The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Dock

Episode Date: August 28, 2025

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Hey y'all. Welcome to this week's show. I hope you are enjoying this beautiful late August weather. It has finally dried off a little bit. We have probably had more rain this summer than I've ever seen in my life. And my birthday being this week, it was really nice to get a special gift to some really beautiful weather. It's cooler than it has been. It's drier than it has been by like, I mean, anything would be drier than it has been. pin and so I've been out getting ready for for bow season it's already archery season for deer here in North Carolina but it's way for me in my opinion and y'all may have different opinions on this but in my opinion it's way too warm you know I only care about the meat and I am not going to take a chance of spoilage especially when it comes to organ meats you know you want in my opinion again I want the temperature to be at least the temperature would be in my refrigerator before I go out but you know it's it's just enjoyable right now to be out just shooting some stumps just taking a little practice you know I've

always been a well I shouldn't say always I started out I guess on a compound bow and you know great old bear compound bow nice good weight for a kid I don't know what it was me 40 pounds 35 not too, too heavy. In fact, I actually had a smaller one before then when I was younger. Also a compound, probably no more than 15, 20 pounds. But, you know, I was up to, like, you know, maybe a 35, 40-pound bow in my teens. And by late teens, early 20s, I switched over to a long bow.

And, of course, I mean, 45, 50 pounds, there's nothing on a compound bow. I mean, the way those wheels turn, I mean, you just pull it back. And, I mean, it's just as easy as can be once you get it half. back so it may have been a little heavier I'm just going by memory I actually sold that one I guess in when I was in my teens and I think bought a mandolin or something you know how you do but anyway I switch over to a longbow sometime around age 20 and it was really nice old one old one that was in my family good 75 years old and probably about a 75 pound draw weight the thing was a

beast i mean really uh now you know with a long bow the limbs are longer so it doesn't it's not as hard as a shorter bow to manage that much weight and i shot that thing for years and just last time i shot it it got a weird bend you know it's like it was the wood was finally starting to break down a little bit it was lemon wood really good quality bow um um Pearson it was a ben Pearson if I remember correctly uh but anyway um it started getting a little off in one of the limbs i thought well i better go ahead and retire this bow it's still a beautiful wall hanger you know real antique honestly and the string's doing great shape believe it or not after all these years i could still use the string and i got real lucky i found a um there was a close out i think on a sporting goods store

and they put up some of their stuff on ebay and i end up getting a um sage samick take down recurp a 50 pounds for all weight for really less than 50 bucks so i mean i jumped on it so this week i've been breaking in the sage samick and i am loving it it feels actually 50 pounds it feels heavier than my old longbow did it you know 75 pounds but of course the longbo was wearing out you know maybe the limbs were getting a little a little too broken in so to say so to speak so you know first few days it was like wow this thing kicking my butt and now you know I'm starting to get consistently good grouping I'll start at like 15 yards take a few shots you know like a wooded a rabbit or something nice you know low good you know

try to get them nice and tight back up to 20 do the same thing back up 25 at 30 yards I'm getting decent grouping I mean we're talking like you know no tighter than like a pie pan in diameter which you know you can get by with that you're going to get more shots at a deer at 30 yards than you are at 20 so i like to work up to there i'm probably not going to take a shot at a critter uh beyond 30 yards with a boat that's just me you know maybe you're like ted nusion or fred bear or something you can go out you know 50 yards and hit uh something of the size of a dime if so that's awesome but anyway yeah i've been having a good time with it good time with it. And again, now, you know, I get to see a few herbs that are actually starting

to get ready for harvest. Prickly pear cactus is just starting to form its fruit. One I'm going to tell you about soon, maybe on my other show, though, probably Southern Appletch and Herbs podcast, is a really interesting herb in the in the Belladonna family, I guess you would call it. That's also the tomato and potato family. Nightshade was the word I was looking for. It's called horse nettle. And it's a very poisonous plant but it's excellent used topically for poison ivy or poison oak so so look forward to that and what else I spot today sumac the sumac berries are looking really nice this year I guess because all the rain they'll be ripen another month or two so I mean they're they're looking really nice

