Names
Shoshone: bah.soo
English: Subalpine Fir & Englemann Spruce
Scientific: Abies bifolia & Picea engelmannii
Zone
Subalpine
Harvest Time
- Anytime
- Branch tips – June
Primary Uses
- Tea from fir needles, for sickness prevention
Secondary Uses
- Use Sap for bandage sealant
Cautions
- None Listed
Active Principle(s)
- Pro Antho Cyanidins in tips
- Complete protein in nuts
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Notes
Process Prep
- Boil branches – 20 minutes
General Notes
- Wintertime tea for general health
Medicinal Uses
- Anti-inflammatory – tea of needles
- Chest Cold – Inner bark boiled for tea
- Congestion – pitch swallowed as an expectorant
- Fever – tea of boiled branches and needles
- Immune system – pitch (topical)
- Infection – pitch w/ animal fat makes an antimicrobial bandage
- Lungs- tea of needles
- Old People’s Medicine- Pitch salve for rheumatic joints
- Pain-pitch salve used on achy joints
- Rash-pitch salve
- Vitamin C-needle tea
- Wounds- bondage made of pitch