The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Willow and Palmetto

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey y'all, welcome to this week's show. I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and hopefully aren't out shopping on Black Friday. I absolutely hate crowded stores and shopping on such things as that, but hey, if that's your thing, go for it. But speaking of which, I'd much rather just stay home and eat the turkey and let everybody else go out while I wipe out the leftovers, basically. So before I get into anything else, I want to remind you that my books make wonderful Christmas gifts. And you can order them from the convenience of your own home and not have to go brave the maddening crowds. All of them are available in print on Amazon. And they'll be there in plenty of time for Christmas if you go and order them. Also, you know, I do my Judson Carroll Master Herbalist newsletter.

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Starting point is 00:03:00 Let's see, two cookbooks, Omnivore's Guide and spring foraging cookbook and um three uh catholic books so uh those those links are there's all available on amazon but you can get any of those books so if you want to get your own yourself a subscription because you're interested in herbal medicine right like you wanted to just get a subscription to judson Carroll Master Herbalist, you get my podcasts on there. You get a weekly major article on herbal medicine. It's the most information at the lowest price for herbal medicine you're ever going to find. You could get one of those e-books, like if it was a cookbook for somebody, and you could give that to them, you know,

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Starting point is 00:04:24 But if you just type in Judson Carroll Woodcraft, Google will pull it right up. Just posted a beautiful set of wild cherry cooking spoons that I just finished carving yesterday. That's brand new on the site. You'll be some of the first people to actually hear about this when this podcast goes out this afternoon. Those old-fashioned quality handmade heirloom pieces that are really very collectible. And like I said, I can do about maybe two in a week. So, very limited availability and very reasonable prices. I mean, you know, I know some professional spoon carvers and bowl carvers that will charge hundreds of dollars for a spoon

Starting point is 00:05:05 yeah I don't do that about 25 bucks is my average price or 50 for two you know when I do a set so remember that for your Christmas gifts as well you know that would be good for anybody in your life this is not a machine-made product I literally go out and cut the tree down, usually a storm damaged tree, cut it up, take a hand saw and, well, chop it into what you call blanks, you know, chop the log into workable pieces with an axe, take a hand saw and do a little cutting and then rough it out with an axe and then the rest is all done with a knife, a spoon knife, which allows me to scoop out the bowl, and usually a small gouge just for detail work. So, yeah, I really do things the hard, old-fashioned way.

Starting point is 00:05:52 And then oil them with walnut oil, which is a nice neutral oil, and people love them. I mean, the last set I posted on Monday sold within 30 minutes. I'm not kidding you. I posted a set of cherry cooking spoons almost identical to the set up posted today and they sold within 30 minutes of hitting the woods website so yeah there is quite a bit of demand but check it out I got a really nice salt bowl on there that I'm sure anybody would like to have them some spoons and spatulas and all kinds of neat stuff so

Starting point is 00:06:23 now let's get on with the show. We're actually getting two trees today. One's really big and the other is really short. So we'll start with a short one and it is sable palmetto or saw palmetto. You've probably heard about this if you've been around past few years. It actually, well it doesn't grow in North Carolina. It grows, um well it doesn't grow in north carolina it grows um you start seeing when you get down around uh buford south carolina and very much around savannah georgia uh all over the place around savannah georgia and uh just just it's a small palm tree essentially it's uh called the cabbage palmetto and it's actually the state tree of South Carolina. It will grow in some areas in North Carolina. Usually someone's planted it there. You know, it's more like an ornamental,

Starting point is 00:07:10 but it grows wild. I mean, if you're driving down 95, you get between Beaufort and say Guyton, Georgia or Savannah, and you're going to start seeing these just wild little cabbage palmettoes just side of the road. Historically, it's been used for food. Plants for the Future says medicinal use of the cabbage palmetto, the berries or seeds have been used for the treatment of grass sickness, low fever, headaches, and weight loss. And that's the cabbage palmetto. Let me see, that's sable. I can't remember which sable was that.

Starting point is 00:07:44 But anyway, it's relative, the saw palmetto. It's the one that's been studied for processing inflammation. Seems they are pretty much interchangeable, but I cannot swear to that. The sables are actually sable atonia scrub palmetto, sable mexicana, Mexican palmetto, bush palmetto, and sable palmetto, cabbage palmetto. So we just have to look into which of those, the salt palmetto and the cabbage palmetto are basically cousins. And we need to research that one a little bit more. So now we'll get to the big one.

