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Cinchona
Cinchona meaning
A tree or shrub of the genus Cinchona, native to the Andes in South America but since widely cultivated in Indonesia and India as well for its medicinal bark. | The bark of these plants, which yield quinine and other alkaloids useful in reducing fevers and particularly in combatting malaria. | Any medicine chiefly composed of the prepared bark of these plants.
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During World War I and World War II, inconsistent supplies of the natural anti-malaria drugs cinchona bark and quinine prompted substantial funding into research and development of other drugs and vaccines.
Quinine was first isolated in 1820 from the bark of the cinchona tree.
Synthesis main Cinchona trees remain the only economically practical source of quinine.
The Dutch government persisted in its attempt to smuggle the seeds, and by the 1930s Dutch plantations in Java were producing 22 million pounds of cinchona bark, or 97% of the world's quinine production.
The Jesuits were the first to bring cinchona to Europe.