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We gathered upward some ideas from over the years of The Essential Herbal Magazine.  If you lot receive got a nice, natural tree, operate on some of the needles in addition to role them for something to use, or operate on in addition to recollect until adjacent year!
Here are some non bad ideas:

From Marcy Lautanen Raleigh
backyardpatch.blogspot.com  
If you lot receive got a pine-phobic inwards your household hither is a non bad agency to brand them to a greater extent than pino friendly yesteryear seeing the benefits of pine.
I volition start amongst tea you lot tin flame brand amongst Balsam Fir needles.  Use a heaping teaspoon of fir needles in addition to rose hips inwards a large mug in addition to encompass amongst H2O (about 8 to 10 ounces.)  Allow to steep for 10 minutes in addition to sweeten amongst honey.  This tea volition relieve congestion, if you lot drinkable 2 to 3 mugs of it during a day.
If you lot desire to repose congestion but produce non relish the flavor of pine, you tin flame brand a balsam steam too.  Add a loving cup of 2 of snipped fresh needles to a pan of H2O in addition to convey to a simmer.  Drape a towel over your caput in addition to lean over the pan inhaling the steam for several minutes.

If you lot relish the aroma of pine, you lot tin flame brand hot pads stuffed amongst needles.  Cut a foursquare of cloth almost half dozen to 8 inches square.  Sew iii sides in addition to identify some wool or 100% cotton fiber batting inside.  Add ½ loving cup pino needles to the hot pad.  Sew the in conclusion side closed, in addition to hence sew or quilt the centre of the hot pad to operate on the needles from bunching upward together.
You tin flame also brand these recipes to give equally a gift during the wintertime season.
Sore Muscle Soak
This is a blend of herbs in addition to pino I receive got been making since early on inwards my business.  It is non bad for relieving aches in addition to pains, particularly those from decorating the house!
1/3 loving cup Epsom salts
1/3 loving cup baking soda
1 Tbls. lemon balm
1 Tbls. Pine needles
1 Tbls. Chamomile
1 Tbls. peppermint
five to 10 drops peppermint essential oil
Combine all the herbs in addition to salts, in addition to hence add together the essential oil.  Place the materials inwards a muslin pocketbook or a foursquare of cloth tied amongst string. 
To use: Hang the pocketbook below the tap in addition to allow H2O to run through in addition to dissolve the salts, releasing the herbal oils. Soak until the H2O cools in addition to commence to experience the healing.

From Kristine Brown
HerbalRootszine.com
(If you lot cutting whatsoever branches from the tree, you lot most probable receive got some sap.)

Pine resin, also unremarkably known Pine pitch or sap, has antibacterial properties in addition to tin flame last used fresh from the tree or melted into a preserve base of operations for treating wounds, sores in addition to insect bites. Native Americans mixed the pitch amongst tallow to brand a salve, which they applied on wounds caused yesteryear splinters, boils in addition to external ulcers. Pine resin is real drawing in addition to tin flame assist take splinters, drinking glass slivers in addition to other imbedded stuff from the flesh. The resin tin flame also last tinctured in addition to non bad for treating colds, coughs in addition to bronchitis yesteryear using 5-10 drops at a time. Resin is frequently chewed to soothe a sore pharynx or persistent cough. The resin tin flame also last applied conduct to wounds in addition to cuts equally an antiseptic band-aid, making it a non bad wilderness starting fourth dimension assistance found to know. The resin volition operate on out germs patch facilitating healing in addition to easing pain.
Infusing the resin into crude oil creates a healing crude oil for soothing sciatica hurting in addition to sore muscles, equally a breast rub for respiratory complaints in addition to on pare atmospheric condition such equally eczema in addition to psoriasis. The crude oil tin flame also last massaged onto sprains in addition to strains, bruises in addition to rheumatic conditions.

