The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Fig

Episode Date: May 16, 2024

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Hey y'all, welcome to this week's show. We're going to continue our series on the medicinal uses of, you know, common trees. And this is really one of my favorites because it's actually my favorite fruit. Well, one of my favorite fruit trees. It is ficus or fig. I love figs. Really a big fan of nice, ripe turkey figs, figs do the various figs like to put them with something salty like some ham and some feta cheese you know and it's just blue cheese especially man I love like some Roquefort or well really any kind of good blue cheese from gorgonzola to Maytag do you name it with with figs just fantastic now if i had to say

my favorite fruit okay i don't know i love wild apples you know heirloom apples old varieties of apple trees that are usually uh you know real tart and crisp and and good for making cider i have i like those better than the sweet apples in the store you know i grew up eating those in the in the mountains every time you find where there used to be a homestead, you know, the state, well, the federal government took tons of land from people to build the national forest and the Blue Ridge Parkway and all that. And really, really mistreated the mountain people horribly.

But they confiscated land. And like, you know, if you go to Newland, that's the county seat of Avery County, you'll see these little neighborhoods where people basically have like an old, like 1950s mobile home on a lot about, I don't even know, 200 square feet by a thousand or something. I mean, not even that probably. 200 by 500. I mean, it's like

they may have 10 feet larger of a lot than the mobile home takes. That's what they gave them for their farms. Believe it or not, they moved all, you know, hundreds of people out of the national forest around there, stuck them in the middle of town, and that was supposed to be a fair trade-off. And their kids could go to school because they'd have a bus that would come pick him up you know so i mean they screwed these people badly i mean those lots now that were just you know poor farms then those pieces of property would be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and you know they're stuck in a little trailer on a postage stamp. And, you know, what do you say?

I always say the government creates the slums of tomorrow. And that's what it comes down to. That's government housing, whether it's, you know, HUD housing, housing projects, or what they did to the Appalachian folk. And that, you know, what do you do? The judges said it was fair. It was human domain. folk and that you know what do you do the judges said it was it was fair it was imminent to maine because they were getting a um a house in town they were actually getting a great bargain of course they had no choice you know they may have had a three four hundred acre

stretch of woods and a nice farm and cattle one day and the next day yep they're stuck in a little trailer on about a i don't even know how many square foot lot. I mean, it was just, and going to be impoverished for generations. You know, they took away these people's generational wealth, which was in the land, and made sure they'd be impoverished on welfare for generations to come. That's what the government does. Anyway, but no, I love apples. I love cherries. I mean, cherries may actually be my favorite fruit, but then also you can't beat a good ripe peach. Yeah, absolutely. So anyway,

let's talk about figs. Now, figs have been used as food and medicine as long as there's recorded history i mean they go back the babylonians and egyptians were crazy about figs you know ancient greek just nuts over figs ancient rome you name it but anyway and the persians oh man and the turkish i mean they just love their figs and And, yeah, for good reason. They are delicious, but they're also medicinal. And now let's look at what Dias Corides wrote about the medicinal use. Well, he preferred figs to be dried, actually. He didn't like fresh figs.

A lot of old writers thought fresh fruit was bad for the stomach. I don't know why. Yeah, if you eat a bunch of raw apples, too many, you might get a stomach ache. But definitely not bad for you. But anyway, he said that they would bring out pimples and sweat, quench thirst, and extinguish heat. The dry ones, and that was the raw ones, which he didn't like, by the way. He said it would cause cramping and diarrhea, actually to eat raw figs, which is really odd, I think. Anyway, he said the dry ones are nourishing and warming, cause thirst, and are good for the

bowels. They are good for the throat, arteries, bladder, and kidneys, and those who have poor color from a long illness, as well as asthma, epilepsy and dropsy. Now, usually when they say it's good for epilepsy, what they're talking about is seizures that were caused by fluid retention. And anything that's diuretic was often the first thing they would try to use when someone had epilepsy. It doesn't mean it's a cure for epilepsy. This was far more common in ancient times, you know, when people had bad water and it was hot and dry and a lot of times they wouldn't urinate properly. The kidneys

wouldn't function properly, essentially, and that excess that edema caused seizures so anyway he said boiled with hyssop and taken as a drink they clean away all things in the chest they are good for old cold coughs and long-lasting disorders of the lungs and pounded together with saltpeter and knickus see an icus it's a thistle and eaten they soften the bowels that's a knC-U-S, it's a thistle, and eaten. They soften the bowels. That's cnicus menedictus. That's blessed thistle, actually. A decoction of them is good for the inflammation around the arteries and tonsils used in a gargle.