staghorn sumac was really looking really full today and so anyway it's been enjoyable of course you know got cocky and didn't put a wrist guard on and pop my wrist for the string a time or two so yeah that's always fun one of these days you know I'm going to learn when you switch to a different bow design you're going to hit your arm or wrist at some point that's just the way it goes and so how that ties into herbal medicine well arnica is excellent for bruising so as soon as I came in I probably went too long it actually like puffed up real big so I popped it with a string a few times and it's looking really nasty so I came in and put some Arnica salve on it and the bruising is already dispersed like 50% I'll probably be good to shoot

again tomorrow so always keep some arnica on hand in some form it's fantastic for soft tissue injuries it disperses swelling it disperses bruising and helps heal and recover a whole lot faster and it helps with the pain a lot as well you know it's not a big deal of you know, whack your inside of your arm or your wrists with a bowstring. It just happens. It looks a whole lot worse than it ever feels. You know, it's one of those things like when you stub your toe or something, it's like, ah, you know, and then it kind of wears off and you're just like back to it.

But yeah, it's swelled up real big, so I had to stop shooting for the day because it like puffed out. You know what I mean? What they call it, hematoma or whatever. So anyway, Arnacle shrink that sucker back in and buy tomorrow morning. And I'll be out and back out there doing it. And man, it's fun. You know, you forget when you don't, I didn't do archery at all last year because of the hurricane. Didn't go hunting, didn't even take target practice, nothing.

Maybe a little bit with the blowgun, but even that, I didn't really stick with, which I should. You know, if you got any kind of lung issues, I developed asthma as a child. A blowgun is fantastic for strengthening the lungs. And so that's something I try to stick with. It's more of a hobby, just for fun. You know, kind of like, what's that guy? name. Ken Fowler. You know how he's into slingshots? Fowler's makery and mischief I think is his channel on YouTube. Funny guy. I've actually

picked up a few really good tips from his videos. He had this design like in one of his first videos for a bola that he used to catch chickens running around the backyard. I'm like that is an awesome idea. I'm so stealing that idea. And I did. And it might work really good for game birds too if that wasn't illegal but anyway the blowgun is really really good for the lungs I definitely recommend that highly so let's go ahead and we'll get into the herb let's talk about our herbs here and today we're going to talk about one of the most common this is one you're going to find just about everywhere I'll grab a sip of water real quick all right

Oh, that went down the wrong way. Uh-oh. All right. So, Docs are really common. In fact, they're about 200 members of the Room X family. That's Room X, R-U-M-E-X. Room X or Doc are really some of the most common so-called weeds in the United States. It's another one of those that our ancestors used to grow for food and medicine.

and wonderful edible grains I don't know of any docks that don't have edible grains now some are very bitter like a yellow doc maybe a little too bitter to eat there are a lot of sorrels which are actually a slightly different family at some points they actually seem to be related but they do have a different Latin name a different classification there are sorrels that are called docks and docks that are called sorrels. And really medicinally, we use them almost interchangeably. Even though, I mean, sorrels can look so different as, well, like sheep sorrel, we call it sour wheat as a kid,

has a very small leaf and a red stem, and it's got this like really nice, like sour patch kids flavor to it, lemon drops, that kind of thing, love chewing on it as a kid. the garden sorrel the leaf is the same shape but it's like 10 times bigger and it doesn't have that long stem at least not to it bolts you know but actually what we call shamrocks are in actually in actuality not a four-leaf clover yeah what a four-leaf clover or three-leaf clover which one's supposed to be lucky i have no idea they're not clovers at all they're actually sorrel That's usually wood sorrel. There are a couple of sorrels that have that growth pattern.

So they can look wildly different. Docks can actually look pretty different. You have some that have leaves, almost like spinach, you have some that have bigger, tougher leaves. You have some that have red veins through them, like bloody dock, a beautiful plant. You can plant in your ornamental beds

and use as food and medicine. And what really, the main characteristics, of all these plants. One, they have a bitterness and a sourness. The sourness is oxalic acid. If you ate nothing but dachshin sorrels, that oxalic acid could kind of build up in your system, and what it actually does is prevent the body from processing minerals.

