The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Herbal Medicine for Prepper: Centaury

Episode Date: June 27, 2025

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Hey y'all welcome to this week's show. Alright so we're gonna get into a really interesting herb this week. I'm gonna just go and tell you right up front I cannot pronounce this thing. This is like the one herb that is like the worst tongue twister for me. Alright so it is spelled C E-u-r-y. It's pronounced something like centauri. Okay. I can't... it always comes out like century for me. I mean, you know, if I say the word century, just understand, I mean the plant centauri CN taur y let's just go with that okay I mean I've been doing this for years and I've tried like a thousand times pronounce the name of this herb I never if I get it right one time, I can't repeat it. I mean, it's just ridiculous.

Yeah, so anyway, the Latin for me is actually a little bit easier. And it's centaurium, aurethria, C-E-N-T-A-U-R-I-U-M, centaurium, E-R-Y-T-H-A, I mean T H A E A okay so let's see if I can get that again centaurium erythrea now that to me actually is far more easy to

pronounce so this is like the one case where the Latin is easier than the English so anyway that's the herb we're talking about. It's been used, gosh, it's been used for thousands of years in European medicine. Really not much used by American herbalists, which is kind of weird. Most American herbal books, websites, videos, wherever you would go. I mean, the class I took for my herbalist certification, you know, I've actually taken a lot of them. I have like, I don't even remember at last count, I've got like 27 certifications, but one of the biggest ones, which is why I felt comfortable calling myself a master herbalist, I really could have done it before then because I've been a practicing herbalist

for many years. Having been an apprentice starting at the age of 15, it was 270 hours. Okay. 270 hours. That's more time than you spending college to get a degree. Yeah. So, I mean, just remember when you listen to my show and you listen to my podcast you're getting huge amounts of information made practical and simple in small bite-sized bits. That's what I try to do. I want nobody in their right mind spends 270 hours studying herbal medicine, 70 hours studying herbal medicine, okay, in a classroom setting. And that was just one certification.

But you realize in that entire time, we never mentioned this plant, never once was it brought up. It's really, I would say, the second most bitter herb in European herbal medicine. It's second only to ginseng. And it was actually once quite popular. I mean, if you ever watch like on PBS or something or the BBC, BBC, you know, it depends on where you live You might have watched Poirot. Poirot was you know, Agatha Christie's detective. Love those mysteries Yeah, I love a good mystery and Poirot is one of my favorites

very You know, how would I put it? I am NOT obsessive compulsive in the least. I'm actually pretty messy I am not obsessive compulsive in the least. I'm actually pretty messy. But there are certain you know detectives that I kind of identify with because they're kind of quirky and the way their brains work. Poirot would be one of those without a doubt. Yeah and Poirot was pretty cool. He was a little Belgian guy and he always would order Tissane. Now Tisane is an ancient herbal tea recipe. It probably began just as barley water. If you go back and read Hippocrates from ancient Greece, his Tisanes were nothing more than barley water. The water in which barley had been soaked. Warmed up, you drink it. By, I don't even know, 1500s it became to be an herbal tea that usually

included linden flowers and centuari, however you pronounce that, or ginseng or something like that. And eventually it became to be called a tea son. Sometimes it's spelled with a P in front of it, silent P. I don't like silent P's. But that's where we get the word tea from. We actually get the word tea from tea sawn, not from black tea that we make iced tea with in the south or you drink as your Earl Grey in the morning or something like that. So just an aside, but this was really once one of the most essential herbs and it's like now nobody talks about it, which is just weird. The Deascorides, going again back to ancient Greece, actually compares this herb, Sintuari,

to Hypericum, the St. John's Wort, we recently talked about that, and Oregano, which is oregano. So kind of interesting that he compared it to those two herbs. He said that in appearance it was a little like rue. The seed looked like a wheat seed. We look at herbal medicine We start looking like what plant kind of resembles tastes like another and we start to we can almost like Figure out its uses before they you know, we really even studied them

What does this herb taste like? Is it bitter? Well, it's bitter. It's probably be good for digestion It's probably good to be good for the liver. You know, we can go through that. It may help break a fever. Is it yellow? Well, if it's yellow, it's certainly going to be good for the liver. Every yellow herb is good for the liver. That's called the doctrine of signatures. It's a bigger topic than I want to get into today.

