Quinine

Quinine has a number of names, like red cinchona, cinchona bark, Jesuit’s bark, loxa bark, Jesuit’s powder, countess powder, and Peruvian bark. Once native to the Andes in South America, humans exported it across the globe because of its medicinal value in treating malaria. Horticultural villages in particular cultivate it, because they have fewer ways to deal with mosquitoes and so suffer from the disease more often.

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