Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Pine

Hey, y'all, welcome this week's show. I have discussed the medicinal uses of pine trees before, but I'm gonna do this show in the context of the chapter from my book The Encyclopedia of Bitter Medicinal Herbs. It gets into some uses we haven't really discussed at length before. It pine is like, well, I mean, how many times I've said a pine tree can save your life. Now there is some dispute over which pine should be used. Apparently the stone pine and a couple others. The needles may contain thusione like you would find in wormwood. I still would not hesitate. I mean, I'm not afraid of thu jion really only used as an essential oil. Is it truly toxic unless you were just using it in like massive amounts. I mean, you would really have to be using it in massive amounts, large amounts for a long period of time. Would be the only time I would be really concerned with the fusion. Now, if there's another toxin that's in some pine trees, I am unaware of it. The most common pine used in herbal medicine is white pine. White pine. It grows most everywhere, certainly everywhere in North Carolina. I mean, maybe not the coast, but there are sixty three varieties of pine that have been found useful in urbal medicine. So you can find a pine. I mean, there's like I said, what was the white pine, bristle cone pine, Chinese white pine, Mexican white pine, jack pine, lace bark pine, California pine, Swiss stone pine, and I see that's actually a stone pine pinus. Well, let's see. I'll try to do the common names, and it's the pinus species p I n us, Siberian pine, Mexican pine, nut beach Mexican pine beach pine, lodgepole pine, big cone pine, pinion pine, Japanese red pine. There's I can't begin to name all these. I'd be spending half the show doing it. But the lob lolly, that's probably the most common pine in North Carolina has medicinal use. It's the one I use when I don't have access to white pine. I'm gonna see long leaf. Yeah, that's the other one North carol that's actually you know, what North Carolina is known for is long leaf pines, even though the the lob lolly is far more more common. Yeah, they're just tons of Okay, scrub pine, himalay, and blue prine. You name it anyway. So North Carolina is known as the land of the long leaf pine. I don't think there's anywhere you can go in North Carolina. We're not just gonna find a ton of pine trees. And the same is true throughout the South. The same is true from where I've been up north in New England to the Midwest. I mean to just pines everywhere. So to me one, I'm going to tell you know, when I think about what's the most useful medicinal herb, it's not a matter of just what is the most effective, it's what's effective and easy to get to know. I can walk out the door of any house within five hundred miles of here, or step into the woods out of my car if I was traveling, and I can get to a pine tree. If I was having a terrible diarrhea, I've broken a leg or something, I was so weak I couldn't go more than a few feet, I can get to a pine tree. Pine is also one of the most edible trees. Actually, every single part of the pine tree can be eaten. Obviously, you would not wish to do that unless it was an absolute survival situation, that would be a pretty desperate move to actually eat the wood of a pine tree but ground into sawdust. Yeah, it is actually edible. The needles are what we would normally use in arable medicine, but the inner bark of pine is really the most edible part. The needles, the pollen pods whatever you call them, I can't remember, little green or little purple things, depending on what kind of pine you got, that put out a ton of pollen, very edible and actually very nutritious, full of vitamin C, both the needles and the pollen absolutely full of with the pollen is full of protein. It actually increases testosterone and men if you're not terribly allergic to it, which I am, but it's one of our best herbs are increasing testosterone. Full of protein. I mean, that's just a I mean better than you know, beans or anything else you can think of in the vegetable family that has a lot of protein, as good as tree nuts. You know, the needles full of itamin SEA, I mean, just really amazing. So anyway, pine and you can also make excellent baskets out of pine needles. I do that or out of that inner bark. If you have a tree that needs to come down and you do it in the spring, you can get that inner bark. You can do gorgeous platted baskets that will sell for I mean a lot. I mean people are really willing to pay hundreds of dollars for pine baskets, just like birch and a few other trees. So as what I really talked about last time was pine pitch