Enicostema Littorale Blume in Malaria

The amount of cinchona alkaloids and other antimalarials falls far short of India's requirements. The recent introduction of synthetic antimalarials has been a welcome relief. Besides in day-to-day clinical practice it has been observed that patients would like to be treated with indigenous herbs or their decoctions in preference to quinine and its derivatives or the synthetic antimalarials which are not infrequently fraught with danger unless used under supervision of a qualified medical person whose dearth (1 doctor to 6,000 people) is well known. Attempts were, therefore, made to find out