The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Lady's Mantle

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey y'all, welcome to this week's show. Today we're going to talk about an herb commonly known now as Lady's Mantle. But over the years, it's shown under many different names, and there's really some controversy as to whether the ancient Greek, like D.S. Cordes and Pliny the Elder were talking about the same plant as we know today as Lady's Mantle. That's Alchemia. Well, that's an interesting name in itself. Alchemia Vulgaris. it seems that the name derives from the Arabic word for alchemy, and that was to indicate that it was a really powerful herb that was used in the Arabic-speaking apothecaries of the ancient world, but by the Middle Ages, it was firmly established in Western herbal medicine, specifically came into use through the monastic medicine of the Middle Ages, and it was given the name Lady's Mantle because it was considered to be so useful name that they named it after the mother of God. Ms. Grieve wrote that the Arabic name, alchemia, does come from

Starting point is 00:01:10 alchemy, and it was bestowed upon it according to some old writers because of the wonderworking powers of the plant. Others held that its alchemical virtues lay in the subtle influence of the foliage. Okay, so this is an old legend. This plant has a unique shape to the leaf and dew drops will get in there and be preserved. And there's this legend that the dew collected off the ladies mantle plant has like mystical powers. I don't believe anything like that. She goes through a lot of history and says to Jerome Bach had it in the history of plants of 1532, etc., etc. We don't need to to get into all that. Father Johann Kunzel, in his classic work, herbs and weeds, sought to make

Starting point is 00:02:05 the monastic medicine available to the common people of Central Europe in the 1900s. And as you may know, I'm the co-author of the only book of his work in English. Erbs and weeds of Father Johann Kunzel. He was very popular in the early 1900s in all German-speaking nations, he was actually Swiss but of course the World War started breaking out and nobody wanted to have a book written in German in their house if you were in America or England or Canada or you know whatever whatever so his work was mostly lost but I got together with an Austrian herbalist of three or four years ago and we did a modern translation with commentary by two modern herbalists

Starting point is 00:02:52 and so really one of my better selling books if you haven't gotten it you might want to look into that and make a great Christmas present make a great Christmas gift, of course. So together, let's see, below is an excerpt from our book, the herbs and weeds of Father Johann Kunzel. Father Kunzel said, the lady's mantle, or do's mantle, or mantle herb, or God's mother's mantle, or help from all women. Help for all women is another name for it, or all women healer. The name alone indicates already part of the healing power of this herb. It thrives wherever on the shady side, on stream, so at damp meadows, especially on the mountains up to the snow lime. It has an elegant noble sister, the alpine lady's mantle, that's alchemia alpina,

Starting point is 00:03:33 which has the same properties to an even greater extent. However, this only thrives in the alpine region. We'll skip a little bit here. The ancients do the healing power of this plant very well and gave it the name alchemia or magic herb. The lady's mantle well-boiled and drunk warm believes headache, heals colds in the head, eye infections, and often other headaches, toothaches when used as a gargle in your mouth. It also heals. It also heals. fever, burns, separations, and ulcers, which is why it cannot be more than enough recommended to women. Every woman, after giving birth, should diligently drink quite a lot of this herb for eight to

Starting point is 00:04:08 ten days. Some children would still have their mother, and many a beaten widow or his wife, if they had known this gift of God. Furthermore, the herb boiled and drunk a lot, takes fevers and burns in case of broken ribs, knocks from wood, or knocks from, okay, in case of broken bones, knocks from wood, stone or iron are severe falls. A great many people die from internal injuries. This herb quickly removes fever and burns and speeds healing. But in this case, drink a lot, one to two liters a day, depending on thirst. Add sugar, he says, because it is rather bitter. And yeah, that is

Starting point is 00:04:43 quite a bit of an herbal tea. Externally applied and crushed, ladies mantle heals wounds, stabs and cuts. Children who always have weak muscles despite eating well will become strong with continued use of this tea. Ladies mantle, drunk as a tea, cures the diarrhea. This herb is of the highest value for cattle. Fed dry, it heals diarrhea. The tea from the ladies mantle is lovely and pleasant mixed with cow slip. It is even better than Chinese tea and far healthier than this. It calms the nerves and provides sound sleep and is a quick remedy for people who often get nauseous. In case of obesity and a bloated body, provided this is not due to abundant food and lack of exercise, the alpine ladies mantle offers help if it is used

Starting point is 00:05:25 for a long time. Collect ladies mantle from May to July, dry it in the sun, and keep it dry. What a healing power has the benevolent creator bestowed upon this delicate herb. I think, I don't know, Father Coons will always recommend drying herbs in the sun. They seem to retain more potency when dry it in the shade in a cool, you know, airy place, totally dry. But, you know, he was at a very high elevation and things may have worked a little differently in his area. If it's like the mountains of North Carolina where I live, any player that's shady tends to be a little damp. So that's why I use my attic for drying herbs. It gets hot up there, stays dark.

