Editing Pinus strobus (section)

=== Foods and medicines ===
Eastern white pine needles exceed the amount of [[vitamin C]] of lemons and oranges<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Durzan |first=Don J |date=2009-02-02 |title=Arginine, scurvy and Cartier's "tree of life" |journal=Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine |volume=5 |pages=5 |doi=10.1186/1746-4269-5-5 |issn=1746-4269 |pmc=2647905 |pmid=19187550 |doi-access=free }}</ref> and make an excellent [[herbal tea]]. The [[Vascular cambium|cambium]] is edible. It is also a source of [[resveratrol]]. [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] noted in the 18th century that cattle and pigs fed pine [[bark bread]] grew well, but he personally did not like the taste.

Pine tar is produced by slowly burning pine roots, branches, or small trunks in a partially smothered flame. Pine tar mixed with beer can be used to remove [[tapeworm]]s (flat worms) or [[nematode]]s (round worms). Pine tar mixed with sulfur is useful to treat dandruff, and marketed in present-day products. Pine tar can also be processed to make [[turpentine]].<ref>Erichsen-Brown, C. 1979. Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants. Dover Publications, NY.</ref>

; Native American traditional uses
The name "Adirondack", an [[Iroquois]] word that means tree-eater, referred to their neighbors (more commonly known as the [[Algonquian peoples|Algonquians]]) who collected the inner bark of ''P. strobus'', ''[[Picea rubens]]'', and others during times of winter starvation. The white, soft inner bark (cambial layer) was carefully separated from the hard, dark brown bark and dried. When pounded, this product can be used as flour or added to stretch other starchy products.<ref name=umich>{{cite web |url=http://herb.umd.umich.edu/herb/search.pl?searchstring=Pinus+strobus |title=Pinus strobus |website=Native American Ethnobotany, University of Michigan – Dearborn) |access-date=2013-01-13 |archive-date=2013-05-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525055404/http://herb.umd.umich.edu/herb/search.pl?searchstring=Pinus+strobus |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Fernald |first1=M. |first2=A. |last2=Kinsey |first3=R. |last3=Rollins |date=1943 |title=Edible Wild Plants |publisher=Harper & Row |location=New York}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

The young staminate cones were stewed by the [[Ojibwe]] Indians with meat, and were said to be sweet and not pitchy. In addition, the seeds are sweet and nutritious, but not as tasty as those of some of the western nut pines.<ref name=umich />

[[Pine resin]] (sap) has been used by various tribes to waterproof baskets, pails, and boats. The Ojibwe also used pine resin to successfully treat infections and even gangrenous wounds,<ref name=umich /> because pine resin apparently has a number of quite efficient antimicrobials. Generally, a wet pulp from the inner bark, or pine tar mixed with beeswax or butter was applied to wounds and used as a salve to prevent infection.