If you live and work where malaria is a daily hazard, or even if you wish to use artemisia to treat many other diseases and complaints, we invite you to grow and use Artemisia annua anamed yourself.

Establish a nursery, and take cuttings once a month. Harvest the leaves, dry them and store them for use whenever required. Then teach your neighbours. Such an initiative not only helps people to be more healthy, but, as a direct result, helps to raise the economic level of the entire community.

The picture shows artemisia being grown in a village in Karamoja, in a remote part of North East Uganda.

This is good, the artemisia is being grown near the village so that it is readily available at all times. We also recommend, however,

1. the use of mulch, because this protects the soil from the heat of the midday sun, thus protecting soil fertility. It also provides humus, and allows heavy rainfall to soak gently into the ground.
2. inter-cropping with other plants, e. g. maize (artemisia helps to protect the maize from insect pests), or beans or tephrosia (these crops put nitrogen into the soil and thus increase soil fertility), or banana plants, which provide shade and a moist micro-climate that benefits artemisia plants in hot regions.

Hans-Martin Hirt tells the story of Artemisia annua in a “YouTube” video

Would you like to grow your own artemisia plants? Buy seeds in an Artemisia Starter-Kit. This kit contains seeds and all you need to know about the cultivation and use of artemisia.

In another “YouTube” video Hans-Martin Hirt explains how to sow the seeds of Artemisia annua and how to cultivate the plant.

One of our anamed partners, Philip Mateja in Tanzania, describes in a “you tube” video how to cultivate Artemisia annua.

For more information, please order either our Seminar Handbook or our Document “Artemisia annua anamed: Cultivation and uses”. See our list of publications.