This cinchona bitter taste his skin. This plant is classified as cross-pollinated plants and very hetezigot. Therefore, the result of pollination by the seed is very diverse. This plant grows wild quinine I riverjungle wet and mossy forest, in the mountains of the Andes, at an altitude of 1050 m - 1500 m above sea level, especially in southern Peru and Bolivia. Quinine this herb grows well on slopes with rainfall above 2000 mm per year and is spread evenly throughout the year, with a humid climate and temperature between 12-21 degrees Celsius. From the mountains of the Andes region of origin of these plants spread to Indonesia and India. On the island of Java, the plant is cultivated mountain area with a height between 800 - 1600 m above sea level.
The characteristics of the herb Kina I river:
Skin: bitter taste.
Leaf: leaf location opposite, round egg shape breech oval, length 8-15 cm and width 3-6 cm. The surface of the bottom of haired smooth as velvet, especially in young leaves, stem length from 1 to 1.5 cm. Leaves longer than stalk leverage, when leverage is already open leaves will fall.
Flowers: Inflorescence panicle, velvety smooth-haired, the group gathered flowers at each end of the inflorescence. Interest groups and scalloped-shaped tube on top of it. Star-shaped flowers, smell fragrant, long tube 9 mm. Strands of the inner crown bright red, tight and short haired. Stamens half the length of the flower tube.
Fruit: reddish when ripe, shaped like an egg.
Seed: ellipse shaped lanceolate, 4 mm long and wingless.
The content of nutritious substances in the herb Quinine: Quinine is herbal plant contains various substances that can be used as herbal medicine. The womb is as follows: alkaloids, quinine, quinidine, Sinkonina, Sinkonidina, kina Acid, Acid kinatanat, Substance quinine.
The use of quinine herb, and as an ingredient of herbal medicine to treat several diseases, among others:
As a very potent drug for treating malaria.
Treating heart disease.
As a remedy for muscle spasms.
As the bird flu tamiflu.
As a good catalyst in the process of various idustri drinks.
As a Biopesticide or vegetable and pesticide
As a cosmetic ingredient.
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