A short YouTube video by Dr. Diane Mueller describing artemisia (an anti-parasitic herb effective against malaria) and its off-label use against Babesia due to similarities to malaria. Dr. Mueller highlights that artemisinin is the herb's active component and cautions that it can inflame the liver, so users should have liver enzymes monitored by a clinician.
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Hey, everybody. Dr. Diane Mueller here in this video, we're going to talk about Babesia and Artesia. And so artemisia is an herb that is anti parasitic. It's been studied mostly in for malaria and very, very effective for malaria. And since there are similarities between Babesia and malaria, oftentimes artemisia is used for Babesia treatment. So Babesia is a pain parasite. Right. That is often seen with insect bites, ticks, but also other insects. So the biggest thing I like people to know about Artemisia is the active component in it. Artemisinin is oftentimes used for Babesia. Artemisinin, the active component of the herb. Artemisia does work very well. We do need to be careful about it because it can cause the liver to inflame. So it's definitely important to, if you're using that to work with somebody who's monitoring liver enzymes or sa.