The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Juglans, Walnut

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey y'all, welcome to this week's show. I hope you're having a very, very happy Independence Day. I am. I just ate a couple of hot dogs and a big slice of one of the best watermelons I've had in a long time. It's hot as blazes, but it's a nice day. I do like to call it Independence Day. I believe I said this last year for the Fourth of July show for that one. But because it's not about a date on a calendar, you know, it actually is about our independence. And, you know, I had several ancestors who fought in the Revolution, including one signer of the Declaration of Independence. And another, that was Charles Carroll. Another of my

Starting point is 00:00:45 ancestors General Francis Marion the Swamp Fox you may know him if you ever saw that old show that used to come on I guess it was what the 60s I saw reruns of it as a kid the Swamp Fox it was when you know Daniel Boone and such things were popular. You may know who my ancestor was. He was a pretty great general and many, you know, who served under Colonel Green and I think was a general white and served under them. But yeah, I mean, very, like almost all sides of my family contributed to the American Revolution in some way, shape or or form. Probably had a couple of loyalists, too. You know, part of my family was English, directly descendant of Lord Cheshire, and I know the Taylors on that side of the family did fight for America, but yeah, I mean, probably some of them were loyalists. There were a lot of

Starting point is 00:01:41 Scots, actually, who who their loyalty was to America. They wanted freedom and independence, but they had signed an oath to not fight against England. And actually up at, oh, what's the name of that battlefield? It's right up near Buies Creek, North Carolina. It's right on the tip of my tongue drives me crazy i can't remember it all of a sudden um a few hundred um scottish folks from here in north carolina strapped on broadswords and just marched into british musket fire knowing they were going to be killed you know they their loyalty was to America, but they had signed an oath that had to do with Flora MacDonald

Starting point is 00:02:27 and Bonnie Prince Charlie and all that stuff that was going on then. So, yeah, it's a day that, you know, I like to remember everything that our ancestors fought for and died. Many of them died for. Charles Carroll's whole family was slaughtered. I mean, he lived to be the oldest signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Starting point is 00:02:46 But the British, I mean, he was an Irish Catholic. He was the only Catholic signer of the Declaration. And they particularly went after him hard. He was also the wealthiest man in America. So they went in, burned his home, killed his family, tried to take everything he had to punish him for essentially funding the entire Continental Army. There really would not have been, America wouldn't have been able to stand up an army had he not provided the funding for much of it. So it's a good day just to remember why they fought and what we should be fighting for.

Starting point is 00:03:20 So now let's get on to the herb. And the herb, we're continuing our series on medicinal trees. And this one is really one of my favorites. Really, I think everybody knows what a walnut tree is, right? And we have native to the Americas, actually several members of the family. We have, well, it's the Juglins family, okay? But we only have a couple of true walnuts. We have, well, it's the Jugglin's family, okay? But we only have a couple of true walnuts. We have the black walnut. That's Jugglin's nigra, black walnut.

Starting point is 00:03:53 My grandfather had them on his property. I mean, I grew up trying to crack those things. And, I mean, it takes a lot of work to get the nut meat out of a black walnut. There's also Jugglin's cinerea, which is butternut. That one is very closely related to hickory nuts. And mocker nut hickory is even harder to get the nut meat out of than black walnut, which is almost impossible. What my grandfather used to do, he just let them fall off the tree and then he'd let

Starting point is 00:04:26 them dry and husk them and he'd put them in the driveway and just keep driving over them coming in and out and if one cracked open you know that's how he'd do it. But they're a little easier if you soak them in water and then try to cut them break them up with a nutcracker. They're just really tough but the English walnuts of are much easier to get into. And there's so many of European and Asian walnuts that are now, you know, naturalized in America. They brought over tons of them. We've got, oh, gosh, 16 varieties of which have been used in herbal medicine. And there are a couple other natives.

