Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Pine

[00:00:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, all, welcome to Sweet Show. We're continuing our series on the Buddhist for uses of trees and today as promised.

[00:00:07] [SPEAKER_01]: We will discuss pine. Now I don't know if this is true of everywhere in the United States but

[00:00:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Pine is certainly the most abundant. The most pletiful species of tree where I live in the Carolinas.

[00:00:22] [SPEAKER_01]: The Carolinas is known as the Land of the Long Leaf Pine. Although,

[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Long Leaf isn't really when we have that much of it's a lot has been planned ornamentally. It is native to the state

[00:00:34] [SPEAKER_01]: but you'll see a whole lot more wobb-lawly than you will

[00:00:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Long Leaf at least

[00:00:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Just about everywhere I know of even in pine hers and such as that

[00:00:42] [SPEAKER_01]: But there are actually 63 varieties of pine that have documented use in herbal medicine

[00:00:50] [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm pretty sure just about wherever you are

[00:00:53] [SPEAKER_01]: You can find a

[00:00:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Pine tree. I don't care if it's a Long Leaf Pine or a Pinion Pine or one of those crazy Swiss pines that

[00:01:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Takes like you have a it has been like 150 years old before it serves bearing pine nuts

[00:01:08] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean there are pines in the tropics there are pines in the mountains

[00:01:12] [SPEAKER_01]: There are pines on every continent that I know of pine is

[00:01:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Plentiful there are

[00:01:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Superior and Siberian pines. I mean there are actually pines

[00:01:22] [SPEAKER_01]: There are Korean nutpines. There are big comb pines and

[00:01:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Paper prickly whatever there are a lot of pines. Okay

[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Only eight are native to my region

[00:01:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Shortly fine

[00:01:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Long Leaf Pine

[00:01:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Table Mountain Pine which

[00:01:41] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm your intern counter even though table mountain is just like right now for my house. I'll have to go out and look for that one

[00:01:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Last table yeah, let's table around yeah absolutely right now for my house

[00:01:53] [SPEAKER_01]: It's a like I'll let's see it from like if I go up to the ridge near my house

[00:01:57] [SPEAKER_01]: I can look right at it so yeah, I'm gonna have to go see if I can find that one

[00:02:01] [SPEAKER_01]: pitch pine

[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Pitch pine was very important along with the lob lollie in early America because of the tar

[00:02:09] [SPEAKER_01]: They could make from cooking basically cooking down the sap. It was used to what the wood itself was used to build ships

[00:02:16] [SPEAKER_01]: But that tar was used to seal ships to keep them from leaking very very important

[00:02:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Pond pine Eastern white pine I got one of those actually I got several of those in my yard some of them are huge

[00:02:30] [SPEAKER_01]: But I got one I got to cut down soon

[00:02:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Lob lollie pine which is probably the most plentiful here Virginia pine

[00:02:38] [SPEAKER_01]: And naturalized pine's include the sand pine the slash pine the maritime pine the red pine and the Japanese black pine

[00:02:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Which I'm pretty sure I've never seen it all I've never seen a red pine or a black pine in North Carolina

[00:02:54] [SPEAKER_01]: But apparently they're here don't ask me

[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Got the N.C. States

[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_01]: The extension office about that I've never seen them anyway

[00:03:05] [SPEAKER_01]: the virtues

[00:03:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh pine are just amazing I mean there would be no

[00:03:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Carolinas probably Virginia without pine trees. I mean not only was it used for lumber

[00:03:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Not only was it used to seal ships

[00:03:21] [SPEAKER_01]: So much so that North Carolina is a tar heel state because people were cooking down pine tar

[00:03:27] [SPEAKER_01]: for the king of England's navy

[00:03:30] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean it was and then for the the Patriots without these trees

[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_01]: We would not be the United States of America

[00:03:40] [SPEAKER_01]: There's turpentine turpentine is like the essential oil of pine which is an accepted it can really good

[00:03:46] [SPEAKER_01]: I recently taught a class entitled four ways pine can save your life

[00:03:51] [SPEAKER_01]: My points for one pine is some of the most edible trees every part of the pine can be eaten

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Believe it or not even the wood

[00:04:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Of course that would take a very desperate effort

[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_01]: But it can actually be done

[00:04:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Now that you would want to but if you in a survival situation you can eat just well

[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_01]: You can actually eat every piece of a pine tree

[00:04:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Just a lot of it would take more time and effort than you want to put into it none of it's gonna be very good

[00:04:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Let's just you know I think we could admit that

[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Pine and pine needles are full of items seed by the way

[00:04:29] [SPEAKER_01]: So pine needle tea could help permit scurvy if nothing else

[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Pine pitch can stop bleeding into disinfectant when I have used pine pitch so many times

[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so I'm a wood carver right I often cut myself