Starting point is 00:06:03 You know, it works. Jelanta, my co-author, Jelana Wittab said, I am a woman and I always make sure to have enough ladies mantle at dry ladies' mantle at home to last ride a year. When I go on mountain tours, I bring home the alpine ladies mantle, which we call silver mantle. It really has a silver shine. and it believes to be more powerful than the green one. Women drink ladies' mantle tea after childbirth from menstrual cramps in a mixture with chamomile or fennel or carolay seeds. For menopause, women prefer the alpine one, often in a mixture with red clover.

Starting point is 00:06:35 Ladies' mantle's taste is quite boring, and that is why I would mix it with other female herbs like lemon balm, lavender, and rose petals, or as Father Coonsor recommended with cow slip, this gently smelling spring herb which calms down the nerves when needed. She says, have you heard of and seen the mass? magic drop of water in the leaves. No, it is not a drop of dew. It comes from inside the earth. Well, I've read differently, but she probably knows better than I do. She actually lives in Austria, and they have a lot more of it around there. She said, there are many stories and legends about this drop. They say that Cleopatra watched her face with these drops, and that

Starting point is 00:07:09 alchemists used it as heaven water. I drink this drop when I see one. Well, my commentary, a little less flowery. I just said, Ladies Mantle, is listed as alternative, which means it restores proper function to the body, gradually bringing one back to health. It is anti-rematic, referring to the swelling of joints as in arthritis. It is a stringent, tightening, or restoring tone to the tissue, and diuretic, reducing fluid. It is a menagogue, meaning that it stimulates menstruation by increasing blood flow. The herb is febriphuge, which means it breaks a fever, sedative, which means calming,

Starting point is 00:07:42 stiptic, helps stop bleeding, tonic, strengthening, balancing, and voluntary, meaning it helps heal wounds. A few plants offer more benefit, especially to women. So you can see I'm not as flowery. But anyway, neither was brother Aloysius. He wrote, ladies mantle was astringent used for heavy bleeding, vomiting blood and leukemia to cleanse wounds and to knit tissue together. Uses a compress on sores, ulcers, ruptures, and prolapse of the rectum, also used for involuntary seminal discharge, ulcerated lungs, consumption, dysentery, painful bleeding, fistula's and swollen breasts. Maria Trebin

Starting point is 00:08:20 goes on far too long for me to quote here. Let's see if she's got one little bit I can just kind of sum up. She tells, well, we already discussed how to find it. She says essentially a woman's

Starting point is 00:08:43 urban has been esteems as such, since Christian times has been associated with the Virgin Mary, not only is Lady's mantle beneficial for menstrual disorders, abdominal disorders, and indispositions during menopause, but it helps at the beginning of puberty together with Yaro T to influence the onset of menstruation favorably. In cases where for young girls, menstruation will not commence,

Starting point is 00:09:04 despite professional medication, it is ladies' mantle, together with Yaro, mixed in equal proportions that brings everything into line. The actions of ladies' mantle is astringent and very rapidly healing. It is also used as a diarrhea, and heart-strengthening remedy, and for wound-induced fevers, for festering wounds and neglected sores. After removal of teeth, ladies' men was recommended as one of the best

Starting point is 00:09:25 remedies. Within a day, the wounds heal, and after several rinses, it relieves weakness of the muscles and limbs and helps in anemia. Yeah, okay. Let's go on to... Boy, she could write long chapters. Long chapters. So Gerard, 1500s Eagland, said it is applied to all wounds after the same manner than the Sanical, which another plant goes by many names. Culpepper says, it is very proper for those wounds that have inflammation, it is very effectual to stay bleeding, vomiting, fluxes of all sort, bruises by falls, or otherwise, and

Starting point is 00:10:10 helps ruptures, and such women have swollen breasts, causing them to grow less hard and being both drank and outwardly applied the distilled water drank for 20 days together helps conception and to retain the birth i have really gotten into that it is an old remedy to prevent against miscarriage but you know i don't recommend herbs during pregnancy so if you have the interest you need to do your own research on there and really look for expert on the subject okay it is one of the most singular wound herbs that is and therefore highly prized and praised by the germans used by the germans used in all wounds inward and outward to drink a decoction thereof and wash the wounds therewith or to dip tents therein as cloths and to put them on the wounds, which wonderfully dries up all humidity of the sores and abates inflammation therein. It quickly heals all green wounds not suffering from any corruption to remain behind and cures all old sores, though fistulus and hollow.

