Among the antiscorbutics, why lemon and not lime given its history in the British Navy, why not blackcurrant, chilli or potato which also contain Vitamin C . Then the febrifuges are reasonably well known, feverfew for example.
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Decoctions and infusions of the fruits, bark and roots are used in traditional medicine for pharyngeal affections, leprosy, subcutaneous parasitic infections and other skin afflictions, venereal diseases, diarrhoea, dysentery, and as antiemetics, febrifuges, analgesics, vermifuges, diuretics and laxatives.
