Thursday Triva

Re: Thursday Triva

John Veerkamp

Pine pitch was used to treat split/frost bitten paws on sled dogs.

Interesting, John...   Hint

Dale Lenz

bet pine sap was used for all kinds of aliments. Not what I was looking for.

You boiled the certain part of the tree for this treatment.

Re: Thursday Triva

Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level

Is the answer sometimes used to make cocktails?

T.

Tommy...

DaleLenz

other than Jack & Coke and a few other's I don't know my drinks that well, wanta' go deeper?

Re: Thursday Triva: answer

Dale Lenz

Last night I was searching, why a dogwood is called a dogwood. One of the answers were as follows.

Dogwood bark was also used as a mange treatment for dogs. The bark was boiled, and the dog was washed in the resulting liquid. Any medicinal properties that the bark or the tree actually has is minimal at best, and the practice of using the Dogwood for mange, seems to have resulted in the misconception that the name Dogwood meant that it was good for dogs.

Thanks to those that played.

Re: Tommy...

Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level

I was going for quinine so I was off track. Quinine is however a medicine...and a drink mixer too!

T.