Looking for info on:artemisia annua a3

[leera]

OK, artemisia annua a3 is a plant that a friend of mine in Tanzania is trying to get to grow.I guess it's been used by the Chinese for thousands of years.........

Her main interest in it is as a treatment for Malaria.

She was told by a military man at a seminar that the Chinese people mix it with something else,they don't just use use alone..........but wouldn't tell her what they mix it with.......... ???

Anyone got any ideas?

[alma]

Type in artemisia in long place up above where web sites are written in, and you get a lot of info about anything you type in. love, alma

[bookwormom]

I know artemisia as wormwood, a very bitter herb. A cup of the tea at the onset of cold and flue often knocks it. but it is so bitter, you may rather get sick.

[zebraman]

Hey Guys;Wormwood is the narcotic in the liqour Absinthe, and bitter is an understatement!-

[MarechalNiel]

I don't know a source for Artemesia annua, perhaps a seed company in another country? I have ordered seeds from South Africa before successfully.

Also, the variety of Artemesia used for absinthe is specifically A. nepenthes, a beautiful and very tough plant. There are many varieties of Artemesia out there.

[zebraman]

Hey Guys;There are a lot of varieties of Artemesia,all of which produce the same alkyloid/narcotic.

http://www.horizonherbs.com/

Any time I am trying to find an unusual seed item this is the place I go to first as it has more than 30,000 plant species or varieties in the world's most extensive commercial seed catalog.$$$$!

http://www.b-and-t-world-seeds.com/

[Smoky]

I don't know about the "a3" variety, but Artimesia annua is also called "sweet annie" and grows wild all over Tennessee as well as many other states. It is cut and dried to use as the base for herbal wreaths.

[Smoky]

Forgot to say it has a licorice smell to it when dry, kinda reminds you of Goldenrod tea.

[CarolAnn]

Leera,
Please ask your friend to be very careful with this herb. I did not find it in any of my herb references, including Chinese Barefoot Doctor, where I would have expected to find a reference.

I did find it on this website: http://www.cancersalves.com/botanical_approaches/individual_herbs/artemisia.html

Keep in mind this site is selling the product. The person who wrote about using it said it made them very sick, possibly from killing off intestinal parasites; if dead parasites causes a toxic reaction, the process must be done under a doctors eye. Something that toxic can also kill the patient! I doubt if you'd easily find a doctor who'd be willing to try it when they can prescribe something they can give you and forget about.

If your friend is determined to try the stuff, have them also research the combination of comfrey, fenugreek and yarrow for nausea and echinacea angustifolia extract to boost the immune system.

[leera]

What she's looking for specifically is how the chinese use it.

It grows readily in the area that she's moving to,and has been used for centuries to treat malaria.......the problem being that using just this plant alone,the mosquitos become resistant,and then it doesn't work.

She met a man at a conference on medicinal tropical plants who told her that the chinese people mix it with other herbs,but could not tell her which ones........

Since the plant is native to the area,she wants to try and keep to using only locally available herbs........it's going to be a challenge.....

But her goal is to be able to grow as many of the plants as she can,and be able to teach the locals or the area how to grow them and harvest them too. :)

[Smoky]

And admirable goals those are, too. It's a shame we get so dependent on things grown so far away if something native would do. (OK, not chocolate! or coffee, vanilla)

[alma]

I just read some old flopies yesterday, and one recommends artemisia, cesium (sp) and b17 for cancer, but says to have good supervision because there may be a problem in using it if y ou don't know exactly what you are doing and how to use it.

I don't know about the first two, but have some more info about artemisia somewhere and will check it out for more info if it is any more informative.

B17, is laetrile, amigdalin, etc. that i had in mexico under dr. contraras supervision.

All i knw is that my cancer didn't come back for over 35-40 years.

It is made of apricot pits and u.s. didn't want to let it in here, at least at one time, because it has cyanide in it.

Some people recommended eating the regular seeds in fruit. They contain cynanide, too.

I have a cook book i got in mexico many years ago called "the litttle cyanide cook book" that tells how to cook with seeds, but have never used it.

Think i'll check it out again.

I also got a booklette telling about how bad acid is for us.

We have to keep our bodies alkalai. i read it once in 1969, and put it away, too, until recently, and it is right on target, telling you acid forming foods and visa versa.

How many yeras this info has been known and kept from us. Docs can't talk about alternative med. , even if they know about it.

It goes against their alliance with the big drug cartels that own them, and us, too.

Am going to get something at drug store to tell acid-alk. balance. ph, something. love, alma