And it can cause kidney stones and such as that. And you can also cause malnutrition because your body's not processing minerals. If I remember correctly, your body actually uses some of the calcium in your system to neutralize the axelic acid. But that oxalic acid can also crystallize and be kind of painful. So you don't want to live completely off the docks and sorrels, but there's absolutely no reason not to enjoy them. I've told you many times one of my absolute favorite campfire meals is trout, just, you know, good, clean tasting mountain trout. You know, it doesn't have a lot of flavor, so you want to add some flavor to trout. Give it some salt and pepper, give it some creoleses and whatever you like.

But like to stuff it with a little green onion or ramps and some sorrel or dock because it's got that liminey flavor. That's the thing about the docks and sorrels is they all have that limine-type flavor. They kind of taste like spinach if you squirted lemon juice on it. So, fantastic with a mild tasting fish, especially if you cook it up with some bacon and you get your good bacon fat in there. you're going to love that if you haven't tried it I mean that's like the one recipe well I have a lot of good recipes if you haven't checked it out yet I have a couple of good cookbooks not only the spring foraging cookbook which is all the wild plant chicken harvest but the omnivores guide to home cooking which is fairly popular these days I mean people I'm talking chefs people have gotten touched with me and said this is like one of the best

cookbooks I've ever read this is fantastic so if you haven't yet definitely go to am Amazon and do me a favor and buy the omnivores guide to home cooking or the spring foraging cookbook and, you know, leave me a good review. I still don't have many reviews. I mean, it's amazing. I would say maybe one out of 500 people ever even thinks to leave a review on Amazon, but those matter a huge amount. If you've bought any of my books and you liked them, please leave me a review on Amazon because that's the main thing that drives book sales, is reviews. and if you didn't like it don't leave a review please you know send me a nasty note and feel free to just cuss me out that's fine but you know when you leave a review on amazon for an author and it's a bad review or a neutral review it kills book sales absolutely kills book sales last weekend i presented at the christian herbalist guild conference and a lot of people have bought my

books, especially Christian herbal medicine. The Christian history of herbal medicine is the official title of that book. And they were like, it's such a great book. You got to buy this book. You got to read this book. And the irony of it is, that book has more negative reviews on Amazon than anything I've ever written. I mean, pagans, neo-pagans, hippies, new age types hate that I've written a book about the Christian history of verbal medicine. And because the history of Christianity is essentially Catholic until about 1,500, I mean, there was a little division with the Orthodox around 1050, but for at least the first 1,500 years of the Christianity, there was only one church and it was the Catholic Church.

Therefore, if you write any book on Christian history, it's going to be predominantly Catholic history. Yeah, there's some anti-Catholic bigots that have gotten on. there and just railed i mean one of them even said this isn't a christian book it's a catholic book and gave me like a one-star you know review i mean that's the lowest you can give you can't give no stars and i mean it did uh really um people from the the pagans and the new agers to the ones that just totally hate catholics um it's killed my book sales uh that should really uh be i mean i think it's one of my maybe one of my maybe one of

of the most important books I've written because whenever people hear herbal medicine these days they think like oh you know woohoo new age stuff truth is herbal medicine was the only medicine there was until about 1920 and i mean all the the doctors pretty much went to medical schools which were owned by a and operated by a church i mean our founding colleges in america all had religious affiliation i mean people used to go to yale and harvard to go to seminary you know I think they were Anglican affiliated but I mean a doctor went to a school that was sponsored by a Christian denomination most of the history being Catholic of course and the hospitals were all funded by the churches I mean so you know anyway it like I said if you can

ever leave me a good review it's very much appreciated and if you have a bad review just go ahead and send me an email I got a thick skin and I know I'm dyslexic and there are probably a few typos in the book yeah I got it and there was one run through Amazon like right probably the second book I published they they did a printing run maybe 15 copies went out that were formatted just bizarrely and they did they kind of recalled them and sent people replacement copies and a couple of bad reviews I've got on Amazon because of that I mean it's so hard to get people to give a positive review but if they get a book that has no page numbers and the prints tiny and run sideways