to stop bleeding. It is the best. Okay, dear, Okay, again, you got to think about convenience. Right. If I'm in the kitchen and I cut myself with a knife, which happens occasionally, or I will grab some cayenne pepper, put some cayenne pepper on that, it's going to staunch bleeding. No problem. Now. If I anywhere else, I mean to use pine pitch. And the reason is pine pitch, especially in its dried white crystallized form. You can use it with something like pink and gummy, but in its dried white crystalized form you can put into a bleeding wound. It will immediately like soak up the blood and stop the bleeding. It also disinfects the wound. So if I'm carving wood. If I'm out in the woods and I get hurt, if anything, if I've got a bad bleed, my go to is pine pitch. Now, you know, you could use dried yarrow, certainly, that's a fantastic, but how many times have you cut yourself, I mean, and it's really bad and you're bleeding all over the place, and you've got to get this bleeding stopped. How many times have you actually had within reach a you know, a bag of dried yarrow blossoms flowers very rarely. Now it grows all over my yard, so you know, yeah, I have access more to yard than most people, but I always have access to pine pitch. I keep some in my first aid kit in my medicine cabinet, my little belt pouch that I take with me whenever I go in the woods. I've got some pine pitch. That's going to be my go to. The story I told him the episode when we discussed bleeding was I was down in Pinehurst, North Carolina, named after all the pine trees, of course, installing a dryer from my mother, and didn't have anybody help me. And I'm bringing the dryer. I got it down off the truck you know, on my own, and I put it on the dolly and I start going up the steps and the dolly kicked back and hit me in the shin. I was wearing shorts, and I mean it split my leg open and fractured the bone, and I didn't have time to stop. I put a paper town some duct tape on it, you know, the old trick, right, papertown duct tape, installed the dryer and got the old one out, and then I looked at the wound and it was a lot worse than I thought, probably should have had stitches. It did a blood all down. My sock was soaked. I mean it was you know, you cut yourself at a low point on your body, a low part of your leg, You're gonna bleed a lot, and it's really hard to get that blood to stop, just because of gravity, you know, basically. So I went out and hollowed out and to found a pine tree that had been damaged in a storm. And there's plenty of pine resin s app that had come down and dried and it was hard and crystallized. Scraped it off with a knife, gott inside, put it on, brought my leg up, bleeding stop wound closed. You know, had to reapply it a few times for a couple of days. Healed up completely, no scar, no stitches, nothing, no infection nothing. That's how good pine resin pine pitch is. It's fantastic. So pine need ta or wine can to prevent a sore throat or well can prevent a sore throat from becoming worse. Okay, sore throats can actually become what's called boggy when the tissue has become so swollen and inflamed it gets a purpleish tint to it that you can suffocate or choke to death. Pine need or tea or pine wine, which I'll tell you how to make, can't We'll stringe that tissue really kill a lot of the germs in the throat as well because it has that any septic property and can again save your life. It's also good to help break a fever, and good against viruses and really all infections. Really interesting, I mentioned the male pollen cone of the pine tree, which, depending on where you live, have either just dropped on their pollen or are about to, whether it's still in their green stage or purple for a long leaf. They're very aromatic they put off a vapor. You know, it's a pine scent. It's almost like Vic's vapor rub I mean, you know, that's more of like an eucalyptus. But somewhere in that very strong scent. Well, if you hold it just right between your lips and kind of suck the air and around it and in hell that vapor, it can lower blood pressure and heart rate and stop an asthma attack. Even being allergic to pine. That is a remedy I have used in emergencies and sometimes it's actually just really pleasant. It's very relaxing. Actually that's it's I guess some form of aromatherapy. But I discovered that when I was a kid, and to the best of my knowledge, no one else has ever written about that. So you know, if you're listening to this, you know something that most professional herbalists don't know. But Discordes wrote extensively on the minicipal uses of pine. He mentioned it more than one hundred times. So here's just a little bit of what he said. Let's