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[–] 68 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's like that old joke about traditional herbal remedies.

You know what they called traditional herbal remedies that actually work?

Medicine.

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  • [–] 50 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Very cool approach, they systematically tested old folk recopies it sounds like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_Youyou#Malaria

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  • [–] 30 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Saving you a click

    One compound was particularly effective, sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua), which was used for "intermittent fevers," a hallmark of malaria.

    Relatively easy to find herb. I have some in my tea cabinet, turns out I've been ruining it all along.

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  • [–] 36 points 4 months ago (9 children)

    Screenshot of a screenshot lol

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  • [–] 46 points 4 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    The internet is a series of screenshots.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    the plant is called artemesia anna, which artemesins and deratives come from. plasmodium in some population are largely resistant to it now, but not the whole plant extract though, although its unclear how it overcomes resistance.

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  • [–] 75 points 4 months ago (27 children)

    How is her name hard to sing Happy Birthday to? You only have to say her name once in the song.

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  • [–] 61 points 4 months ago (10 children)

    "Happy birthday to Tu Youyou, happy birthday to you"

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago (9 children)

    But that isn't how the song is sung.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    Sorry, it's "Happy birthday dear Tu Youyou". And you generally use their first name only, but there's no reason you can't use their full name.

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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Exactly, you just say it once.

    Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you.

    Happy birthday dear [insert name].

    Happy birthday to you.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (11 children)

    Depending on whether Tu or Youyou is her "first" name for the song it will be:

    "Happy birthday to Tu"

    Or

    "Happy birthday to Youyou"

    Both have repetition that is likely to trip up a lot of people.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    People always get mixed up regardless, people refer to people by different names like nicknames or relationship like 'mom' so when you get to the name part its always some funny mix

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    "Happy birthday to Carol/Caroline/Slut/Mom!"

    Yeah, that checks out.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    In Chinese, the first character (Tu) is the family name while the following character(s) are the given name (Youyou).

    p.s. the "ou" sound in Chinese is pronounced more like an "o" rather than than an "ooh", so the joke doesn't really work (not quite, but it's close enough. I'm not very good at speaking Mandarin so take this with a slight grain of salt)

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    Youyou is her first name, and it's "dear", not "to". So it would be "Happy birthday, dear Youyou".

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Note that in Chinese, the first character is the family name while the next ones are the given name. So "Youyou" would be the given name!

    Naming customs in various places are very fun to learn. Did you know that in Iceland, the last name is the father's first name appended with "son" (male), "dottir" (female), or "bur" (non-binary)?

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    No thanks. I'll stick to my Gin and Tonics for malaria prevention.

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