Starting point is 00:08:21 It's Salix, which is willow or osier big family 62 varieties of Salix used in herbal medicine they're mostly willows but there's also what you call osiers and sometimes the poplar is used somewhat interchangeably I'm not gonna get into the specific virtues of all 62 trees, but only one variety of Salix is actually native in my region. It's Black Willow, Salix nigra, but it's naturalized. People brought them in and planted them. White Willow, Gray Willow, or Olive Leaf Willow. That's a very pretty one, actually. Weeping willow, which is actually Salix babylonica. The weeping willow actually comes from Babylon, originally.

Starting point is 00:09:12 Salix capreo, goat willow, and gray willow, and laurel willow, or bay willow. And, you know, willows are a very pretty tree, often planted ornamentally. Used in, widely used in herbal medicine. I mean, one of the, widely used in herbal medicine. I mean, one of the most important plants in herbal medicine. And if you were talking with most herbalists about the only tree, the willows, osier, poplar, and to some extent, birch, to some extent, they would really be familiar with. A lot of herbalists don't really deal with trees a whole lot, which I think is kind of weird.

Starting point is 00:09:46 They just don't teach that really much in herb school. I mean, I think trees are among the most potent herbal medicines. I know they are. And so easy to identify and so abundant that, to me, that's where you want to start teaching herbal medicine. I mean, why have somebody start memorizing 200 or 300 little herbaceous plants that can be very difficult to identify, right? In the wild, why not start with the trees in your own backyard?

Starting point is 00:10:11 And then I go to the herbs that are in your spice cabinet. And then I start talking about some of the more, I guess, what you would consider mainstream herbs in modern medicine. To me, they're just going about it backwards but that's my opinion but of course salix so named for salicylic acid which is the base of aspirin and it's been known far back I mean you know if you were a 90s kid you may have seen dr. Quinn medicine woman and they did a whole episode about where she learned about how to use willow bark from the whatever tribe, Native American tribe there was there. I can't remember. Were they Sioux, Comanche? I don't remember. It had to be Sioux. Anyway, Navajo? I can't even

Starting point is 00:10:57 remember where the show was filmed. It's been so long. But anyway, and she was saying, oh, this amazing plant I learned from the Indians reduces pain and inflammation. That was a load of crap. Those properties of willow have been documented at least as far back as ancient Greek medicine. And considering that the most commonly used one came out of Babylon, we can assume, and I do believe it's actually documented in the oh not the Ebers Papyrus the cuneiform tablets from ancient Samaria if I remember correctly ancient Samaria was like the predecessor to Babylon they

Starting point is 00:11:38 were using they knew about aspirin essentially not the synthetic pill form that the Bayer Company invented around 1900, 1920, but the aspirin properties of willow have been documented as far back as herbal medicine goes. And we're talking something like 6,000 years to the ancient Samaria, maybe even a little longer. You know, so, you know, more PC crap on television was all Dr. Quinn was. Though I have to admit, I did dress like Sully for a while. I thought that was pretty cool. And learned to throw a tomahawk. Always a good thing to know how to do. Anyway, the Greeks called Willow Aetia, which used to be actually a fairly common name. My grandmother very briefly employed a maid named Aetia after one of her pregnancies.

Starting point is 00:12:33 She had bad kidneys. She was really weakened. And that lasted until she saw Aetia spitting tobacco juice in the kitchen sink. And that was the end of that. she saw Aetia spitting tobacco juice in the kitchen sink, and that was the end of that. Aetia is a tree known to all, whose fruit, leaves, and bark and juice are stringent. This is from Dioscorides. The leaves, pounded into small pieces and taken in a drink with a little pepper and wine, do help those troubled with painful intestinal obstruction that was known as iliaca passio passio you may recognize from the passion of christ that means the suffering of christ and uh iliaca passio would essentially mean um um suffering pain in the ilium taken by themselves with water, they can cause inconception.

Starting point is 00:13:30 The fruit taken as a drink, and that was believed. It's not actually a use of birth control, but anyway, that was just believed at the time. The fruit taken in, in fact, increasing circulation might make it work the opposite way. The fruit taken in drink is good for those who spit blood, and the bark does the same. Burnt and steeped in vinegar, it takes away calluses and corns rubbed on them. The juice from the leaves and bark added with rosaceum, that's rose, essentially in a cup of pomegranate juice, helps soar in the ears, and a decoction of them is an excellent warm pack for gout now that would be very good actually the rose has some antiseptic qualities it has some anti-inflammatory properties it's very soothing of course the pomegranate juice strongly antioxidant

Starting point is 00:14:18 astringent and it helps bring down inflammation so you know you're putting that together with essentially an aspirin-type product, and you can see that why that would be extremely effective and probably good to sip on, too, if you use rose water. Make a nice little beverage on a hot day, I would say. It also cleans away the scur for eczema. A juice, and that's still to this day. cleans away the scur for eczema. And that's still to this day.