[00:04:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Yo, I have carbon spoons and carbon various things bowls and a gauze or a knife slips and I will slice myself open like crazy

[00:04:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Right, I've got huge scars

[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Not something you want to do it's something most wood carvers say, you know

[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Whenever you're watching a wood carring to tutorial on YouTube or reading an article they're like take care

[00:05:06] [SPEAKER_01]: So you don't cut yourself would you know experience wood carvers learn not to cut themselves you're still gonna cut yourself seriously and sometimes

[00:05:12] [SPEAKER_01]: It's gonna be pretty serious and

[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean gosh

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean I think I have I have actually mentioned this on the show

[00:05:19] [SPEAKER_01]: I know I did

[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Back when we were doing herbal medicine for prepers my book herbal medicine for prepers

[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm serious in permaculture people

[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_01]: I talked about what I was moving a washing machine from my mother and the dolly kick back and split my leg open

[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Just starts gushing blood, right and I mean you could seriously bleed to death

[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_01]: You got to stop that bleeding pine pitch

[00:05:39] [SPEAKER_01]: The hard crystallized sap of pine

[00:05:42] [SPEAKER_01]: You break it up it's powdered you drop it in there it stops bleeding at disinfectant. So when it's fantastic

[00:05:47] [SPEAKER_01]: It's it's my go to it's the first thing I reach for I mean y'all might wash the wound or you know

[00:05:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Whatever, but I'm gonna put pine pitch on it a SAP if I don't have pine pitch

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to cayenne pepper to stop bleeding those are the two very best things and if I didn't have either of those

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_01]: I was in the woods. I'd look for a dry puff ball mushroom

[00:06:06] [SPEAKER_01]: You know puff ball that you can squeeze and it sends up a little puff looks like smoke it's like it's like it's for the spores

[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Those spores will stop bleeding

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_01]: But they will also turn the wound black and if you were to like pass out from lack of blood or something

[00:06:20] [SPEAKER_01]: The EMTs make cut your arm off or something because they think you've got a terrible

[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Gagerness infection

[00:06:26] [SPEAKER_01]: So you gotta be very careful with that but

[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Those are the three best and then we have herbs like your own such which we're stringent we'll shrink those capillaries

[00:06:34] [SPEAKER_01]: But I'm going to pine pitch above and beyond and even if it was if I was in the woods before

[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Looking around for a puff ball mushroom or something. I'm gonna grant my amount my little hatchet my camp axe and I'm gonna

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Put a wound in a pine tree, you know this survives the situation

[00:06:50] [SPEAKER_01]: I'll care if I kill the tree sorry, but I don't and that fresh sap that comes out is sticky as crazy

[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean it's crazy sticky you know this right?

[00:06:58] [SPEAKER_01]: It's not only gonna uh can be used or slow it's nice good as the dried pitch as far as stopping bleeding

[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_01]: But you can actually use that pine step keep applying keep applying it and it will

[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Stranger the tissue it will stop the bleeding. It will disinfect but the stickingness can be used to help close the wound

[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_01]: You know just like you might use

[00:07:19] [SPEAKER_01]: You know any kind of adhesive to help close the wind so super important

[00:07:23] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean I just want to emphasize that is like one of the goaches right

[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Pineal T or wine can prevent a sore throat from becoming life threatening if the tissue gets boggy as they say

[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_01]: You get so swollen you can choke essentially suffocate from a sore throat

[00:07:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Swallant tissue in your throat that can save your life. It's also antiviral and

[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Can help break a fever. It's good anti septic

[00:07:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Pineal T or wine which I have made both and I think I gave those instructions in that show so go back to that show

[00:07:55] [SPEAKER_01]: And it will

[00:07:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe I'll get into it here. I probably have too much to tell you though

[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Pineal T or wine excellent. I used it to come back COVID wonderful stuff

[00:08:07] [SPEAKER_01]: In hailing the vapors from an immature male pollen cone

[00:08:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Now this is this is something I discovered on my own and later found some documentation that other herbal compound the same thing when I was a kid

[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_01]: You know you talk like 10 years old or something

[00:08:25] [SPEAKER_01]: When the the pine trees are just about to put out their pollen

[00:08:28] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean like again. I live in North Carolina there's a ton of pine trees right on some they'll be like little green

[00:08:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Cones on other long purple cones. Yeah, you pick one up the actually just not gonna cigarette because you're 10 years old, you know

[00:08:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Actually in hailing the vapors from that cone lowers blood pressure and heart rate and can stop and asthma attack

[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Now I have a larger to pine pollen but I still use that trick to this day

[00:08:52] [SPEAKER_01]: If I'm out in the woods I'm hiking and it's that time of year my legs are getting tight

[00:08:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Grab one of those little pine pollen cones the male cone and just inhale the vapors from around it

