Topic: is there a study about effectiveness of artemisia?
karenl
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I would need medical proof that artemisia is working for babesia. F.e. a medical study or an article from a university
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TerryK
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Most babesia treatment relies on drugs used to treat malaria. Artemisinin is an extract of artemisia and is widely used to treat resistant malaria (a similar protozoan to babesia).
I'm sure if you do a cursory google search you will uncover some studies for artemisinin and malaria and probably babesia as well.
You will likely be able to find something comparing artemesia and artemisinin. You may find some of what you are looking for by searching the archives or pubmed.
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Babesia species are tick-borne intraerythrocytic parasites that can infect humans in addition to a variety of domestic animals, depending on the species of parasite. Unlike plasmodial infections, babesia do not generate a parasitophorous vacuole and do not digest haemoglobin to make haemozoin [59]. Yet, some species are also susceptible to killing by artemisinins (online supplementary Table S1), once again making the haemoglobin digestion pathway a less compelling one for their mechanisms of action. Other related parasites have variable susceptibilities to artemisinins (online supplementary Table S1). These studies also establish that neither haemozoin nor haemoglobin is crucial to antiparasitic activity of artemisinins. It will be of interest to test the SERCA hypothesis for the mechanism of action of artemisinins in these related pathogenic parasites.
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karenl
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Terry, thanks this articel is very helpful.
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