which is what happened which was wow I don't even know I mean trust me if I could sue Amazon over that I would have but that you know when people get a book like that they give you bad reviews they give you bad reviews real quick and return the book and get their money back you know in my opinion do one or the other you know I mean they had an honest issue on that I have to admit but there was nothing I could do about it that was Amazon and man that was

that sucked that sucked and I just had to say I'm sorry I'm sorry I'll send you a free PDF I'll send you three free PDFs you know I'll send you a PDF of every book I've written plus my articles and you know I'll make it up to you as best I can but they're like if you're a book is I got no control you know once it leaves my hands that's it that's all I can do I mean all I can do is my best and once it's out the door I have no control

over it well anyway back to docs so docs have documented medicinal use well I don't even really know how far back I think they may actually go back to like ancient Samaria but the Greeks, the ancient Greeks, wrote a lot about docs. Both Hippocrates and Theophrastus described doc. They called it Lapatham.

And Pliny the Elder, and yes, an Italian person got in touch and said, pronounce it Pliny, not Pliny. Okay. So, okay. Pliny the Elder seems to have introduced the use of dock to prevent scurvy. Docs

have vitamin C. And so, So that was really sort of a groundbreaking moment when the Greeks prescribed doc to prevent scurvy. And he included, he actually wrote it as Ruhmix, same name we get Rumex, the official name for it, and listed as potterbs for food. So it was known as food and medicine, at least by the time of Pliny the Elder. And D.S. Corrides described several different varieties of, doc and there are several there are about 200 as I said and um he said uh well and he also speaks of oxalis which is sorrel and you know so these have been lumped together for over 2,000

years he said the herbs of all of these boiled soothe the intestines applied raw as a poultice with rose oil or saffron it dissolves the um wow mer mellic I'm not even going to pronounce that. I got in my notes that it's essentially an affected tumor that actually has pus. It's really nasty. So don't look that word up. Not if you're eating anyway. Yeah.

So he said the, well, he gets into the oxalus now. He really liked it for dysentery. It doesn't have a syringe. So sorrel is actually better for diarrhea, whereas docs better for. constipation. He said the roots of these boiled with vinegar applied as a poultice cures leprosypricy and ptigo, which is a skin infection, rough nails even. But for that you wanted to combine it with potassium nitrate or saltpeter. Also once widely used in herbal medicine or vinegar, a decoction of sorrel applied with hot cloths mixed to the hot bath relieves

itchiness. Yes, sorrel is very good for skin inflammation itching. Sores his doc in that regard the but sorrel's a little stronger see does he have anything else specifically on doc I don't think so skip ahead a thousand years the St. Hildegard Bambingen and a German told me it's pronounced bingen not bingen so I'm trying on that one too she actually recommended black doc and this is a quote for one who has lost his sense or intelligence or is out of his mind I have no idea. She said that white dock is stronger than black dock and was actually better and also used for middle issues.

She said that docs would be useful to bring on delayed mincese would infuse an oil and apply to the abdomen topically. She did not like sorrel at all. She didn't think it was good for food or medicine, but she did like doc as a food. and also in the German folk medicine tradition, but going up to like 1920, so we'll skip ahead another thousand years. Brother Aloysius used Rumex, acetosa, maybe red duck.

I'm not sure. No, no, no. Anyway, one of the docks for stomach and chest complaints, scurvy as a diuretic and to stimulate the appetite. He recommended Runex Crispus for skin complaints, eczema, and what was called a depurative, meaning it purifies and detoxifies in more like American or English herbal medicine would have been called a blood purifier. It's the vitamin C content, essentially, and that it helps with constipation and such. Now, in Central Europe, according to Deatro colon and Adam Siegel, the Ashkenazi juice made a drink with fresh dock

combined with milk and used it for chest ailments, asthma, and hematopsis, and the coction of the plant when it was in flour was used for colds and coughs. They include the flour with the leaves, a whole plant in that case, actually, I think. Gerard, 1,500's England, did not differentiate between docks and Sorrel's. The Roomex and the, oh, I just said the name of Sorrel just a minute ago, what was it? Oh, it doesn't matter. You're going to look at it. it up. But anyway, he said these herbs are a mixture that can be mixed and they were drying and astringent. He said the powder of any kind of docks, drunken wine, stoppeth the lask and bloody flux of diarrhea or internal bleeding, and easeeth the pains of the stomach. The roots boiled