Starting point is 00:11:11 Now if you really want to find somebody who is even more succinct to me. I don't know. John Kehoe. They'd say the Irish have the gifts of Gab and y'all know I can go in for hours telling stories and everything. John Kehoe, you'd be good to get two or three sentences out of him. He said it removes the pain and heat of all inflamed wounds, ulcers and boils. It can be applied to women's breasts to make them smaller and firmer. Again, he's talking swelling. It stops internal bleeding and menstrual flow. It can and cure burns and scalds, and it is also good for encouraging conception of women. That's something that's often said about this plan as well, and again, that's not my line

Starting point is 00:11:56 of expertise. So if you need to look into that, do your own research. Okay, Ms. Grieve wrote on the medicinal uses, Lays, Mannel has astringent and stiptic properties on account of the tannin it contains. It is of a very drying and binding characters, the old herbalist expressed it, and was formerly considered one of the best voluntary or wound herbs. In modern herbal treatment, it is employed as a cure for excessive menstruation and is taken as an infusion of one ounce of the dry of herb to one pint boiling water. In teacup full doses, as required, the same infusion is also employed as an injection or douche, essentially.

Starting point is 00:12:33 A strong decoction of the fresh root by some considered the most valuable part of the plant has also been recommended as excellent stop all bleeding and the root dried and reduced to powder is considered to answer the same purpose and to be good for violent purgings basically diarrhea essentially in Sweden a tincture of the leaves has been given in cases of spasmodic and convulsive diseases and an old authority states that if placed under the pillow at night the herb will promote quiet sleep no idea so modern use plants for a future says Ladies Mano has a long history of verbal use mainly as an external treatment for cuts and wounds and internally for the treatment of diarrhea and a number of women's ailments, especially menstrual problems. The herb is alternative, antiromatic, astringent, diuretic, a menagogue, fabrifuge, sedative, stiptic, tonic, and vulnery. I think I've covered the definitions for all those words in this podcast. The leaves and flowering stems are best harvested as a plant comes into flour and then can be dried for later use. The root has a similar and perhaps stronger

Starting point is 00:13:37 property to the leaves but is less often used. The plant is rich in tannin and so as an effective astringent and stiptic commonly used both internally and externally in the treatment of wounds. It helps stop vaginal discharge and has also used as a treatment for excessive menstruation and to heal lesions after pregnancy. Prolonged use can ease the discomfort of menopause and excessive menstruation. Freshly pressed use is used to help heal skin troubles such as acne and a weak decoction of the plant has been used as to treatment of conjunctivitis. and probably the most interesting I guess just a bit of trivia

Starting point is 00:14:13 regarding this plant comes from the Russian tradition Igor Vilevich Zeven says An old Russian folk tale teaches children that gnomes never become old because they drink and wash their faces with the morning dew from the lady's mantle Okay so personally I've never encountered any gnomes I guess if I do

Starting point is 00:14:32 I'll ask So if you run into any gnomes Be sure to ask them if they wash their face with ladies mantle. Other than that, very, very useful herb to have, especially if you have women in your life, but for the wound healing and stopping diarrhea and internal bleeding and all that, I think it's a really good one to have in your garden if it doesn't grow near you. I think this is one of those to definitely put on the list for the preppers' survival garden. So y'all have a great week, and I will talk with you next time.

Starting point is 00:15:03 the information of this podcast is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease or condition nothing i say or write has been evaluated or approved by the fda i'm not a doctor the u.s government does not recognize the practice of herbal medicine and there is no governing body regulating herbless therefore i'm really just a guy who studies herbs i'm not offering any advice i won't even claim 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. You may have an allergy, a sensitivity, an underlying condition that no one else even shares and you don't even know about it. Be careful with your health. By continuing to listen to my podcast or read my blog you agree to be responsible for yourself to your own research make your own choices and not to blame me for anything ever

The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Lady's Mantle

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