[philmont] water consumption?

It helps to stimulate your saliva, which makes you feel less thirsty. It does NOT keep you from needing water, or from dehydrating. It may keep some from drinking to excess, but that would be about all. This is something they used to teach long ago and far away in some survival books.
   
  Andre Houser

Joseph Jansen <jajansenjr@gmail.com> wrote:
  I've heard of it. I've never used the technique but do recall hearing that
it can be useful.

Joe
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On 8/22/07, Steve Mac wrote:
> This summer on our first trail day I was going over the water bags to see
> who had plenty and who didn't. One of the scouts said, hey, put a small
> pebble under your tongue. I do remember doing that, just was so long ago.
> Has any one else heard of doing this?
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