The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Winter Storm Prep and Mallow

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey y'all, welcome this week's show. I hope you are batting down and prepared for the storm. I have been trying. But not being on my home base. You know? I'm down in the central part of the state. North Carolina looks like we're going to get hit with a lot more ice in the center of the state than I would if I was home in the mountains. And of course, I don't have all my preps at hand. I don't, I do have my bug out bag. but I'm not bugging out in an ice storm. I've had to adapt it to bugging in in a place that's entirely dependent on the grid. This is not like it is where I'm in the mountains. In the mountains, I have a well, a spring, a creek, and a river across the road. I never have to worry about water,

Starting point is 00:00:51 plus 270 days a year of precipitation. I have a big old fireplace and plenty of wood. I have a pile of coal. I have a kerosene heater with backup kerosene. I have propane. I don't even know what all I got. You know, I mean, you just keep stacking it and stacking it. Stored food, which, you know, pretty much had to get out of there after the hurricane

Starting point is 00:01:14 and just try to go through it because otherwise it was just going to get nasty, you know, between mice and mold and all that, you know, flooding and everything. I got my batteries out of there, of course, got my radios out of there. I guess I'm about as prepared as I can be in this location because this is, you know, heat pump electric. There's a backup gas fireplace, so I've got a few ways of cooking. I got some sterno and I got my alcohol stove and if need be, I've got, you know, a little twig burner and a grill and all that.

Starting point is 00:01:54 charcoal and heat would be pretty much dependent on that gas fireplace and I think the tank would hold out for a week or two so I'm not too worried about it you know just not there's nothing to complain about I'm not going to be out driving around in this ice I know that I went out yesterday and the day before and stocked up on groceries and hit the ABC stores and you know got a couple books to read, got my instruments to play. So I'm not terribly concerned, you know, got the Balfang. If I want to listen to the scanner, I found out what's that channel? There's a little tip I can give you. If you haven't done this before, absolutely be sure to go to the site. There are a couple really good ones, but radio reference. Radioreference.com, I guess it is. Yeah. And be sure to find

Starting point is 00:02:50 your police dispatch, EMS, county emergency management, your weather stations, be sure to get your weather stations, pre-programmed in to whatever radio you use. You know, they're certainly better radios than the UV-5R, but as a UV-5R pro. I like it, and I was really surprised to see what kind of range I was getting down here with just, you know, a little antenna upgrade. what they call the rubber duck or whatever it comes with it pretty decent antenna actually you know let me give you another tip on eBay there's a seller that has the cheapest best quality antennas I have found for a Balfang they probably

Starting point is 00:03:39 work with you know other comparables let me see this was about this was the 10 watt for the Belfang UV5 R through 82 144 430 MH Z dual band antenna four bucks I paid four bucks for it let me put that in perspective let me give you the I'm gonna give you the seller be sure to show this guy out gravity standard neat name very cool actually gravity standard got excellent feedback on 1.6 million of these sold so you probably got one one already well okay he's got other items too I see you know like the cables you use to program some jewelry you know it's chargers and such on his

Starting point is 00:04:26 site so it's not all antennas and it's a pretty eclectic site actually um replacement batteries but yeah dude seems to be in a jewelry and radios gravity standard that's ebay.com forward slash shtr forward slash gravity standard so check that out i mean for four bucks and i mean you know balfeng's a cheap radio in the first place you don't expect a whole lot out of it so when i first got down here, you know, in the mountains I have like incredible reception. I am like 10 miles from, well, as the crow flies, you go about, well, let's say 15 miles and then straight up to get to the repeater up on Mount Mitchell. So, I mean, literally from, well, especially from the ridge behind my house, which is like 5,200 some feet, or Mount Mitchell, which is the highest peak east of the

Starting point is 00:05:17 Mississippi with just the old, you know, cheap balfang with the rubber duck antenna. I mean, I'm picking up. I can pick up Johnson City, Tennessee. I can pick up Hickory and Charlotte. I mean, I'm getting just incredible range. So when I got down here in the central part of the state, I tried it, and I was only picking up, I don't know, stuff within 10, 15, maybe 20 miles at best. So I saw that antenna.