[00:09:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Like suck the air from around it essentially

[00:09:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Consopin asthma attack so pine can literally save your life. It's been documented

[00:09:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it leaves us far back at the ancient Greeks

[00:09:16] [SPEAKER_01]: The escorities after describing it said it is good use with the set of the wine and

[00:09:24] [SPEAKER_01]: And

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Well

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_01]: What they called mana and this is not like the mana of the desert that God gave the Israelites or anything like that or anything

[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_01]: I'll show my call man it today. This was

[00:09:36] [SPEAKER_01]: More along the lines of frankincense. It's a mirror. It was a resin that came from a tree

[00:09:41] [SPEAKER_01]: So that combination was good for shaving germuchitis, superficial ulcers and burn

[00:09:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Taking with miracle wax we talked about America the bath laurel tree

[00:09:50] [SPEAKER_01]: The wax of the bayberry

[00:09:54] [SPEAKER_01]: brings boils

[00:09:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, basically brings boils to where they could be lads and taken care of it would do bring them up to a head

[00:10:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Pound a small places a small pieces was good for snake bite and kind of makes sense because

[00:10:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Most snakes aren't venomous and but most snakes will bite you and with

[00:10:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Those that are non-vidimists that bite you can cause a terrible infection due to the bacteria in their mouths

[00:10:21] [SPEAKER_01]: So the antiseptic qualities of pine same reason pine juice and pine salt would be used for this

[00:10:29] [SPEAKER_01]: It was good for expiling after birth

[00:10:32] [SPEAKER_01]: taking as a drink let's see

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_01]: It was stopped as charged as the intestine and encouraged urine so good for diarrhea and as a dioretic

[00:10:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Leaves pounded to small pieces made into a poultice less than inflammation keep wounds from being inflamed

[00:10:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Pound it into small pieces and boil them bigger they less than two-thank

[00:10:52] [SPEAKER_01]: It's actually this stringent quality again kind of tightens up the garment pulls out some of swelling

[00:10:59] [SPEAKER_01]: One teaspoon of the leaves. It's the pine needles actually taken as a drink with water and honey is good for liver disorders bark of the cones and leaves are

[00:11:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Split and oh split needles. That would be very difficult I guess they have thicker needles and grease

[00:11:14] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know take has a drink if the same purpose

[00:11:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Actually a piece of the heart would of the tree cut into small pieces and boil into coaxium

[00:11:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Vittinger held to a tooth that suffers lessons two things

[00:11:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's just gonna be answering it probably again

[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_01]: A paste is made from them suitable for

[00:11:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Preparations for enemies and suppositories

[00:11:40] [SPEAKER_01]: When they're burning a foot is taken good from making writing ink so you could actually make ink out of pine

[00:11:46] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean amazing right and also good put in medicine for the eyelids so we reduce the swelling of

[00:11:52] [SPEAKER_01]: eyelids

[00:11:52] [SPEAKER_01]: There's certain conditions because your eyelids just swell

[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Also good for arosions at the corners of the eyes weeping eyes and bald eyelids

[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what a bald eyelid is my eyelids don't have any hair on them

[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Where up, but

[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, he went into a specific with a pitch pine

[00:12:15] [SPEAKER_01]: He talks about fur along with pine we discussed for already so we'll move on to the 1500s England

[00:12:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Gerard said the kernels of these nuts

[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_01]: So this is actually pine nuts which unless you're in California, probably a pine nut

[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_01]: If you're in the in the Rocky Mountains

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_01]: The stone pine and there's another native pine that grows there that bears pine nuts

[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Wonderful, I am very jealous of you. We have no pine's each to the Mississippi that grow pine nuts and that is a shame because they are

[00:12:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Fantastic actually, you know, I'd rather have pine nuts in almonds, but you know what are you gonna do anyway

[00:12:55] [SPEAKER_01]: He said it would make it the rough part smooth and it was a remedy against cough and long

[00:13:02] [SPEAKER_01]: In firmities of the chest taken by itself over with honey

[00:13:06] [SPEAKER_01]: was good for

[00:13:07] [SPEAKER_01]: congested and and

[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_01]: infamy inflamed lungs

[00:13:13] [SPEAKER_01]: He said that pine would

[00:13:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Consumal way the rottenness of the lungs and recalpe one recover strength

[00:13:22] [SPEAKER_01]: It nourishes and is restored to the body you're with a thick and good juice which nourish a

[00:13:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Much yet it is not all together easy of digestion and therefore it makes who preserves a boy and sugar

[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Actually important point that this virulent fascial course that language everything

[00:13:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Let's see I have family and a pine her snorke her on it

[00:13:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Pine her's just the home of golf. This is you know, we're all the famous golf courses in the US Open was held was not started for golf

[00:13:50] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not started at all for golf