They are mixed in poultices with barley meal, fenugreek, and barley water for women's warm packs. So used as a warm compress, probably for cramping. Boiled with rue, they are used as a suppository for griping. Boiled and afterwards pounded into small pieces and applied, they dissolve hard lumps and soften paratoid tumors. Paratoid, yeah, paratoid, I think is the way it's pronounced. Parotid, yeah, there it is. P-A-R-O-T-I-D. Boils and inflammatory tumors. They ripen panus, which is opaque thickening of the cornea. More effectively with iris, saltpeter, that's potassium nitrate, or quicklime, the calcium oxide. That's the lime that's been burned but or quicklime the calcium oxide that's the

line that's been burned but not yet slaked with water by the way has some some limited medicinal use we don't much use it anymore pounded raw with things previously specified they do the same with pomegranate rind they clean away the pterygium pterygium it chalcanthum that cure difficult curable or malignant discharges boiled in wine and mixed with some wormwood and barley meal, they're good for drops. They apply it as a poultice. Burnt and put into wax ointment, they cure chillblains.

The raw ones pounded into small pieces and mixed with moist mustard put into the ears, cures noises and ringing in them. Now, that's interesting. I mean, like tinnitus or tinnitus, whatever. Worth a try. I mean, I don't really know how that works but hey easy remedy if it does so moist mustard and I'm guessing that is ground mustard seed and pounded raw figs the milky juice of both the wild and cultivated figs

coagulates milk like rennet yeah You can actually use, this is a good, you know, prepper tip, you can actually use the sap essentially from figs to make cheese. Really interesting, just as you would rennet, cast rennet. Taken as a drink with almonds that have been pounded into small pieces, it is able to make bodies break out into boils, to open pores, loosen the bowels, and relax the womb. I think he means bring the boils to a head, is what he's saying, not necessarily to cause boils. It expels the menstrual flow applied with the yolk of an egg. It is good to put into polstices made for gout together with fenugreek flowers and vinegar.

With polenta, it cleans leprosy. It must have helped with the sores of leprosy, I guess. Oh, and what they call lichen, which is essentially, what is it called? Lichen sclerosis, I believe. It's a skin disorder which causes rough patches, rough discolored patches of skin. It's an autoimmune thing. Let's see it's always can be also be used for spots made by the Sun I guess I don't know dark spots on the skin from the Sun I don't know with polenta okay dropped on sores it helps those stung by scorpions and strikes of beasts and those bitten by dogs.

Taken on wool into the cavities of a teeth, it helps toothache. It takes away warts if rubbed on the flesh with animal fat. See, I mean, these are not ways we use figs these days. You know, obviously, we think of them as just food. And then he goes on talks about the cultivated fig and pretty much same use he liked it as he boiled with wine and applied as a poultice good for all kinds of sores swollen, goiters, applied oil with saltpeter, they take away, warts, we just covered that use, applied with vinegar, they heal running ulcers on the head, dandruff,

pustules, which appear only at night. Let's see. Oh, and combined with, what is this? Combined with the leaves of wild poppy with dissolved boils, good for broken bones and inflammatory tumors. Wow. And then he said also good against the bites of rodents, spiders, centipedes, and millipedes. And he goes on quite a bit more about lye. In fact, I mean about figs.

In fact, he has a fig soap made with lye that would work for all kinds of skin issues. So that's a pretty interesting use right there. Moving into around 1100, St. Hildegard von Bingen said that the fig tree is more hot than cold and take its leaves and bark and pound them moderately. Cook this well in water and then make an ungeant with bear fat and a little less butter. Well, if you live where I do, you can probably get bear fat. We have more bears than people, if you live where I do, you can probably get bear fat. We have more bears than people, but I'm sure you could use hog's lard, just plain old pork lard. Bear fat and pork fat are so very similar. Basically, you can cook bear any way you would

cook pork. It's just like a red meat pork. Actually, if you've ever had heritage pork, It's just like a red meat pork. Actually, if you've ever had heritage pork, you know it is more of a red meat. It was, I guess, the 70s and 80s they really bred commercial pork to be the other white meat. Real pork, real pork, there's no other way to say it, you know, not the stuff raised in the, what do they call them, not the stuff raised in the, what do they call them, confined animal feeding units or something, the big hog farms that stink so bad that I try my best to boycott. Mainly because, well, I think they're disgusting and inhumane, but they're also owned mostly by Smithfield,

