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Cinchona is a genus of about 25 species in the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical South America. They are large shrubs or small trees growing to 5-15 metres tall with evergreen foliage. The leave...
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Description of cinchona, its habitat, medicinal uses, and other useful tips. ... Cinchona Bark ... Other medical uses; Homeopathy...
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(Cinchona officinalis) ... TRIBAL AND HERBAL MEDICINE USES ... “Screening for antimicrobial activity of ten medicinal plants used in Colombian folkloric medicine: A possible alternative in the treatment of non-nosocomial infections.” BMC Complement. Altern. Med. 2006 Feb 17;
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In all, about twenty-five species of Cinchona are medicinal; but the other species are easily arranged under the above three heads of Yellow, Pale, and Red. The variety lancifolia is the one now most abundant and in most ... From such a view of the action of cinchona, its uses and misuses become plain and definite.
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The name quinine comes from the native Indian term quina that means "bark." Various Cinchona species are used medicinally, ... Modern Medicinal Uses; Quinine was the principal remedy for malaria until World War I. Soon thereafter pharmacologists created a successful synthetic drug, chloroquinine.
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Cinchona provides the first case of a medicinal plant that was needed too much and .... Brazilian folk medicine often uses a tea made from the leaves as a ...
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Calisaya; (Cinchona calisaya); Click on graphic for larger imag ... Medicinal Action and Used ... ---Medicinal Action and Uses---See PERUVIAN BARK.
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Medicinal Action and Uses ... a few years later it was renamed Cinchona after the Countess of Chinchon, who first made the bark known in Europe for its medicinal qualities. The history of Cinchona and its many vicissitudes affords a striking illustration of the importance of Government aid in establishing such an industry.
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Adansonia digitata: (Boabab, Kremetart - cream of tartar); Medicinal Uses: Parts Used: Dried fruit pulp, bark and seldom the leaves or seeds. ... Baobab bark has been sold in Europe under the name "cortex cael cedra" for the treatment of fevers and a substitute for cinchona bark.
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Cinchona Bark, (Cinchona officinalis); C/S ; Properties and Uses: Peruvian Bark is tonic, antiperiodic, astringent to a moderate extent, and eminently febrifuge. It .is freely used as a mouth wash and gargle and given internally as a remedy for malaria.
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