[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, it was nothing but a pine bear and we're basically nobody lived from most of the history of the United States

[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Until

[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Doctors decided that pines were good for people with tuberculosis

[00:14:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Just breathing the air around pine trees. I don't know this necessarily true

[00:14:09] [SPEAKER_01]: But the area was actually settled for the purpose of

[00:14:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Building sanitariums or hospitals here or there. I should say four

[00:14:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Consumptive or tubercular patients and railroad lines were set up bringing him in from all over the country

[00:14:25] [SPEAKER_01]: And then what's they were there? They had nothing to do

[00:14:28] [SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing to do to this day in pine hers. It's set play golf

[00:14:33] [SPEAKER_01]: And

[00:14:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Spend way too much money on lousy foods and some of the worst restaurants in North Carolina

[00:14:39] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't care what anybody says the food absolutely sucks

[00:14:44] [SPEAKER_01]: shop or

[00:14:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe go to a play or something right?

[00:14:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Not exactly a fun place to be

[00:14:51] [SPEAKER_01]: So they build a golf course and that's the home of golf in America

[00:14:56] [SPEAKER_01]: I

[00:14:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Don't have a lot of good things to say about more county in general, but

[00:15:01] [SPEAKER_01]: That's why it all comes down to pine trees being good for the lungs

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_01]: So he goes on to say the same is good for stone the kidney we said it was a tea of the needles is

[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Diuretic and it is also good for bladder infections

[00:15:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Scalding urine hotter burning urine as he was saying

[00:15:20] [SPEAKER_01]: A layeth the sharpest him mitigated the pain which is a good thing

[00:15:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Um

[00:15:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Interestingly he said

[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_01]: That it could provoke fleshly lust

[00:15:33] [SPEAKER_01]: May sound kind of a far-fetched snow-fashioned

[00:15:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Actually pine pollen increases test testosterone and men

[00:15:40] [SPEAKER_01]: So and you actually have to eat it or you could take it at a tea

[00:15:44] [SPEAKER_01]: If you're not allergic to pine it actually can increase your test tolerance which would provoke a

[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_01]: fleshly lusts the whole cone being applied with fresh hormone

[00:15:55] [SPEAKER_01]: I have no idea how you take a pine cone and apply with fresh or down. I'm gonna assume you boil it down

[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_01]: And make it a caution of it

[00:16:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Because he says afterwards boiled again with a little honey

[00:16:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, whatever anyway, he said make it an excellent medicine for the cleansing of the chest and logs and yes, it does

[00:16:16] [SPEAKER_01]: The

[00:16:16] [SPEAKER_01]: He he quotes

[00:16:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Dischorities we are even

[00:16:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Talked about that. He said good for cough and consumption of the lungs, of course

[00:16:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Um

[00:16:27] [SPEAKER_01]: The decoction made from a green pine cone

[00:16:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Good to stop the last skin bloody flux that is bloody diarrhea also provokes urine

[00:16:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Getting up to more modern use

[00:16:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Miss Greve 1930 says that pine was expectant means bring some mucus out of lungs

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Demolcent or softening to tissues dioretic means gets through of excess fluid as a useful

[00:16:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Remitting coughs and colds having a beneficial effect on the bladders and kidneys absolutely true

[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_01]: And she mentions as I was just about to do I would caution though that pine can irritate the kidneys with prolonged use of large amount same as Juniper

[00:17:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Which we've discussed and spruce and fur and all that

[00:17:11] [SPEAKER_01]: In the Irish tradition the bark leaves and cones and canyl leaves and the needles

[00:17:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Are of a dry and a stringent nature very true they stop diarrhea and disintering provoked urine boy on in vinegar

[00:17:23] [SPEAKER_01]: The leaves alleviate toothache the kernels of the pine are

[00:17:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's again the spine nuts the kernels of the pine apples are beneficial for the longest kidney liver and spleen

[00:17:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Tate this like you know almost everything grows where I live and it like

[00:17:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Gulls me to know Ian that I can't grow a pine that will

[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Produce

[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_01]: pine nuts

[00:17:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Even if I did live in an area it wouldn't in my lifetime I'd be growing it from my grandchildren and considering that I

[00:17:52] [SPEAKER_01]: 47 and unmarried

[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Yann ain't likely to happen is it

[00:17:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Try everything I could to beat the right woman and get married, but God never brought her into my life

[00:18:02] [SPEAKER_01]: So I have to accept that

[00:18:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway

[00:18:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Pine nuts loosen flame and are good for consumptive cloth

[00:18:08] [SPEAKER_01]: You have to admit it would be nice for me to have someone to leave all this

[00:18:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Knowledge too, but I don't anyway moving on

[00:18:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Father-nabe

[00:18:20] [SPEAKER_01]: The German folk medicine tradition we're talking about 1890s