From Janet Gutierrez
Bohemian Prairie Alchemist

I similar to receive got my pino in addition to cedar needles infuse inwards Olive crude oil for almost iv weeks in addition to brand my, Winter Tree Balm.   You tin flame also estrus infuse on depression for 2 days, (no higher than 120 degrees on in addition to off inwards a crockpot). Fill a scandalise amongst equally much needles equally possible. You must brand certain that in that place is no wet on the needles. H5N1 dry/warm solar daytime is best to strip the branches. Then fill upward amongst the olive oil. You volition role this equally your base of operations in addition to add together plenty beeswax to brand a preserve or balm.  1.5 cups of crude oil to 2 oz of Beeswax.


From Sandy Michelson
The Frugal Herbalist
How to brand a basic salve afterwards you've infused the crude oil amongst pine, fir, or spruce needles:
Use a double boiler or brand ane amongst a Pyrex measurement loving cup inwards a pan of water.
Pour infused pino crude oil in addition to beeswax into the measurement cup. (1 T wax per 2 oz. Oil)
Place measurement loving cup inwards H2O in addition to estrus until wax is melted.
Pour into construct clean scandalise to cool.
Label jar.

Pine Simple Syrup (recipe from The Merrythought)
1 loving cup water
1 loving cup sugar
1/2 loving cup fresh chopped edible pino needles
Add ingredients to a sauce pan in addition to convey to a boil. Remove from heat, encompass amongst a lid in addition to permit steep for at to the lowest degree 2 hours. You tin flame larn out it overnight. Strain mixture through a cheesecloth in addition to and hence refrigerate the syrup until you’re prepare to role it. (Up to ane month.)

WARNING: Please last certain that the pino you lot are using is edible. Do all your question to brand certain you lot receive got properly identified the tree. (Ponderosa Pine, Yew Tree, Australian Pine, in addition to Norfolk Island Pine are all poisonous when ingested.)
***Women who are meaning or trying to operate meaning should non swallow ANY pine.
And, equally always, brand certain no herbicides receive got been used on your tree.

From Tina Sams
The Essential Herbal
Make Sachets in addition to Pillows
My favorite needles for these are Balsam Fir in addition to Concolor Fir.

They both receive got outstanding scents.  Gather the needles off the branches, in addition to lay them loosely inwards a box or handbasket hence they receive got a gamble to dry.  For a pillow, you'll desire to operate far real total in addition to taut, in addition to the aroma volition in conclusion for a real long time.  My sis took a trip to Maine equally a daughter scout (a twosome grade ago, in addition to I all the same remember!) in addition to brought habitation a balsam fir pillow made amongst a sturdy off white fabric, amongst a pic of fir stamped on it.  I coveted that relaxing in addition to beautiful pillow!


Make a Vinegar
Fill a scandalise amongst chopped needles, in addition to encompass amongst vinegar.
Allow to steep for several weeks.

Strain in addition to role inwards whatsoever agency you'd role a culinary vinegar.

Make Christmas Tree Shortbread
Follow the instructions for Confetti Shortbread but swap pino needles for the rosemary in addition to flowers. If you lot receive got a pino tree cookie cutter, wouldn't that last perfect?

Make a Pine Needle Basket
I've done this inwards the yesteryear amongst white pino - which are shorter than those shown inwards the video  White pino needles are almost iv to 5".  It's fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=245v8TAYysg


This is a handbasket I made several years agone NOT using proficient directions.
There are lots of ways to role them outside, too.  Whole trees tin flame last used equally a shelter for wild fauna or chipped upward to last used equally a mulch.  Our municipality volition mulch trees for several weeks afterwards the holidays are over, in addition to and hence allow people to selection upward seasoned mulch inwards the spring.

Please note:  It's real slowly to last confused almost hemlock, because in that place are 2 real dissimilar plants.
Poison hemlock (Conium maculatum), is a poisonous herb inwards the carrot identify unit of measurement that bears a striking resemblance to Queen Anne's Lace, in addition to hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) the native North American tree inwards the pino identify unit of measurement which grows widely hither inwards the eastern U.S.A. in addition to Canada, in addition to is the dry soil tree of my habitation state, Pennsylvania.







