The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1906-05-10
FOREST PHARMACY,
NATURES REMEDIES USED By
MEN IN LUMBER WOODS.
For Every III or Injury There Is a
Cure obtainable in the Trees
and Shrubs That Are
at Hand.

md some Of It's remedies are of won
ierfui efficacy.
Few people in the outside world
know that there is produced In the
pine woods a tonic and tebrifuge great
resembling guinine IN taste and ell
cacy. But the lumbermeu know It and
owe much TO its properties when run
down in health after seven months OF
a diet of pork and beans, bead, tea
and frozen pork
The sovereign remedy in these cases
is pine apple. Up among the branches
near to where a dry twig shows that
the great tree has just passed its
acme Of growth, a drab colored fungus
OF a rude conical shape, generally
about half as big as mans head,
cllngs to the bark. This is the pine
apple OF the woods.
Some woodmen use II as a powder,
chips cut from Il being dried at the
fire and rubbed down by hand. Others
use an infusion prepared by boiling. II
is , fine tonic. acts gently as a diuretic
and seatters feverishness rapidly. II
produces violent headache II used to
excess and It Is said to bring on In
sanity II used for long time continu-
ously
When the pine apple is not available
hemloak lark Is successfully used The
bark Is taken from young. vigorous
tree, shredded and boiled until the
liquid becomes OF rich red-brown
color. A large spoonful OF this is taken
at meal times and acts as tonic and
purgative. That this should be its OF
feet is remarkable, considering that
hemlock bark contains so much as
tringent tannin that It is greatly used
in the manufacture OF leather.
This IL also the great "shanty" rem
edy for horses
When changes OF weather are fire.
quent and the trapper or lumberman
suffers from cough he seeks rem
edy In balsam tree. Upon the smooth
bark are blisters sometimes lnch.ss
long and within these is FRAGRANT,
thin gum. This contains benzoic acid
and resinous turpenune and is a
world-famed remedy where there 10
rawness about the breathing apparatus.
Balsam Is also often used for cuts or
SOUS and has much healing virtue.
Sarsaparilla. which is a sort of half
cousin to ginseng, is we'll and favor
ably known as a cleansing and restor.
ative agent. The roots are found grow
Ing by decayed wood. are easily oh,
tanned and have been used as spring
medicine and In the ceremonious
cleansings by the Indians from times
immen orlal
Cedar oil Is valuable liniment and
as general pain killer had immense
vogue at one time among patent med
iclne men. Guides and trappers still
believe in It.
Every woodsman Is a stanch be
liever In the virtue OF skunk's grease
as an embrooation.
Bears oil is often mixed with q
crude kind OF turpentine distilled from
the old roots OF pine stump, and Il IA
considered to be OF great value whsn
rubbed upon the chest In cs..-. or In
Illumination Of the lungs or pneumonia
In extreme cases a spoonful Is admin.
istered to the sufferer.
A poultice OF well boiled Eastwood
suckers is also highly recommended IN
;ases of lung trouble The BARI o.
slippery elm Is used in pulmonary
troubles as substitute for Irish m6~s
and Is really. when properly prepared
good, nutritious and pala able food
A decoction Of cherry bark and
spruce lark, boiled and strained. is an
old Indian remedy for coughs, which
has been largely sold under various
names for years by vendors OF patent
medicines, The white trapper nova.
lays dissolves spruce gum in alcohol.
adds a certain proportion OF the spirits
10 the bark mixture and sweetens the
whole with maple sugar. Perhaps the
most experienced chemists could not
prepare better cough syrup than this
makes
The great specific IN cases OF incip-
lent cholera is a strong tea made from
blackberry bush roots. fortified with
spirits and made very sweet.
For scratches, chapped hands and
other sores, woodland science fur
nishes the most grateful ointment 20
be found anywhere, II is delightfully."-
fragrant, mild, sweet and OF speedy
action. II is made from the gum laden
buds OF the wildwood or poplar,
which is often called from It's value
as proyider OF unguent the Balm OF
Gilead tree. The buds are boiled down
with deers fat IN proper proportion.
and little honey is added as the mass
eools, That nothing finer in its way
has ever been discovered is the com
mon verdict OF all who have ever made
use OF IT,