Starting point is 00:05:03 Like we've got a Texas walnut, different ones like that. But the Chinese walnut's really good. The heartseed walnut. There's a California walnut. They're all delicious. They're all incredibly nutritious. And they're all used medicinally. And I would say this is among the most regal and storied of medicinal trees. Now, they're in the Juglandaceae family, and that's said. And by the way, pecans are also in the walnut family, and pecans also have this quality. Jugland is a chemical exudate from the roots of this tree that actually keep other trees from growing around it. It shuts out the or plants it shuts out the competition. Weeds won't grow around the base of a walnut tree. Grasses tend to be pretty sparse around them and that just you know not all plants get along. This is a plant that actually has a defense

Starting point is 00:06:00 strategy. The properties of walnuts are many, and not the least of these, of course, is they're delicious and nutritious. Walnuts are rich in protein, omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, alpha-lipoic acid, copper, folic acid, manganese, vitamin B6, of course, vitamin E, and a variety of antioxidants and other useful substances. Our ancestors used to believe in what's called the doctrine of signatures, and that was the belief that God made each plant with a little signal that told you what it was useful for. And if you look at a walnut, it actually kind of looks like a brain. So in the school of thought, which we call the doctrine of signatures, it would indicate that it's good for brain health, and actually it really is.

Starting point is 00:06:50 William Cole, an ex-mote, well, a guy that really promotes the Doctrine of Signatures, wrote, Walnuts have the perfect signature of the head, the outer husk or green covering representing the pericranium and outward skin of the head the outer husk or green covering representing the pericranium and outward skin of the skull whereupon the hair growth groweth and this was written 1657 so I'm kind of trying to translate as I go from Old English this is a really old herbal okay and therefore salt made from those husks or bark is exceedingly good for wounds in the head. The inner woody shell hath the signature of the skull, and the little yellow skin or peel that covereth the kernel of the hard thin scarfs that envelop the brain. The kernel hath the very figure of the brain,

Starting point is 00:07:38 and therefore it is very profitable for the brain, and resists poisons. For if the kernel be bruised and moistened with the quintessence of wine and laid upon the crown of the head, it comfort the head and brain mightily. I have no idea if that's true or how that works, if it is. But they're basically saying take walnut nut meat, bruise it, mix it with wine, and use it as a compress on the head. The medicinal properties of the walnut are not in the nut alone, however. The husk, shell, leaves, and bark all have their uses. The medicinal properties of the walnut aren't just in the nut. The husk, the shell, the leaves, and bark all have uses. The so-called lost book of herbal remedies, as if they were ever lost,

Starting point is 00:08:24 but it's a good book. I'm not knocking it. It states that black walnut is anti-inflammatory, antifungal, antiviral, astringent, emetic, laxative, painkiller, and vermifuge. The green holes are more potent than the mature black holes. We have those vermifuge properties. A lot of folk use for that in America. But let's turn back to St. Hildegard von Bingen, about 1080. Take the leaves of this tree while they are fresh. Squeeze the juice from them onto

Starting point is 00:08:51 the place where maggots are eating a person or where maggots or other worms are growing in him. Do this frequently and they would die. But if the worms are originally in his stomach, he should take the leaves of the walnut tree with equal amount of peach tree leaves before the fruits are ripe and pulverize them over a hot fiery stone. He should eat this powder often, either with an egg or in broth or cooked in a bit of cereal. The worms in his stomach will die. Okay, that's the vermouth use property, and that's, you know, one of the most common uses for walnut. She said, if leprosy has begun to grow on someone, squeeze the juice from the leaves and add old fat to it, making an ointment. When the leprosy is still new in him, he should

Starting point is 00:09:32 anoint himself with this near the fire. Without a doubt, he would be healed unless God does not wish it. One who has much phlegm in him should take that which exudes from the walnut tree when I think she's really more talking about husk, actually, than the shell. nut that is its shell and squeeze its juice over the wounds that is over the scabies of the head i think it's she's really more talking the husk actually than the shell the outer skin of it would be more the husk when they have swollen up from the bitterness of this juice he should anoint them with olive oil which would check the bitterness if he does this often the scabies will be cured turn to the english tradition john gerard the great English herbalist and plant collector and grower of most any plant he could grow in England he was the queen's gardener and William Shakespeare was said to have had a property just next to the his property which was the queen's garden and

Starting point is 00:10:40 all those great plays like Midsummer Night's Dream and all that were probably written right there in John Gerard's garden. He wrote of English walnut. He said, dry nuts taken fasting with a little fig and rue withstand poison. Prevent and preserve the body from infection of plague. And being plentifully eaten, they drive the worms forth of the belly. and being plentifully eaten, they drive the worms forth of the belly. The green and tender nuts, boiled in sugar and eaten as a saccade, that's basically just candied walnuts, that's what he's talking about,

Starting point is 00:11:17 are a most pleasant and delectable meat, comfort the stomach and expel the poison. The oil of walnuts, made in such manner as oil of almonds, maketh smooth the hands and the face, and take away any scales or scurf, black and blue marks that come from stripes or bruises. Milk made of the kernels. Yeah, they were actually making almond milk and walnut milk in the 1500s. Believe it or not, that's not a new thing. But he says, milk made of the kernels as almond milk is made, cooleth and pleaseth the appetite of the languishing sick body with onions, salt, and honey. This is cooked together with onions, salt, and honey and then laid on a dog bite.

