Artemisia annua

Artemisia annua
a plant in the family Compositae from which an antimalarial and antischistosomal drug is produced.

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sweet wormwood; a Eurasian species used in Chinese medicine to control fever and as an antimalarial; it is the source of artemisinin.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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