Deep Puncture Wound

White Pine Tree (Pinus strobus)

Eastern Deciduous Forest and Tall Grass Prairie

Habitat: forest areas
Season: April-September

Active Chemical Ingredient: chrysin

Chemical structure:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chrysin.svg

Uses: by using the bark from saplings to stitch open wounds, and directly putting sap on wound facilitates healing

Shepard's Purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)

Eastern Deciduous Forest and Tall Grass Prairie

Habitat: waste places, roadsides, pastures, gardens, lawns, and almost any open or disturbed habitat

Season: March-November

Active Chemical Ingredient: Fumaric Acid

Chemical structure:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenosine_reuptake_inhibitor

Uses: Tea is used to clean wounds and stop bleeding 

Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)

Eastern Deciduous Forest and Tall Grass Prairie

Habitat: waste ground, pastures, lawns, roadsides, fields

Season: April-June

Active chemical ingredient: inulin

Chemical structure:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inulin

Uses: infections from open wounds or internal bacterial infections by using the sap externally

Common Juniper (Juniperus communis)

Eastern Deciduous Forest and Tall Grass Prairie

Habitat: meadows, fields, cliffs, rocky areas, roadsides

Season:  late winter into early spring -January through April. Some junipers will have a second bloom time that occurs in the fall and can last from September though December

Active chemical ingredient: alpha selinene

Chemical structure:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alpha-selinene.svg

Uses: berries rubbed on wounds used for treating snake bites, wounds, pain in joints, fungal infection