A couple of weeks ago I had a bitter tea with cinchona bark and wormwood, plus a bunch of things I can't remember right now. The cinchona bark really spoke to me (in plant language) a few hours later during the night. I had a sub-nightmare that was sufficiently annoying that I forced myself to wake up. Then I found myself in a state of sleep paralysis, so I had to do some deep breathing exercises to shake that off. During the sleep paralysis I had very distinctive and quite psychedelic patterned visuals but once I had regained the ability to move the visions turned to branches with distinctive pale grey bark, which proceeded to peel off in a most enchanting way, against a background of white light.
The cinchona bark, being the fever tree, seemed very relevant to the emerging situation and I was not at all surprised to find that a quinine analogue appears to be of value as a medicine in certain SARS-CoV2 cases. I shall be contacting my friend to obtain the ingredients list for the aforementioned bitter tea, with a view to reporting here.
Re, quinine and curiosity - the fun thing that springs to mind is its intense blue fluorescence under UV light. Quite the complement to harmala fluorescence, really.