Malaria

Deciduous and Tall Grass Prairie

Daisy Fleabane

• Erigeron philadelphicus
• Found in thickets
• Caffeic acid: an active compound that has antioxidative and neuroprotective effects on neuronal cells.(Source)
  

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• Plant tea is used to stop hemorrhages of the stomach, bowels, bladder, kidneys, and nose, along with for fevers, bronchitis, tumors, piles, and coughs(Peterson Field Guide)

Wild Quinine

• Parthenium integrifolium
• Found in prairie's, rock outcrops, & roadsides
• Active chemical ingredient is quinine
• Quinine: a white, bitter, slightly water-soluble alkaloid, C 2 0 H 2 4 N 2 O 2,having needlelike crystals, obtained from cinchona bark: used in medicine chiefly in the treatment of resistant forms of malaria.

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• Use poultice with fresh leaves on burns. Flowering tops used for "intermittent fevers"(like malaria). Roots used as diuretic for kidney and bladder ailments, gonorrhea.(Peterson Field Guide)