Treatment of malaria with artemisinin

Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317 A.D.- 420 A.D.) proposed that Qinghao (Artemisia Apiacea, sweet wormwood) is an important herb in both the treatment and prevention of malaria, from which Tu Youyou, a Chinese pharmacological scientist, got her inspirations, and innovatively created the new anti-malarial drugs, artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, for which she was awarded the 2011 Lasker Award in Clinical Medicine in the United States and the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.