Starting point is 00:14:45 You basically have, when you look at products on the shelf in stores for dandruff or eczema, some of them are going to use coal tar like a tea gel, but most of the other ones are going to be aspirin based. The aspirin in those dandruff shampoos and for eczema ointments and creams actually does reduce the inflammation of the skin and the eczema. So yeah, it's been done forever. A juice taken from it at the time of its flowering, the bark being cut for the juices found coalesced with the end, in other words we're talking to a thin sap, has the ability to clean

Starting point is 00:15:25 away things that darken the pupils another very old use was yes using that sap in the eyes um now saint hildegard um so hildegard von bingen really did not approve of willow oddly enough she said the willow is cold and it designates vices since it seems to be beautiful. It is not useful for people except in external use and is not good for medicine. Its fruit and juice is bitter and not good for human use. If one wishes to eat it, it stirs up melancholy in him and makes him bitter inside and diminishes his health and happiness. in him and makes him bitter inside and diminishes his health and happiness. I have no idea why she wrote that and why she thought that, but I mean, I just saw a historian doing a program on her the other day talking about one of her herbal, sort

Starting point is 00:16:17 of an herbal remedy. It was actually a cookie she made out of spices, which was good for melancholy and depression and also helped with concentration and actually could be sort of a useful cure for ADD because it was especially good for helping children with their studies, she said. He went on and on about how she had learned Greek medicine and her medicine was so influenced by, you know, Dioscorides and Galen and Hippocrates and all this guy. Total utter bull.

Starting point is 00:16:42 It wasn't. And this is one of those very clear examples where what she wrote was absolutely opposite of what was in the Greek medical writing. And she said she was taught by the voice of the living light. In other words, she learned herbal medicine from God and angels through visions. Visions that have been approved by the church. And she's one of the few female doctors of the Catholic Church. That's a really big deal. That's not just considered a saint, but one of the greatest teachers and writers.

Starting point is 00:17:12 She wrote several books on theology and doctrine, and all of it was revealed through visions because she was very sickly as a child, she was very sickly as a child, often blind and bedridden, and didn't get the education that a lot of the other nuns got. She could barely write, could barely read, and yet she wrote a play, what they call a morality play. Much of the church music, the Gregorian chants from the middle ages we're talking around 1100 a.d um uh two books on herbal medicine that are like light years beyond their time and i mean books about heaven and the universe and all that that were revolutionary and this is someone with very little formal education

Starting point is 00:18:08 so uh you know whatever uh these modern historians that keep wanting to discount um her work as being derivative have no idea what they're talking about if they studied a little bit more about herbal medicine and then compared it to what she wrote talking about. If they studied a little bit more about herbal medicine and then compared it to what she wrote, they'd know that it used similar words, like willow is cold and stirs up melancholy. That is sort of the humor system of Greek and Roman medicine, but those words would have been common at the time.

Starting point is 00:18:43 It doesn't mean she learned them from books written by Dioscorides, because probably she couldn't even read them. She dictated her books to those who wrote down her words. And, very interestingly, she recorded the language of the angels. People say she invented her own language. Well, no, she actually recorded the language she heard the angels speaking. And that's very interesting. You could spend a lifetime studying her works and still not understand them but considering in about 1100 AD she was describing cancer she was describing viruses

Starting point is 00:19:18 she was describing things that scientists hundreds of years later would be able to see under a microscope. And she was describing them in her own language in about 1100 AD because she'd seen them in visions. And I think it's amazing. Anyway, just absolutely amazing. If you're interested in more information on that, you can get my Christian History of Herbal Medicine. It's one of my most controversial and best-selling books because all the New Age witchy types hate it, and they give me bad reviews on Amazon. And then there's also, you have some Protestants who are very opposed to Catholicism, really bigoted toward Catholicism, and anything written that quotes from old Catholic documents, they deny and call it witchcraft, essentially.