and Smithfield's owned by the Communist Chinese. So I try not to support the Communist Chinese chinese and that means boycotting most of the pork industry in north carolina which is entirely dominated by smithfield pork um but yes uh pork and beer very similar so i would just use that she said if you have a pain in your head anoint your head with it this is that basically salve she's made with fig leaves and bark and lard if your eyes hurt rubbing rub it in the temples around your eyes without letting it touch the inside of your eyes. If it's your chest that hurts, anoint it. If your kidneys, anoint them and you will be better. That's just, you know,

wow, that's a broad claim and definitely worth trying. However, if it's wood is burned in fire and the smoke touches someone, it harms them a bit and weakens them. I don't understand that, but you know. If a healthy person wishes to eat the fruit, he should first soak it in wine or vinegar so that its inconsistency is tempered. He should eat it, but in moderation. It is not necessarily for a sick person to temper it in this way. That's again, people thought raw fruit was somewhat harmful, hard to digest, essentially. And, yeah, fig soaked in wine is just a real classic preparation.

The old cookbooks like Apicius, the oldest cookbook we have from ancient Rome, combined figs and wine and a little vinegar sometimes, quite a bit. The Romans especially were big on what they call agrodolce, sweet and sour, essentially. And if you like Chinese food with a sweet and sour sauce, it's kind of that idea. Roman cooking, combined sweet and sour in just about every meat dish. I mean, seriously, and in most desserts. And usually spices like black pepper would be used with honey. I mean, it's just really interesting combinations of flavors.

I find it really enjoyable to try to recreate these ancient recipes, and I am amazed how much the flavors of ancient Roman cooking are like Chinese food. I mean, it just blew my mind. I mean, they had their own fish sauce called garum, which is just like, you know, Asian fish sauces, like, well, they use a lot in Thai cooking and Korean cooking. They always use fish sauces, you know, sort of like a funky version of soy sauce, if you want to look at it that way. Ancient Romans actually had their own fermented sauce. It was much like soy sauce as well. And like I said, they combined sweet and sour with a lot of garlic and onions, lots of bitter herbs, and lots of pungent spicy spices, a lot of hot stuff, really spicy stuff, too. So, I mean, it's just amazing how much the cuisine of ancient Rome,

very, very much like traditional Chinese cooking. Just kind of blew my mind. But anyway, or Korean, you know, be very similar to Korean cooking as well. Gerard wrote of the figs, the dry figs do nourish better than the green or new figs. So move on from that. The English had their issues with raw fruit as well, as we discussed last week. He said, figs be good for the throat and lungs,

and they mitigate the cough, and are good for them that be short-winded. They ripen phlegm, causing the same to be easily spat out. In other words, they are expectorant, especially when they be sodden with hyssop and the decoction drunk. Now, hyssop and rue, well, also two herbs used in Roman cooking a lot,

but they were used medicinally in ancient England. They can have a toxicity, especially rue. Neither should be used by pregnant women. And you want to just research them before you use them. I don't think they're all that dangerous, obviously. Now, they can cause a miscarriage. But for a non-pregnant person, just a small amount used in food is the way I prefer to use them. Like I said, in almost every single one of the meat dishes prepared in ancient Rome, it had rue in it as a bitter herb.

And it's quite good, I think. But, you know, my tastes tend to run more toward bitter. You know, I like dark chocolate and coffee and, you know, bitter things. So, he said, figs, okay, we said, yeah, mixed with hyssop and a decoction drug. Figs stamped with salt and rue and the kernels of nuts withstand all poison and corruption of the air. King Pontius called Mithridates used this preservative against all venom and poison. Now, we've talked about this before previously. We were talking actually about bitters formulas.

And the Mithridates was a cure-all for all poisons. This is, you know, just going back several thousand years ago, when if you were a king, everybody was trying to poison you to take your kingdom. And they had food tasters and all that. He did horrible experiments on hundreds or thousands of prisoners, He did horrible experiments on hundreds or thousands of prisoners, finding antidotes for every single poison and venom, snake or insect venom, known to man. And came up with Mithridates.

There's another name for this right on the tip of my tongue. Anyway, it's the ancestor to, boy, that's right on the tip of my tongue anyway it's the ancestor to boy that's right on the tip of my tongue and it'll be in that show and it's in my book if you have my book herbal medicine for preppers you've got the the recipe actually the the great Swedish bitters of course it's my favorite of these formulas theory act here it came to me, Theriac. Theriac was used as a remedy, a cure-all, well into the 1800s. I mean, tried and true. If you had the flu, you got Theriac. If you had just about any disease, one of the first things a doctor would try was Theriac, which was an adaptation of the Mothradites that the king of Pontius came up with.

