Cinchona pubescens information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant

Question



Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Cinchona pubescens?

If you know websites containing any information about Cinchona pubescens please link to them.

Answer 1



I didn't find in Dr. Duke's database, any information about the uses of Cinchona pubescens

Here is some basic information about Cinchona pubescens.

 

Cinchona pubescens basic info

Scientific Name: Cinchona pubescens Vahl.

Family: Rubiaceae.

Genus: Cinchona.

Common names in English: red cinchona, red Peruvian-bark, redbark.

For common names of Cinchona pubescens in different languages - See link

Description: Cinchona pubescens, also known as Red cinchona and quina ((Spanish) Cascarilla, cinchona; (Portuguese) Quina-do-Amazonas, quineira), is native to Central and South America. It is known as a medicinal plant for its bark's high quinine content- and has similar uses to Cinchona officinalis in the production of quinine, most famously used for treatment of malaria. - for more info about Cinchona pubescens See link

 

 

Cinchona pubescens in other websites

Cinchona pubescens common names, economics importance, distributional range and more in the USDA GRIN website - See link.

Search PubMed (US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health) for academic researches with the search term Cinchona pubescens - See link.

See if there is something in Youtube on the term Cinchona pubescens - See link.

 

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