But when you meet someone who's an herbalist and they seem to have like an intuitive knowledge of herbs, it's not some magic thing, okay? It's really just learning the patterns in plants so that we can identify their uses. And when, you know, Europeans and Brits and such came to America, that's what they did. They got here, they started finding plants that kind of resembled the plants at home. At some point, they started interacting with Native Americans. The Cherokee especially gave early America a lot of its herbal knowledge. But a lot of it had to do with like, you know, you're coming over from England and you're

familiar with Feverview and you get here and there's a plant and what that that almost looks like Feverview with its bone set. Well it kind of does the same thing. And you know, sometimes the plants are related. I think one of those is an epilobium. The other is not. I mean sometimes they're related and sometimes they're not. Sometimes it can be like Joe Pyeweed.

Joe Pyeweed kind of looks like those plants but the flowers are very different color. Somehow when you learn the uses of plants you start to pick up on these patterns. The best book on that is Botany in a Day by Thomas Opal. It's all about plant identification, the position of leaves, the shapes of leaves, the shape of the time, and I do have a couple of exceptions, going to give you insight into the use of other plants. Other plants that may not even have documented use in herbal medicine. You know, I've talked about that before. I've found a few plants that really don't have documented use in herbal medicine that I find very useful.

Very useful. Coleus. Coleus is one. But the exception would be, I guess I would say, in the umbilifera type plants in the, oh, I can't remember the Latin name for it, umbilifera or, hmm. Anyway, it's the same family as carrots and parsley and all that right? Right on the tip of my tongue it's not coming to me.

The two very very poisonous plants, the two of the most poisonous plants known to man, poison hemlock and water hemlock or there's another name for it water anyway they can look very much like other plants in the same family poison hemlock especially can look exactly like wild carrot or the carrot you grow in your garden okay you can differentiate it you can learn you have to learn one has a hairy stem one does not one has a little purple flower in the middle of that umbil one does not okay but nine times out of ten or I'd even say 99 times out of a hundred recognizing the characteristics of a plant will give you a clue to its use. That, like I said, is

called the doctrine of signatures. Herbalists have used it for thousands of years. Some people say it's superstition or folklore. You know, it's really not. You can actually look at a plant once you've studied herbal medicine enough and know its use. Even if you can't identify the plant. Now I'm saying that with that that huge grain of caution that big old you know whatever you want to call it every now and then there's something that's really poisonous that can look a lot like another plant so you can't always go by that but yeah 90% of the time at least you you really can a grape is a grape a cruciferous vegetable like broccoli or collard greens or mustard

is a cruciferous vegetable a lettuce is a lettuce a mint is a mint now some mints are stronger than other that would be another one where I'd put a little bit of caution. But unless you're making essential oil of a mint, they're usually pretty darn safe. Basil's a mint, believe it or not. Mints are so common. Anyway, let's get back to this one. Dioscortes said, the pounded, a plant pounded while green and applied seals wounds,

purges old ulcers and brings them to a scar. Good one to have around. Good plant to have around. Boiled and swallowed down, love the way they used to say things. It expels the bile and the thick fluids through the bowel. So the coxin of it can be used as a suppository for sciatica. No, okay. Suppository for sciatica. I have sciatica. I'm not big on suppositories. Never tried it. Can't tell you one way or the other. Don't really like sticking anything up my butt, but if you do, hey, go for it. Good for drawing out old blood and easing pain.

The juice is good for eye medicines with honey. Cleaning away things that darken the pupils. Now that is a pretty cool use, okay? That's, they're really talking about cataracts. If there's an herb that could prevent cataracts so you don't have to have cataract surgery, you know, the same thing's been said about violet and roses. That's worth looking into. I don't have cataracts.

Probably won't for another 30 years. Maybe I'll give it a shot then, but you know, go for it. If you have good results, if you have bad results, let me know. Anyway, a pessary extracts the menstrual flow. That's... hmm, how can I put this and be tasteful? A suppository going in another place. That's what a pessary is. Yeah, that'll work. It's taken as a drink. It is equally good for disorders of the strength. The herb juiced first gathered and when full of seed and steeped in water for five days and after boiled until it floats up of the water. Oh good for a lot of stuff actually. It goes

on you can mix it with honey, you can store it in an unglazed ceramic jar. That would be pretty interesting because in an unglazed jar the water is going to evaporate off so it actually concentrate it. That's actually a really good herbal preparation. I haven't really thought about that before, but yeah, it's like a decoction without having to cook it. Anyway, he said, wow, good for inflammation, bruises, helps women troubled with pregnancy, eases the pain of slow painful urination, so it's