[00:18:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Recommended a bath of pine

[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_01]: He would use pine sprigs like basically the tips of the the branches with a fresh new growth of pine needles

[00:18:33] [SPEAKER_01]: The sprigs the fresh are the better small branches of and and even very resinous pine cones all kind of pieces

[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Throw into hot water and boiled for a half an hour

[00:18:44] [SPEAKER_01]: The bath two and then add to a bath

[00:18:47] [SPEAKER_01]: The bath two is of good effect against disease the kidneys and bladder, but not so strong is the bath of outstraw

[00:18:54] [SPEAKER_01]: He was all about baths. No that's what Father-nabe is remembered for he was the bath guy

[00:18:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, it's chief effect is on the skin which is brought to activity by it

[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_01]: You know where's increases circulation

[00:19:06] [SPEAKER_01]: It helps with many skin disorders and it also helps soften the skin so much

[00:19:11] [SPEAKER_01]: And the interior vessels which would strengthen this fragrant and strengthening bath is the proper bath for more aged people

[00:19:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Helps tighten the tissue helps with very good stains helps with hymnroids a lot of different things and very actually very good for the skin

[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Brother Alowicious his proto-shag

[00:19:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Specifically of the large pine which

[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Large or large I don't know how to pronounce it he was from Switzerland, and that's one that grows there

[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_01]: There's actually specific fungus that grows on that specific tree and that fungus

[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm thinking is basically more like a

[00:19:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, what's that word? I'm not a moss a lightchen. Yes, a lightchen

[00:19:55] [SPEAKER_01]: is very useful in curving excesses perforation of consumptives that's people with tuberculosis if given every evening

[00:20:04] [SPEAKER_01]: And has a pergative action so also elaxid quality so

[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Many 1800s United States resources southern fruit southern fields in forests

[00:20:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Talks a great deal about pine as anyone would if they live in the south we have a freaking lot of pine

[00:20:22] [SPEAKER_01]: I am not kidding you but he's one of the first people that says the odor of the tree

[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_01]: contains a certain modification of ozone and

[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Alotropic condition of oxygen according to ferody and

[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Are certainly esteemed to modify the atmosphere and diminish the effects of malaria

[00:20:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, this is actually true pine trees do put off a certain gas that's what was thought to be good for people with tuberculosis

[00:20:55] [SPEAKER_01]: We also know it's just in fact that it was useful against like malaria and certain other viruses

[00:21:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Actually in the 1980s president Reagan said something about

[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_01]: trees producing carbon dioxide and we're probably a bigger issue for the ozone layer than like cows and cars

[00:21:14] [SPEAKER_01]: He was right and it specifically pine trees and other

[00:21:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Evergreens so

[00:21:20] [SPEAKER_01]: This has been long documented anyway

[00:21:24] [SPEAKER_01]: He just this writer I cannot report to the portrait. I can't remember his name

[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_01]: He was a French botanist set they create a mechanical barrier to the ingress of malaria

[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Hence the pine land resonances though condemn for their sterile aspect such as the sand hills and our curlite i.e. pine earth

[00:21:45] [SPEAKER_01]: southern pines

[00:21:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Places i consider to be just close to being hell on earth especially fiatville and lumberton as such as that

[00:21:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Though condemn for their sterile aspect have proved of blessing to southern planters in need of comparative safe refuge

[00:22:05] [SPEAKER_01]: from the unhealthy emanations of their neighboring plantations

[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_01]: In other words the pine would help keep them from getting malaria

[00:22:15] [SPEAKER_01]: There is something to that and it would help again

[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_01]: With the tuberculosis

[00:22:24] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm a simple lot of way else he says

[00:22:27] [SPEAKER_01]: It talks a lot about how can we use this wood and the pitch used in the turbine to use but it was

[00:22:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Seen used at the time 1860s very much for both human

[00:22:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Issues and also for wounds and punctures and cattle

[00:22:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Covering broken horns given in Charlie to horses is a remedy for cough

[00:22:48] [SPEAKER_01]: And as a local remedy for scaly and disruptive diseases of the skin

[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_01]: He talks about how that the pitch could be used on post to keep him from rotting in the ground

[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_01]: He's got like a million uses

[00:23:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Obviously for pine because you know obviously

[00:23:05] [SPEAKER_01]: We've had a lot of it as I keep saying

[00:23:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Let's get more modern look at the 1960s you'll give in maybe you'll give in see if she's due to great nuts commercials

[00:23:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Very cool guy

[00:23:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Kind of a calming but other than that very cool guy

[00:23:19] [SPEAKER_01]: He wrote five excellent books on foraging

[00:23:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, he talked about white pine and in the mid-1960s he will late 1960s when he wrote this

[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_01]: He said dried white pine bark is still a valuable ingredient in cough remedies unfortunately

