Here is a recent one: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/chinese-herbal-therapy-malaria-wins-part-nobel-prize-medicine/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/ch

Here is a recent one: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/chinese-herbal-therapy-malaria-wins-part-nobel-prize-medicine/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/chinese-herbal-therapy-m... "Tu was appointed director of Project 523 in 1969, and rather than sift through modern chemicals for a treatment, she scanned ancient Chinese texts for possible herbal remedies for malaria. The earliest description for the parasitic blood disorder comes from Chinese medical texts dating to 2,700 BCE. She found one promising candidate in a 2,000-year-old document that described how sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua) could heal malaria."