Tu Youyou has been engaged in the research of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine for many years, and his outstanding contribution is to create new antimalarial drugs artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin. A colorless crystal with the molecular formula of C 15H22O5 was successfully extracted from 1972 and named artemisinin. 20 1 1 September, because artemisinin, a drug for treating malaria, was discovered.
It has saved millions of lives in the world, especially in developing countries, and won the Lasker Prize and the "Outstanding Achievement Award in Life Science" of GlaxoSmithKline China R&D Center. According to media reports, since Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize, "artemisinin" has jumped into public view. Merchants from all walks of life can't stand loneliness and keep speculating.
The long-fought "spirit" has been tossed round and round around "artemisinin". These "artemisinin foods" with the concept of artemisinin, such as "Nobel Prize Artemisia annua cake" and artemisinin supplements, are undoubtedly a demonstration of their creativity. With the help of merchants, "artemisinin" has a tendency to be deified.
People admire artemisinin, on the one hand, it means that more and more people pay attention to science, scientific research results and Nobel Prize, because it is the Nobel Prize that connects artemisinin and Artemisia annua. On the other hand, it also reflects that people's living conditions are better, and they pay more attention to health while pursuing material and spiritual enjoyment.
However, we must remain vigilant. Some enterprises have made a lot of money by taking advantage of people's attention to the Nobel Prize and health. Yun Orfila, a senior member of the American Food Technology Association and a member of the Scientific Squirrel Society, pointed out that so far, artemisinin has been recognized as a function to treat malaria. Winning the Nobel Prize does not mean that it has all kinds of magical effects advocated by Taobao shopkeepers. It may have other functions.
However, before medical research confirmed it, the advertising copy of Taobao shop owners was too unreliable-it was tantamount to doing experiments with their own bodies and paying for their own money.
Therefore, as the general public, it is human nature to pay attention to health, and the pursuit of health preservation is also a quality of life, but it also requires some basic scientific literacy. In the face of all kinds of misleading marketing of artemisinin by current merchants, we must keep our eyes open, pay attention to health preservation methods carefully and scientifically, and don't follow suit in the Artemisia annua War.