Premier Li Keqiang sent a letter on Oct 5 to congratulate herbal expert Tu Youyou on winning the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, the first Chinese woman national to win a Nobel Prize in science.
Chinese pharmacologist Tu Youyou, now 85, became China's first medicine Nobel laureate with the announcement that she was one of three scientists awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in developing effective drugs against parasitic diseases.
The Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded this week focuses on three dreadful parasitic diseases - elephantiasis, river blindness and malaria - that still ravage mankind, "debilitating diseases that affect hundreds of millions people annually", the Nobel Committee said in its citation.
CONAKRY, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- Guinea's Deputy Coordinator for the National Anti-Malaria Program Dr. Timothee Guilavogui on Monday expressed confidence that "the development of traditional Chinese medicine will contribute to helping developing countries to resolve their public health problems."
Tu’s Nobel-winning discovery highly significant, says minister
CHINESE SCIENTIST TU YOUYOU was named one of the joint winners of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her role in creating a drug that proved effective in fighting malaria. Comments
Artemisinin makers from China are set to rake in the moolah after Tu Youyou, the inventor of the anti-malaria drug, won the Nobel Prize for medicine for her findings, triggering sharp buying interest among investors.
Tu, the first native Chinese woman ever to win the Nobel Prize in sciences and the Lasker Award, was educated in China and carried out work within China. Currently she is the chief scientist in the China Academy of Chinese Medical Research.
Artemisinin makers from China are set to make more money after Tu Youyou, the inventor of the anti-malaria drug, won the Nobel Prize for medicine for her findings, triggering sharp buying interest among investors.
Medicinal pillows were long in use in traditional Chinese medicine. Modern medical science has proved that the efficacious ingredients of the medicinal herbs stuffed into such pillows can volatilize, penetrate the acupuncture points and be absorbed by skin or mucous membrane to cure a disease.
Clove has been used in traditional Chinese medicine since ancient times as a breath freshener and chewing gum. Its essential oil is used to reduce inflammation, kill pain, especially dental pain, and to treat nausea and vomiting. It's a warming or yang-energy herb and warms the stomach.
With twisting stems and big root tuber, he shouwu (fleece-flower root) is a common reinforcing herb for the kidneys. Shouwu literally means black head in Chinese, and the name he shouwu originated from an old man surnamed He, who hair turned from white to black after eating the herb.