see if I'll try to get to the medicinal uses here. The bark of the pine tree is a stringent pound of small pieces that a poultice is made of it. It is good with the sediment of wine and mana. Now that's actually a tree resin on its own. That's not like the manna from the desert anyway. But he used it for chafing, dermatitis, superficial ulcers, and burns. Taken with miracle wax. That's the wax myrtle ointment. It brings boils to ahead and it's good for those with tender skin. I don't know what this would be. Blackening from a shoemaker. We're talking two thousand years ago, so I don't think they were using shoe polish, but something shoemakers were using to turn a leather black. Combined with that, say, it was good for snake bite, so it was good for expelling the after birth. Taking as a drink, it stops discharges of the intestines and encourages urine the leaves or needles. Pound into small pieces of man into a poultice, lesson inflammation and keep wounds from being inflamed. Pound into small pieces and boiled in vinegar. They lessen the toothache when the teeth are washed with the liquid. The tea spoon of one tea spoon of the leaves taken as in water or honey. Water is good for liver disorders. The bark from the cones and the leaves split taken in a drink are good for the same purpose. Piece of the heart of the tree, cut in small pieces in atocoction, bonne and vigar, and held to a tooth that suffers lessons toothache. A paste made for them is suitable for preparations of enemas and suppositories. When they are burning, a soot is taken good to make writing ink. Yeah, they actually use pine trees to make ink. But also that was good to be put in medicines for the eyelids. It would reduce inflammation of the eyelids and also good for the erosions of the corners and weeping eyes and bald eyes. So he was probably using the pitch pine. It would be the one that was or the let's see black pine or maritime pine would all be common to his area at the time. Let's see he talks about pine cones, or he gets in a fur which actually is a different tree. We'll skip that. Gerard fifteen hundreds, England. Let me sip the water here, he's talking about a pine that has pine nuts. And in America, basically only if you're out west do you have a pine that has pine nuts. They don't grow east of the Mississippi. To the best of my knowledge, I would I love pine nuts. I would love to have a pine nut bearing tree. Unfortunately, this theed like Swiss stone pine or the Mexican pine nut tree. They take decades to mature, so I'll never have one in my lifetime, even if I could get one to grow here. But he said, the kernels of the nuts do concoct and moderately, heat being a mean between cold and hot. Don't know what that means. Nobody knows what that means. It maketh the rough part smooth. It is a remedy against an old cough, now that I can understand, and long infirmities of the chest being taken by itself or with honey or else with some other licking thing. In other word, sugar. They you know, they had like rock candy, so they would lick it. So that's what he means. Fifteen hundreds England, they were not yet importing sugarcane from the Bahamas, and such it cures the fifth. I never can say that word p h T H I S I C. I end up sounding like Sylvester the puddy tap every time I try to say that word. And let's see it's it was good for the rottenness of the lungs. Probably tuberculosis recovers strength that nourishes and is restored to the body. It yieldeth a thick and good juice, and nourisheth much. Yet it is not altogether easy of digestion, and therefore it is mixed with preserves or boiled sugar. I bethink he's still talking pine nuts. By the way, the same is good for the stone of the kidney, and against the frettings of the bladder and the scalding of the urine. For it a layeth the sharpness, and mitigateth the pain, and gently provoketh the urine. Moreover, it increaseth milk and seed, and therefore provoketh fleshly lust. So if you have pine nuts, you may provoketh fleshly lust. I have no idea. I just know they're awfully good with the pasta and parmesan and such a sad And yeah, I'll make a good with the basil and the pesto. I love pesto. All right, So the whole cone being freshly boiled with whorehound saith galen. I think he's talking a green pine cone, not a dry brown one, and afterwards boiled again with a little honey til the decoction becomes the thickness of honey maketh an excellent medicine for the cleansing of the chest and lungs. Oh see, yeah, he mentions that discord. He said, gather whole cones newly gathered from trees, boiled in sweet wine. Good for old cough, consumption of lungs if a draft of that liquor be drunk every day. So definitely