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 ...

Augusta Cueva-Agila explains how the Cinchona officinalis, native to the Andean foothills, produced the world’s first ...

Accidents in medicine: The idea sends chills down your ... The bark is then sundried and pulverized to make the drug quinine. The story behind the chance discovery of the anti-malarial drug ...

As the ideal model for synthetic malaria drugs in the early 1900s, quinine first paved the way to chloroquine, used around World War II. But there was a slight issue. Chloroquine had too many side ...

Taking quinine with an antacid may prevent your body ... Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicine before checking with them first.

Nursing mothers: not recommended. Do not use during or within 12 hours of quinine, quinidine, chloroquine (may cause seizures or ECG changes); caution with drugs that cause QTc prolongation (eg ...

Quinine was initially very expensive ... and should appeal to a wide audience interested in the history of medicine, exploration or international health.

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 ...