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sweet wormwood

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noun

  1. a widely distributed plant, Artemisia annua, having scented leaves and loose, nodding clusters of yellow flowers.


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But with few treatment options, some people and companies are prepared to bet on sweet wormwood before trial results.

From Reuters Oct. 16, 2020

Based on that study, scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces are now collaborating with ArtemiLife, a U.S. company that grows sweet wormwood, to test plant extracts on SARS-CoV-2 in vitro.

From Science Magazine May 6, 2020

Yet a recent study demonstrates that feeding rodents sweet wormwood leaves in their entirety — as opposed to a synthesized derivative — overcomes this resistance.

From New York Times Sep. 14, 2016

In 2015, Tu Youyou was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for her work on artemisinin, an antimalarial drug derived from the sweet wormwood plant, Artemisia annua.

From BBC Apr. 8, 2016

I had just remarked, I believe, that I was a melancholy man, for ever drinking "the sweet wormwood of my sorrows."

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 by Various

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