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Some dogs successfully treated with herbal extract, still under research.

By CJ Puotinen

Every cloud has a silver lining, even clouds of war and pestilence. Here’s an example. We can thank the Vietnam War and a malaria plague for the development of an herbal extract that may be your dog’s best new treatment for cancer.

This herbal extract, used for decades as an anti-malarial drug, is showing promise for treating cancer. Holley Pharmaceuticals imports artemisinin (pronounced art-ee-MISS-in-in) from China, where ideal growing conditions produce the highest-quality plants for making the extract.

Thirty years ago, mosquitoes carrying malaria parasites bred in rain water that collected in underground tunnels built by the army of North Vietnam. When that country lost more soldiers to malaria than to military weapons, it turned to China for help. Soon China’s top scientists were analyzing the problem from every perspective. …

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