Tablets made only with dried leaves of Artemisia annua.
All were then treated with intravenously administered artesunate, the frontline medication for severe malaria, but again they showed no improvement.
As a last resort, doctors turned to dried-leaf Artemisia (DLA), a therapy developed and extensively studied by Weathers and her team at WPI.
“So to see 100 percent recover, even the child who had lapsed into a coma, was just amazing.
ACT, the current recommended therapy, is expensive to produce and is in short supply in areas hit hardest by the disease.
In effect, the dried leaves constitute a robust natural combination therapy, one whose benefits far surpass those of ACT and other combination drugs.
This supply chain helped produce the tablets used to treat the 18 patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo. »