Those Herbal Extracts

By Nana Dadzie Ghansah

Artemisia annua. Mugwort.

Long before antibiotics, antivirals, and vaccines, herbal preparations were the mainstay of how infectious ailments were treated in many societies around the world. That these diseases still had high mortality rates does not necessarily mean these herbs were useless. It is quite possible that the dosing was wrong or the indications not thought out.