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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 1:08 pm
Name some things you can use to brush your teeth with
besides tooth brush and toothpaste in the woods, jungle, desert, or a total shtf situation.

1. grass
2. piece of cloth
3. pine needles
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 1:36 pm
Damn, thats a good question. Going to have to think on that
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 1:39 pm
Salt an be used as a dentifrice. Rinsing your mouth with salt water will aid in killing bacteria.

Some native tribesman chew on twigs and small branches and use the ends of them as scrapers or toothpicks.

Chew mint or wintergreen leaves.

I don't know how well the pine needles would work, but boiling pine needles into a kind of tea yields a lot of vitamin C which is important to good oral hygiene...wards off scurvy.

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:57 pm
m47dragon wrote:I don't know how well the pine needles would work, but boiling pine needles into a kind of tea yields a lot of vitamin C which is important to good oral hygiene...wards off scurvy.


Great ideas thanks, also

FYI:
ponderosa pine buds and needles causes abortions
http://stripe.colorado.edu/~mitton/ponderosa%20pine.htm
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 5:29 pm
floss
firing pin
book matches
Insect legs
pliers, last resort
The article is reproduced in accordance with Section 107 of title 17 of the Copyright Law of the United States.
op·press -1 a archaic : suppress b : to crush or burden by abuse of power or authority
2 : to burden spiritually or mentally : weigh heavily upon
Tribulation - distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution
in-vol-un-tary -1 : done contrary to or without choice 2 : compulsory 3 : not subject to control of the will : reflex
ser-vi-tude 1 : a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:49 am
around here, theres a tree called the sweetgum that the indians would chew on, and it even has a pleasant taste.


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