The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Feverfew and remembering Charlie Kirk

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey y'all. Welcome to this week's show. Today we'll get into a very interesting herb called Feverfew. It's one you're going to want to have on hand. You're going to want to be able to identify it in the wild. You're probably going to want to grow it in your garden. But before we do, as everybody knows by now, Charlie Kirk was assassinated yesterday. And I had a lot of respect for him. We had a lot in common in many ways. Anyway, I did a tribute to Charlie Kirk on YouTube last night, just me and my guitar. I took an old folk song called Joe Hill that was made popular by Joan Baez. It was about a communist labor organizer. And I changed the words as a tribute to Charlie Kirk. I thought he would appreciate that, you know, maybe get a little kick out of it. torn up about it i tell you the truth very sad very sad of course it's the anniversary of 9-11 i'm always somber on 9-11 we had that horrible killing that ukraine girl in charlotte just a few days ago

Starting point is 00:01:11 and then the church shooting in minneapolis trans activist shot a bunch of kids you know it's um bad times bad times but um you know i'm a christian i believe our hope lies in the lord i know how the story ends And so I wanted to do a tribute to Charlie Kirk because, you know, his movement, God, family, and country, it needs to move to means to live on. He, his life and death should inspire millions. And anyway, if you all want to check that out, I'll put the URL in the show notes. But it's just on my YouTube channel, which is Judson Carroll 5902. too. And maybe you'll enjoy it, you know, if you do. Maybe you'll give you a little comfort. I felt better after recording it. Um, you know, I guess, you know, just being Irish, we, we have to find

Starting point is 00:02:15 we celebrate a person's life as much as we do grieve their death. That's just our way. And, um, it's a matter of resilience and also of honoring our heroes. So now let's talk about Feverfew. Feverfew, Tannacetum, parthenium. Very unassuming herb, it basically looks like a little daisy or a Cresanthium. The name derives from its use as a febrefuge. That actually means something that lowers fevers. And so Feverfew was known by the ancient Greek physicians, also to be very useful for migraine

Starting point is 00:02:57 headaches and arthritis. mention if you were a few that I found probably a few others, Pliny and such, but Diascord, he said, pirethrum is an herb which sends out stalks and leaves. Don't need to get into the description. You can look it up.

Starting point is 00:03:13 And it's an easy one. He says, it draws out phlegm, especially boiled with vinegar and uses a mouthwash. It helps toothaches. Chewed, it expels phlegm. And rubbed on with oil, it produces sweat. It is helpful for long-lasting chills and is excellent

Starting point is 00:03:29 for chilled or paralytic parts of the body. St. Hildegard von Bingen, writing around 1,100, said, Feverfew is absolutely balanced and has a good vital energy. It is good for a healthy person since it diminishes putrid matter in him and creates clear understanding. It restores strength to an ill person whose body is almost completely failing. Providing good digestion, it lets nothing pass through the body without being digested. A person who has a lot of flim in his head,

Starting point is 00:03:59 will find it diminished if he eats fever or few frequently eaten often it expels pleuracy and provides a person with pure humors humors would be like mucus and such you know it gives him clear eyesight in whatever way it has eaten whether dried or in food it is beneficial for both sick and healthy persons people whatever if a person eats it frequently it will chase illness from him and keep him from getting sick when it is eaten it draws moisture and saliva from the mouth because it draws out evil humors it restores health how what more could you ask for than that right um but actually an evil humor is essentially just a sickness and illness but it was especially um associated with congestion the review has a long use in the

Starting point is 00:04:50 polish tradition sovi hatterut snab said um according to the natural history of the kingdom of poland of 1793, the flower and greenery, a fee-re-re-few, has cleansing properties, awakens the monthlies, it means it can provoke menstruation, so it should be used carefully, if at all, by pregnant women that can easily cause a miscarriage, but also cleanses the afterbirth, dispels the placenta, and is helpful for the treatment of gout. Gerard in the 1500s, England, wrote a good deal on fee-re-few. He said, there's a great remedy against diseases of the matrix. That took a little looking up.

Starting point is 00:05:26 Basically, we're talking female complaints, a matrix was essentially a vagina. It procures women's sickness with speed, it bringeth forth after birth, and whether it be drunken, does coctioner, boiled in a bath, and the woman sit over it, or the herbs applied to the privy parts in a matter of catapalasm or poultice. He said the author affirmeth that the powder of fever fute drunk with oxymel or syrup of vinegar or wine, or other, any kind of syrup, essentially, draweth away the phlegm and melancholy,

Starting point is 00:06:01 and it's good for them that have pleurisy, he called old English Percy, and have their lung stuffed with phlegm. That could also be pneumonia, by the way. And it is profitable likewise to be drunk against the stone. That would be kidney or bladder stones. Any kind of urinary gravel, as he used to say. Fever for you dried and made into powder

Starting point is 00:06:19 taken with honey or sweet wine, purgeeth melancholy and phlegm, wherefore it is very good for them that are giddy in the head. It's not as fun as it sounds. It actually means dizzy. Or which have the turnings called vertigo. And that is a swimming or turning in the head.

