Type: | LIQUEUR |
Flavor: | Cinchona |
Made From: | Cinchona |
Produced By: | G.B. GAMBAROTTA DI IRGA & C. |
Origin: | Italy |
Proof: | 58 |
Age: | 0 |
Importer: | Bought On The Internet. |
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The ‘ elixir of cinchona (or elixir of cinchona ) is a medicinal preparation made ‘‹’‹from extracts alcoholic bark China calisaia originally used between the end of the eighteenth and mid-nineteenth century, as a drug in the fight against malaria . With the gradual disappearance of the disease from ‘ Europe lost its status as the elixir of medicine to become, in modern times, simple bitter digestive.