So that's, you know, really fascinating herbal history. And, you know, Rue's part of that. And apparently so was figs and nuts, you know. Figs stamped and made into the form of a plaster with wheat meal, the powder of fenugreek and linseed, the roots of marshmallow, applied warm, do soften and ripen in postumes phlegmons and hot angry swellings and tumors behind the ear okay these are basically boils and such okay um if you add there to the roots of lilies it ripeneth and breaketh

breaketh in posthumes that come in the flank, and those that lurk in secret places. Okay, so these would be like essentially boils around your genitals and such. So you want to get rid of those pretty quickly. I'm sure it would be quite painful. Figs boiled in wormwood wine, which we now know as vermouth, Wormwood wine. That's St. Hildegard came up with that one. That's her bitter's recipe. That's vermouth that we use in martinis. If you drink a real martini, I don't know that anybody actually drinks real martinis these days.

We've got all kinds of nasty, syrupy, sweet appletinis and dirty martinis with salt water in them and a shrimp or something you know seriously a good old-fashioned martini like they used to enjoy in the 20s and such was a darn good drink dry vermouth a little bit of gin or vodka if you like, but really gin is far more traditional. It began as a cold remedy. Literally, the gin has juniper berries in it and usually some other herbs. The vermouth is a wormwood wine with many other herbs. And that combination, just like gin and tonic, the English came up with it for dividing its malaria. gin and tonic. The English came up with it for fighting its malaria. Well, a gin martini,

a real martini made with just gin and dry vermouth is actually a darn good cold and flu remedy. Believe it or not, don't overdo it, but really much classier than the garbage that's sold in bars these days. Really much classier. Anyway, so figs boiled in wormwood wine with some barley meal are very good to be applied as a plaster upon the bellies of the such as have dropsy or edema. Dry figs have the power to soften, consume, and make thin and may be used outwardly and inwardly to soften and posthumous, to scatter and dissolve and consume them. The leaves of fig tree do waste and consume the king's evil. And he describes it as the swellings of the kernels in the throat, also called scrofula.

It's tonsillitis, basically. tonsillitis basically but any really glandular swelling in the throat was called the king's evil because I cannot remember the name of the king he's actually a catholic saint he was an english king and he was given the gift of being able to heal people by touching their throat so very interesting that's how it got that name the The milky juice, either the figs or leaves, is good against the roughness of the skin, spreading sores, leprosy, tetters, smallpox, measles, etc. Even freckles. Scurviness, deformity of the body and face, mixed with barley meal and applied, it doth take away warts and mingled with some fatty or greasy thing if it be mean okay so that's basically saint hildegard's hog or beer fat recipe uh the milk

doth also cure the toothache if a little lint or cotton be wet therein and put into the hollow nose of the tooth it openeth the veins of the hemorrhoids and loose in the belly being applied to the fundament. The fundament is basically, what do they call it? Perineum, if you want to look that up. It openeth the veins of the hemorrhoids. We've got that fig stamp with the powder of fenugreek and vinegar applied plaster-wise to ease the intolerable pain of hot gout, especially gout of the feet. Also a very good thing to know. I mean, you know, gout's off real bad.

If you have it, you're going to be laid up. And as a prepper, you can't afford that. So the milk thereof put into the wound preceding of the biting of a mad dog or any other venomous beast preserveth the parts adjoining and taketh away the pain presently and cureth hurt. So fig sap was used as a cure for a bite from a rabid dog. I don't really believe in herbal cures for bites for rabid dogs. I think you get bitten by a rabid dog, go to the hospital as quickly as possible. Get the rabies uh shot and um but of course if we

couldn't get to the hospital hey it's worth a try right um the green and ripe figs are good for those trouble with stones of the kidneys so good for uh kidney stones dried figs good for the belly cough and infirmities of chest and lungs they scour the cleanse the kidneys and cleanse them forth and cleanse them forth i can't even say the way he does in old english again good for urinary stones and gravel um let's see they cause women with children to have an easier delivery if they be fed thereof for certain days together before their time. Don't know if that's true or not. And oh, he also said it would help bring down the menses. And Culpepper, about 100 years later, said,

the milk that issues out of the leaves and branches where they are broken, being dropped upon warts, takes them away. The decoction of the leaves is an excellent good wash for sore heads, and there is scarcely a better remedy for leprosy than this. It clears the face of morphew and the body of white scurf, scabs, and running sores. If it be dropped in old fretting ulcers, it cleanses out the moisture and brings up the flesh. Because you cannot have the green leaves all year, make an ointment of them while you can. Decoction of the leaves, drink inwardly or a syrup made, dissolves congealed blood caused by bruises or falls and helps the bloody flux. The ashes of the wood made into an