diuretic and such. Gather the herb in the spring at sunrise. Interesting. I don't know. Oh, well, more than likely the reason you would gather at sunrise is before the heat of the day, the volatile oils could be evaporated by the sun. So yeah, I mean, it sounds like, you know you know old-fashioned but kind of makes sense, right? Let's see, let's get into

we'll go forward like a Thousand years we get to 1080 and st. Hildegard von Bingen She wrote of the herb, gives very similar uses, but also included cornflower or bachelor's button in centaur, whatever word is. I'm going to skip it because I can't be sure which plant is which and cornflower can have a little toxicity so we'll just go up to about 1850 father ney but also in the german tradition gave a german word for the plant which is even harder to pronounce tossing golden kraut called tossingut. Wow. He said that means thousand Florin herb. I don't even know what a Florin is. So anyway he says how curiously certain herbs have been Christian by our ancestors. I

agree. And Father Nape was he was a pretty cool guy. he had a great sense of humor. But he said, our little flower must have occupied a high social position in the herbal world of those bygone days. He was cool. Anyway, he said it tastes bitter and employed as a tea, it resolves the stomach of superfluous winds and gases. In other words, it gets rid of burping and indigestion and flatulence. It restores the digestive saps. In other words, it increases the stomach acids and the bile and acts upon the liver and kidneys. It is the best remedy for heartburn. Suffers from derangement of circulation, may seek counsel and help

from the herb. I've never actually sought counsel from an herb, but I think I know what he means. And his counterpart in Switzerland was Father Kunzel, also hilarious, feisty, pugnastic, I think is the right word. That man would fight anybody, and he was a good herbalist. And he's the one that went to court and made herbal medicine legal in What was about to become the Nazi State and Where they were outlawing a lot of stuff he went and fought him head-to-head and he was he was he was something He really was

father Kunzel He was a Johann Kunzel man you know, I was very pleased to do the only current English translation of his book Herbs and Weeds, which I think he called Herbs Kraut, which may be what Father Nape was talking about. It was like Kraut and Au Kra crowd or something I don't know I don't speak German but I had a Austrian co-author who did and I'm telling you that little dude he probably wasn't more than five feet tall bald with a long gray white beard and he gave him hell I mean he went up against the medical establishment he accused him of everything from atheism to thievery. I mean, he was, man, he was something. I would have loved to have a beer with either of those

priests. They were both really solid, funny, intelligent, and good herbalists. But anyway, Father Kunzel said, internally one uses the T for croup, sore throat, bladder ailments, light diarrhea, sleeplessness. But for the internal use, one should always add the same amount of juniper berries. Take a half cup three times a day. So, juniper berries mixed with this cinchowari makes a good, completely harmless drink for sleep, take about a half an hour for going to bed, and works best for reflux, acid reflux, heartburn. Getting up to the English tradition, but going back in time a bit, where in 1500s Gerard said that it was good for them that be burstin'

so internal bleeding is what that means. Those that spit blood, good against the cramp and shrinking of the sinews and the shortness of wind or difficulty breathing, the coughing griping of the belly. There is not any part of the herb but it rather worketh miracles. Okay, he said the entire, okay so he's saying, I'm gonna put this in plain English, the entire herb could be poulticed for any kind of wound or cut. He said,

joineth together the lips of simple wounds of the flesh. And a lot of stuff I can't really understand. But it closed wounds, in other words. It has a serendipity that would pull together the tissues. The root of this plant is a remedy for ruptures, convulsions, and cramps, for fever. Taking in wine. He mentions Galen, and we don't have a lot of Galen's writings. Apparently there were still around in 1500s. He said, Galen saith that the juice of the leaves thereof performeth those things that the root doth, which is also used in a kind of hard juice or sharp pace. In other words the whole plant is useful, the leaves as well as the root

and it can be dried and turned into a resin essentially. Now let's get up to modern news. 1930s Maude Grieve said, oh boy she gets into the history like crazy and there is a lot of history of this herb. It's amazing we stopped using it mostly. Wow. She goes back to 1619 and I mean old herbals. I also said it was...Maser was an herbalist of the...gosh I don't even know. Maybe 1100 or 1200 AD. He said it was powerful against wicked spirits. Hopefully, none of us encounter wicked spirits. If we do, hey, keep that herb around. I don't know if it's going to do you any good or not, but you know, this is ancient England.

