The Balsam Fir Tree is a cone shaped with common names of Balsam Fir or Christmas Tree. It reaches a height up to twenty meters when fully grown.It has a grayish colored bark that is smooth and dotted with resin filled vesicles. Balsam fir trees have many uses from medicine,fire starting aid and tinder,materials to build shelter and food.The use of the balsam fir trees goes back further than the 19th century with its use by the native populations often North America. The tree is a veritable dispensary of medicine with almost every part being usable The resin was used to treat all manners of colds,to reduce coughs as well as deal with asthma.
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Rubbing alcohol is a liquid prepared and used primarily for topical applications like cleaning wounds or to soothe, cool, or warm the skin. It is prepared from a special denatured alcohol solution and contains approximately 70 percent by volume of pure, concentrated ethanol (ethyl alcohol) or isopropyl alcohol (isopropanol).
There are many ways to make fire without the use of flint and steel or matches. Both are medical items and can be found within ones first aid supplies. Potassium permanganate is an inorganic chemical compound KMnO4. It is used as a disinfectant as well as a treatment gonorrhea and candidiasis. There are many great uses of the birch tree.
Birch is a broadleaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula They are small to medium-sized trees or shrubs, mostly of temperate climates. The simple leaves are alternate, singly or doubly serrate, feather-veined, petiolate and stipulate. 5 uses of Coconuts Tinder 1. Inside the coconut, the husk makes a great fire starter. Use the coconut fibrous husk of the coconut as well as the the coconut leaves as tinder to ignite a fire, then you can use coconut branches and kindling lastly the coconut tree's wood would be used as fuel. Here is a great video showing how to make a birch oil lamp |
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