Starting point is 00:11:54 They are good against the biting of a mad dog or a man. So I don't know if that be true, if that is true. I'm falling into the old English phraseology here. But, you know, takeology here. But, you know, take that with a grain of salt. If they be laid upon the wound, the outward green husks of the nut hath notably binding faculty. The leaves and first buds have a certain binding quality, and yet there doth abound in them a hot and dry temperature. Some of the later physicians used these for baths and lotions for the body, and which they have a force to digest and also make one sweat. Okay, I can't even pronounce this right now.

Starting point is 00:12:36 So he was somewhat of an herbal historian, and he included the sentence, Being both eaten and applied, they heal in a short time, as D.S. Corrides saith. Gangrene's carbuncles, something I cannot pronounce, agilops, agilops, yeah, no way I can do that, and the piling away of the hair. It's supposed to be good for, you know, baldness, actually. This also is effectually done by the oil pressed out of them which is of thin parts digesting and heating galen devised and taught to make the juice thereof a medicine for the mouth singular good against all inflammations thereof wow uh so cold pepper also

Starting point is 00:13:20 believe walnuts to be useful for dog bites. I don't suggest them for rabies. Go to the doctor. Go to the hospital as quickly as you can. But I guess if there was no other treatment, it'd be worth a try, right? Also good for venoms and poisons. That's also not a modern use, but who knows if it works or not? I don't. Culpepper in the 1600s said,

Starting point is 00:13:42 If the leaves be taken with onion, salt, and honey, they help the biting of a mad dog or the venom of infectious or infectious poison of any beast. Callus Pompelus found in the treasury of Mithrodides, king of Pontius, when he was overthrown, a scroll in his own handwriting containing a medicine against any poison and infection, which is this. Take two dry walnuts and as many good figs and 20 leaves of rue, bruised and beaten together with two or three corns of salt and 20 juniper berries, which take every morning fasting preserves from danger of poison any infection that day taken mithridate was the um the great cure for all poisons right it said that in legend mithridates took this every day and eventually built up such a poison to such a tolerance to poisons that when he was invaded i guess guess, was it Greece or Rome, I can't remember, and they wanted to force him to be a servant, he tried to poison himself and

Starting point is 00:14:52 couldn't kill himself. So there, I don't know. The kernels, when they grow old, are more oily and therefore not fit to be eaten, but they are used to heal wounds of the sinews, gangrenes, and carbuncles. The said kernels being burned are very astringent. Being taken in red wine, they stay the falling of the hair. Interesting. And make it fair, being anointed with oil and wine. The green husks do the like, being used in the same manner. A piece of the green husk put into a hollow tooth eases the pain.

Starting point is 00:15:22 Well, that's interesting. We're getting into more modern traditions. We're going to get to Maude Grieve in the 1930s and her modern herbal. She said the bark and leaves have alternative laxative, astringent, and detergent properties. Alternative means it basically gradually brings you back to health. Detergent means cleansing it.

Starting point is 00:15:42 I think you can figure out the rest. They're used in the treatment of skin troubles. They're of a highest value for curing scrofulous diseases that's a swollen glands infected swollen glands basically herpes eczema etc for the healing of indolent ulcers an infusion of one ounce of dried bark or leaves slightly more fresh leaves to the point of boiling boiling water allowed to stand for six hours and strained off taken in wine full wine glass full doses three times a day the same infusion also being employed at the same time for outward application obstinate ulcers may also be cured with sugar well saturated in a strong decoction of walnut leaves. The bark dried and powdered is made into a strong infusion or tea,

Starting point is 00:16:31 just like she just explained, is a useful purgative. It's more of a decoction actually. The husks show and peel or pseudorific or wound healing, especially when used when the walnuts are green. Whilst unripe, the nut has worm-destroying virtues. They really like to use unripe walnuts in England. They actually make what's called a walnut ketchup traditionally. It's not ketchup like we would think of it, but it's a sauce. It's very good for game meats and such. But anyway, the fruit when young and unripe makes a wholesome anti scorbutic pickle then that's pickled unripe walnuts and that helps against scurvy the pickle in which the fruit has been pickled the vinegar in which the fruit has been pickled it's a good gargle for sore throats and slightly