Starting point is 00:20:13 They don't want to admit that Catholics had any influence in culture and Christianity over the last 2,000 years. So I do actually get a lot of bad reviews on that book. And then I get a lot of good reviews on the book saying it's one of the best books on herbal medicine in history and should be in every Christian home. So, you know, you get it from both sides. Anyway, we'll get into Girard writing in the 1400s. The leaves and bark of withy or willows,

Starting point is 00:20:42 that's actually Old English for willow is with, and some people still call it that, do stay the spitting of the blood and other fluxes of blood whatsoever in man or woman, if the said leaves and bark be boiled in wine and drunk. The green boughs with the leaves may be very well brought into chambers and set about the beds of those that be sick with fevers for they do mightily cool the heat of the air very true in fact my grandfather planted willows by the side the corners of the porch and then taller like magnolias and pecans over them and what that would do the willow actually pulls moisture up from the ground and this you

Starting point is 00:21:26 know we were in the swampy area essentially and the weeping willow will drip it from the fronds others get just you know a little more moist in that area and that creates almost a natural air conditioning especially if you have that sub story of trees so you've got you know shade here and heat here and the air moves through those willow fronds they will it's a natural air conditioning and you can sit on the back porch and it would be you know 10 degrees cooler than if you walked out into the rest of the yard and you know he was brilliant that's all i can tell you um the bark hath like virtues deus corides writeth that this being burnt to ashes and steeped in vinegar takes away the corns and other risings of the feet and toes. Diverse, saith Galen, do slit the bark whilst the withy is flowering, and gather a certain juice, which they use to take away things that hinder the sight.

Starting point is 00:22:23 and juice, which they use to take away things that hinder the sight. And this is when they are constrained to use a cleansing medicine of thin and subtle parts. Gosh, that old Elizabethan English can make you tongue-tied. About 100 years later, Culpepper, in his unique fashion, said the moon owns it. He was always, you know, he was very into astrology and I just kind of ignore that part. He says, both the leaves and the seed are used to staunch the bleeding of wounds of the mouth and nose, the spitting of blood and other fluxes of blood of man and woman, and to stay vomiting and provocation thereunto. If the decoction of them be drank in wine, that was the preferred way to use it. Steep your willow in wine it also helps

Starting point is 00:23:06 to stay thin hot sharp salt distillations from the head upon the lung causing a consumption so basically say it was good for tuberculosis and we'd already heard it helps those that split spit blood the leaves bruised with some pepper drank in wine help much with wind colic. That means gas, in other words. The leaves bruised and boiled in wine and drank stays the heat of lust in man or woman. I guess that's that cooling effect again that St. Hildegard talked about. Quite extinguishes it, and if it be long used. The seed is also of the same effect. Water that is gathered from willow and in flower,

Starting point is 00:23:46 the bark being slit, and a vessel fitting to receive it is very good for redness and dimness of sight, or films that grow over the eyes and stay the rooms that fall into them. It's mucus, essentially. Good to provoke urine if being stopped, it be drank. To clear the face and skin from spots and discolorings. Galen says the flowers have an admirable faculty in drying up humors. Being a medicine without any sharpness or corrosion, you may boil them in wine and drink as much as you like, so long as you do not drink yourself drunk. And if you did, the aspirin in there would probably help with a hangover. The bark works the same effect if used in the same manner, and the tree hath always bark upon it, though not always flowers.

Starting point is 00:24:29 The burnt ashes of the bark being mixed with vinegar takes away warts and corns and superfluous flesh being placed in the place. The decoction of the leaves and bark in wine takes away scurf and dandruff by washing the place with it. It is a fine cool tree, the boughs of which are very convenient to be placed to the chamber of one sick with a fever." He goes on for quite a bit actually. At this point in time the quinine or Peruvian bark as he called it, was being used, of course, for malaria and other certain fevers of that style. We might use it for COVID or something, right? It was expensive and it had to be imported. And Culpeper, being English Protestant in the 1500s, did not like it at all because it was also called the Jesuit bark because Jesuit monks had found it in Peru.

Starting point is 00:25:37 And he didn't like anything that had anything to do with being Catholic. That would be one. He would, you know, I would get him a book by, say, Hilgard von Bingen, and he would probably burn it just because she was Catholic, right? That's nothing new under the sun, as they say. But he recommended using willow, willow, salicin, for fevers, just as we would aspirin today. Of course, it's not as strong, but very, very useful. Getting up to modern use, Miss Greve says, it's 1930s or so, of the black willow, the one that grows wild here, is an aphrodisiac. So totally different than what Culpepper just said, right? And now it's only because it's not really an aphrodisiac.

