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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Cinchona officinalis

Common Name
Kinakina; Peruvian Bark

Activities

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Uses for this plant.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Country/Region Reference
Neuritis Elsewhere *
Pertussis Elsewhere *
Piles Elsewhere *
Pinworms Elsewhere *
Pneumonia Elsewhere *
Repellant(Insect) Elsewhere *
Schizonticide Elsewhere *
Sciatica Elsewhere *
Septicemia Elsewhere *
Stomachic Elsewhere *
Tonic Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Tonic Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Tonic Elsewhere *
Tumor(Glands) Italy Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Typhoid Elsewhere *
Uterotonic Elsewhere *
Varicosity Elsewhere *