Starting point is 00:05:42 I had good reviews. I thought, heck, for four bucks, what are you got to lose? Four bucks with free shipping? I mean, come on. So, yeah, put in an order, not expecting much. Very pleased, very pleased. I can now, sitting here in Moore County, I can pick up all, I can pick up the Southern Pines Police Dispatch,

Starting point is 00:06:01 I can pick up Pinehurst EMS and fire, I can pick up their county and, like, school stations, like their school buses are still on these bands. But there's a GMRS in the county, I can pick that up great But I can pick up all like seven counties around me which is actually a pretty huge range for for a balfang which is a little Antenna I can get anything available out of the Fayetteville area and if you know Fort Bragg and Pope and all that you know there are a lot of channels that are not available to the public

Starting point is 00:06:37 But there's a there is a GMRS repeater and there are some a couple channels I can get almost up to like the triangle area. I can get at least into Lee County, which is going to link towards Chapel Hill and Raleigh. Randolph, Montgomery, Richmond, I mean, you don't know all these places. I understand what I'm saying is with a $4 antenna upgrade, I am picking up everything essentially from Florence,

Starting point is 00:07:05 South Carolina, Charlotte, and Raleigh and Wilmington. And all the weather stations, and I'm just like, wow, this is, It was surprising, so I can't wait to get back up in the mountains and see what this cheap little antenna does up there. I mean, this is really kind of mind-blowing. And, of course, I got my weather radio with the crank and the solar panel and all that, and my little short band and everything. And so, you know, I'm pretty good.

Starting point is 00:07:33 I'm pretty good. I always carry with me, what, seven, eight ways of making fire and three or four ways of purifying water. You know, I'm pretty much prepared on just about anything. And, of course, it's wintertime, so we don't have to be. have to worry about food store. It's spoilage so much. So if the power does go out, I got some frozen meat in the freezer and plenty of rice and beans and canned tomatoes and herbs and spices and stuff I would need. Now, but for you, of course, I don't know where you are. You may be in a place like up in Michigan or Chicago or something where it's going like, I don't know, 40 below.

Starting point is 00:08:06 Take every precaution. And if you can stay in due, I mean, cars can trucks and things that go can really act up in cold weather like this. I mean, it can sap your battery in the blink of an eye. You can be stranded. Be sure you've got some emergency gear in your vehicle. I mean, obviously, have your coat, your gloves, your hat with you and all that. Be gassed up. Have an extra gas can if you can, you know, in case you get stuck and have to run your vehicle for a while to stay warm. That's never ideal. Cheap mylar space blanket. Always good to have on hand. There is, oh, another thing I really like.

Starting point is 00:08:48 It's a little emergency tent. And I like this both in an emergency outdoors. It would not be like ideal, but it's certainly better than nothing. If you get stuck in your vehicle, this thing is really great. It's the go-time gear life tent. They usually come in, I think they do one in green, but usually they're bright colors. like signal orange or yellow and inside is lined with mylar and like if you're an SUV or something or you got a camper on the back of your truck or whatever this thing

Starting point is 00:09:22 could save your life of course you could use it as essentially a sleeping bag and a car it's a tube style tent you just kind of like well you don't even really staked down the corners you put a rock or something in the corners if you're using this outside and run a line what do they call that line that goes across well you you know what I'm talking about. You just take a piece of paracord and, gosh, why am I blanking on that word? Benchline? That can't be right.

Starting point is 00:09:54 You know what I'm talking about. It literally just goes up with a piece of paracord between two trees or a post or whatever you got. It can be used in your vehicle very easily. It can absolutely be a lifesaver. Be sure you've got food and water in case you're stuck for a while. a little alcohol burning stove would not be a bad thing to have just remember you got to have ventilation you don't want to be stuck in there with fumes and such yeah I mean but take take precautions backup batteries are always good a jump starter for your vehicle absolutely and if you're if

Starting point is 00:10:33 you're home be sure to keep those pipes dripping be sure to keep those taps going open your cabinet doors, just tuck in and try to get through it. It's going to be a bad one for most of the United States. And it looks like the South's going to get ice and the North's just going to be in an absolute polar deep freeze. And, you know, you should be prepared. If you're listening to this show, you're probably more prepared than I am. So I'm not too worried about you, but I just going to give a few tips, you know, just in case. If the power goes out, if the cell towers go out, have that radio on hand, at least to get to the weather stations and emergency messages. And, you know, if you got your license, GMRS or ham radio license, that's great. But remember,

Starting point is 00:11:25 in an emergency situation, you can broadcast without a license. No one's ever been charged with a crime, to the best of my knowledge, for saying, help, I am about to die, send the EMS to this location. Garmin Enreach is absolutely superior to just about anything I know up right now. if you got one of those, you're probably set on comms. If you haven't looked into Garmin, man, did we learn about those things during the hurricane? I mean, when the hurricane, Helene came in and knocked out power for weeks, sell towers for weeks. There were like two things that worked, and that was Starlink that Elon Musk brought in.

