Salt in the Wild

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For an extended period, will game meat and wild vegetation provide enough dietary salt?

I was reading about how Jim Bridger made trips to the salt lake valley for salt to trade with the natives. Now was this just disirable for flavor and curing, or something they had to have one way or the other.


Are there other sources for salt i.e. salt rich plants etc.?
 
Roman sodiers were often paid in part with salt and pepper. Both improve the flavour of bush food no end. I put this in because I presume salt inland is not that widely available.

I get cramps very qickly if working hard in hot weather and forget to take in enough salt.

Hope there are some more posts with answers.

[This message has been edited by GREENJACKET (edited 01-14-2001).]
 
I'm not 100% sure but I think deer blood is rather high in salt, so maybe it could be boiled down to obtain the salt.
 
Good question! Here are few things I found about it.

Sources of salt:

Colt’s foot plant (Tussilago farfara) (Peterson’s Edible Wild Plants p.84; Wildwood Wisdom p. 275):
On waste grounds, flowers from March-June. Also, along streams and swamps. Leaves appear after the flowers!
Native Americans used as salt by burning leaves and using salty ashes.

Glassworts plant (Salicornia spp., Salicornia europea, pickleweed, saltwort) (Peterson’s Edible Wild Plants p. 146; Nyerges’s Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants p. 74):
On coastal saltmarshes, alkaline soil inland. From spring to fall.
Cooked with, provides all the salt needed.

Seaweeds (Ulva lactuca or sea lettuce, Alaria esculenta or kelp) (Peterson’s Edible Wild Plants p. 234; Nyerges’s Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants p. 155, 157):
Can be dried, powdered and stored. Can be cooked with other ingredients or alone.

Seawater can be boiled and concentrated into sea salt.

Hope it helps,

HM
 
I will have to check my sources.

Hickory chips boiled and then strained will leave a dark liquid which is boiled untill it is a very thick syrup/tarlike consistancy.
This tar is high in salts, and safe to consume. I t will be a couple of weeks before I can check my sources.

pat
 
Eat your game's eyeballs (rabbit, deer, etc.).

Either raw or in a stew.
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