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NATURAL THERAPYWe gathered upward some ideas from over the years of The Essential Herbal Magazine.  If you lot receive got a nice, natural tree, operate on some of the needles in addition to role them for something to use, or operate on in addition to recollect until adjacent year!
Here are some non bad ideas:

From Marcy Lautanen Raleigh
backyardpatch.blogspot.com  
If you lot receive got a pine-phobic inwards your household hither is a non bad agency to brand them to a greater extent than pino friendly yesteryear seeing the benefits of pine.
I volition start amongst tea you lot tin flame brand amongst Balsam Fir needles.  Use a heaping teaspoon of fir needles in addition to rose hips inwards a large mug in addition to encompass amongst H2O (about 8 to 10 ounces.)  Allow to steep for 10 minutes in addition to sweeten amongst honey.  This tea volition relieve congestion, if you lot drinkable 2 to 3 mugs of it during a day.
If you lot desire to repose congestion but produce non relish the flavor of pine, you tin flame brand a balsam steam too.  Add a loving cup of 2 of snipped fresh needles to a pan of H2O in addition to convey to a simmer.  Drape a towel over your caput in addition to lean over the pan inhaling the steam for several minutes.

If you lot relish the aroma of pine, you lot tin flame brand hot pads stuffed amongst needles.  Cut a foursquare of cloth almost half dozen to 8 inches square.  Sew iii sides in addition to identify some wool or 100% cotton fiber batting inside.  Add ½ loving cup pino needles to the hot pad.  Sew the in conclusion side closed, in addition to hence sew or quilt the centre of the hot pad to operate on the needles from bunching upward together.
You tin flame also brand these recipes to give equally a gift during the wintertime season.
Sore Muscle Soak
This is a blend of herbs in addition to pino I receive got been making since early on inwards my business.  It is non bad for relieving aches in addition to pains, particularly those from decorating the house!
1/3 loving cup Epsom salts
1/3 loving cup baking soda
1 Tbls. lemon balm
1 Tbls. Pine needles
1 Tbls. Chamomile
1 Tbls. peppermint
five to 10 drops peppermint essential oil
Combine all the herbs in addition to salts, in addition to hence add together the essential oil.  Place the materials inwards a muslin pocketbook or a foursquare of cloth tied amongst string. 
To use: Hang the pocketbook below the tap in addition to allow H2O to run through in addition to dissolve the salts, releasing the herbal oils. Soak until the H2O cools in addition to commence to experience the healing.

From Kristine Brown
HerbalRootszine.com
(If you lot cutting whatsoever branches from the tree, you lot most probable receive got some sap.)

Pine resin, also unremarkably known Pine pitch or sap, has antibacterial properties in addition to tin flame last used fresh from the tree or melted into a preserve base of operations for treating wounds, sores in addition to insect bites. Native Americans mixed the pitch amongst tallow to brand a salve, which they applied on wounds caused yesteryear splinters, boils in addition to external ulcers. Pine resin is real drawing in addition to tin flame assist take splinters, drinking glass slivers in addition to other imbedded stuff from the flesh. The resin tin flame also last tinctured in addition to non bad for treating colds, coughs in addition to bronchitis yesteryear using 5-10 drops at a time. Resin is frequently chewed to soothe a sore pharynx or persistent cough. The resin tin flame also last applied conduct to wounds in addition to cuts equally an antiseptic band-aid, making it a non bad wilderness starting fourth dimension assistance found to know. The resin volition operate on out germs patch facilitating healing in addition to easing pain.
Infusing the resin into crude oil creates a healing crude oil for soothing sciatica hurting in addition to sore muscles, equally a breast rub for respiratory complaints in addition to on pare atmospheric condition such equally eczema in addition to psoriasis. The crude oil tin flame also last massaged onto sprains in addition to strains, bruises in addition to rheumatic conditions.

