In China, India and the Philippines the entire plant is used as an Antiscorbutic.
"The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines"
T. H. Pardo de Tavera
Having no money to speak of, she stood up against Aunt Barbree's riches by flaunting herself as a mother: "though," as Aunt Barbree would complain to her husband, "I can't see what she finds uncommon in the child, unless 'tis the number of his pimples: and I've a mind, the next time, to recommend Wessel's Antiscorbutic Drops.
"Merry-Garden and Other Stories"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
The effect of heat on the Antiscorbutic properties of some milk products.
"The Vitamine Manual"
Walter H. Eddy