We already know that pine resin can be used to create a fire. Not only is pine resin useful that way, but it has many medical purposes as well!
Pine resin is a natural antiseptic that has antifungal properties. If you get injured while bugging out, apply resin directly to your wound to keep it from becoming infected. Plus, pine resin can stop a wound from bleeding.
4) Medical
The resin can be steeped in hot water to make a tea that is said to help with arthritis and stomach problems.
Pine resin can be applied directly to cuts, abrasions and even to deep slashes to help kill bacteria, to prevent bacteria growth and to keep it from getting into the wound.
Leave on the wound and reapply as needed.
So there you have it. If you get stuck out in the wilderness without your bug out bag, or you're running short on supplies, find a pine tree. Knowing how to utilize properly this incredible resource could very well be what keeps you alive when SHTF.
To discover how else a pine tree can keep you alive and help you with other things such as maintenance tasks, visit Preparing For SHTF.
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Edwad Lawrence…a lot of ads but an interesting read!
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To kool
Plus, pines are a good source for dry fire wood from the dead branches.
You should know everything in your power to keep food water and shelter plentiful and great. What if collapse is due to a pandemic that effects animals as well as humans. And you no longer know how safe that animal would be to eat. What happens when you run low on ammo and your bow skills aren’t up to par. What happens when your hunt goes south. You are injured and need to scrap by on bark and leaves until you heal up enough to hunt.$#%&!@*happens when$#%&!@*hits the fan.
As pro life as I am. If$#%&!@*hits the fan, and your failing to keep required nutrients and this is your last resort, You shouldn’t weed it out. But if your far into pregnancy then you could also cause more harm. Tough call. Which is also why I believe women need to be even more prepared in knowledge of botany.
Matching pink glasses is scientifically proven to keep you alive longer
Also the sap can be used to seal small wounds
Will Carr
That’s why you raise animals and never go hungry
Alyssa Townsend, here’s some cool info!
Bette Howland Helveston
Stephanie Helveston Harris
Lindsey Bullock
Kewl
Melissa Zeringue
James McNeely. It’s a really good article, some stuff I didn’t know about these things. Hell, my backyard can keep me fed through college! Lol
I had a pine tree perform open heart surgery on me once. SAVED MY LIFE!
Last night a pine tree saved my life with a song.
Samuel Aylestock
By not falling on you. They forgot that one.
Yrah..ask yule gibbons. Oh yeah..I forgot. He choked to death on a pine cone. RIP Yule.
Jarrett Stewart
Well the picture of the “pine” cone is actually a Douglas Fir cone and those needles in the picture with the Fir cone are the needles of a Douglas Fir too… maybe they are calling any Conifer a pine but that is absolutely not the case.
Coy Sewell
As an owner of many pine trees, beware that they produce the thickest yellow clouds of pollen I’ve ever seen.
Evan Degrow Aaryn Folden Grayson Williams, this is some primitive$#%&!@*right here! Pine trees are awesome!!
If I have a knife a pot to cook all this$#%&!@*in I’m probably gonna have a compass and a map cause they are lighter and fallow the yellow brick road the hell out when shtf
Kyle Davis
Chris Diaz
Where can I get that knife?
OHG, there are a lot of bat ahi crazy people in the world.
Katie Kynast
I have used all these methods and they do work very well!!!
Ryan Visotski Ethan Bamkin Glenn Gray
I was a willow last night in my dream
I bent down over a clear running stream
Sang you the song that I heard up above
And you kept me alive with your sweet flowing love
https://youtu.be/ADAeIokKKNs
I was a willow last night in my dream
I bent down over a clear running stream
Sang you the song that I heard up above
And you kept me alive with your sweet flowing love
Heart; Crazy on You
https://youtu.be/ADAeIokKKNs
It’s the red clouds that really really suck. Allergic no problem, like crawling through an attic filled with fiberglass insulation once yet caught in a cloud . Allergic your F’d. So far my two haven’t been bad compared to others I have seen, but swore first time they go red chain saw is coming out. Rest of pines we have don’t seem to be nasty pollinators for two years we have owned place. Knock on wood. I think I’d cry if they were other two as many pines has we have. I never realized what a menace pines could be until moving to higher elevation where that’s the prevalent trees.
Mark Meager
Where’d you get that Civil War Medicine book?
at hotline dimestic violence thrift shop in manteo nc.
Jason, Wayne and i have had this very same conversation a few times, O.t.
And try the needle tea from the (pine tree looking) Hemlock tree. No worries about what to eat next…
Lance Allard
Pine resin is good to close small wounds also
Michelle Anne Engel, you can have this for dinner.
Photo for “food” not a pine. (Spruce, with some similar uses). Photo for “shelter” also not a pine (appears to be Douglas fir).
Chew the inside white bark for heartburn. It works!