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How have pine needles been eaten since ancient times?
As early as the Song Dynasty, there was a historical record of eating pine needles to treat diseases in China. In foreign countries, pine needles have been eaten for hundreds of years. The Edible History of Whole Pine Needles records various edible methods of pine needles:

1. pine needle soup: made of pine needles, first recorded in the Song Dynasty. According to Fang, fresh pine needles can be boiled with slow fire for 2-3 hours to remove impurities, and can be drunk while it is hot, which can cure asthma and tuberculosis 100 days. There are records of treating diseases with pine needle soup in pharmacopoeia of various historical periods, which proves that pine needle soup is an ancient prescription.

2. Pine needle tea: Until today, people in China and even many countries in the world still have the habit of making tea with pine needles for physical therapy, treatment and health preservation. Although the therapeutic effect of pine needle tea is far less than that of medicinal pine needle extraction, making tea with pine needles is also the simplest and cheapest pine needle therapy, which is deeply loved by ordinary people.

3. Pine needle ointment: According to Compendium of Materia Medica, the effect is very obvious when pine needles are boiled into thick soup and mixed with honey to make ointment. External application of pine needle ointment to joints can cure wind evil bone arthralgia, mixing pine needles with cypress leaves can cure dermatosis, boiling ginkgo leaves with pine needles can cure eye diseases and so on. This kind of pine needle ointment is mostly a traditional Chinese medicine prescription or folk prescription.

4. pine needle powder: In order to facilitate storage, many pharmaceutical companies will dry the collected pine needles, grind them into powder and take them directly with water. Although this method is convenient to take, the dried pine needles lose their activity and their nutritional value is greatly reduced. The low absorption rate of pine needle powder is also a headache for the medical profession. 5. pine needle oil: Tiandi pine needle oil is the world's first oral pine needle extract product. Pine needle oil was extracted by the world-advanced patented technology of "bio-nano-membrane separation", which made the purity of pine needles as high as 99.99%, rich in all medicinal components of pine needles, kept the high activity and volatility of pine needles, and could be completely absorbed by human body, spreading the efficacy of pine needles all over blood vessels and organs. Compared with traditional pine needle tea and pine needle powder, it expands the efficacy of pine needles countless times, and it is one of the most advanced pine needle preparation products with the best absorption effect in the world.