TreatmentsNo “Miracle Cure” for Coronavirus Until Clinical Trials Prove Madagascar’s Herbal Medicine

Published 19 May 2020

Scientists are putting an herbal remedy from Madagascar, purported to cure COVID-19, to the test. Salem Solomon writes in VOA News that researchers at Germany’s Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, in Potsdam, are collaborating with a U.S. company, ArtemiLife, to test an extract from the plant Artemisia annua to determine its effectiveness in speeding recovery from the virus.