green cones on that. And then he actually talks about what's interesting pineapple. I think he's actually talking about green pine cones because see fifteen hundreds England. Do they bring in pineapples yet? No? I don't think an actual pineapple would arrive for another two hundred years. Actually, So, Miss Greeb referred to the white pine for medicinal value, as do I mostly, But when I'm saying, this is true of all white pines and most other pines. So let's just look at it that way. Under medicinal actions uses. Says it's expectrate a demulsate diuretic, a useful remedy and costs and colds having a beneficial effect on the blatter and kidneys. But I do want to caution that pine can irritate the kidneys with prolonged use or in large amounts the resins of the tea or of pine wine if you make that well diuretic and good for the kidneys, and small amounts can irritate just like juniper and such and irisurable by John John Keyhoe, you know. John Keyhoe, written around eighteen hundred, says the bark of the leaves and cones are of a dry, astringent nature. They stop diarrhea and dysentery, and provoke urine. Boiled in vinegar, the leaves alleviate toothache. The kernels of the pine apples are beneficial for the lungs, kidneys, liver and splein. And of course he means pine cones. They loosen flammin are good for consumptive cough. That's from was it arbarium hibernicum. Now you'll find that under an Irish herbl father Nape from Germany recommend a bath of pine. He said, the pine sprig bath is prepared as follows. The sprigs, the fresh of the better small branches, and even resinous pine cones are all kinds of pieces, and throwing hot water and boiled for half an hour. The rest is above said. The bath too, is of great of good effect against diseases of the kidney and bladder, but not so strong as a bath of oat straw. The chief effect is on a skin which is brought to activity by it, and on the interior vessels which it strengthens. This fragrant and strengthening bath is the proper bath for more aged people. His protege was brother Alo Wisious, and he wrote of larch or La r c h Pine. He said, a fungus called larch fungus grows all over the trunks of old larch trees. This white, loose substance within the fungus is very useful in curbing excessive perspiration of consumptives. If people with tuberculosis, if given every evening the dose of a half to one gram a dose of two to four grams has a purgative action. Now, we don't really have larch where I live, but maybe if you do this something you can look into and resources of the Southern field and forest, which was written commissioned by the Confederacy so very much where I live, says it is indeed one of the great gifts of God demand for it furnishes to everyone in an abundant material for fuel, fire, warmth, and light. The forests of pines are not only useful, beautiful, absolutely, she says, the characteristic moan of the winds through their branches, their funereal aspect almost limitless extent, and health giving influences which attend their presence all contribute to make the pine an object of peculiar interest to the people of the Southern States. And this is interested as a French botanist that was hired by the Confederacy to write this, and he had never seen pine forests like we have in South Pinehurst, North Carolina, which I mentioned earlier my mother lives. It did not begin as a golf resort. Now it's known as the home of golf in America. I mean, you know, next to Augusta. Pinehurst is like right at the top, and people come from all over the world. Originally it was not a pine a golf resort at all. It was for it to be people with tuberculosis. They found that the ozone given off by pine trees witties the lungs and help people to breathe better. So originally Pinehurst was basically hospitals and spas and resorts for people, mostly from the Northern States, who had tuberculosis, and that's why people came here. It's really very interesting. I remember in the eighties when Ronald Reagan said something about the carbon dioxide and ozone given off by pine trees. Everybody's, Oh, he's crazy, he's crazy, there's a hole in the ozone. No. I mean it's actually been established fact for really centuries. This botanist quotes Spharaday and I mean you know much about like Faraday bags and such. I mean, it's pretty great scientists. It was. He called it an allotropic condition of oxygen and he named it ozone. And yeah, they actually do. And that's sort of that effect when I said, when you kind of sucked the air from around one of the pollen cones, you get that and it does ease the lungs. It really does. As I said, I happen to be incredibly allergic to pine. Pine in general with pollen mostly, but