://depts.washington.edu/bioe/research/research_artemisinin.html
http://depts.washington.edu/bioe/people/core/singh.html