Starting point is 00:26:16 You know, aspen thins the blood and increases circulation. So that helps. The bark is also sedative and tonic. The bark has been prescribed in gonorrhea to relieve ovarian pain. A liquid extract is prepared and used in the mixture with other sedatives, largely used in the treatment of nocturnal emissions. Wet dreams in other words. Not sure how, why, or if that works. White willow salix alba. Topic? No, it is tonic, meaning it's good for the stomach.

Starting point is 00:26:48 Antiperiodic, meaning it would help with excessive menstrual bleeding. And astringent. It's the astringent property, because you've got to remember it increases circulation. So, yeah, that wouldn't be my go-to. I'd grab some Shepherd's Purse or something like that. It has been used in dyspepsia, connected with debility of the digestive organs and convalescence from acute diseases and worms and chronic diarrhea and dysentery. Its tonic and astringent combination renders it very useful.

Starting point is 00:27:18 In Irish herbal states, this is what mid-1800s Ireland, a decoction of the leaves, bark, seeds, and flower and wine taken internally stops vomiting, the spitting of blood, excessive menstrual flow, and all other flows of blood. So I guess in its natural form, the astringency outweighs the blood thinning property. Yeah, that would make a lot of sense, especially if you're using the bark, which is going to be much more stringent. The ashes of the bark mixed with vinegar cause warts to fall off and soothes hard skin. The sap that flows from the bark is good for inflammations of the eye. Brother Aloysius, the protege of Father Nape in the German tradition, wrote, Before the flowering period in April, the bark of two- or three-year-old branches should be gathered and left to dry. A decoction of this very bitter astringent can be fruitfully used for the treatment of fever.

Starting point is 00:28:15 It is, indeed, one of the best febrifuges or fever remedies, especially for intermittent fever. It is highly recommended for blood spitting and is a very potent tonic. Boil three to four tablespoons in two cups of water and to reduce by half. Add a little sugar or honey as it has a rather bitter taste. Take one tablespoon every two hours or one tablespoon every hour in the case of fever. It is the most efficacious remedy for heavy bleeding, chronic diarrhea, and leucorrhea. Excessive mucus, stomach cramps, nervous complaints, spleen and liver disorders for a foul or mucous stomach. So yeah, excellent. Father Kunzl wrote,

Starting point is 00:29:02 Old people whose legs are weak because of old age or because of an illness could strengthen their legs in frequent foot baths of boiled willow bark. Basket weavers sell the bark cheaply. Used to be true. Now there are a lot fewer traditional basket weavers. I myself am one. And yeah, you do have to strip the bark. And it's just sort of a byproduct. So yeah, it used to be a

Starting point is 00:29:25 lot more common. John Wittib with whom I co-wrote the Herbs and Weeds of Father Johann Kunzel, another great book if you want to buy one of my books, said that willow bark together with meadowsweet is part of bare aspirin. Well they synthesize the salicin out of it, but you know what she means. I am always careful to have enough willow bark and meadow sweet at home. It is my homemade aspirin. In the spring, just before the buds start opening, I cut two or three year old twig from a tree, from a willow. The twigs are thinner than the thickness of a finger. I peel the bark, cut it into one centimeter pieces, dry it well, and store it in tightly closed jars in a dark place. Whenever I have fever, flu, pains in joints or muscles,

Starting point is 00:30:10 or a headache, I make a decoction or infusion. And that's exactly the way Brother Aloysius described it. It has a soothing effect and a quicker... she was super and she says this is my way of getting rid of infections with fever without ruining my stomach and as you know aspirin is hard on the stomach let's see American use resources of the southern fields and forests we're using the black willow says and they was talking for so many but it was more the best substitutes for Peruvian bark or quinine says this species all species is considered valuable the bark possessing some power as a purgative anti-intermittent and vermifuge so it would help clean you out help with

Starting point is 00:31:05 malarial fevers and get rid of worms it also furnishes the principle called salicin from the results and they're talking about how they were beginning to discover discover aspirin at the time skipping ahead 1898 King's medical dispensatory said willow bark is tonic, antiperiodic, and astringent bitter. It has been given in intermittent dyspepsia, connected with the debility of the digestive organs, passive hemorrhages, chronic mucus discharges, and convalescence from acute diseases and in worms. Although occasionally substitute for chinchona or quinine again, Peruvian bark, it is inferior in activity.

