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Medicinal use



The medicinally active bark, which is stripped from the tree, dried and powdered, includes other alkaloids that are closely related to quinine but react differently in treating malaria. As a medicinal herb, cinchona bark is also known as 'Jesuit's bark' or 'Peruvian bark'.

The plants are cultivated in their native South America, and also in other tropical regions, notably in India and Java.