Artemisinin: Artemisia (Artemisia annua), also known as sweet Annie or annual wormwood, is an annual herb native to China, where it is known as qinghao. Artemisia is mentioned in the Chinese Handbook of Prescriptions for Emergency Treatments of 340 AD for treatment of fevers. Artemisinin, pronounced ar-te-mis'-in-in with the accent on the mis, [..]

A drug also known as qinghaosu, used to treat malaria, derived from the sweet wormwood plant, Artemisia annua. The artemisinin metabolic pathway was engineered into yeast to produce a precursor and its subsequent chemical conversion into artemisinin provided a cheaper source of the drug than conventional chemical synthesis.