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Qinghao → Artemisinin: the Nobel Prize 青蒿素 — 诺贝尔奖
Proven by Science — the TCM story 中医实证史 proven evidenceWhat the evidence says:
THE proof-of-concept for this whole app. Tu Youyou screened classical texts, found Ge Hong's 340 CE cold-extraction hint for 青蒿 (sweet wormwood), isolated artemisinin — now WHO first-line malaria therapy credited with millions of lives. Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2015.
THE proof-of-concept for this whole app. Tu Youyou screened classical texts, found Ge Hong's 340 CE cold-extraction hint for 青蒿 (sweet wormwood), isolated artemisinin — now WHO first-line malaria therapy credited with millions of lives. Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2015.
How to make it
None — artemisinin is a prescription antimalarial. This entry preserves the story: rigorous science mining classical texts is how tradition becomes proof.
Why it works
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Classical source
Zhouhou Beiji Fang 肘后备急方 (Ge Hong, ~340 CE): "a handful of qinghao soaked in two sheng of water, wring out the juice, drink it all." The low-temperature clue that cracked the extraction 1,600 years later.
Cautions: Malaria is a medical emergency — drug therapy only.
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