Useful and Medicinal Trees of the Eastern Woodlands 2

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afternoon guys I'm Dave camber at the pop art school back here again with part 2 of our useful and medicinal trees of the Eastern woodlands like I said before I think trees are something that's very left out as far as medicinal plant studies go and trees are so useful to you in a survival situation in a multitude of ways that it pays to understand what trees are the best trees and how to find them and how to utilize them so we're going to talk about another tree today I kind of grouped these in order just like I did with the five seeds of survivability other words the most important one I did first I did black walnut first I had some questions about black walnut there are trees that are in the black walnut family down south and things like that that have very similar properties the tree that I want to talk about today is the white pine white pine also has very similar properties to other pine trees so I'm choosing the white pine because it's a very abundant resource at the pathfinder school and it's very abundant in there which the Eastern woodland area so that's why I'm using it but generally in general most pines will have similar properties you might need to look up the specific type of pine that you have in your area but it will be very similar to this so when we talk about white pine let's talk about medicinal value first because that's what's important to survivability before you have to worry about resources okay as far as utilizing that tree for something else the green needles of that tree can be concocted into some type of an infusion like a tea and they will be slightly stimulant almost like coffee they'll make you feel better they'll give you a little upbeat attitude if you're down they're also full of vitamin C there's more vitamin C in an 8 ounce cup of pine needle tea than there is in 5 lemons so it's very good to help boost your immune system and to keep you from getting a cold or at the onset of feeling a little bit down and out you know you drink some pine needle tea that vitamin C boost will help you out it's great for wet congestion okay in other words if you've got mucousy congested coffee you've got a lot of liquid in your lungs things like that a lot of mucus pine needle tea will take care of a lot of that and help you get that out the other thing that you can do with that is you can get the pine resin and you can actually chew on that pine resin or you can make a decoction of that pine resin which is almost like drinking pine saw but you can chew the SAP or the wounded area of a tree where it's emitting SAP you could chew on that it will also help to alleviate congestion problems but along with that pine resin what you can do with that is it makes it very good wound sealer or a bandage almost like you know new skin or liquid skin you can put it over the top of that and it will seal that wound it has antiseptic properties to help you for getting an infection and if you have foreign bodies in your skin like dirt and things like that or maybe you got a stinger in there a splinter or a thorn something like that it also has drawing properties the Navajo Indians used it a lot for the drawing properties there was a story that I read in a book about an old Navajo Indian that said he actually used pine resin to draw a bullet out of his horse's skin by packing it with pine resin it drew that bullet to the surface whether that's true or not I don't know but I did read that so Indians have been using pine resin as medication for a long long period of time the dried needles and buds communicated to a decoction that is slightly laxative now that's very important because we talked yesterday about something that would help keep you from having diarrhea it's also important maybe if you overdo it or if you get stopped up a lot of people get constipated when they're in the woods because they don't want to go to the bathroom especially they're new to the woods or it's a female who's never been in the woods and things like that and dried needle bud decoctions will make it slightly laxative when you drink it so that you can you know loosen up your bowels and you're gonna have to go sooner or later so those are all very good purposes of the pawing for medicinal value you've got the fact that it has vitamin C in it it's a slight stimulant it helps with colds and flus that helpful wounds that saying accepting a drawing and it's a laxative those are boom-boom-boom those are the things that I want if I'm in a wilderness situation those are the things that I'm looking for I'm looking to cure the minor things that become discomforting in an already possibly uncomfortable situation so those things will all do that for me on top of that pine resin is very flammable pine resin can be used for igloo so pine is a very good asset to you in a lot of ways because it burns well it burns hot it can be used as a glue the resin can be used for glues for gluing on arrowheads mounting and happening things to a shaft different things like that it can also be used to repair holes and tarps and things of that nature so it's a very good all-around resource that's a pretty plentiful resources I what I've done over here is I've started a Cox

where I have not been able to find a ball of resin on a pine without going and entering that tree and waiting for a couple of days for that resin to appear so what I've done is I've collected some green cones off of the pine and I'm attempting to draw out that resin through a shallow water decoction and I'll show you what I'm doing with that in just a second stay with me okay so what I'm doing here is I've got two or three pine cones in the bottom of this pan and I filled it about a quarter of the way full of water just enough to submerge them to begin with and I've slowly been boiling it down to where there's very little liquid left in that pan that's boiling and what that's going to do is it's going to give me a decoction if I boil it down far enough and I had enough green cones in there I could probably get a thicker mucusy like liquid out of there that I could use as a bandage if I don't get enough resin pulled out of it I'm still going to have all the volatile oils of that pine in that water that's left in there in that liquid that's left in the bottom of that pan and that will make a very very good antiseptic wound wash so I'm just gonna see how it goes an experiment I don't know that I've got enough pine cones in there to do the job or maybe I would have to boil it down a couple more times but we're not going to wait all day for it I'll just wait and see when this boils down we'll see what we got

we'll take a look at it and we're there gonna have one of two things be the way we got something that can take care of wound and that's what counts okay so here's what we got I took my three still hot I took my three pine cones that I had in out and I've got a pretty thick liquid in here I suspect that if I let that liquid sit and cool for a little while it's gonna thicken up so we're gonna test that theory and see here real fast we'll come back in just a few minutes when that cools down and see if we got a thicker pine resin t-type liquid in there okay if you look at this now they're starting to cool down it's starting to have some consistency to it and turn into a little bit of a pasty mixture you can see that so we'll continue to let that cool down see how it turns out you