Cinchona plant

Review on Chinchona Plant

Introduction to Cinchona Plant

Cinchona is the genus of a flowering plant. It belongs to Rubiaceae family and along with it, it contains at least 23 species of trees and shrubs. They are mostly found in the Tropical Andean Forest of South America. Cinchona comes under the plantae kingdom.
Cinchona is used to make medicines, it's bark produces quinine and many alkaloids which are very important to treat malaria. 
Myroxylon Periuiferum is also extract from Cinchona tree, which is useful to cure fever. As many medicines started produced from this tree, that's why Cinchona tree started growing more than before. Due to which economic conditions also increased. According to these conditions cultivators began to grow bark of cinchona in different ways. It is the only economically practical source of quinine, a drug that is still recommended for the treatment of Falciparum Malaria. 
The main use of Cinchona plant is,  people use the bark to make medicines like quinine.
It also contain quinidine as well which is a medicine used to treat heart palpitations commonly known as arrhythmaias.

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