Here you go SA, I found some info. Alternate Names Canada hemlock, hemlock spruce
Uses Industry: Eastern hemlock was early valued for its bark, an important source of tannin for the leather industry. Trees were felled and stripped of their bark, which was then milled for tannin extraction. To simplify stripping the bark and turning the logs, trees were often felled into lakes. Many of these logs were much later extracted from northern lakes and milled. The wood has been used for light framing, roofing, boxes and crates, and pulping, but it tends to be brittle and eastern hemlock is not presently important as a timber tree. Commercial stands have been greatly reduced by prior harvesting and lack of restocking. Ethnobotanic: American Indians used the cambium as the base for breads and soups or mixed it with dried fruit and animal fat for pemmican. Natives and white settlers also made tea from hemlock leaves, which have a high vitamin C content. Looks like I'll have to brew a batch!!my girls will love it, they make "stew" with needles all the time. Thanks SA! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Heather Perella Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 8:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MD] Tea Hey x and Case, I believe it was you in a discussion with Case, I'm not really sure though, some posts ago that stated that green tea is a diuretic so you drink white tea. All tea has caffeine and caffeine is the diuretic part. The only difference I have found, since tea has become more and more a hobby of mine, between white and green tea is not the oxidation process, but the kinds of leaves picked and the shading of tea to rid the green color, thus, instead of green it is white tea. The kinds of leaves picked in white are the youngest whereas green tea is picking of the usual age. As to the oxidation process not being different, this refers to white and green teas [all tea (of the green, oolong, black oxidation range) is of the same species] not being oxidized, thus, avoiding the increase in caffeine that accompanies oxidation of tea leaves. With this in mind, on the usual oxidation range, green is unoxidized, oolong (apparently pronounced and more correctly spelled wu-long) medium oxidation, and black tea is very high oxidation (thus, higher than green and oolong in caffeine amount). Since green tea doesn't increase in caffeine due to increase oxidation, then the amount of a calming chemical (can't remember the name) and the amount of caffeine is equal, thus, green tea is known for its' meditative qualities. Green tea awakens and calms at the same time, unlike coffee that has large amounts of caffeine and no calming chemical. (I still drink coffee, though not as much as I used to. I'm just pointing something out, not advocating against coffee.) I'm interested in how white is less diuretic than green tea according to what somebody said for I could not find this to be true in my research. thanks. again the night is dipping below zero degrees F, SA P.S. For those living where Eastern Hemlock (also known as Canadian Hemlock) grows, it has 5 times the amount of Vitamin C than lemons. White pine has Vitamin C, too, as well as Vitamin A. This had me think about how Amerindians in this region during the winter (I'm not an expert on food sources in this region, but I'm making an educated guess that during the summer more plants would be growing for the potential of eating more Vitamin C) would have supplemented their diet with this tea to avoid what many Europeans died of when they first walked around here: scurvy. By the way, other Vitamin C deficiencies include slow wound healing, and immune system rundowns. ________________________________________________________________________ ____________ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091 moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
