Question

Quinine medicine is made from the bark of which tree?

• A. Chikil tree
• B. Cinkona tree
• C. Rubber tree
• D. Date tree

Answer 1

The correct option is B Cinkona tree

Quinine, as a component of the bark of the cinchona (Quina-Quina) tree, was used to treat malaria from as early as the 1600s, when it was referred to as the "Jesuits' bark," "cardinal's bark," or "sacred bark." These names stem from its use in 1630 by Jesuit missionaries in South America, though a legend suggests.

The correct answer is B.