CHAPTER 3:
THE IMPROBABLE TALE OF TU YOUYOU
CLARIFICATIONS
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A mistake occurred in the writing where I was led to believe that there were two books that Tu consulted. The confusion came when I read that the book was written in 340BC. This was in a book I was reading on Tu Youyou by some Chinese academics, and a couple of Economist articles. Also, the fact that three are multiple translations for the title of the text. It was a silly mistake that I only caught too late.
SOURCES
Translated poem from Chinese Book Of Odes - https://www.sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop164.htm
https://ctext.org/book-of-poetry/decade-of-lu-ming
Tu Youyou on her name - https://www.facebook.com/nobelprize/posts/10156951490039103/
First mainland Chinese scientist to win a Nobel Prize in the sciences
https://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochangedscience/stories/tu-youyou
Tu Youyou Herbal Medicine
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4731589/
Tu Youyou’s discovery
http://qinghaosu.blogspot.com/2008/05/zhou-hou-bei-ji-fang.html
Tuberculosis at 16; appointed head of 523, in 1967; 240,000 compounds screened; Han, Qing, dynasties
https://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochangedscience/stories/tu-youyou
Five/Nine black categories - Stinking old ninth
https://scientificwomen.net/women/youyou-tu-97
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Black_Categories
380 herbal remedies, 200 herbs, 2000 recipes
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6615447/
The BCE Balls-Up
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2015/10/10/wisdom-ancient-and-modern
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nmZtDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109&dq=tu+youyou+340+bce&source=bl&ots=Z8bgtfQ3LF&sig=ACfU3U3E4KyaPNHdRUC16DkBdU6WHjNf8w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjD09yCxtb6AhUUTkEAHUINAbs4HhDoAXoECAIQAg#v=onepage&q=tu%20youyou%20340%20bce&f=false
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/malaria-treatment-china
Malaria is ancient
https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1756-3305-3-5
Malaria found in mosquito in amber
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190211163959.htm
Has been found on every continent bar Antarctica
https://malariamustdie.com/how-we-end-malaria
ACTs (hiding Artemisinin)
https://www.malariaconsortium.org/pages/112.htm
50 secret labs
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3414217/
Harvard blog on Tu Youyou
https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2020/youyou-tu-an-exceptional-nobel-laureate/