[00:23:35] [SPEAKER_01]: It's not anymore

[00:23:37] [SPEAKER_01]: I almost or everything you buy from a drugstore is synthetic but in 1960s

[00:23:43] [SPEAKER_01]: It was still made from actual pine and when I worked in a pharmacy as a kid

[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_01]: They did compounding there in the pharmacy and they were some plant extracts and syrups and

[00:23:56] [SPEAKER_01]: The oil pine

[00:23:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Would have been used in this exact same way essentially he's saying the dried pine bark

[00:24:04] [SPEAKER_01]: But you know summer properties

[00:24:05] [SPEAKER_01]: He says it's an official drug in the US farm of copia so it was for the 60s

[00:24:10] [SPEAKER_01]: The National Farm Military and the US dispensatory

[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_01]: It's medicinal properties are expector and direct is most often prescribed in the title role of compound white pine syrup

[00:24:23] [SPEAKER_01]: And yes that was

[00:24:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Still requested and available when I worked as a in a pharmacy in the 90s

[00:24:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Not anymore as far as I know

[00:24:33] [SPEAKER_01]: There were some really interesting cough syrups and it's back

[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Especially those are like Cody and I'm so you know these guys that did compounding can really get creative for them

[00:24:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway

[00:24:46] [SPEAKER_01]: They had fun on the weekends. Let's just put it that way

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Pine syrup as a doctor would write it on your prescription a syrups

[00:24:54] [SPEAKER_01]: P-I-N-I-P-I

[00:24:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Albe composite us in other words syrup of white pine

[00:25:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Composite is composed compounded. Yeah, this is a real herbal mixture and a good illustration of the fact that modern medicine is not to stain

[00:25:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Remedies if they are effective

[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, they do now because everything's patented by drug companies and they there's no might be made in selling herbal remedies

[00:25:22] [SPEAKER_01]: There's tons of might be made in selling pills

[00:25:24] [SPEAKER_01]: This compound contains not only the white pine bark

[00:25:28] [SPEAKER_01]: But wild cherry we just guess wild cherry while cherry

[00:25:31] [SPEAKER_01]: suppresses cough it's antitussive

[00:25:35] [SPEAKER_01]: spike-nard pop-lord buds

[00:25:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, my spike nerves are good expect for a proper buds contain natural aspirin cells and

[00:25:46] [SPEAKER_01]: blood root which is not used it's become a very rare plant it grows barely in the mountains

[00:25:52] [SPEAKER_01]: but it has a

[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_01]: It's in the same family's the poppy and so it has the antispe染atic

[00:26:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Spasmotic properties of an opiate in small amounts the same reason you put codenaming cough syrup and

[00:26:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Sassafresh root bark which is now illegal to be sold in the United States

[00:26:12] [SPEAKER_01]: I guess it was the 80s when the federal government decided that

[00:26:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Sassafresh would be made illegal because

[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Some scientists gave like the equivalent of 50,000 gallons of it a day is a strong tea to a mouse and a mouse cut cancer

[00:26:27] [SPEAKER_01]: These

[00:26:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Moral that story is don't give Sassafresh tea to your mice or don't drink 50,000 gallons of it a day

[00:26:34] [SPEAKER_01]: But I think it's perfectly safe you'll have to make your own

[00:26:38] [SPEAKER_01]: decision and amarratth

[00:26:40] [SPEAKER_01]: amarratth being

[00:26:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, we have probably discussed amarratth or herbs. It's certainly in my

[00:26:48] [SPEAKER_01]: My foraging books my books on wild foods amarratth is a popular ornamental in gardens

[00:26:55] [SPEAKER_01]: You may see if seen love lies bleeding that's a or one of those like red red locks or something it's the seeds

[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_01]: You can get a ton of seeds off of those very actually useful grain those very important to Native Americans

[00:27:09] [SPEAKER_01]: the

[00:27:10] [SPEAKER_01]: beliefs and

[00:27:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm probably the root too, but I think most of the leaves in this case have a certain stringent quality

[00:27:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Sort of like doc or so or so and so they would help kind of reduce the

[00:27:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Swaling of the bronchial so very common sense

[00:27:27] [SPEAKER_01]: cough syrup

[00:27:29] [SPEAKER_01]: That would be illegal to sell now thanks to having sassafresh in it

[00:27:35] [SPEAKER_01]: And

[00:27:35] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm also gonna say blood rukes. I think blood rukes may be in the protected category now. It's kind of gotten a little rare

[00:27:41] [SPEAKER_01]: May not be may just be state-to-state but unfortunately

[00:27:46] [SPEAKER_01]: While you'll give him a statement was true when he wrote stalking the health for herbs in

[00:27:51] [SPEAKER_01]: 1966

[00:27:53] [SPEAKER_01]: This is no longer

[00:27:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Available in your drugstore

