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To: Drygulch Dan who wrote (194492)	3/21/2020 11:13:12 PM
From: Drygulch Dan	5 Recommendations Read Replies (3) of 456224

Quinine - I love this stuff. I have been on it since my first cardiologist recommended it to me in 2005. Unfortunately the FDA in those days got all fussy about using this drug for non-malaria related events. In my case I had severe night cramping in my extremities often triggered by prior physical activity. After my heart attack, it was also triggered by one of the many meds that the cardiologist had me take. So quinine did the trick and made nocturnal leg, feet and hand cramps go away. So when the doctor couldn't order it stateside anymore I bought from companies in Canada. Then the FDA shutdown all non-malaria prescriptions, citing some study back in the 1960s when some few people died of ODing on quinine. In large dosages it can kill you. So I went to the web and studied up on quinine, turns out this stuff is derived from a tree type call Synchona which grows wild in central America. Local witch doctors prescribed synchona bark for a long list of ailments including malaria forever back in time. And we called 'em savages. Shortly after Columbus came to the new World, the Jesuit Priest followed. In the 1500s these smart priests started investigating why the local natives didn't die from malaria, like the Portuguese and Spanish sailors did. The witch doctors trained the priest in the mystery of Synchona bark and the Priests took their new knowledge and samples back to Europe where it became a big success cuz evidently malaria was endemic in Europe as well as everywhere else in the world. The bark is very bitter tasting. All the seafaring nations of Europe tried to corner that market. The Brits actually created a drink for their people to get the benefit of Synchona bark - the gin and bitters drink, which led to quinine water. So the world was hunky dory for the next 400 years and then suddenly German uboats in the Caribbean became a threat and the US pharmacological firms took on the challenge of figuring out what element in Synchona bark was the active ingredient for defeating malaria. They called it quinine. But because the bark has been in the public domain since before the US was colonized, it cannot be removed from the public by the FDA. Anyone can buy Synchona bark in either capsule form or as I did, in powder form. I bought a kilo back maybe 13 years ago, for the price of one month of the Canadian pills. I make a tea-like drink with sweeteners to help get it down. I take a small amount - a dash or a quarter teaspoon at a time when I feel the cramps coming on. But with the Chinese virus coming I might ramp this up a bit. Have quinine will travel.

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