If you have nocturnal (nighttime) leg cramps, your doctor might prescribe quinine (Qualaquin)-even though the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved it for only one purpose: to treat ...

A laborer scrapes the bark from a cinchona tree. The bark is then sundried and pulverized to make the drug quinine. The story behind the chance discovery of the anti-malarial drug quinine may be ...

And will it help with the fight against COVID-19? This is hydroxychloroquine, a prescription drug and chemical compound modeled after quinine, a once popular natural anti-malaria drug made from ...

Among the available drugs on the market include some antimalarials people are likely to have forgotten about, including, Quinine, Fansidar and Chloroquine, which were the main drugs used to treat ...

Ancient Chinese used a treatment based on artemisinin (documented 168 BC), the active ingredient in some high-end drugs nowadays. Treatments with Quinine are known to the western world since the ...

The bitter quinine was used to replicate the negative experiences often associated with drug use in humans, such as the taste of smoke or the discomfort of needles. This pairing enabled the ...