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Artemisia has been used by Chinese herbalists for more than a thousand years in the treatment of many illnesses, such as skin diseases and malaria. In the 1960s a research program was set up by the Chinese army to find an adequate treatment of malaria. In 1972, in the course of this research, Tu Youyou discovered artemsinin in the leaves of Artemisia annua. The drug is named qinghaosu in Chinese. It was one of many candidates then tested by Chinese scientists from a list of nearly 200 traditional Chinese medicines for treating malaria. It was the only one that was effective.

It remained largely unknown to the rest of the world for about 10 years, due to the Communist Chinese government at the time. The rest of the world finally found out about the drug from an article in a Chinese medical journal. People were sceptical at first, because the Chinese had made unsubstantiated statements about having found treatments of malaria before. Another reason was the peroxide part of the molecule. It was thought unlikely this would be a stable molecule, and so would not last long enough to be effective. This turned out not to be the case.

The Chinese government at the time, however, was very wary of western scientists, and would not give anyone either the plant or the refined drug. People around the world now started looking for the shrub themselves, to see if they could find it. They finally found it along the Potomac river, in Washington, D.C. Apparently it was a very common shrub, found in many parts of the world. It took another 10 years of research before the drug finally became commercially available. By this time relations between Communist China and the rest of the world had improved, and scientific information could be exchanged.

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Allergy Research Group-Nutricology has sold quality Artemisinin for almost a decade now, long before the surge of recent interest in artemisinin.

Allergy Research Group has a full time Ph.D., Dr. Luba Voloshko, on staff in charge of Quality Control. They assay the raw material, using HPLC, and the finished product, using HPLC - with every batch. They have also studied aging effects on Artemisinin. Lab results available on request.*

Allergy Research Group Artemisinin:

• Is UN approved material, used by the European Union in Africa
• Has independent potency assays done on every batch, using HPLC
• Has every batch documented
• Has a LOW price because of high volume and long-term buying

In addition, Allergy Research Group-Nutricology:

• Has been setting the standard for quality in nutritional supplements since 1979
• Supplies thousands of doctors with products to support the health of their patients
• Has sold Artemisinin for 10 years
• Is NOT a front company set up within the last year to market Artemisinin with extravagant - and unverified - claims about quality.

Clinicians report that Allergy Research Group Artemisinin is well tolerated, with the impression of fewer reports of nausea and GI discomfort than the leading compound mixtures.* After trying several brands of artemisinin, they tell us they have standardized on the Allergy Research Group material.*

Here are the results of an independent test of the cytotoxicity of our artemisinin compared to the accepted standard:

Allergy Research Artemisinin vs Sigma at 96 hours

ARG Artemisinin matches control Performed by Xiaolong Meng and Jie Zhong at The Center for Improvement of Human Functioning International, Inc., Wichita, Kansas, 08/20/2002 Objective: Test the cytotoxicity for Allergy Research Group and Sigma-Aldrich artemisinin on two transformed cell lines (HL-60 and K562). Method: Incubate cells with artemisinin at four concentrations (1, 10, 50, 200 µM). Artemisinin concentration in control samples is 0 (samples with no artemisinin added). Read plate at 0, 1, 2, 6, 24 and 96 hours and calculate the cell inhibitions. Results: Before 24 hours, the cell inhibitions had poor dose response. The longer the incubation, the higher the cell inhibition. The highest cell inhibition was at 96 hours at the artemisinin concentration 200 µM. Compare to control, at 96 hours and 200 µM, ARG artemisinin reached the inhibition of 20% and 59%, while Sigma Artemisinin reached 17% and 51% for HL-60 and K562 lymphoma cell lines, respectively. Summary: Both Artemisinins showed higher sensitivity to K562 cells than to HL-60 cells. Allergy Research Group artemisinin and Sigma-Aldrich artemisinin were similar in their cytotoxicity activities.

"I am extremely satisfied with the superb quality of your product and the excellent clinical results we witness daily from its use."

- Christopher Deatherage, N.D.,
Brush Creek Naturopathic Health Center, Drury, MO

"I have been very impressed by the efforts of ARG to perform both purity analysis and activity analysis on its artemisinin. For me, it was not even necessary, since I had already observed the awesome clinical efficacy of the product in patient after patient. I am grateful that this product is available and at a most reasonable price."

- Robert Jay Rowen, M.D.,
Editor-in-Chief, Second Opinion