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Tonic water, also known as Indian tonic water, is a soft drink, carbonated in nature with an additive called as Quinine, which is commonly used in combination with other drinks, like gin. Quinine is actually a medicine, which was used as a prophylactic agent against malaria, whose content has been reduced in tonic. Since it has medicinal effects due to addition of quinine, it got the name Tonic. Tonic water was intended to be used in South Asian and African regions, which has high cases of malaria.
Quinine can be synthesized or extracted naturally from the bark of the cinchona tree and is a component of tonic water drinks sold in most grocery stores. The following are some of the known benefits that quinine or tonic water can offer. Fights malaria Quinine inhibits the malaria parasite's ability to spread through the bloodstream. As an anti-malarial drug, this all-natural treatment was the first chemical to be successfully used against an infectious disease.