It’s like that old joke about traditional herbal remedies.
You know what they called traditional herbal remedies that actually work?
Medicine.
Hbd 2 uu
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echodot@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
josephc@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Also left out of the headlines: she exhaustively tested thousands of traditional herbal remedies, not just one. She kept the one that worked.
Deebster@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
Dara Ó Briain does a great bit on this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHNQqCCOoZ8
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Very cool approach, they systematically tested old folk recopies it sounds like: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_Youyou#Malaria
hansolo@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Saving you a click
One compound was particularly effective, sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua), which was used for “intermittent fevers,” a hallmark of malaria.
Relatively easy to find herb. I have some in my tea cabinet, turns out I’ve been ruining it all along.
Mac@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Screenshot of a screenshot lol
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Butterbee@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
the plant is called artemesia anna, which artemesins and deratives come from. plasmodium in some population are largely resistant to it now, but not the whole plant extract though, although its unclear how it overcomes resistance.
Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
Am I wrong to be paranoid that if corporations found out about plants that could cure this or that disease forever, that they may destroy those plants to maintain a money faucet for treatments (as in not permanent cures)?
tetris11@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Hard to contain a plant and a cure like this. Science has a weird way of several people discovering the same thing around the same time.
It’s like the conditions that made it probable for one person to discover it are the same conditions that make it probable for 10 people to discover it.
Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Capitalist countries are certainly incentivized to
Patrikvo@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
That’s just stupid. You can make a million selling some medication each month for the rest of a patients life, and simultantiously sell the cure for 2 million to the rich patients.
Bluewing@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
No thanks. I’ll stick to my Gin and Tonics for malaria prevention.
bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 4 weeks ago
Fun fact, her first name Yōuyōu is pronounced more like “yo” than “you”
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
How is her name hard to sing Happy Birthday to? You only have to say her name once in the song.
sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
“Happy birthday to Tu Youyou, happy birthday to you”
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
But that isn’t how the song is sung.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 4 weeks ago
It’s quite funny if you don’t think too much about it.
snooggums@piefed.world 4 weeks ago
Depending on whether Tu or Youyou is her “first” name for the song it will be:
“Happy birthday to Tu”
Or
“Happy birthday to Youyou”
Both have repetition that is likely to trip up a lot of people.
ascend@lemmy.radio 4 weeks ago
People always get mixed up regardless, people refer to people by different names like nicknames or relationship like ‘mom’ so when you get to the name part its always some funny mix
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yep, either way if you are signing Happy Birthday to her, you likely know her well enough to know her name well and sing it with no problem.
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
In Chinese, the first character (Tu) is the family name while the following character(s) are the given name (Youyou).
p.s. the “ou” sound in Chinese is pronounced more like an “o” rather than than an “ooh”, so the joke doesn’t really work (not quite, but it’s close enough. I’m not very good at speaking Mandarin so take this with a slight grain of salt)
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Tu is her first name, and it’s “dear”, not “to”. So it would be “Happy birthday, dear Tu”.
Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 4 weeks ago
East Asian, China.
So her given name is “Youyou”, pronounced Yoyo (flat high tone).
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
I think you might end up saying it about 4 times on accident.
velma@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
We can’t acknowledge that, then we wouldn’t be able to ignore her amazing discovery and make fun of her name instead!
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
“It would be hard to sing Happy Birthday to her if you purposely sang the song incorrectly!”