Names
Shoshone: day.wah.pee
English: Whitebark Pine
Scientific: Pinus albicaulis
Zone
Subalpine
Harvest Time
- Any time
Primary Uses
- Nuts favored by Mtn. Shoshone and Grizzly
Secondary Uses
- Inner Bark as emergency survival food
Cautions
- Very sticky to harvest
Active Principle(s)
- None Listed
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Notes
Medicinal Uses
- Burns: Pitch made into a salve with animal fat
- Congestion: Pitch swallowed as an expectorant
- Fever: inner bark boiled as a tea
- Immune: Pitch (boosts local immune response)
- Infection: “sunopee” bandage made of pitch
- Lungs: Inner Bark tea as a decongestant
- Old People’s Medicine: Pitch salve for rheumatic joints
- Pain: Pitch salve used on achy joints
- Pneumonia: Pitch swallowed as an expectorant
- Rash: Pitch salve
- Stings: Pitch mixed with tobacco for bees, wasps, scorpions
- Stomach: Pitch for upset stomach
- Urinary Tract infection: pitch swallowed
- Vitamin C: needle tea
- Wounds: Bandage made of pitch “sunopee”
Processing
- Use fire to release Nut from the cone