ointment with hog's grease helps chill blains. The juice being put into the hollow tooth eases pain. Okay, we're getting to the same thing over and over. Yep, yep, yep. We'll skip ahead. Oh, good for the lungs. Coughs, hoarseness, shortness of breath, dropsy, and falling sickness, which is what they called epilepsy, which we discussed earlier. Getting up to more modern use, 1930s. Miss Grieve gives a lot of history about figs and mythology and history and how they came to

be cultivated in England and etc etc so we'll skip to medicinal uses things are used for their mild laxative action are employed in the preparation of laxative as confections and syrups usually combined with cinna. It is considered that the laxative property resides in the saccharine juice of the fresh fruit and the dried fruit probably due to the fiber, essentially. The three preparations of figs in the British pharmacopoeia are syrup of figs, a mild laxative suited for children, aromatea of syrup of figs, an elixir of figs and Sweet Essence of Figs. So they actually had four syrups that were actually in the official pharmacopeia of England that were all

laxatives. So the compound syrup of figs is a stronger preparation and that was combined with syrup, cinna and rhubarb so yes would be good good laxative and she talks about how the the sap would help remove warts and talks again about how it could be used for abscesses and boils different things um then she gives a couple great recipes for fig jam and i mean you know i love jam on homemade uh sourdough bread butter and jam and honey and i mean that's like you know i don't have a big sweet tooth i go crazy about homemade bread with butter and jam or honey that's's my thing. Or molasses. Molasses are so good. Very underrated. And believe it or not, most people who have diabetes can tolerate

molasses much better than any other natural sweetener, except stevia maybe, you know. But molasses doesn't spike the blood sugar. So, you know, if you're interested in that, ask your doctor about it and do your own research I'm not recommending anything but most diabetics can tolerate molasses whereas they can't sugar or honey or jam you know so 1898 Kings American dispensatory we'll see how they were used in America figs are are nutritive, emollient, and softening, so softens the skin. Emollient and demulcent. They are parient and are used to flavor gruels and used in decoctions,

roasted or boiled, applied as a poultice to gum boils, abscesses of the gums, carbuncles, etc. gum boils, abscesses of the gums, carbuncles, etc. A poultice of dried figs and milk will remove the stench of cancerous and fetid ulcers. Wow. And getting up to modern use. Plants for a future, says of figs, a decoction of the leaves is stomatic. The leaves are also added to boiling water and used as a steam bath for painful swollen piles. That's hemorrhoids. The latex from the stems is used to treat corns, warts, and piles. It also has an analgesic effect against insect stings and bites. The fruit is mildly delaxative, demulcent, digestive, and pectoral. That means good for the chest. The unripe green fruits are cooked with other foods as a galactagogue tonic. That means it increases mother's milk and tonic was good for digestion.

The roasted fruit is emollient and uses a poultice in the treatment of gum boils, dental abscesses, etc. Syrup of figs made from the fruit is a well-known effective general laxative that is also suitable for the young and very old. A decoction of the young branches and it is an excellent pectoral and the plant has anti-cancer properties. Wow. And finally, a physician's desk reference for herbal medicine. This is what a doctor uses when you ask him about an herb. He's going to look in it and see if it's safe, and if it contraindicates with your medicines or anything. Here's a brief entry. It says, fig preparations are used as a laxative.

In China, figs are used for dysentery and enteritis. No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. So, of course, figs don't grow everywhere. I'm at too high an elevation. I think there is one variety of fig that was bred in Chicago that I haven't tried growing. It probably would do okay in the mountain, but they'll grow most anywhere in North America. Maybe not Alaska. I don't know. But yeah, they're good drought tolerant plants. I mean, they do well in hot and dry areas.

Very pretty, you know, small tree. You can keep it trim the size of a bush so it really should work into any landscaping and I think they're fantastic very people few people these days have ever even eaten ripe figs because they're such a soft fruit they don't ship well you can't get them to the market in time before they start to turn so you know unless you grew up around a fig tree you may not have had a fresh fig and like I I said, I think they're fantastic. I really do. So whether for medicinal uses or another adding more, you know, food, food to your arsenal of to survive, there's got to be a better word for that. Anyway, as a food plant or as a medicinal plant or as a nice ornamental, it's going to work well on your property if you live where you can grow figs.

And highly underrated fruit. I'm telling you, most people don't realize how good figs are. I especially love fig jam. And you should at least be able to find that in the grocery store, even if you don't live where you can get fresh figs. So anyway, y'all have a great week and I will talk to you next time.