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"A derivative of the sweet wormwood plant used since ancient times to fight malaria and shown to precisely target and kill cancer cells may someday aid in stopping breast cancer before it gets a toehold. In a new study, two University of Washington bioengineers found that the substance, artemisinin, appeared to prevent the onset of breast cancer in rats that had been given a cancer-causing agent. The study appears in the latest issue of the journal Cancer Letters............"
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Marnie
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There's H16 again...(in the molecular formula)...for some reason or another it is really, really important...so important that ATP, Rocephin, AZT Formula, biotin, acetylcholine, thiamine, etc. also have H16 in their molecular formula...

http://www.absinth-info.com/absinth/contents/

http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/absinthe/absinthe_info3.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_chemical_formulas/Merge/C10

Too strange a co-incidence!

Any biochemists on board to explain?

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5dana8
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I know this is backing up the truck quite a bit -
but how does wormwwood-artemisia differ from artemisinin?

I looked in bruhner's book under wormwood & it says "see artmeisinin.'
I did a search on my herbs sites and didn't find any answers.

Are these the same herbs but the artenisinin is stronger? [Roll Eyes]

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James H
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Artemisinin is the concentrated active ingredient of the herb Artemisia.

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5dana8
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Thanks James!

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hardynaka
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It's an extract of Artemesia annua.

There are other types of Artemesia plants too.

Buhner says that Artemesia annua whole plant has a much broader spectrum of action than only artemisinin. The point is that to reach the minimum levels to kill babesia/ malaria, you will have to take too much of the whole plant, that's why he recommends the extract.

But the whole plant should do some good too, even if you only have lyme, not babesia, others here in lymenet are on the whole plant. If I remember well,Zhang uses it too.

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