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CHINCHONA OFFICINALIS - A Medicine For Malaria

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« on: July 20, 2009, 09:46:21 am »










History of cultivation



The bark was very valuable to Europeans in expanding their access to and exploitation of resources in far off colonies, and at home.

Bark gathering was often environmentally destructive, destroying huge expanses of trees for their bark, with difficult conditions for low wages that did not allow the indigenous bark gatherers to settle debts even upon death.

In 1860, a British expedition to South America led by Clements Markham brought back Cinchona seeds and plants, which were planted in the Hakgala Botanical Garden in Sri Lanka in January 1861.

James Taylor, the pioneer of tea planting in Sri Lanka, was one of the pioneers of Cinchona cultivation.

By 1883 about 64,000 acres (260 km2) were in cultivation in Sri Lanka, with exports reaching a peak of 15 million pounds in 1886.

In 1865, the "Carlota Colony" was founded in Mexico.

Wealthy American post-war confederate leaders were enticed there by the Emperor Maximillian, Archduke of Habsburg. The colony was situated on the direct Mexico-Vera Cruz Highway, and within 50 km of the railway, which was due to arrive in Cordoba at the end of that year. ...

"All that survives today of the ill-fated Carlota Colony are the flourishing groves of cinchonas, the quinine-producing tree which ... at [Empress] Charlotte's instigation, [were] first introduced into the country."
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