Sweet wormwood herb gives Covid-19 research a boost
The Max Planck Institute show artesunate, as well as certain extracts of one-year-old wormwood, act against the coronavirus at the cellular level
16 October 2020 - 15:25
Ljubinje/Potsdam — After years of struggling for business in the sunny southeastern corner of Bosnia and Herzegovina, herbalist Petar Mihic’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing since German scientists discovered that sweet wormwood might help treat Covid-19.
The Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam conducted a study in cells in May that showed the common herb could help combat the disease that has claimed more than one million lives worldwide...
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