How Woodsy are you?

[maineac]

Haven't tried the pine version, but up here spruce gun was what was chewed depression era and before.  I have tried it as a cover mask for my breath, hard to take for very long.  I often chew clover to absorb breath odor while hunting.

[Billy]

Okay,I'll ask...anybody ever read the Kevin Trudeau books? He supposedly has written about a bunch of natural cures and remedies.
Are his books any good? Are there other authors who may have written alot of these curative recipes down?

A dallop of oatmeal will draw the swelling and poison out of a wasp sting..don't ask how i NOSE that one!!   :eek:    :D

[shortstroke 91]

My Grndpa would take a piece of chew out of his mouth and put it on a bee or wasp sting after removing the stinger and the burn goes away immediately, don't know why but it works fast. woks with any tobacco I guess, I got a cigarette wet and used it with the same results.

[George D. Stout]

Keven tells you nothing in his book, he wants you to spend money and join his website, etc., so he can tell you his secrets.   I think his ancestors sold snake oil of the back of a covered wagon.  

I grew up in the woods, and I would just as soon carry my chewing gum, snacks, firestarter, aspirin, etc. with me.    You will eventually get something wrong 8^).

Patrick F. McManus, describing old Rancid Crabtree, said Rancid was showing him edible plants, etc.   Rancid grabbed a hand full of greens and said, "Ever eat miner's lettuce boy?"
He stuffed it in his mouth and started chewing....then started gagging and spit it out. Then said, "Well that aint it boy....don't ever eat anything that looks like that!"  
Rancid was quite a woodsman.

[Mo. Huntin]

That is funny.

[Billy]

Thanks, George!
I was offered a chance to have two of his books sent to me "FREE";glad I passed on their ..give us your credit card number for S&H..Free offer!

..moisten a finger and rub a bar of soap then rub that onto chigger and skeeter bites; stops the itch fairly quick.

[Toklat1]

If ya want to stop the itch of mesquito or chigger bites, Take some vicks vape o rub and rub it on the bite. The itch will be gone almost immediately! I learned this while stationed in the Philippines years ago. I nrver leave home without it!

[Mo. Huntin]

I find that beer helps with a lot of things.  he he.

[57HOP]

Black Spruce is preferred - Find a wounded tree or tap one and let the sap harden till, well, hard (you can melt it down and strain it to remove impurities, if you want). Pop some in you mouth ,crunch it up and and keep chewing; it'll soften up in a minute.

Or use it to waterproof the seams on your bark canoes and baskets

[J-dog]

Have to try the soap and vapor rub for the chiggers - seem to stay eat up with em.

J

[Bill Tell]

Milkweed will remove warts I was told.

[Broken Arrows]

charcoal and pin sap makes great glue.

[Onehair]

Chewed tar and smoked grape vines as a kid.

[Hardhed]

Did I read here about eating blacktop?

[Lashbow]

Now I don't know about those southern yellow pines, And I am not sure what I had, be it spruce, fir, or Larch. could have been an overgrown Douglas Fir??
Hard as a rock and chew, spit, chew. Really not too bad, not candy but not too bad. Come on, some of you need to try it!!!

[Talondale]

Sweet Birch has a Wintergreen flavor.  Used to chew small twigs while hiking the AT.  Sassafras root makes a good tea too, or just chew the root.  I've had the sumac lemonade, very tart. Wet tobacco on a bee sting does work.

[beaver#1]

i have tried the pine needle tea.  it surprised me very tasty.  but make sure they are green needles

[toddster]

put a penny on a bite and the copper will draw out the poison.  If you have a cut and no bandage,some sap from a pine tree will help it heal.  Chewed pine needles several times hunting in them,great cover scent.  Some charcoal from a campfire will help dystentary when you are away for a while.