Treatment of vitamin deficiency with pine needles infusion

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Needles, as a remedy for scurvy, have been used for a long time. Thus, in 1535, Jacques Cartier, the leader of a naval expedition to Newfoundland, used a decoction of American pine needles to treat scurvy, which had spread among his crew.

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