Starting point is 00:17:20 ulcerated throats walnut ketchup embodies some additional fruit of the unripe nuts the leaves have a very strong characteristic smell, very true, aromatic, not unpleasant at all. Said to be injurious to sensitive people, however. She said to gather leaves in fine weather and dry um in warm sunny weather but in the shade half half shade she said was actually better to preserve the color you don't want to put them in full sun you know um the juice of the green husks boiled in water no the juice of the green husks honey is also a good gargle for sore mouth and inflamed throat, and the distilled water of the green husk is good for quinzy as an application for wounds and internally as a cooling drink in agues or fevers.

Starting point is 00:18:11 The thin yellow skin, which clothes the inner nut, is a notable remedy for colic being first dried and then rubbed into a powder administered in doses of three grains with a tablespoon of peppermint water. The oil extract from the ripe kernels taken inwardly in half-ounce doses has often proved good for colic and is efficacious supplied externally for skin diseases of the leprous type of wounds and gangrenes. In the Irish tradition, John Kehoe tells us that two or three walnuts eaten with a fig and a little rue and an empty stomach provide prevention against infection. The kernel oil will heal bruises and scabby itchy skin and taken internally will break up the stone in the bladder and urinary crystals. A decoction of the green peel or husk of

Starting point is 00:19:00 the walnut is useful against tumors and ulcers of the mouth and throat. The bark of the tree, either green, dried, or crushed, encourages vomiting. Turning to the German tradition, Brother Aloysius said an infusion of the leaves, and he used about a half to a three-fourths cup per two cups of boiling water, is one of the best remedies for scrofulous constitutions. An infusion of the flowers, done basically the same, is used for leucorrhea. The green rind of the unripe fruit prepared in gin is a well-known

Starting point is 00:19:32 stomatic. So the rind soaked in gin, probably taking very small amounts, it's a very bitter substance, so it's going to be good for the stomach. The fruit of the sepia ground into powder is a remedy for such things as gangrene. Powdered and sprinkled around the wound or combined with sugar and taken in wine. Young buds can be used to prepare an excellent ointment to prevent hair from falling out and to prevent dandruff. A handful of buds should be fried for about a half an hour in one and a half cups of lard and take one to two cups of the flower infusion daily for jaundice, heavy bleeding, or lupus. So that was being cooked in lard was to make the ointment you would apply to your scalp. So it's going to make your head a little greasy, but, you know, may help your hair from stop falling out. I don't know. More modern in the German tradition,

Starting point is 00:20:28 Maria Trevin said, a tea of walnut cleanses the blood as effective remedy for intestinal disorders as well as for constipation and lack of appetite. It is used successfully for jaundice and diabetes. A decoction of the leaves added to bath water is beneficial for scrofula, rickets, caries, and swelling of the bone, as well as for festering toe and fingernails. Improvement is noted soon if area is affected by cradle caps, scabs, and scurf are washed with a decoction of the green leaves. Bath and washings enriched with this decoction are used for acne, festering eczema, sweaty feet, and leukorrhea. As a mouthwash, it is used for stomatitis, inflamed gums, throat, and larynx.

Starting point is 00:21:10 A strong decoction of the leaves added to bath water is used for chill blades. It is also beneficial for hair loss. We massage frequently to the scalp. And this is just a tea of it, not mixed with lard. This decoction is an excellent remedy for head lice. The fresh leaves are used to repel insects. This is just a tea of it, not mixed with lard. This decoction is an excellent remedy for head lice. The fresh leaves are used to repel insects. About the middle of June, the unripe nuts are picked.

