The cinchona bark has medicinal properties. It is crushed and used in herbal medicines as well as modern drugs.
Source of Quinine
The anti-malarial drug
Quinine is an alkaloid found in the bark of the cinchona tree. It has been used to treat malaria since the early 1600s. Even today, pharmacists use quinine as an essential component for anti-malarial drugs.
Fever Tree
The multi purpose medicine
Cinchona is used to cure a range of ailments from fever, hypothermia, muscle spasm, hemorrhoids, varicose veins, and gastric conditions amongst others.