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What is the use of the following forest product?
Quinine


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Quinine:

  1. Quinine is the most important drug obtained from the thick bark of different species of Cinchona.
  2. It is mainly used in the treatment of Malaria fever.
  3. The drug is also used for the treatment of whooping cough, hay fever, enlargement of the spleen etc.

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