Sweet Wormwood Herb Extract (Artemisia annua) 1 fl oz: K

About 30-40 dropperfuls per bottle. 30-40 drops per dropperful. Gaia Herb Farm receives Annual Organic Certification. Oregon Tilth has certified Gaia Farms as an Organic Grower of more than 50 medicinal plants. Gaia Herbs Analytical Laboratory analyzes every batch of every product to ensure quality, product consistency, and activity with state of the art instruments. Gaia has become a leader in herbal product analysis, headed up by Dr. Xiping Wang, Chief Scientist and Natural products Chemist. Herbal extracts are a highly effective way to administer herbs. They are very concentrated, they work faster than teas and are four to eight times stronger than capsules. Extracts are easily digestible and quickly assimilated into the system. Used as an infusion, decoction and extract. Also called Sweet Annie, Wormwood, Chinese Wormwood, Sweet Sagewort Range: S. E. Europe to W. Asia. E. North America Qing Ho, better known in the West as sweet wormwood, is a traditional Chinese herbal medicine. An aromatic anti-bacterial plant, recent research has shown that it destroys malarial parasites, lowers fevers and checks bleeding. It is often used in the Tropics as an affordable and effective anti-malarial. An infusion of the leaves is used internally to treat fevers, colds, diarrhea etc. Externally, the leaves are poulticed onto nose bleeds, boils and abscesses. The leaves are harvested in the summer, before the plant comes into flower, and are dried for later use. A decoction of the leaves has been found to be useful to treat haemorrhoids, and because of its positive effect on the immune system the tea has been recommended for use by AIDS patients. Further uses include, the vapour against colds and coughs, and chewing the leaves to treat Candida infection in the mouth. Ching-hao refers to the tops of Artemisia annua (the species name refers to its growth as an annual). The Chinese name (pinyin: qinghao) makes reference to the color green (qing); the dark green leaves at the top of the plant are the most active portion, which might account for this designation. The latter part of the herb's name, hao, indicates this type of plant, one characteristic being a tall stalk; the term is used to depict several other Artemisia species as well. The plant contains artemisinin, this substance has proved to be a dramatically effective anti-malarial. Artemisinin and its derivatives are a group of fast acting and life-saving drugs, produced mainly in China and Viet Nam. These drugs have been widely used in China and Viet Nam and have been recently registered in many other countries outside the Western Pacific Region. Malaria mortality in Viet Nam dropped by 92% when these drugs were used on a nationwide basis from 1992 to 1996. From the early 1990s, economic recovery made it possible to increase allocations to malaria control. Collaboration between industry and researchers led to the local production of artemisinin and related drugs for