Starting point is 00:06:35 Also good for those that be melancholic, sad, pensive, and without speech. The herb is good against suffocation of the mother. That is hardness or stopping of the same. That, again, is the matrix. We're basically talking prolapse, essentially, in that case. used both in drinks or bound to the risks with bay salt and powder stamped together is singly good against ague i don't know apparently you can make a poultice of it and it was good for fevers which is what ague is salt would help draw the moisture from it i can kind of see that

Starting point is 00:07:13 he also included powdered glass in that so i'm thinking that wouldn't be very comfortable i think I'll just go with the old old poultice advice just pound up the plant and put it on there but all this talks of the the matrix and such reminds me of an old Justin Wilson story so guy hawks uh this is you okay so there's this guy in a bar he's uh like basically the cajian version of a cliff on on um on uh cheers remember a real know it all got something to say for everything and answer for everything is what justice wilson said so this fellow decides to have a good time with him and he says you think you know everything don't you the man says well if there's something i know i damn sure know it i guarantee he good okay smart guy where's the ladies yet

Starting point is 00:08:06 located he says how will you mean a yet i said i mean what i've done and told you i said where is her yet and the man says the woman ain't got no part of her body called yet he says i'll bet you twenty dollars right here in this times pick a you newspaper it says that he does and he told him okay you show me he replied the man reads the headline woman shot in robbery and the bullet is in her yet so there you have it so the bullet was still in her the bullet is in her yet uh anyway good old jess wilson he was a character i got his um so his old comedy books and records which were hilarious as well as his cookbooks, which are fantastic. I used to love watching him on PBS.

Starting point is 00:08:53 He was the only guy on PBS that would cuss. He sounded just like the old folks around where I grew up because we had a lot of French influence. And, man, he was funny and a good cook. And apparently a really cool guy, actually. So anyway, now that we pondered the mysteries of female anatomy, let's get into something even a little more mysterious, which is coal pepper.

Starting point is 00:09:16 Coal pepper like to mix astrology with herbal medicine, so take this with a grain of salt. Venus commands this herb and has commended it to succor her sisters, which are women, to be a general strengthener of their wounds, and to remedy such infirmities as a careless midwife there has caused. If they will be pleased to make use of this herb boiled in white wine and drink the decoction, it cleanses the womb, expels the afterbirth, and does a woman all the good that she can desire of an herb. If any grumble, because they cannot get this herb in winter, tell them that, if they please, they can make a syrup of it in the summer. It is chiefly used for diseases of the mother, whether it be strangling or rising, or hardness or inflammation of the same, outwardly, and there unto. A decoction of the flowers in wine with a little nutmeg or mace.

Starting point is 00:10:06 A drink often in a day as an approved remedy to bring down women's courses speedily and to help expel afterbirth, etc. For a woman to sit over the hot fumes of this decoction of the herb made in water or wine is effectual of the same and Applied warmed herb to the privy parts the decoction thereof made with some sugar and honey put there unto is used with good success To help cough and stuffing of the chest colds and to clean the reins as the kidneys and the bladder and to expel the stone in them if the herb taken in wine with some honey or oxymel, purges, collar, and flim, and available, and should be available for those who are short-winded and troubled with melancholy and heaviness of sadness and spirits. So he's repleting a lot of the same stuff. I'll move on to something a little bit easier to read.

Starting point is 00:10:53 If he does mention that a decoction, essentially a tea made from, it would help with bruises and take away freckles. So if you want to get rid of your freckles, do so. I happen to like freckles myself. So up to modern times, somewhat modern. 1330s, Ms. Greaves says, it is carmeneative and bitter, so carmeneity settles the stomach. Stimulate uses a menagogue, bring omensies, et cetera, et cetera. Employed hysterical complaints, that would be essentially PMS to go ahead and move things along.

Starting point is 00:11:26 Nervousness, lowness of spirits, and is a general tonic. Decoction with sugar or honey said it would be good for coughs, wheezing, difficult breathing. The herb bruised and heated. with a little wine and oil has been employed as a warm external application for wind and colics of gaseousness. Tincture made from fever, few applied locally, relieves pain and swelling caused by bites of insects and vermin. Yeah, that's a real good use for it. Also good mixed with camomile and it's even stronger. It was used, they would burn it like a, I can't remember what you call it, a smudge, and essentially to purify the air, get rid of germs in the air.

Starting point is 00:12:07 don't know if that worked or not but people did that for a long time um actually interestingly enough not none other than cotton mather the puritan minister recommended chewing fever few to relieve toothaches yeah so um i think we covered most things you know what uh there's a plants for future we'll stop there we'll go with plants for a future this just as modern as i can get right now. Feverfew has gained a good reputation as a medicinal herb and has been an extensive research since 1970 has proved it to be of special benefit in the treatment of certain types of migraine headaches and rheumatism. It is also thought of as an herb for treating arthritis and rheumatism. The leaves and flowering heads are anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, a parient, bitter,

Starting point is 00:12:58 carminative, amygog, sedative, stimulant, good for stings, asthmatic, vasodilator, and vermifuge. The plant is gathered as it comes into flour and can be dried for later use. Used with caution, the fresh flowers can cause dermatitis and mouth ulcers if consumed. This remedy should not be prescribed for pregnant women. A tea made from the whole plants is used in the treatment of arthritis, colds, fevers, etc. It is said to be sedative and to regulate menses, and infusion is used to base swollen feet. Applied externally as a tincture the plant is used to the treatment of bruises, etc. chewing four leaves per day. Has, been proven to be effective in the treatment of some migraine headaches. So,

Starting point is 00:13:39 fever few, probably a much underutilized herb in our time. You may have trouble finding it in herb shops and such, but it is weedy. You'll find it in nature and you can get some seeds and grow it. So I think this is a really good one to have on hand for a lot of different issues. Y'all have a good week, and I'll talk to you next time. the information in this podcast is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease or condition nothing i say or write has been evaluated or approved by the fda i'm not a doctor the u.s government does not recognize the practice of herbal medicine and there is no governing body regulating herbless therefore i'm really just a guy who studies herbs i'm not offering any advice i won't even claim

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The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Feverfew and remembering Charlie Kirk

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