It’s not often that a 1700-year-old recipe inspires work that leads to a Nobel prize

This year’s award for medicine or physiology has gone to three pioneers in the field of parasitic disease, for discoveries that have helped in the fight against malaria and roundworm.Half the prize was awarded to Chinese scientist Youyou Tu. She drew on traditional Chinese medicines to discover artemisinin, one of the most important malaria drugs in use today.It is also very interesting that the age old method of treatment Acupuncture is practiced along with heating devise Moxibustion done by burning moxa wool which is prepared from leaves of plant Artemisia Vulgaris herb of same genera .