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WHITE
PINE Pinus
Strobus
Common
Names & Range | Description
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Uses
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| Pine
Lore - Seven Stars - A Lenape
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First
Peoples of North America found
many uses for the awesome tree
called White Pine. The inner bark
is a powerful medicine to use on
wounds. Indians soaked or boiled
the bark until it was soft and
used it as an external healer.
What follows is an account of
Chippewa use in 1926 from Frances
Densmore.... |
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"Another
use of the knife in surgery was
described by Wezawange, who said he had
treated a case in which this became
necessary. It was a gangrenous wound,
and he used the knife, not to remove,
but to 'loosen' the affected flesh,
which was taken out by the medicine he
applied....In this treatment he said
that he used a treatment which had been
handed down by the Mide and was
particularly valued. It consisted of the
inner bark of the white pine, the wild
plum, and the wild cherry, it being
necessary to take the first two from
young trees. The writer saw him cut a
young pine tree for this purpose and
place tobacco in the ground close to the
root before doing so. In preparing the
medicine he said that the stalk of the
pine was cut in short sections and
boiled with the green inner bark of the
other two trees until all the bark was
soft. The water removed from the pine
stems and the bark mashed with a heavy
hammer until it was a pulp. It was then
dried, and when needed it was moistened
with the water which had been kept for
that purpose. He said this medicine was
usually prepared when needed, as the
materials were so readily at hand. This
wet pulp was applied to any wound or to
a fresh cut and was a healing remedy,
but was especially useful for neglected
wounds which had become
gangrenous...352. The informant stated
that he used this successfully in a
gunshot wound after gangrene had set in.
This would be applied to any form of
'rotten flesh', after which a knife was
used to cleanse the wound...In the south
part of the White Earth Reservation the
writer witnessed the offering and
burying of tobacco by a medicine man who
wished to cut pine bark for medicinal
use. The remedy was his own and he
described several instances of its
successful use...380. 1926-27
Densmore
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The
Louisiana Choctaws treated boils
and ulcers with applications of
salve made of pine pitch mixed
with grease and tallow. This salve
was applied to wounds caused by
splinters and thorns also.
The
Alabamas boiled the inside bark of
pine saplings in water and drank
the liquid to treat diarrhea. |
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| "The
Indian tribes use the bark in a
poultice for sores and piles, the
boiled root for drawing plaster, the
decoction of buds as purgative, the
cones in rheumatism, and tar dissolved
in spirits as a wash to cure itch,
tetters and wens." 1830
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"The
Ojibwa crushed and applied the leaves
to relieve a headache; also boiled,
after which they are put into a small
hole in the ground and hot stone is
placed therein to cause a vapor to
ascend, which is inhaled to cure
backache. The pine gum is chiefly used
to cover seams in birch bark canoes.
The gum is obtained by cutting a
circular band of bark from the trunk,
upon which it is then scraped and
boiled down to proper consistency. The
boiling was formerly done in clay
vessels." 1885
Hoffman
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| "Pitch
pine is used as a poultice on boils
and abscesses…(among the Penobscot
people). " 1915
Speck
Among
the Montagnais..."The gum of
white pine...is boiled and drunk for
sore throat, colds and consumption.
The inner bark is boiled for sores,
swellings, etc." 1915
Speck
"White
pine bark is steeped and drunk to cure
a cold." 1915
Speck/Tantaquidgeon |
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WHITE
PINE Pinus
Strobus
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