The tea was high in Vitamin C, the missing nutrient.
Approximately 1 gallon of cedar tea is needed to clean a person's system. It has natural properties which help to detoxify the body and remove harmful contaminants.
Most preparations of red cedar call for boiling the medicinal parts to make a decoction or for making a tea or infusion.
The needles and bark from cedar trees contain high amounts of vitamin C.Scurvy is caused from a defficency of vitamin C.Drinking tea made from parts of a cedar tree will give you more vitamin C than even a lemon.
Jacques Cartier was given a tea of white cedar bark and needles by the native people to cure the scurvy most of his men had developed during the winter.
It helped prevent Scurvy, because it has a lot of vitamin C, which they were lacking.
Cedar is hard wood. It is from angiosperm trees.
Tea is primarily tannic acid. There is no disease that tea can prevent. Well, I guess is you drink enough you could prevent dehydration, but it contains caffeine. Boiled cedar was reputed to contain sufficient vitamin C to help stave off scurvy which was afflicting European sailors and settlers in the 16th Century.
The address of the Cedar Vale Memorial Library is: 608 Cedar, Cedar Vale, 67024 0369
The cast of Cedar Cedar - 1990 includes: Bruce Cockburn as Narrator
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