A Sixteen-Hundred-Year-Old Prescription
In 1969, malaria was killing thousands of soldiers along the Vietnam border, and modern medicine had no answer. The Chinese government tapped a thirty-nine-year-old researcher...
This is a contemporary on wisdom and ancient knowledge, drawing on Jeremiah 33:6.
In 1969, malaria was killing thousands of soldiers along the Vietnam border, and modern medicine had no answer. The Chinese government tapped a thirty-nine-year-old researcher named Tu Youyou to lead a secret military effort called Project 523, tasked with finding a cure. Tu Youyou and her team in Beijing combed through more than two thousand ancient Chinese medical texts, testing one folk remedy after another without success.…
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