一项研究发现,用能够耐受从黄花蒿植物中提取的一种常见抗疟药青蒿素的啮齿类疟原虫感染的小鼠,当让它们食用整株黄花蒿的干样本的时候,寄生虫载量减少了,而且一种非青蒿素耐受性小鼠疟原虫物种对整株植物疗法出现耐受性的时间长度是对青蒿素出现耐受性时间长度的3倍,这提示整株植物可能拥有增强青蒿素治疗疟疾的有效性的特性。这项研究发表在《美国科学 One study found that mice infected with Rhesus malaria, which is able to tolerate artemisinin, a common antimalarial drug extracted from Artemisia annua plants, parasitize parasites when they are given a dry sample of whole Artemisia annua The burden of insects was reduced and the length of time a non-artemisinin-tolerant mouse Plasmodium species became resistant to whole plant therapy was three times longer than that of artemisinin The whole plant may have characteristics that enhance the effectiveness of artemisinin in the treatment of malaria. The study was published in "American Science