till they be very soft. Stamps, stamped with barrows grease. I don't even know what a barrow is, but basically lard is what we're talking about here. And made into an ointment, helpeth the itch and scurvy scabs and mangyness. It's actually one of the primary uses throughout time, a foredoc and sorrel, is against anything from exhumant of mange. And it is really good. It's very soothing. It's as stringent and has the vitamin C. And actually the axelic acid helps with itching as well. You could, he said you could also use in a bath for the same purpose. in coal peppers time about 100 years later Docs were so commonly harvested in the wild or growing the garden

that he said he wasn't even going to bother to describe it and he said I shall not trouble you with the description of them my book grows big too fast and I know the feeling yes I write long books and did you know when you sell your books on Amazon especially the longer your book is the less money you make that's right more pages cost more to print and more pages means heavier which means it costs more ship so when you look at like my book the encyclopedia of medicinal bitter medicinal herbs which is somewhere around 800 and some pages

it sells for i mean it sells for what 20 some dollars on amazon i make about a dollar 50 and seriously I mean Amazon takes everything and then I've actually gotten reviews this book's too long I'm like my word I've never been to a restaurant and said

you fed me too much well that's the way I look at it but anyway he said that Docs especially Red Doc he liked called Blood Wart in his time cleanseth the blood and strengtheth the liver but the yellow

Dock root is best to be taken when the blood or liver is affected by collar. So infection and inflammation, essentially. Yeah, the seeds, he said, were good for diarrhea and any kind of internal bleeding, whether menstrual or bloody diarrhea. The roots being boiled in vinegar help with the itch and the breaking out of the skin. If it be bathed therein. All docks being boiled with meat make it boil the sooner. I don't know. I doubt that's true. I mean, I don't think the leaves of dock would cause water to boil faster, but very popular, very popular food in 1600s, England.

And they said it was really nutritious, strengthening to the liver, procures good blood, being as wholesome a pot herb, it's any that groweth in the garden. But even in 1600 England, people were getting away from it. He said, yet such is the nicety of our time. forsooth that women will not put it into a pot because it can make the pottage black. Pride and ignorance, a couple of monsters in the creation, preferring nicety before health. Culpe ever was a character. But anyway, going on to the Irish tradition, John Kehoe, wrote of three docks that were commonly used in Ireland and the 1700s sharp pointed dock. He said, made into an ointment with tobacco or a great. great cure for scabby or itchy skin.

It may sound weird, but tobacco actually has some very strong topical anti-inflammatory properties, and it does help a lot with itching. A decoction of the roots in ale or whey taken internally is an excellent cure for scurvy. The seed is useful for stopping all hemorrhages or flow of blood. Great water dock is good against scurvy, alters the mouth and gums, and all kinds of flow. Garden dock is somewhat purgative. It removes obstruction and is beneficial for the liver and liver. spleen. Now getting up to the 1930s, Ms. Grieve listed a lot of docks. She also mentioned

it's one of the best cures for being stung by stinging nettles. They used to say nettle-in dock, or dock, I don't remember. They had a little rhyme they would use. Basically, if you get stung by a bunch of stinging nettles, it's no big deal unless you have allergic reaction, but you can take the leaves of dock and rub it in. the oxylic acid in the dock will actually neutralize the bee-like venom of stinging nettles pretty good so she she listed a ton of docks but let's see pointed dock that's room X acetis yellow doc is room X crispus red dock is Rumus Aquaticus that's the one I was trying to remember earlier that's also known as water dock

gosh and so is Remick's Hydrolopatham I think but yeah let's see if she talks about how the Iroquois She was aware of the Iroquois at the time No wait a minute this is from a different entry

Well let me see did she say anything we haven't covered No I don't think so good for diarrhea Let's see Specifically she had a recipe for a stomach tonic the root of doc put in three

pints of water with a little cinnamon or licorice powder boiled down to a quart taken a wine glass full two or three times a day was said to be good for diarrhea and stomach tonic another entry I've got in my notes the Iroquois made a tea

from the roots to treat upset stomach kidney problems general bowel problems many tribes including the blackfoot piute and Shoshone used the herb topically by applying the mash root to sores and swelling. Oh, it's also an ingredient in the, in ESEC, which is an old Native American remedy that traditionally has been seen as good for cancer. I don't know if it is or not. I don't endorse anything that somebody says is good for a cure for cancer because it's too serious.

