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Offline Olanigw (Pekane)

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Medicine pipe blend
« on: October 19, 2013, 02:17:20 pm »
My father asked for a non tobacco smoking blend so he could occasionally enjoy a pipe with me while avoiding a nicotine buzz. 
2 parts Mullein, 2 parts sumac leaf, .5 parts coltsfoot.  spritzed with watered down maple syrup and allowed to dry.  Pretty good for around the fire.
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Offline PrimitiveTim

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Re: Medicine pipe blend
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2013, 02:35:29 pm »
Hah, nice!  Do you have cool looking pipes too?
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Offline Olanigw (Pekane)

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Re: Medicine pipe blend
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2013, 02:46:29 pm »
Hah, nice!  Do you have cool looking pipes too?
No medicine pipes, but
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Offline burchett.donald

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Re: Medicine pipe blend
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2013, 03:02:04 am »
Can you inhale sumac or is this a different species than the one that gives the itchy rash?
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Offline JimPolk

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Re: Medicine pipe blend
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2013, 02:13:48 pm »
I'm gonna have to try that blend myself, and those pipes are way cool. Did you make 'em?  :)
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Offline Olanigw (Pekane)

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Re: Medicine pipe blend
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2013, 03:33:55 pm »
Can you inhale sumac or is this a different species than the one that gives the itchy rash?
Staghorn sumac is not poisonous. It mellows out the mullein, adds some depth  and helps keep the burn even.
Even so, don't inhale. coltsfoot stimulates coughing. If you need the medicinal properties, a tea is a better use of the herbs.

I'm gonna have to try that blend myself, and those pipes are way cool. Did you make 'em?  :)
I did.  Seasoned maple works very well.  I was going to work up a bunch for trades, but ran out of seasoned branches.Next year :)
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Medicine pipe blend
« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2013, 05:42:33 pm »
Waaaaaay cool, man.  I lost my one and only handmade wood pipe at the Classic this year.  I need to turn out another one. 
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Offline stickbender

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Re: Medicine pipe blend
« Reply #7 on: October 20, 2013, 10:03:16 pm »
Waaaaaay cool, man.  I lost my one and only handmade wood pipe at the Classic this year.  I need to turn out another one.
     So what were you smoking in it, when you lost it? ::) ;)

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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Medicine pipe blend
« Reply #8 on: October 21, 2013, 10:43:44 pm »
It warn't the smoking.  I suspect the crickwater folks carry in Mason jars that dun it!
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Offline 4dog

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Re: Medicine pipe blend
« Reply #9 on: October 24, 2013, 02:28:24 pm »
uh jdub??  did ya have to show i.d. for that "crickwater"??   >:D
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Medicine pipe blend
« Reply #10 on: October 24, 2013, 04:27:18 pm »
I'm only 50, obviously not old enough!
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Re: Medicine pipe blend
« Reply #11 on: October 24, 2013, 05:28:04 pm »
I might have helped a little.
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Offline IsaacW

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Re: Medicine pipe blend
« Reply #12 on: October 25, 2013, 11:31:04 am »
Very nice.  Here is a link to a little blog that I did on tobacco "additives" or kinnickinick...  http://frenchinwisconsin.com/2012/11/minomaaso-apaakozigan/

I did a bigger article on this that was published, but hey... I enjoy a pipe occasionally!

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Offline Olanigw (Pekane)

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Re: Medicine pipe blend
« Reply #13 on: October 25, 2013, 12:45:45 pm »
Good stuff Isaac!
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Offline IsaacW

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Re: Medicine pipe blend
« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2013, 03:24:33 pm »
thanks! 
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