This drug profile only refers to Artemisia annua, NOT Artemisia absinthium. The latter, the main constituent of absinthe, has serious side effects, including seizures, hallucinations, and death.

Derivatives of Artemisia annua are often used in combination with piperaquine, or mefloquine in treatment of malaria. Benflumetol, Coartem and Co-artemether are a combination of artemether-lumefantrine (see separate profile).