China yellow, red and gray are the types of drugs on the market. From Cinchona officinalis, succirubra And Ledgerian cinchona you get the different types of drugs. Depending on the different climatic and aphic conditions, these cultivated species can determine different qualities of the drug, identified by external morphological aspects. The red ink is the most valuable, the yellow one is intermediate and the gray one is reduced. The health, pharmaceutical and herbal sectors are oriented towards the red cinchona. The liqueur interest goes back to the gray china.
The active antimalarial principle derived from quinine, hydroxychloroquine, has been copied from nature; what is natural is what is present in nature and derives from it; if the product, which derives from nature, is chemically modified it is said to be semisynthesis and cannot be considered natural.
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