Starting point is 00:21:34 A pin should easily run through them to show that they're unripe. And used to prepare a delightful cordial, which cleanses the stomach, liver, and blood, strengthens weak stomachs, and improves foul intestines. It is an excellent remedy for thick blood. Let's get to the american tradition resources southern fields and forest written in the 1860s says the extract was a favorite remedy in general marion's camp hey my ancestor general francis marion during the revolutionary war it is very efficacious and habitual constipation in doses of often to 30 grams grains. It acts as a laxative and as a purgative, where it is spoken as a mild cathartic operating without pain or irritation and resembling rhubarb in its property of evacuating without debilitating the elementary canal. Dr. Rush

Starting point is 00:22:27 employed it during the war, said it is highly esteemed and dysentery. The rind of the fruit and skin of the kernel are extremely astringent, anthelmintic, and cathartic. The oil extracted for the fruit is very drying in nature. He remarks that the inner bark of the root is acrid and caustic. Don't use that. To extract the cathartic principle, the bark is boiled in water for several hours. Remove the extraneous matter and boil down the decoction to the consistence of honey or molasses. Pills may be made of this. A syrup may be made. The bark is strongest in the early summer. The powdered leaves are a rubifacea. It means redding or to the skin, reddening to the

Starting point is 00:23:10 skin and act as a, let's see, and they also mentioned because resource in fields and forests was also about making use of all these plants. The juglandaceae family, the sap, can be collected to make a syrup just like you would maple syrup. And that was really popular in the South at one point. And especially a lot of the hickory nuts and butternuts and such, the trees were used very much to make syrups. And it's really delicious stuff. Of the black walnut specifically, he said the bark is styptic and acrid, meaning it will help stop bleeding. The rind of the unripe fruit is said to remove ringworms and tatters, the decoction given with success as a vermifuge.

Starting point is 00:23:55 It gets rid of worms. They were used making a nut bread of the fruit, at least in 1860s in the Chester District of South Carolina. And also an oil of the walnut kernel or the nut itself was used for toothaches. It helped with the pain. And we get into a lot of, well, obviously a lot of medical research that was being done at the time. A lot of journals, but I think we're pretty much good on that. Getting up to around 1900, we've got the Thompsonian System of Medicine set of the butternut. Describes it, first of all, the bark of this tree used by country people as a dye.

Starting point is 00:24:43 The bark of this tree is used by country people as a dye. The bark taken from the body of the tree or the root, boiled down thick, can be made into pills and operated as a powerful and medical cathartic, meaning it will clean you out. A syrup made by boiling the bark and adding one-third molasses and a little spirit or alcohol is good to give to children for worm complaints the buds and twigs may also be used for the same purpose and are more mild that was juggling center aya hmm several doctors in the Thompsonian system are talking about how to use butternut we started with dr. Thompson himself and there's a dr. Greer and a Dr. Lyle,

Starting point is 00:25:26 and they talk about their experiences with using it. King's Medical Dispensatory of 1898 says, butternut in small doses is a mild stimulant to the intestinal tract, proving laxative in larger doses. It's a gentle and agreeable cathartic causing no griping with nor subsequent weakness of the intestines resembles rhubarb in effect so that's really good to know good for chronic constipation gastric deficient gastric secretions atonic dyspepsia indigestion gastric irritation flat, flatulence, etc. They were making pills out of that syrup. We already discussed how to boil the bark down and make that syrup out of it.

Starting point is 00:26:16 Also good use in chronic skin diseases and scrofula, again, that's glandular, being particularly indicated in skin infections exhibiting vesicles or pustules. He said juglans is an efficient cathartic when used to free the extra the bowels is demanded in rheumatism and chronic respiratory affections. That's interesting. Strong decoction made same way as a domestic remedy for rheumatism, especially affecting the muscles of the back with intermittent and remitted fevers, as well as diseases attended with the congestion of the abdominal viscera. Wow.

Starting point is 00:27:00 We'll go specific indication uses, chronic constipation, gastrointestinal irritability, with sour irritations, flatulence, and either diarrhea or constipation dependent thereon, diarrhea and dysentery, burning and fetid discharges, torpid liver chronic skin infections of a posterior or vesicular character discharging freely and eczema essentially modern use let's go modern use plants for future walnut the walnut tree has a long history of medicinal use being used in folk medicine to treat a wide range of complaints the leaves are alternative anthelmintic anti anti-inflammatory, astringent, and depurative. They are used internally in the treatment of constipation, chronic coughs, asthma, diarrhea, dyspepsia, etc. Dyspepsia is just indigestion, by the way.

Starting point is 00:27:55 Did I say anything else that was weird? Anthelmintic means it helps get rid of intestinal parasites. I think you got the rest of it. The leaves are also used to treat skin ailments and to purify the blood. They are considered to be specific in the treatment of strumous sores. Male inflorescences are made into a broth. That means the male part of the flower is made into a broth and used in the treatment of coughs and vertigo. The rind is anodyne and astringent. It is used in the treatment of diarrhea and anemia. The leaves are antilithic. They help get rid of kidney and bladder and stones, basically.