[00:27:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Pharmacist rarely compound medicine these days

[00:27:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Pharmacetal Glentistry has become super powerful and influential and

[00:28:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah

[00:28:05] [SPEAKER_01]: They used to be able to make just about everything in house now everything's patented and made in China isn't that nice

[00:28:12] [SPEAKER_01]: And it's certainly chemicals dangers chemicals have replaced what are now called crude drugs

[00:28:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Meaning plant based ridiculous just you know don't even be started. I guess I'm already done that

[00:28:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Trail though. I'm gonna pull up

[00:28:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Plant-sur-view-ger says of lob lollip

[00:28:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Pitch pine

[00:28:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Pricle pine pond pine scrub pine shortly

[00:28:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Pline so about half of those we have in North Carolina

[00:28:40] [SPEAKER_01]: The turpentine obtained for the resin of all pine trees is anisaptic dioretic rubofation. I mean's redness the skin

[00:28:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Can bring up veins can help with you know, so or joint like putting a linemen on

[00:28:55] [SPEAKER_01]: And firm fuchsirum fuchsirum music is rid of the intestinal parasites

[00:28:58] [SPEAKER_01]: It is a valuable remedy used internally in the treatment of kidney and bladder complaints

[00:29:04] [SPEAKER_01]: And is also used internally as a rub in steam bath on the treatment of a rheumatic affections

[00:29:10] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean's arthritis is also very beneficial to the respiratory system and so is useful in treating

[00:29:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Diseases of the mucus membranes and respiratory complaints such as cost colds

[00:29:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Influenza and tuberculosis

[00:29:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Externally it has very beneficial for a variety of skin complaints including wounds or burns

[00:29:30] [SPEAKER_01]: B oils etc and use in the form of limits and plasterers pulses

[00:29:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Irvolstein bass and inhalers now we actually have a longer entry on white pine

[00:29:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Because white pine is considered to be the strongest of the pine trees

[00:29:47] [SPEAKER_01]: You know I'll find out like I said there's a white pine in my front yard. It's got to go

[00:29:52] [SPEAKER_01]: It's getting too tall and make fall in the house so I'm gonna kind of white pine

[00:29:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, if not this fall next fall and we'll see usually we're gonna harvest pine though in the spring

[00:30:03] [SPEAKER_01]: You know we want to eat the bark with a lot of sap in it

[00:30:05] [SPEAKER_01]: So I guess I will try to harvest it next spring

[00:30:09] [SPEAKER_01]: So not when I usually kind of treat but maybe it'd be a good good idea

[00:30:13] [SPEAKER_01]: But this will use our white pine white pine was employed medically by several native North American Indian tribes who valued it especially for its

[00:30:22] [SPEAKER_01]: septic and wolnery qualities of all remains wound healing using an extensively in the treatment of skin complaints wounds burns

[00:30:31] [SPEAKER_01]: B oils etc is also very beneficial to the respiratory system and so was used in treating cost colds influenza and so on

[00:30:39] [SPEAKER_01]: The Turk and tying obtained for the resin of all pine trees is an septic dioratic river patient in vorma fuse

[00:30:45] [SPEAKER_01]: It is a valuable remedy used internally in the treatment of kidney and bladder complaints and is used both internally as an as a rub

[00:30:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Steam bath in the treatment of a rub any steam bath in the treatment of rheumatic or arthritic

[00:31:00] [SPEAKER_01]: affections conditions it is also very very beneficial for the respiratory system

[00:31:06] [SPEAKER_01]: And is useful in treating diseases of the mucous membranes and respiratory complaints such as coughs colds

[00:31:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Influencent tuberculosis externally is very beneficial for the varieties skin complaints such as

[00:31:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Loone source burns boils etc is used in the form of linimates plaster's pulses or verbal steam bass and inhaleants

[00:31:27] [SPEAKER_01]: A poll to set the pitch is used to draw toxins from boils into reduced the pain the dried inner bark is

[00:31:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Demolcent or softening dioratic and expectant and if fusion was used to treat as a treatment for causing colds and still

[00:31:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Ingrading commercial costeerups

[00:31:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Where it serves from out the expulsion flim

[00:31:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe the case in England I have not seen a single commercial costeerupil which is still used in the United States and I did work in a pharmacy

[00:31:53] [SPEAKER_01]: So you know, but who knows maybe someone's come up there are these you know

[00:31:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Just new companies that come up with natural this and natural that maybe it is that'd be cool for this

[00:32:02] [SPEAKER_01]: A poll to smear for the pounded inner bark is used to treat cut source and wounds

[00:32:07] [SPEAKER_01]: The wedded inner bark can be used as a poll to sell the chest to treating strong colds

[00:32:11] [SPEAKER_01]: The dried inner bark contains 10% can't tan it some muselage

