Artesunate is suitable for the rescue of cerebral malaria and all kinds of severe and critical malaria, can promote nitrosodiethylamine-mediated up-regulation of IL-6, JAK-2, and STAT3 expression, and down-regulation of caspase-3 expression, inducing the production of anti-tumor effect of liver cancer cells (114). The gene discussed is IL6; the disease is neoplasm.