- Pre-Columbian people used its bark as a medicine while South American liberator Simon Bolivar adopted it in Peru's coat of arms, but the cinchona tree is facing a battle for survival as vast ...

Today, Canales is a biologist at the Natural History Museum of Denmark who is tracing the genetic history of cinchona. As she explained, it was the bark of this rare tree that gave the world ...

Tonic water has a bitter ingredient that has been used to treat illnesses for centuries. Take a look at the medicinal history of quinine and tonic water.

For centuries, Native Peruvians used dried bark from the South American cinchona tree for various medicinal purposes, including as a muscle relaxant and fever reducer. In the 1600s, Europeans ...

From the South American cinchona trees, the drug quinine was derived to help fight the mosquito-borne disease malaria. From the Pacific Northwest yew tree came taxol, ...

Quinine, found in tonic water like the bubbly drink above, originally comes from the cinchona shrub in South America. It was used to treat a number of maladies and when bartenders grab the mixer ...

LIMA: Pre-Columbian people used its bark as a medicine while South American liberator Simon Bolivar adopted it in Peru’s coat of arms, but the cinchona tree is facing a battle for survival as ...

Pre-Columbian people used its bark as a medicine while South American liberator Simon Bolivar adopted it in Peru's coat of arms, but the cinchona tree is facing a battle for survival as vast ...

Cinchona trees grow up to 15 meters (50 feet) in height, in humid forests between 1,300-2,900-meters above sea level, mostly in the north west but also the center of Peru.