Five old remedies that are still healing us today
A medicinal leech (Hirudo medicinalis)-Science Photo Library---Milkweed
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27 October 2015
One of the recent winners of the Nobel Prize for medicine discovered a breakthrough drug after poring over 2,000 ancient herbal recipes.
Dr Tu Youyou's discovery, the anti-malarial artemisinin, derived from wormwood, is credited with saving millions of lives.
