Next Nobel Prize for Tongkat Ali leaves extract?

By tongkatali.org
Updated May 6, 2023

In 1969, Chinese scientist Tu Youyou started screening old Chinese scripts for malaria. She found a reference to sweet wormwood, Artemisia annua, in a text written 1600 years earlier. This herbal was then developed into Artemisinin, a drug that saved millions of lives. In 2015, she received the Nobel Prize in Medicine. We missed out in 2015, but mind you: extracts of tongkat ali (Eurycoma longifolia), especially leaves extracts, are an effective anti-malaria treatment, used in Southeast Asia for centuries. Google for: "tongkat ali malaria"

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