Koulu Markku, Örmä Simo, Liljeblad Arto, Niemelä Pekka
Duodecim. 2016;132(19):1763-70.
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was awarded to Chinese Youyou Tu for her work on an antimalarial drug that she isolated from sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua L) and absinthe (Artemisia absinthium L) belonging to the genus of Artemisia. In this article we deal with the use of Artemisiae as medicinal plants through the ages, and several pharmacologically active compounds can be obtained from species of the genus Artemisia. We will particularly focus on two medicinally interesting species of Artemisiae - sweet wormwood and absinthe - as well as two pharmacologically significant compounds found in them, artemisin and thujone.
2015年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖授予中国的屠呦呦，以表彰她在一种抗疟疾药物方面的研究工作。她从属于蒿属的青蒿（Artemisia annua L）和苦艾（Artemisia absinthium L）中分离出了这种药物。在本文中，我们探讨了蒿属植物作为药用植物的历史沿革，并且可以从蒿属植物中获得几种具有药理活性的化合物。我们将特别关注蒿属中两种具有药用价值的植物——青蒿和苦艾，以及它们所含的两种具有药理学意义的化合物——青蒿素和侧柏酮。
