Quinine Recipe - Make Your Own

[Mystic Wanderer]

Quinine is made from the bark of a South America tree - not lemon and grapefruit rinds. You've been (partially) misinformed.

Quinine IS the active ingredient of tonic water or "bitters". When the Wuhan Virus first hit, I went to the liquor store to get a couple of bottles (it's a lot weaker nowadays than it was during the days of the British Empire when it was issued as a malarial preventive to British soldiers), but apparently there is a guy around there who waits for the shipment to come in, and buys the entire thing, every time.

So I wound up with a couple of bottles of "diet" tonic water. Not recommended by me for anything.

I haven't checked the liquor store at my new digs yet, however, so there IS hope! I just have to figure out how to distill out the water to concentrate the quinine without hurting the quinine.

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I believe that is called cinchona bark.