Starting point is 00:28:36 Antilithic, I think is the way you pronounce it. Diuretic and stimulant. They are used internally in the treatment of low back pain, frequent urination, weakness of both legs, chronic cough, asthma, constipation due to dryness or anemia, and stones of the urinary tract. I think we would now say more like lithentropic, but they use the word antilithic. That's why it threw me. Anyway, externally they're made into a paste and applied as a poultice to areas of dermatitis and eczema. The oil from the seeds is anthelmintic. Again, gets rid of worms. It is also used in the treatment of menstrual problems and dry skin conditions. The cotyledons are used in the treatment of cancer.

Starting point is 00:29:20 Walnut has a long history of use in the treatment of cancer. Some extracts of the plant have shown anti-cancer activities. The bark and root bark are anthelmintic, astringent, and detergent. The plant is used in Bach flower remedies. Let's see, more modern use. Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Central Medicinal Plants says, butternut, inner bark, tea, or extract, a popular early American laxative thought to be effective in small doses without causing griping or cramps. American Indians use the bark tea for rheumatism, headaches, toothaches. Strong warm tea for wounds to stop bleeding, you know, externally.

Starting point is 00:30:02 Promote healing. Oil from the nuts used for tapeworms, fungal inflections, juglone, a component is antiseptic and herbicidal, and some anti-tumor activity has been reported. Very interesting. Black walnuts, specifically American Indians, used inner bark tea as an emetic, a laxative. The bark was chewed for toothaches. The fruit husks, juiced and used on ringworm. And husks chewed for colic, poultry inflammation, leaf tea astringent, insecticidal against bed bugs. Very interesting. And finally, Botany in a Day states there are about 20 species of walnuts in the world. They all produce edible nuts, but of varying quality. Medicinally the leaves and bark can husk

Starting point is 00:30:45 are rich in tannic acid with some bitter components. Walnut is used mostly as an astringent but also as a vermifuge again that gets rid of worms. Internally to get rid of worms externally for ringworm fungus. The green husk is rich in vitamin C butternut bark contains naphthoquanone, a laxative. You have to wonder how our ancestors discovered all the medicinal uses of the walnut family. I would suggest that it probably came about through observation. Walnut, as the Latin name suggests, produces juglum. So the juglum prevents other plants from going around the tree. Our ancestors probably thought, wonder what else it'll do maybe it helps get rid of worms right who knows but walnuts definitely don't play very well with others obviously i can only

Starting point is 00:31:36 speculate how they looked at that and thought well maybe we could use that against parasites or bacteria or something but i recall you, you know, as a kid, we had horses on the farm and they would eat the tender spring leaves of the pecan and black walnut trees that grew in the pasture. And I was always told not to let them eat too much because it could upset their stomach, but to let them be because horses knew that to eat those leaves would prevent worms. I also heard of folks feeding them to chickens for the same reason, to prevent parasites. I don't know if that's recommended, but I know the old folks would always just say animals know what they need. They know what plants are medicine. Of course, sometimes cows eat poisonous

Starting point is 00:32:15 things, so that's not always true, but in the case of the walnut, it sure seems to be. to be you know the the title of my book is look up the medicinal trees right I mean there's so much medicine just right over our heads or under our feet that we just take for granted so y'all don't take your anything for granted on Independence Day don't take your freedom for granted don't take your family for granted don't take for granted all the people that provided this for us. And do go. Just enjoy. Have a great time.

Starting point is 00:32:51 If you invite, have a few cold beers and grill up some hamburgers and steaks and hot dogs and whatever you like. It's actually a very important day. And I just don't think we should just take it for granted by saying happy 4th of July, when it actually is Independence Day, and that means something. It should mean something. Anyway, y'all, 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 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 herbalists. Therefore, I'm really just a guy who studies herbs. I'm not

Starting point is 00:33:35 offering any advice. I won't even claim that anything I write or say is accurate or true. I can tell you what herbs have been traditionally used for I can tell you my own experience and if I believe an herb has helped me I cannot nor would I tell you to do the same If you use an herb anyone recommends you are treating yourself You take full responsibility for your health Humans are individuals and no two are identical What works for me may not work for you

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The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Juglans, Walnut

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