Gin and Tonic may also be purchased without the Gin.
Available in the Supermarket Soda Aisle Tonic Water contains Quinine and is readily available for around $1 a Bottle and might possess Antiviral effects.
The Medication chloroquine is just an analogue of Quinine that drug companies sell as Cinchona, Quinine or Tonic Water can not be sold as a medication.
So, drug companies must invent drugs that are similar in order to market them as drugs.
These antimalarial drugs quinine, chloroquine and mefloquine are antagonists and very similar in efficacy.
Currently the Chinese are investigating Chloroquine for patients with Coronavirus:
https://en.wikipedia...iki/Chloroquine
https://en.wikipedia...oquine#Research
https://www.ncbi.nlm...les/PMC1994240/
Coronavirus[edit]In trials conducted in China, chloroquine appears to be useful for coronavirus disease 2019.[12] See § Research for details.
These antimalarial drugs quinine, chloroquine and mefloquine are antagonists and very similar in efficacy.
Its history goes back to Peru (South America), where the indigenous people extracted the bark of the Cinchona[33] trees and used the extract (Chinchona officinalis) to fight chills and fever in the seventeenth century. In 1633 this herbal medicine was introduced in Europe, where it was given the same use and also began to be used against malaria.[34] The quinoline antimalarial drug quinine was isolated from the extract in 1820, and chloroquine is an analogue of this.