also like a mold that will grow under pine needles can get to me real bad. But for a lot of people, they came from all over the country to Pinehurst, North Carolina, to spend there mostly spring through winter, you know, winter and fall, spring, but not in the summer. It's horrible place to be in the summer even now, but imagine a time before air conditioning when it would get to one hundred and ten degrees and you're out there in a pine Beer and golf actually became just a means of recreation. I mean it was not the They really just kind of did it as a one off, not thinking anybody would care about it. Annie Oakley used to come there and give shooting lessons. They had fox hunts. They were real big into fox hunts during Prohibition. It was one of the few places in North Carolina that had gambling casinos and bars because there were so many wealthy people there that they basically paid off the government to turn a blind eye. One of the main developers was Malcolm McLain who McLean's and my family go back really centuries. Actually friends of the family, a little intermarriage between the family his I guess his brother became governor of North Carolina. They founded First National Bank, one of the oldest, most wealthy families in North Carolina. He took that and turned into an empire. He invented the cargo containers on ships. You know, like see a port and they're lifting these big cargo containers off and they put one on the back of a tractor trailer, and you know, he invented that. He did so he was taking tobacco to market in barrels in the back of a truck, and he thought, wouldn't it be great if we just had a big box that could be lifted off. Well, the man made a freaking fortune. I mean he you know, he turned that Southern National Bank money into a multi billion dollar empire and helped develop probably a good half of Pinehurst and then a lot in Florida. He was one of the big investors in Florida. So that's you know, it's just an interesting fact of history that you know, most people don't know. You'd see those big containers and you never think somebody invented that. Our entire means of transporting goods around the planet now was invented by a McClane from Max and North Carolina. Just absolutely incredible. So anyway, he says that the pines, this is eighteen sixties, he believed that ozone, the off gasing of pine trees would prevent malaria, and they've given the antiseptic properties of pine more than likely did have some anti viral effect if people were sleeping out under the pine trees or bringing him bowels into their rooms, I mean fumigation essentially. So he talks about the big plantations covered in pine trees. It was obviously very impressed. I'm going to get to medicinal uses here. I mean he had some mean I mean from making plasters for the resins, I mean, you know, literally his job was to replace everything that had been imported to the South, that was blockaded and kept out by the North, figure out a way to make it ourselves here in the South. And his book is just absolutely invaluable. It's called Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, and he talks about how you could you can make turpentine out of it. Obviously turpentine many medicinal uses as an antiseptic and such. But the tar to put between boards of ships so they wouldn't leak, that's actually the reason that North Carolina. North Carolinians are known as tar heels because we had the biggest industry of shipbuilding and making the tar for those ships well before the revolution. Anyway, very interesting stuff really is so more modern. It's gonna be Ill Gibbons in the nineteen sixties, nineteen sixty six in fact, and his one of his books, he said, dried white pine bark is still a valuable ingredient in cough remedies. It is an official drug in the US Pharmacopeia Formacopeia I Guess West pronounced it, the National FORMULAA, and the US Dispensatory. Its medicinal properties are expectorate and diuretic. Is most often prescribed in the title role of compound white syrup, or as a doctor would writer, prescription syrupus piney albi compositious syrup of pine white compost. Essentially, that's what the Latin means. It is a real herbal mixture and a good illustration of the fact that modern medicine does not disdain remedies if they are in fact, if they are effective. This compound contains not only pine bark, but wild cherry, spikenard, poplar buds, blood roots, sassafras, root, bark, and amorant. Unfortunately, that's no longer true, he wrote, Stalking the Helpful Herbs in nineteen sixty six. Absolute classic. Our government outlawed the sale of anything containing sassafras for both medico and edible purposes back in the seventies and well, maybe early