This is Anglo-Saxon. I mean, spirits is, no, wicked is spelled W Y K K E D and spirits is S P R Y T I S that's how old that is so that's that's going back to you know before like Robin Hood and such you know so anyway uh... cold pepper mentions good for drop cn uh... the green sickness which is apparently all we call anemia you know uh... anemia of a woman's bleeding too much

she did green tent to her skin uh... so that's good also would kill intestinal worms so uh... but she said let's see, oh she mentions that ancient Anglo-Saxons thought it was good for snake bites. Yeah, but she said it was particularly good for jaundice combined with barberry, organ grape, which we have talked about before, and of course it would be very good for the liver and would just get rid of worms and other parasites.

Now modern use, Plants for Future says, this herb is one of the most bitter, no, one of the most useful bitter herbs. Centuari strengthens digestive function, especially within the stomach, increasing stomach secretions. It hastens the breakdown of food. It also stimulates the appetite

and increases bile production. The plant needs to be taken over a number of weeks. An infusion of a tea should be slowly sipped so that the components the bitterness can stimulate the reflex activity through the upper digestive tract. The whole herb is an appetizer aromatic and bitter. It stimulates appetite that's all it means you don't eat it like a snack before a meal it just stimulates appetite. Aromatic, bitter, for a digestive enema medic weekly feb refusion hepatic and hepatic big words

what do they mean can get rid of gas can help break a fever helps digestion taking a large amounts can make you throw up good for the liver good for the stomach and good for digestion again it acts on the liver, good for the stomach, and good for digestion again. It acts on the liver and kidneys, purifies the blood, and is an excellent tonic for the digestive system. Externally, the fresh green herb is said to be a good application of wounds and sores. It is often used in combination with other herbs such as chamomile, meadow sweet, and marshmallow.

The whole plant is heart, and it's not the marshmallows, the little white things in the store, it's the actual plant that's kind of like okra and has pretty flowers like hibiscus and rose of Sharon and all that. The whole plant is harvested and while in flower it can be dried for later use. There's a Bach or botch flower remedy, people say it both ways, that actually is prescribed to people who are weak-willed or too easily influenced. Don't ask me. Bach or botch flower remedies, they're unique. They tend to be more prescribed for emotional issues and physical ailments and frankly I don't

give a crap about most people's emotions you know anyway it's used to treat the liver and gallbladder ailments and according to several sources although sin sent warry I think is how you pronounce that, is not native to North America. It has been naturalized in several areas. So you know it's kind of growing like a weed in some places now and a whole lot of people just get all upset they're like you know we got to have native plants native only. Well you know native to when? When did this plant get here? Did it come over before the Asians crossed the Bering Straits and started becoming Native Americans? I mean, when were they Native to here? They're not indigenous, nor are people of Irish descent such as

myself. We all got here at some point, and so did plants so native to win Sorry, you know I don't call one plant a weed and something else an indigenous plant because nothing's indigenous to anything it all came here at some point and Plants are gonna fight it out the same way as people will and eventually people and plants establish themselves in a spot. And, you know, who the hell are you to say this doesn't belong here? I mean, do you say this plant doesn't belong here? Do you say this person doesn't belong here?

You know, you're not God, get over yourself. But anyway, probably the biggest example of that, of course, was kudzu, the vine that ate the south. And it was introduced originally as an ornamental and then a guy from Georgia, Atlanta area, a little bit outside Atlanta, Channing Cope, I believe he actually went to the University of Georgia. He's a real hero of mine. He was sort of a father of permaculture. Big, you know, heavy set southern man, drank a lot and told stories and was really funny

and had a weekly column in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. He was on the radio for a time, probably WSB out of Atlanta. I mean, you know, this is classic. If you're southern, this stuff matters, right? So Channing Cope Found this ornamental vine that someone else had introduced to the United States from Asia kudzu and He realized that it was the very best feed for livestock

It is the most nutritious of all plants for livestock. It is a vine that grows big flowers that kind of taste like spinach and have about half as much protein as meat. Yeah, there's actually protein in there. At that point in time, farming in the southern United States, they hadn't been using crop rotation, things were really bad, there was erosion. The south was about to become a dust bowl like the Midwest in, you know, like grapes of wrath or something. Literally, whereas the wind was blowing away all the topsoil in the west, the water, the rain was washing away all the topsoil in the south. Our soil, we were about to starve to death. And Channing Cope said, you know, if you plant kudzu, it's a leguminous plant,

it's self fertile, it will enrich your soils, it helps other crops, and it will hold the soil in place so it doesn't wash away. And cattle can graze on it. And he came up with this book, he called it The Front Porch Farmer. and cattle can graze on it. And he came up with this book, he called it the front porch farmer. And he proposed a system of growing kudzu with grazing animals.

