Sam Newsome
What is the connection between a treatment for malaria, the founding of a dye industry and a glowing drink in a nightclub? The answer is quinine.
Quinine has had several medicinal applications. Its antimalarial activity is believed to be due to causing the patient’s haem (from their red blood cells) to crystallise within the malarial parasite, thereby killing it. Quinine can also act as a muscle relaxant, so is a traditional remedy for muscle cramps.
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