eighties, somewhere the seventies, early eighties, and yeah, I'm thinking maybe around eighty five actually, so anyway, that would have taken off the shelf. Anyway, you can get sue it gumbo felae made from the leaves if you want to make gumbo, but anything made from the root was outlawed. Pharmacists no longer compound medicines very much. I mean one out of a thousand pharmacists maybe a compounding pharmacist. Everybody's using patented medications that come straight from Pfizer and all that. They don't make the stuff up in the pharmacy anymore, and if they did, they wouldn't be using plants. They would be using chemicals. By by well, really by the time of Gibbons, right in the sixties, herbs were called crude drugs and they were not used. But that one was apparently staying on the market a little bit longer. I mean, I remember it. I remember that cough syrup as a kid. I mean it lasted for you know, another generation or so. But you can't. You have to make it yourself now. And that is a very good formula. Let me give you a little rundown on that. What do you say, pine bark, white pine wild cherry. Wild cherry is a cough suppressant. Spikenar is very good for the immune system and the lungs. Poplar buds are like willow in that they will bring down a fever. Blood root is an excellent expectorant. Send small amounts. Sassafras also good expect rent and amorant. Amorant is just very nutritive, palming, soothing to the system. You can absolutely make it yourself. And you would just take those and you would boil them into a decoction because they're all from woody plants except the anamorant and the blood root. You could do definitely do a tincture. But yeah, I mean either way a tear or tincture would work just fine. Add some honey to it and you've got a great cost herup, all right, so let's see what else we got modern use plants for future says A loblolly and pitch pine, and prickle pine, and pond pine, and scrub pine and shortly pine. Turbentine obtained for the resident of all these trees is and a septic diuretic ribefacient that means reddening to the skin that brings kind of warms and redden skin. And vermafuge, which means gets rid of intestinal parasites. It is a valuable Oh that's my place. There's a valuable remedy there we go. Used in in the treatment of kidney and bladder complaints, and is used both internally as a rub and a steam bath and the treatment of rheumatic affections arthritis. Other words, it is also very beneficial to the respiratory system and so is useful in treating diseases of the mucous membranes and respiratory complaints such as costs called influenza tuberculosis. Externally, it is very medicinal, I'm sorry, very beneficial for a variety of skin complaints, wounds, sores, boils, burns, and is used in the form of limit plasters, poultices, herbal steam, bass and inhalers now of pine specifically, They say white pine was employed medicinally by several Native North American Indian tribes who valued it especially for its antiseptic and vulnary that's wound healing qualities, using it extensively in the treatment of skin complaints, wounds, burns, boils, et cetera. It is also very beneficial to the respiratory system, or if you want to sound like a doctor, say respiratory, which is frankly idiotic. They just say that to say we're doctors. The word is respiratory. Anyway, It was so huged in treating costs, colds, influence, and so on. The turpentine obtained from the resin of all pine trees as antiseptic, diuretic, rubefaci, and vermafuge. It is a valuable remedy used internally in the treatment of kidney and bladder complaints, and is used both internally and as a rub and steam bath in the treatment of rheumatic affections. It is also very beneficial for the respiratory system and so is useful in treating diseases of the mucous membranes and respiratory complaints such as costs, colds, influentia, and tuberculosis. Externally is very beneficial for a variety of skin complaints, wound sores, burns, boils, et cetera, and is used in the form of liniments, plasters, poultice, as herbal steam vessine Inhaler's a poultice of the pitch has been used to draw toxins from boils and to reduce the pain. The dried inner bark is demulsion, diuretic and expectant. Dumulsca means softening by the way and infusion was used as a treatment for colds and is still used as an ingredient in commercial cought Europe, where it serves to promote the expulsion of phlim. A poultice made for the pounded inner bark is used treat cut sores and wounds. The wetted inner bark can be used as a poultice on the chest and treating strong colds. The inner bark contains ten percent tannin, some uselage and olia resin, a glycoside and a volatile oil. A