mention four species of cinchona bark
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The active ingredients in the bark of the cinchona are any one of four alkaloids—cinchonine, cinchonidine, quinidine, and quinine—this last being the most important of the four. As the amount of quinine in each species varies greatly, efforts were made to separate the drug from the bark.
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there are basically 23 species of Cinchona, but the four most common species are Cinchona officinalis, Cinchona succirubra, Cinchona ledgeriana and Cinchona calisaya.
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