Cinchona specimen seized from a Spanish ship travelling again from Ecuador throughout the Anglo-Spanish conflict, making its method to the Herbarium at Kew in 1854. An extended historical past of indigenous use in South America as an antipyretic - in opposition to fevers, in 1820 its anti-malarial alkaloids had been remoted together with quinine which was then dissolved in carbonated water to make tonic. British officers stationed in India and Africa added this to their gin as a preventative in opposition to malaria. The primary commercially produced tonic water was in 1858.
Due to analysis herbalist Kim Walker @handmade_apothecary for a tour of the financial botany division & herbarium @kewgardens. Kim is at present there researching a PhD in Cinchona.
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