tea made for the young needles is use treat sore throats. It is a good source of vibin seed and so is effective against scurvy, and infusion of the young twigs has been used in the treatment of kidney's disorders and pulmonary complaints. The powdered wood has been used as a dressing on baby's chafed skin sores and improperly healed navels. All right, now, Sacred and Healing herbal beers. That is such an odd title for an excellent herbal book. Stephen Herrod Buner, who passed away recently, was one of the greatest, probably the well certainly the top five, maybe the greatest erblist of his generation. But he did like to catch your attention, and he was actually the nephew of one of America's surgeon generals. Very scholarly intelligent guy, but total hippie and waco. I actually have a lot of respect for him. He really came out strong against the transgender nonsense and was just before his death just thoroughly shunned and excoriated and hated on by all the liberals in the herbal community. And so am I. So he turned out all right. In my book, he said, pine needles are strongly anti square bututic, which means they have bite them see good for scurvy and in part a pleasing taste to tea. They also possess expectant diuretic and antiseptic activity as well. The resin is the most strongly expectant element of the plant for this purpose, and aunt an amount about the size of a raisin is chewed and swallowed. Pine help soften bronchial mucus and move it out of the system through expectoration in any condition where the lungs are congested. Without fruitful expectoration, it is useful as a diuretic and anseptic. It is useful for urinary tract infections. Pine is strong, and as a result it is easy to take too much, which can aggravate the kidney and urethrow inflammation. The bark is fairly high in tannins and mucilagious constituents. These, combined with its antibacterial activity, make it a highly useful herb for external wound pultices, as it will stop bleeding and help damage tissue bind together, it will soothe in flame tissue and help prevent infection. These same actions make it useful in stomach ulcerration and especially in cough syrups for upper respiratory infections. In traditional medicinal herbalism, pine barker resin has been used as a stimulant, laxative, expectorant, diuretic, pectoral. It means good for the chest, vermifuge, detergent, that means cleansing, balsamic. It's like aromatic. Well, the aromatic qualities we talked about invulnary or wound healing. Indigenous practices used it frequently for colds, flus, sore throats, stubborn wounds, sores or alters, inflammation, and rheumatism. It was one of the most important herbal medicines for the Menominee Indians of North America. And speaking of which we'll get the Peterson's Field guide. They said short leaf pine American Indians use the inner bark and tea to induce vomiting called tea of buds, and it was used as a worm expellant. It uses a laxative for tuberculosis, also for kidney elments and beck aches oh kinney elmetsy kidney elements that caused back aches. I should say long leaf pine turpentine derived from sap formally used for colic chronic diarrhea, worms to arrest bleeding from tooth sockets if you have a toothpool or something rubefacient. Full griminy for abdominal tumors. White pine, used extensively by American Indians, pitch police to draw it boils abscesses, also for rheumatism, broken bones, cuts, sores, felons, which are basically sores on the fingers caused by bacteria. I think it's bacteria. I'm not sure, but anyway. Twig tea used for kidney and lung elements. Is emetic bark or leaf tea used for colds, coughs, gripes, sore throat, lung elements, poultice for headaches, backaches, et cetera. Inner bark formally used in cough syrup, so by Peterson's it was no longer being used in cough syrup. Botania Day says medically, the pines are quite resinous and aromatic. The tea is useful as an expectrant, but can irritate the kidneys. It is reported that the needles of some pine can cause abortion in cattle, so cautions of ice here. Externally, the resin has a disinfectant quality like pine salt, the bark of some species contains powerful antioxidants and I think our last reference here Yes, Physicians Desk reference for herbal medicine says pine shoots indicates and uses approved by commission E. Used for blood pressure problems, common cold, cough, bronchitis, fevers and colds, inflammation of the mouth, and paarenex neuuralgia tendency to infection. Pine suits are used for catteract conditions of the upper and lower respiratory tract. Internally is used for mild muscular pain and neuralgia cough, secute bronchial disease, and topically for nasal congestion and