THE ANDEAN QUININE TREE.

The Quinine Tree (cinchona officinalis), or the Tree of Life, is a sacred Andean Tree which was declared the national tree of Peru after its independence from the Spanish crown.
The Tree was originally known by the Quechua people, who have been and still are the inhabitants of the Andean mountains of Peru.
The Quinine Tree, also known as the Tree of Life, had a major impact on history. During the Middle Ages when the first expeditions of Europeans arrived to the Islands of the Americas, a complete New World for them, they were hit by a life-threatened disease, malaria, transmitted by the bite of a mosquito infected by the parasite. When they arrive to the land of the Andean people they were informed of the properties of the Quinine Tree's bark to combat the killer fever. Thanks to this information the foreigners were able to survive and developed immunity to the attack of the mosquito through the consumption of the bark produced by the tree. After this process of survival, the Europeans sent the information to Europe and brought the bark of the tree to their lands to cure their people. It worked as a miracle tree and from that specific point these European explorers were able to continue their plans of obtaining new territories for the sake of their crowns.
In today world, usually when the thinking about medicine comes to our mind, it processes information about swallowing gross chalky pills or downing artificial tasting syrups to combat any symptom related to flu, fever, headache, etc. Well, that wasn't exactly the case when it came to the British curing their malaria fever. They used the Quinine bark to make tonic water and used it to make gin and tonics to prevent the sickness, and making them the glorified authors of the miraculous cure.
The Quinine Tree is a beautiful tree of green leaves similar to the ones of the bay plant that gives a delicious fragrance. The Quinine tree grows in a height fluctuating between 700 meters to 4000 meters above the sea level.
Quinine is a white crystalline alkaloid that occurs naturally in the bark of the Quinine Tree. Quinine's first known effective treatment for malaria in the Old World was in the 17th century.
The Quinine from its bark is still used to fight unusual illnesses in the communities of the Andean people. Quinine is also a highly fluorescent sulfuric acid that  is widely used as a standard for fluorescent measurements in industry.
As a natural soother the bark is used to treat uncomfortable dreams that turn into nightmares causing anxieties and panic attacks during the daytime (hallucinations); periodic, neuralgic and congestive head and facial aches; also helps to relieve from chronic spinal aches which form a blue coloration over the nails; a natural thermostat that help those who suffer from cold hands and feet, numbness and stiffness.
It helps the nervous system to correct intermittent headaches, dizziness accompanying to sight decrease, ear buzzing, face redness, depression symptoms due to excessive mental work, and body's shaken.
It helps the digestive system with chronic diarrhea accompanied with pain or without pain; periodic dysentery followed by cold extremities; sensations of false fullness or excess of appetite; swollen liver;
drowsiness after eating; congestion and spleen stroke; intestinal earthworms.
It helps the urinary tract from the presence of blood cells, excessive odor, unclearness, bladder's blocking
sensation.
It help the reproductive system with involuntary nocturnal emissions, weak sperms, depression, excessive and long PMS periods, irregular PMS.