Description
Cinchona Officinalis
Bark
cinchona bark and extract/cinchona bark
extract
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Botanical Name : Cinchona Officinalis
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Family Name : Rubiaceae
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Common Name : Quinine Bark, Peruvian Bark,
Quinine Bark
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Part Used : Quinine Isolated From Bark
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Habitat : Cultivated in nilgiri hills
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Product offered : Bark
USES :-
This Bark is bitter, astringent, thermogenic, febrifugre, oxytoxic
and anodyne, digestive, antipyretic, cardiotonic, anti-inflammatory
and tonic.
Cinchona Officinalis is useful in malerial and intermittent fevers,
lumbago, bacterial infections, helminthiasis, dyspepsia, chronic
dysentery, skin diseases, cough, bronchitis and cardiac
debility.
The powdered peruvian bark (quinine bark) is often used in
tooth-powders, owing to its astringency. Cinchona officinalis in
decoction is a useful gargle and a good throat astringent.