Starting point is 00:31:46 In chronic diarrhea and dysentery, the tonic and astringent combination of the willow renders it very eligible. Modern Use Plants for Future says of black willow, The bark is anodyne, anti-inflammatory, anti-periodic, antiseptic, astringent, diaphoretic, diuretic, febrifuge, hypnotic, sedative, and tonic. Now, hypnotic means it helps you sleep. It doesn't mean it makes you hypnotized, but, you know, whatever. Bark is used interchangeably with salix alba, white willow, taking the treatment of rheumatism, arthritis, gout, inflammatory stages of autoimmune diseases, diarrhea, dysentery, illnesses neuralgia and headache the bark can be used as a poultice and cuts and wounds sprains bruises swelling etc and the leaves are

Starting point is 00:32:33 used in the treatment of minor fevers illnesses and colic and let's see Rodell's illustrative psychopedia of herbs just says of willow bark in general used by herbalists is an anodyne antipyretic astringent detergent tonic anti-periodic and antiseptic it is useful in headaches neuralgia hay fever fever pain and inflammation of the joints like aspirin Peterson Field Guide for Eastern Central and Eastern Medicinal Plants says of white willow the bark of this willow and other willows with very bitter and astringent barks has traditionally been used for diarrhea, fevers, pains, arthritis, rheumatism, poultice or wash,

Starting point is 00:33:14 used for corns, cuts, cancers, ulcers, poison ivy rash, et cetera. Salicylic acid derived from salicin found in the bark is the precursor to aspirin. Botany and day says willow is common in the wilderness and commonly known in wilderness medicine due to its aspirin like qualities it is used for headaches fevers hay fevers neuralgia inflammation of the joints some of the salic some salicylic acid is excreted in urine making it useful as an analgesic to the urethra and bladder so good for you know urinary pain and such we will

Starting point is 00:33:50 end here yeah we'll end with the physicians desk reference for herbal medicine this is the book your doctor would use if he has any interest in herbs or wants to make sure they don't interfere with your medication it says the it says the efficacy of the drug is due mainly to the proportion of salicin present after splitting of the acyl residue the cells and glycosides converted to salicin the precursor of salicylic acid salicylic acid is antipyretic, antiphlogistic, and analgesic. White willow bark is the precursor of salicylic acid aspirin. The salicin component is responsible for the anti-inflammatory and antipyretic effects.

Starting point is 00:34:37 The tannin has astringency, and that property works on mucous membranes. Indications and usage approved by Commission E. Rheumatism and pain. Salicin is useful in diseases accompanied by fever, rheumatic ailments, headache, and pain caused by inflammation. Folk medicine uses include toothache, gout, gastrointestinal disorders, diarrhea, and wound healing. Contraindicationsications willow bark is

Starting point is 00:35:06 contraindicated in patients that have hypersensitivity sensitivity to salicylate salicylate should not be used in children with flu-like symptoms due to the association of salicylates with rey syndrome patients with active gastric or do it duodenal or duodenal however you want to pronounce it they're both rightcer, hemophilia, asthma, and diabetes should avoid willow bark preparations. Salicylates should be avoided during pregnancy. Salicylates have been associated with rashes in breastfed infants. Usage is not recommended. Generally, though, no health hazards are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. Stomach

Starting point is 00:35:53 complaints could occur as a side effect due to the tannin content. All right, y'all, we will wrap it up there. As always, this is from my book, The Medicinal Trees of the American Southeast. As always, this is for my book, The Medicinal Trees of the American Southeast. And these trees grow pretty much everywhere because that's what trees basically do. You got, you know, like I said, the the palmettoes, the cabbage palms and such, tropical tree. So that's not one that grows everywhere. But you're gonna find willow pretty much everywhere. So anyway, y'all, go back and enjoy your uh turkey time to make some that good turkey testrazini with the leftovers if you're already tired of

Starting point is 00:36:30 your turkey and mashed potatoes with gravy which i certainly am not and um got some good ham and all kinds of good stuff and that's uh my favorite time of the year so i'm gonna go and enjoy that i hope you 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 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

Starting point is 00:37:15 and if I believe in herbs, help 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. Be careful with your health. By continuing to listen to my podcast or read my blog, you agree to be responsible for yourself, do your own research make your own choices and not to blame

Starting point is 00:37:48 me for anything ever

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The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Willow and Palmetto

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