ON June 17, 2019, a piece of blockbuster news quickly topped the search list of hot topics. After many years of hard work, Tu Youyou’s team proposed a new treatment plan for dealing with the problem of “drug resistance” of artemisinin in Southeast Asia. As a result of their research, they found that artemisinin has the effect of treating lupus erythematosus. The discovery has been highly recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and authoritative experts at home and abroad.