Patients with drug-resistant malaria cured by plant therapy
Monday, April 24, 2017 - 15:11
in Health & Medicine
When the standard malaria medications failed to help 18 critically ill patients, the attending physician in a Congo clinic acted under the 'compassionate use' doctrine and prescribed a not-yet-approved malaria therapy made only from the dried leaves of the Artemisia annua plant. In just five days, all 18 people fully recovered. This is a small but stunningly successful trial.