What are biomedicines? Give examples for antimalarial drug and the drug use to treat cough.

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Biomedicines are those medicines that are obtained from plants, fungi and other living organisms. Quinine is an antimalarial drug obtained from the bark of Cinchona tree. Ephedrine is used in treatment of cough. It is obtained from Ephedra.

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