A story that inspires
Meet Pedro
One man
One plant
One Cure
The magical secret
Of Quinine
In the southern regions of Ecuador we find the province of Loja, where a magical plant was discovered. One which contained the purest variety of quinine alongside magic dust with medical properties.
One day
a jesuit from Loja
fell ill with malaria, steadily approaching a certain death.
Don Pedro, armed with the knowledge of the existence of this magic plant, cured him…
This priest
Once cured,
managed to treat and heal one of the foremost spanish authorities in Loja.
This authority, in turn, healed the wife of the vicery of
Peru, the Count of Cinchón, the city from which this plant
name was born: Cinchona.
Acknowledging the wonders of this plant the Count took it all the way to Europe…
The small
Gesture of Don Pedro Leiva
not only meant saving the life of a Jesuit, but rather it turned out to be solution to treat one of the most lethal illnesses that challenged humanity, malaria, saving all of Europe without even realizing it..