horseness. Pine oil approved by commission E used for common cold, cough, bronchitis, fevers and colds, inflammation of the mouth, and paarenox neuralgia, rheumatism, tendency to infection. The essential oil is used internally and externally for congestive diseases of the upper and lower respiratory tract. Internally, no externally I'm sorry. Externally is used for romatic and neuroalgic elements. Turpentine oil purified approved by commission E for cough bronchitis, inflammation of the mouth, and pharenox rheumatism. Purified turpentoine oil is used internally and externally for chronic diseases of the bronchi with profuse secretions. It is used externally for omatic and neurologic ailments. Folk medicine use includes bladder cattera that's congestioned collstones, and phosphorus poisoning. Very interesting, Very interesting, all right, So I promised to give you my pine wine recipe. This is so simple. I made up a batch of this for when COVID was just starting to hit fear to help keep me from getting sick or help my lungs if I did right. Well, Unfortunately I had I caught, actually caught COVID from somebody at a restaurant, like a couple of days before I started making that pine wine. And you know, it was asymptomatic, and so by the time it was ready, I was already very sick. But it did help a lot with the coffin congestion. Even though it kind of smells and tastes little like pine salt, it's not the most pleasant, it does do the job. So you get some fresh green pine needles. The younger are better if you can do in the spring. But you know, as long as the green did pretty much, okay. I went out. I took my five gallon stock pot and I just went out and pulled handfuls of green pine needles until it was about half full. You know, I didn't weigh at my volume. I just kind of eye bought it. Took it back in the house, filled the stock pot with water, brought it to a boil for a I don't know, probably a good hour, you know. I brought it to a boil, let it simmer, put the lid on, just let it steep for a good hour too. I felt like everything was extracted from those pine needles, pulled them out, strained it thoroughly. Had a light you know, amber brown tea of pine needles, which smelled very piny, with hot atalel to that. I was going for about a five gallon batch, so I added two pounds of sugar per gallon of water and let a cool room temperature, put it in a carboy. That's a you know all those big glass water bottles they used to have in offices for water, You know, we use those a lot in brewing and wine making. With a funnel, you know, poured it in. It was good, room temperature cold. You don't want to put anything hot in glass, and you don't want to put an yeast anything too hot. Put in some geese paper towel with the rubber band over it in case it started foaming up bad overnight. It did phone quite a bit because of the terpenes in the in the liquid. That kind of it phones more. Let me just put it that way. So when the foaming stopped, topped it off a little fresh water, put a fermentation lock on it, let it sit for thirty days, and you know, once it was clear and they east to sell to the bottom. I was ready to start drinking it. And like I said, it's like pine sal but you know, we were in in COVID lockdown and it did help with congestion. And it was a little bit of wine to get you through a day an evening when you know your feeling kind of sick and lousing. Couldn't go out and buy anything. And yeah, it was good. It was good. I like it enough to try to make it again. I may cut back a little bit on the sugar. It was a little bit sweet to my taste or use a different yeese that has a higher alcohol tolerance, so it would eat a little bit more than sugar. But yeah, it was a little too sweet for my taste. But it was not half bad in all honesty. Especially chilled that kind of dampened down the sweet taste of it a little bit and the strong like pine salt type scent. But yeah, I got through it. You know, I survived COVID, so you know, that was one thing I did. And yeah, I mean pretty darn cheap way to make some fairly decent wine. Actually, I mean it was not something you know, you'd want to have with a meal, but a small amount, you know what, ten pounds of sugar, so maybe six seven eight bucks these days with inflation, I don't know, pine needles and water a package, so less than ten bucks. You got five gallons of wine. And of course you could make a smaller batch to scale it down. And uh yeah, it's got some really great properties for colds and flus and all kinds of stuff like that. So I think it's worth doing again without a doubt. All Right, y'all have a going and I'll talk to you next time. 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