LASKER-DERAKEY CLINICAL MEDICAL 游充通大 是上5上A足A为A COMMENTARY Shanghai Jiao The discovery of artemisinin(qinghaosu) and gifts from Chinese medicine Youyou Tu Joseph Goldatein has written in this journal (through inventian)an elatioo(hroogh击covery》are two different to advancement in the hiomedical sci In my work as a phylochemist,par ticularly during the period from the late 1960 to the 1980s,I have been fortunate enough to travel both routes. Univenity School of Pharmacy in 1955 Since then,I have been involved in researc an Chinese berbal medicine in the China vinusly knonn as the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine).Prom 1959 to 1962.I wa in Western medicine.The 2.5-year train g guided me to the won be found in Chinese medicine and toward I thinking that underlies a holistic view of cies by Ge Hong C284-346 CE)(a)Ming dy nan beings and the univene. 1574CE the juice and Discovery of antimalarial effect of qinghao been a life-threstenins disease for thousands of dictory to what was recorded in the literature Seeking an erplanation we carried out an o eradicat址malaria地he1950山e disease ertraction and isolation of censtituents with intenaive review of the literature.The oely ref sible antimalarial activities from Chinese parasites resistant to the exiting antimalarial name of Artemisia anua L)for allevisting drugs of the time,mch as chloroquine During the fint st ork,we inves created an urgent need for new antimalarial eated mort than 2,000 Chinese herb prepara tions and identified 640 hits that had ponsible "A handful of qinghao immersed with 2 liten malaria was set up in China under the larial activities.Mo of water,wring out the juice and drink it all ership of the Project 523 office.My institute obtained from -200 Chin (Fig 1).This sentence gave me the idea that the quickly became involved in the project and appeinted me to be the head of a malaria tion step we had ted might have deatroyed the active componenta and that The turning point came when an 4 sho a erShanghai Jiao Tong University