Fever tree

Agosta, W. (1996). Bombardier Beetles and Fever Trees—A highly readable account of chemical warfare, without much detail on chemical or biochemical aspects. 

Agosta, W. 1996. Bombardier Beetles and Fever Trees. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, pp. 84-89. 

Quinine Alkaloid Malaria Cinchona pubescens (fever tree)... 

Quinine is an alkaloid produced by various Cinchona species (e.g. Cinchona pubescens or fever tree), which are mainly native to South America. The bark of these trees were initially used to treat malaria. Quinine itself was subsequently isolated in 1820 and found to be toxic not only to the protozoan Plasmodium (which causes malaria) but also to several other protozoan species. 

Lippia javanica Spreng. umsutane, fever tree] (Verbenaceae) leaves are used for psychotropic behaviour. The leaf contains alkaloids, polyphenols, saponins and tannins (18) and essential oils (28,65). The root decoction is also nsed for kidney problems (12). Its essential oil is antibacterial and... 

W Agosta. Bombardier Beetles and Fever Trees A Close-up Look at Chemical Warfare and Signals in Animals and Plants. Addison-Wesley, New York, 1995. 

Eucalyptus. Cum wood Australian fever tree blue-gum tree. Dried leaves of Eucalyptus globulus Labill., Myrtoceae this is a dwarf species, known as Malee in Australia, and richest in oil of Eucalyptus. Habit. Australia, cultivated in subtropics, Europe, N. Africa and Southern U.S- Conslit. 1-3% volatile oil, tannin, resins, eucalyptic acid, rutin. 

Lit. ACS Symp. Ser. 658, Phytochemicals for Pest Control (1997) Agosta, Bombardier Beetles and Fever Trees, New York Addison-Wesley 1995 Chem. Ind. (London) 1994, 370ff. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 1998, 1479 (review) Norland, Jones, Lewis, Semiochemicals, their Role in Pest Control, New York Wiley 1981 Rice, Pest Control with Nature s Chemicals Allelochemicals and Pheromones in Gardening and Agriculture, Norman Univ. Oklahoma Press 1983. 

Toovey S (2004) The miraculous fever-tree. The cure that changed the world Fiametta Rocco. Harper Collins, San Francisco... 

Rocco, F. The Miraculous Fever-tree Malaria, Medicine and the Cure That Changed the World (Harper Collins, New York, 2003). (Quinine and Malaria)... 

Common/vernacular names Red bark, red Peruvian bark, cinchona rubra (C. pubescens), yellow bark, calisaya bark, ledger bark, brown bark, cinchona flava (C. calisaya and C. ledgeriana), Jesuit s bark, Peruvian bark, China bark, cortex chinae, and fever tree. 

Common/vernacular names Blue gum, Tasmanian blue gum, fever tree, and gum tree. 

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