Pine resin is lovely stuff
It can be chewed (an acquired taste admittedly) and it cleanses the mouth, it's antibacterial. Eases the toothache and helps ulcers heal and inhibits new ones beginning.
It makes one of the best natural glues
It can be used to make roisin for bow strings.
It burns with a sweet, bright, flame, though it can be smoke. It's a lampblack soot that's given off, and it works for inkmaking.
It can be used with ground herbs and flowers to make scented beads.
It has been used to cover small cuts scrapes. Messy, but it works. Best used with a cover of some kind, paper thin birch bark is sound.
It's an ingredient in incense (copal) and it is also used in plaisters....think compresses, for chesty complaints.
It can be purified, with time and effort, to make turpentine, which opens up a whole new list of uses.
Good stuff
cheers,
Toddy