That makes total sense. You plant kudzu, it grows, it'll grow up to a yard a day in the summer. I mean, it is just ridiculous how productive this plant is. It's incredibly helpful, it's incredibly nutritious, it has great use in herbal medicine, it can actually be used as a fiber in place of cotton or linen, flax for linen, you know. But something has to eat it. So he proposed planting kudzu and having cattle. The cattle would eat the kudzu and he called it the front porch farmer because you could plant some kudzu,

get a a few calves, put them out in the pasture, and in a few years you'd probably be a millionaire looking at a huge herd of cattle, and you don't have to buy hay for them, and they're going to grow and get really strong and healthy on that really nutritious kudzu, right? Um, he was freaking brilliant. I mean, honestly, Channing Cope was super intelligent in this regard. But then the government comes along,

and you remember what Ronald Reagan always said about the government, scariest words in the English language are we're from the government and we're here to help. They decided to help with soil erosion in the south and they took Channing Cope's idea of planting kudzu to help prevent erosion and then to grow cattle on it to you know range cattle whatever you want to put it and they said well we're just going to go plant kudzu along every roadside and stream

and kudzu became the weed that ate the south, the vine that ate the south. When I was a kid you would, you don't see it as much anymore, you know, round up, now people get rid of it, but literally, like around Rockingham, North Carolina, Morganton, Lenore, I could go down the list, you would see towns where kudzu was growing on either side of the road for acres, you know, thick choking out killing trees growing along the telephone and power lines across the street. So you would be driving under an arbor of kudzu, covering houses and gas stations. I mean, consuming everything in its wake.

I mean, like it pushes out every other species because it covers it and the other species can't get sunlight, but I mean, covering bridges, covering railroad trestles, covering stores and gas stations and homes. I mean, it grows up to a yard a day in the summer. So, kudzu was a horrible idea as proposed by the government and the way it was used. Unfortunately, instead of blaming the government for their, as usual, really bad decisions,

people blame Channing Cope. People would actually drive, well he died, his wife left him, his kids wouldn't talk to him. His home was covered with kudzu and he died basically covered in kudzu, the driveway grown over, the house grown over. He became a hopeless alcoholic and hated by everyone. When he was buried, people would actually drive from other states to urinate on his grave. And, you know, this is just a long aside, but I consider Channing Cope to be a great American, a great southerner, a father of permaculture.

If people had listened to him, everything would have been fine. Everything would have been fine. But for what the government did, they blamed him. And I'm telling you, that's one guy that deserved a whole lot better than he got. I kind of identify with him in a lot of ways. I'm just the same talkative storytelling Southerner, a real cracker, but that guy had a great idea. And to this very day, if you institute his plan as outlined in the Front Porch Farmer,

that was his book, you're going to be a very successful cattle rancher. Just make sure that you own the land and your children are going to follow after you because that kudzu is always going to have to be grazed. You cannot go a single season without having cattle on that property. You can have goats. Goats are fine. It doesn't have to be cows. But chickens love kudzu. I mean, it doesn't matter. Something's going to have to eat that plant. Humans can eat kudzu. It's actually a really good vegetable for foraging. But's gonna have to eat that plant and you know eventually kudzu will work itself out in its environment it's gonna fight it out with the other plants and you

know somebody will eventually look at kudzu as a native yeah in a thousand years people say kudzu is a native to North America. Well, why not? Every other plant they say was a native to North America was not here a thousand years ago. It all came in from somewhere and in a thousand years kudzu will be considered a native to North America. So learn to use those plants. Don't consider them weeds, don't spray them with Roundup, just figure out where they fit and how to use them properly. People spend thousands of dollars on herbicides trying to get rid of kudzu.

When they could make thousands of dollars just raising some goats or cows and feeding them kudzu or supplementing their own diet with kudzu or making fly lines or shirts out of the fiber. It's literally, it's a nicer fiber than the flax they use for linen or any kind of cotton. The most expensive kimonos in Japan are made from kudzu fiber. And, you know, what are you gonna do? Uh, that's a subject we talked about many times, isn't it?

But anyway, y'all, I still can't pronounce the name of the plant for this week. Look it up. You might find a lot of good uses for it. It's what's when I use and very, very beneficial. So have a great 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.

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