Artemisinin is an organic compound with the molecular formula of C15H2O5 and the relative molecular weight of 282.34.

Artemisinin is a colorless needle-like crystal with melting point of 156 ~ 157℃. Soluble in chloroform, acetone, ethyl acetate and benzene, soluble in ethanol and ether, slightly soluble in cold petroleum ether and almost insoluble in water. Because of its special peroxy group, it is unstable to heat and easy to be decomposed by wet, hot and reducing substances.

Artemisinin is the best drug to treat malaria drug resistance, and the combination therapy based on artemisinin is also the most effective and important means to treat malaria at present. But in recent years, with the deepening of research,

Other functions of artemisinin have been found and applied more and more, such as anti-tumor, treatment of pulmonary hypertension, anti-diabetes, embryotoxicity, anti-fungus, immunomodulation and anti-virus. [,anti-inflammatory, anti-pulmonary fibrosis, antibacterial, cardiovascular effects and other pharmacological effects? .

20 15- 10, Tu Youyou and two other scientists won the 20 15 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their contributions in creating new antimalarial drugs-artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin.

Malaria is one of the oldest diseases in human beings, and it is still an important public health problem that is widely concerned around the world and needs to be solved urgently.

163 1 year, the Italian missionary AgostinoSalumbrino obtained effective drugs for treating fever from Peruvians in South America and brought them back to Europe for treating fever. Soon, it was found that this medicine could obviously relieve intermittent fever.

1820, French chemist pelletier and pharmacist Joseph Binet.Alfred Caventou isolated effective components for treating malaria from cinchona bark and named them quinine.