From Janet Gutierrez
Bohemian Prairie Alchemist

I similar to receive got my pino in addition to cedar needles infuse inwards Olive crude oil for almost iv weeks in addition to brand my, Winter Tree Balm.   You tin flame also estrus infuse on depression for 2 days, (no higher than 120 degrees on in addition to off inwards a crockpot). Fill a scandalise amongst equally much needles equally possible. You must brand certain that in that place is no wet on the needles. H5N1 dry/warm solar daytime is best to strip the branches. Then fill upward amongst the olive oil. You volition role this equally your base of operations in addition to add together plenty beeswax to brand a preserve or balm.  1.5 cups of crude oil to 2 oz of Beeswax.


From Sandy Michelson
The Frugal Herbalist
How to brand a basic salve afterwards you've infused the crude oil amongst pine, fir, or spruce needles:
Use a double boiler or brand ane amongst a Pyrex measurement loving cup inwards a pan of water.
Pour infused pino crude oil in addition to beeswax into the measurement cup. (1 T wax per 2 oz. Oil)
Place measurement loving cup inwards H2O in addition to estrus until wax is melted.
Pour into construct clean scandalise to cool.
Label jar.

Pine Simple Syrup (recipe from The Merrythought)
1 loving cup water
1 loving cup sugar
1/2 loving cup fresh chopped edible pino needles
Add ingredients to a sauce pan in addition to convey to a boil. Remove from heat, encompass amongst a lid in addition to permit steep for at to the lowest degree 2 hours. You tin flame larn out it overnight. Strain mixture through a cheesecloth in addition to and hence refrigerate the syrup until you’re prepare to role it. (Up to ane month.)

WARNING: Please last certain that the pino you lot are using is edible. Do all your question to brand certain you lot receive got properly identified the tree. (Ponderosa Pine, Yew Tree, Australian Pine, in addition to Norfolk Island Pine are all poisonous when ingested.)
***Women who are meaning or trying to operate meaning should non swallow ANY pine.
And, equally always, brand certain no herbicides receive got been used on your tree.

From Tina Sams
The Essential Herbal
Make Sachets in addition to Pillows
My favorite needles for these are Balsam Fir in addition to Concolor Fir.

They both receive got outstanding scents.  Gather the needles off the branches, in addition to lay them loosely inwards a box or handbasket hence they receive got a gamble to dry.  For a pillow, you'll desire to operate far real total in addition to taut, in addition to the aroma volition in conclusion for a real long time.  My sis took a trip to Maine equally a daughter scout (a twosome grade ago, in addition to I all the same remember!) in addition to brought habitation a balsam fir pillow made amongst a sturdy off white fabric, amongst a pic of fir stamped on it.  I coveted that relaxing in addition to beautiful pillow!


Make a Vinegar
Fill a scandalise amongst chopped needles, in addition to encompass amongst vinegar.
Allow to steep for several weeks.

Strain in addition to role inwards whatsoever agency you'd role a culinary vinegar.

Make Christmas Tree Shortbread
Follow the instructions for Confetti Shortbread but swap pino needles for the rosemary in addition to flowers. If you lot receive got a pino tree cookie cutter, wouldn't that last perfect?

Make a Pine Needle Basket
I've done this inwards the yesteryear amongst white pino - which are shorter than those shown inwards the video  White pino needles are almost iv to 5".  It's fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=245v8TAYysg


This is a handbasket I made several years agone NOT using proficient directions.
There are lots of ways to role them outside, too.  Whole trees tin flame last used equally a shelter for wild fauna or chipped upward to last used equally a mulch.  Our municipality volition mulch trees for several weeks afterwards the holidays are over, in addition to and hence allow people to selection upward seasoned mulch inwards the spring.

Please note:  It's real slowly to last confused almost hemlock, because in that place are 2 real dissimilar plants.
Poison hemlock (Conium maculatum), is a poisonous herb inwards the carrot identify unit of measurement that bears a striking resemblance to Queen Anne's Lace, in addition to hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) the native North American tree inwards the pino identify unit of measurement which grows widely hither inwards the eastern U.S.A. in addition to Canada, in addition to is the dry soil tree of my habitation state, Pennsylvania.







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