Humans have utilized plants in medicine for thousands of years ... For instance, quinine—an alkaloid derived from the bark of ...

The modern drug is a synthetic form of quinine, which is found in the bark of the Cinchona plant. The plant was taken as an herbal remedy by indigenous Peruvians four centuries ago to ...

Furthermore, cinchona trees fruit irregularly so that ... by Chinese scientists of highly effective anti-malarials from the plant Artemisia annua. It would be interesting to know more about ...