I say that in all my shows, but if anybody was looking for an herbal remedy, definitely ESEAC is where to start looking. I mean, it's got hundreds of years of use and, you know, it's worth looking into. That's all I'm going to say. The Aztecs used docs as food and medicine. Wow. It was documented back as 1629 that, And yeah, used by the Aztecs.

Docs have been used to official American medicine at some point. Your doctor or your pharmacist would have prescribed him. King's Medical Dispensatory of 1898 says the doc roots are decidedly alternative tonic, mildly astringent and detergent, alternative sort of like, well, we think of tonic now. Someone kind of brings you gradually back to health and tonic being good for the digestion. um good for um scorbutic cases uh it's the vitamin c you know that's what we're talking cutaneous or skin issues scrofluous conditions it's infected swollen lymph nodes syphilis

leprosy elephantitis actually i don't know but wow um actually said they said the romex christmas was especially good for that um Wow. Improves nutrition. Helps with blood and skin disorders. Acting decidedly upon the glandular system, removing chronic lymphatic enlargements and especially influence of those conditions in which there's a tendency to indolent ulceration and inflammatory deposits. Yeah, wow. Fresh root mixed with a lotion, they actually mean, or large. or even fresh butter was specifically good for itching and scropula and eczema and glandular tumors and enlargements. Specific indication uses for bad blood with chronic skin disease, bubonic swellings, low deposits in glands and cellular tissues, a tendency to endolent ulcers, feeble recuperative power, in other words, helps you get you back on your feet after a bad illness. irritative, dry tracheal cough, stubborn

dry summer crop chronic sore throat glandia enlargement hypersecretion, nervous dyspepsia that's a nervous stomach essentially especially if that gas on the stomach causes pain in the chest

and cough with a sense of yeah same thing basically pain in the chest caused by gas plants for future literally list too many docks. I couldn't fit them all in. Like I said, there are some 200. But here's one I haven't mentioned. And specifically, it was Crispus Curled Dock. Curled Dock is a long history of domestic herbal use. It is a gentle and safe laxative, less powerful than rhubarb. So it's

particularly useful in the treatment of mild constipation. The plant has a valuable cleansing property and it's useful for treating a wide range of skin problems. All parts the plants can be used though the root is most active medicinally. The root is alternative anti-scorbutic, astringent, coliogic, depurative, laxative, and mildly tonic. It used to be sold as a tonic and laxative. It can cause or relieve diarrhea according to the dose. Yes, it can, it has some stringent. It can stop diarrhea, but it can also take a, you know, if you eat a lot of it, it's pretty high in fiber. Let's just put it that way. Good for piles or hemorrh bleeding the lungs, various blood complaints, chronic skin diseases, externally root mass

to use as a poultice or salve, or as a powder, good for sores, ulcers, wounds, other skin problems. The root has been used with positive effect to restrain. Well, I won't even get into that. I think we've covered everything. So, mainly I think of Doc has food, salad green, pot herbs, Sheep sorrel is, like I said, one of the first wild plants that you learned as a child, eat the leaves and chew the stems like a sour candy, but really very useful medicinally. And a lot of them are pretty plants, even if you live in an HOA or whatever, you can probably grow them in your garden, like especially Bloody Doc and such. Very popular as an ornamental plant. So y'all, I'm going to wrap it up there as we've been talking. the swelling in my wrist is reduced by 50%.

That's how quickly Arnica works, so remember that. Have a good one, and I'll talk to you next week. The information in this podcast is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease or condition. Nothing I say or right has been evaluated or approved by the FDA. I'm not a doctor. The U.S. government does not recognize the practice of verbal medicine, and there is no governing body regulating herbalists. Therefore, I'm really just a guy who studies herbs.

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