[00:32:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Only resin like side and bald oil a team made from the young needles as used treats sore throats is a very good source of

[00:32:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Vitamin C and is also effect and so is effective against curvy and

[00:32:28] [SPEAKER_01]: In conclusion of the young twigs has been used in the treatment of kidneys or disorders and poll marry complaints

[00:32:33] [SPEAKER_01]: The powdered wood has been used as a dressing on babies chave skin

[00:32:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Sores and improperly healed navels

[00:32:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Wow, so that would definitely come in handy in a grid down situation

[00:32:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Got a lot more information. I'm probably not getting into it a lot

[00:32:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Steven here a beiner

[00:32:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Have a great

[00:32:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Recipe for a pine needle beer

[00:32:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Definitely if you want to look up his book sacred healing herbal beers

[00:33:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Definitely worth looking at that's kind of where I got my idea to do a pine needle wine

[00:33:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Let's see, yeah, I can't give you that

[00:33:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Just you know

[00:33:16] [SPEAKER_01]: But other than that he doesn't give any uses we haven't discussed for

[00:33:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Peter some field guide central medicinal plants shortly pine says American Indians use the inner bark tea to induce vomiting and

[00:33:33] [SPEAKER_01]: And at he of the buds to expel worms

[00:33:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Also uses a laxative and tuberculosis and all that

[00:33:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Long leaf pine

[00:33:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Turpentine

[00:33:46] [SPEAKER_01]: from the sap use for

[00:33:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Colic

[00:33:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Crying diarrhea worms to rest bleeding from two sockets so like if you'd had a tooth pulled it would help start the bleeding

[00:33:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Focerlity for abnormal tumors

[00:33:59] [SPEAKER_01]: White pine we have covered very well botany a day says medicinal the pines are quite resonance and aromatic

[00:34:06] [SPEAKER_01]: T is useful as an expectant but can irritate kidneys

[00:34:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Pine heals can cause abortion and cattle so don't let your cows eat

[00:34:15] pine

[00:34:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Excerly the resin has a disinfecting quality just like pine salt the bark of some species contains powerful

[00:34:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Aniaxants that is true you may remember the fat in the 90s and early 2000s a picnoginal

[00:34:29] [SPEAKER_01]: It was supposed to be the aniaxia compound that was going to save everybody from cancer. Well, it didn't

[00:34:35] [SPEAKER_01]: But it is quite aniaxia and very good

[00:34:38] [SPEAKER_01]: We'll just finish up here with the physicians desk reference for herbal medicine so this switch your doctors going to look at right

[00:34:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Pine shoots pine shoots now. This is just a shoots

[00:34:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you could probably walk through any woods and collect as many of these as you want springtime

[00:34:52] [SPEAKER_01]: So they're just you know what comes right up out of the ground

[00:34:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Approved by commission E that means still proved in in Western medicine for blood pressure problems

[00:35:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Common cold cough and bronchitis fevers and colds inflammation the mouth and pharynx

[00:35:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Neuralgia tendency to infection pine shoots are used internally for cataract congestion

[00:35:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Conditions of the upper lower respiratory tract externally as used from mild muscular pain and neurologic coughs and acute bronchitis

[00:35:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Bracul diseases and topically for nasal congestion and horsesus pine oil approved by commission E is used for the common cold

[00:35:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Cost bronchitis fevers and colds inflammation the mouth and pharynx

[00:35:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Neuralgia's rheumatism tendency and infection

[00:35:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Essential oils used internally and externally for congestive diseases of the upper respiratory tract remember don't use

[00:35:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Essential oils

[00:35:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Internally unless an expert tells you to and always cut them with a neutral oil because they will burn you

[00:35:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Strue with pine

[00:35:57] [SPEAKER_01]: externally used for

[00:35:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Romatic and neurologic complaints

[00:36:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Turpentine oil if you could still find it's wonderful stop

[00:36:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Approved by commission E for cost bronchitis inflammation the mouth and pharynx rheumatism

[00:36:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Purified turpentine

[00:36:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Turpentine oil is used internally and externally for chronic diseases of the bronchine

[00:36:18] [SPEAKER_01]: With perfuse secretions is used externally for a mannequin neurologic ailments

[00:36:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Unproven uses folk medicine use includes bladder, cattle, congestion, gallstones and phosphorus poisoning

[00:36:32] [SPEAKER_01]: So I hope you are never poisoned by phosphorus, but if you are get yourself

[00:36:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Some turpentine

[00:36:38] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how that works never heard of that before and that's the only source I have that mentioned

[00:36:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Half by the way so but it is a physician's death reference for a woman medicine

[00:36:47] [SPEAKER_01]: All right y'all

[00:36:48] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna wrap it up there

[00:36:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Have a great week and I'll talk to you next time

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