Bitter plants used as substitute of Cinchona spp. (quina) in Brazilian traditional medicine

Bitter tasting plant species are used as tonics and have been previously used to treat intermittent fevers in Brazil, the principal symptom of malaria. Many of these species were named quina and were used as substitutes of Cinchona spp., the source of quinine. To present data on these bitter species...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of ethnopharmacology 2013-10, Vol.149 (3), p.790-796
Hauptverfasser: Cosenza, Gustavo P., Somavilla, Nádia S., Fagg, Christopher W., Brandão, Maria G.L.
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