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Cinchona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cinchona pubescens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Description of cinchona, its habitat, medicinal uses, and other useful tips. ... Cinchona Bark ... The plant known as the cinchona is a tall evergreen tree that often reaches between fifty to a hundred feet in height when fully mature. The leaves of the cinchona are flat and broad, marked off by large veins running in the...
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(Cinchona officinalis) ... Genus: Cinchona; Species: officinalis, ledgeriana, succirubra, calisaya; Synonyms: Quinaquina officinalis, Quinaquina lancifolia, Quinaquina coccinea; ... Legend has it that the name cinchona came from the countess of Chinchon, the wife of a Peruvian viceroy, who was cured of a malarial type of...
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Cinchona was originally used by Indians in tropical forests of northwestern South America for centuries, and around 1630 Spanish Jesuits learned about the ...
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Historians debate whether cinchona was an indigenous medicine or was discovered by Europeans. Evidence suggests that malaria did not exist in the New World before the arrival of the Spanish. Thus, according to one author, native people knew nothing about the medicinal use of cinchona bark.
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CINCHONA Linnaeu ... Inflorescence of Cinchona pubescens (upper left) ; Province of Carchi, Ecuador ; Photo P. Delprete ... Bark samples (quinine bark) of various species of Cinchona;
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cinchona medical information ... The dried bark of the root and stem of various species of Cinchona, a genus of evergreen trees (family Rubiaceae), native of South America but cultivated in various tropic regions. The cultivated bark contains 7–10% of total alkaloids;
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