Tonic water has a bitter ingredient that has been used to treat illnesses for centuries. Take a look at the medicinal history of quinine and tonic water.

The countess soon recovered and the miraculous plant that cured her was named “cinchona” in her honour. Today, it’s the national tree of Peru and Ecuador.

Samuel Rai, director of the Cinchona and other Medicinal Plants Directorate, which functions under the state horticulture & ...

In 1860 Clements Markham used Wardian cases to smuggle the cinchona plant out of South America. By 1861, cinchona crops were planted in India for distillation into quinine on a large scale, and ...

Pre-Columbian people used its bark as a medicine while South American liberator Simon Bolivar adopted it in Peru's coat of arms, but the cinchona tree is facing a battle for survival as vast ...

By Shantha Chandrasiri. Colombo, May 24 (Daily Mirror) - Several well-grown cinchona plants belonging to a plant species considered extinct in Sri Lanka have been found after 150 years in ...

Appended to the pamphlet are tables showing the present state of cinchona-culture in Java, the rate of growths of the plants, and the results of chemical analyses of the various species cultivated.

Several well-grown cinchona plants belonging to a plant species considered extinct in Sri Lanka have been found after 150 years in Unanagala in the western slopes of Aliyagala Mountain Range ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Hints and Suggestions for Raising Cinchona Plants ” in SA Supplements Vol. 14 No. 342supp (July 1882), p. 5461 doi:10.1038 ...

Quinine, an alkaloid derived from the cinchona plant, has been used to treat malaria for centuries. Artificial antimalarial drugs with relatively few side effects, ...