Starting point is 00:12:15 Well, let me say there's three things that work. Starlink, ham radio coming off of Mount Mitchell. That was a lifesaver. for so many communities because the guys were getting on there and communicate and saying, you know, this community is completely cut off. Drop supplies there. You know, all the private helicopters and stuff and Samaritan's purse and everything that was keeping people alive.

Starting point is 00:12:37 The government was doing a horrible job. Ham radio really helped. But those Garmin in reach, they are so cool. They're really made for like hikers and backpackers and such as that. I think that's what they're designed for. boaters, sailors, whatever. It's like a little tiny pager almost. You can, it's satellite linked.

Starting point is 00:13:02 It's crazy cheap. I mean, it's a little bit of an investment, maybe, you know, one to 200 bucks depending on the model you buy. And then it's like six bucks a month. And you essentially have a little sap phone that goes with you everywhere. It does not have voice capability in most of them.

Starting point is 00:13:19 It gives you GPS. It will give you maps on the larger versions. It will, it has an emergency button. It will send, you know, signal to the closest, like 911 and show them your GPS location if you get in trouble. It will send text. It will send email. It will actually send encoded messages if you set it up that way. If I'm not mistaken, I have not tried that on one of those, but I've been told it can.

Starting point is 00:13:48 Shoot even the little bowel phone. can send one of those if you've got the app on your cell phone so that's probably you know I'm sure it probably can do that it can even update your Twitter if you need to do that or send an email I mean it's crazy and you know where I live we have very spotty cell coverage on a good day I mean middle of summer basically between one end of the National Forest to the other there may be three locations where I can get a couple of bars if I had to send a text and I can't make any calls. I mean, even from my house, I basically have to use the Wi-Fi to use the cell phone, you know.

Starting point is 00:14:30 Those Garmin in-reach, and there is a competing brand that's a little bit cheaper. The name doesn't come to me. Be sure to check those things out. They are so cool. I mean, really. And absolute lifesaver. I mean, look, if you were heading from, let's say, Morganton, North Carolina to Boone, North Carolina, and you were driving through the area where I live,

Starting point is 00:14:56 which is almost essentially directly in between those two towns, or to Johnson City or to Asheville, you know, even to a large town like Asheville. If you were coming through my area, which is sitting like, I'm like right on the edge of one national forest and in the middle of another national forest, you know, NASCA and Pizca, Nattahela, plus all kinds of state land in the parkway and all that around. Let's say you're coming up the mountain or down the mountain even worse and This ice storm hit and suddenly your car is off a bank and you're stranded and you're not getting cell coverage and you would have to hike up a steep slope And you probably banged up maybe you got a broken leg right? I mean and you're having to hike up a steep slope in you know 13 degree weather or colder nine degree weather

Starting point is 00:15:48 wind, ice, you're going to die. I mean, that's it. You're dead. I mean, unless you can camp out in your car and keep a fire going until somebody sees a smoke, you're going to die. One of those little garment in-reach or competing brands, fantastic. You're getting out of there within a couple hours. I mean, depending on road conditions, they're going to get the EMS to come from one of those counties, and you're getting out of there, even if they have to come in by helicopter.

Starting point is 00:16:18 or they're going to come get you. I don't like to have to rely on other people, but, you know, that just makes sense. The same would be true, you know, if you're in a boat and you get a storm and you get off course and, you know, whatever. Those things are really cool. If you're in a city, you might want to look into mesh-tastic or mesh core. Really great capabilities. I do believe this is like the wave of the future. I could easily see these replacing a lot of cell phones.

Starting point is 00:16:48 they're essentially pagers that operate over basically ham radio channels. And there are various companies that make these like pagers like Lily Go is the one I really like. Where I live totally impractical, I mean, they're not five people in a hundred mile radius that are using these services. So there's no one to communicate with. But you can set up your own repeater in your house. You can find the highest area in your area and set up a repeater for a community. If you're in an urban area that's essentially free once you buy the equipment and download the software. And, I mean, no more cell phone bill, that's pretty cool.

Starting point is 00:17:29 The only thing is somebody on the other end has to have something that is on the same network. So it's not like the Garmin where it will communicate with cell phones all over the world, right, through text message, through your little device that connects to the satellite, like a little tiny sap phone that has no voice. capacity. Well, the meshcore, meshtastic are similar. They have no voice capacity. They send text, but they're only going to text somebody that has that device or has downloaded the software, the app, essentially to their phone. And how often is that going to happen? Not where I live. Now, if you're in a city, there may be thousands of people already on that network. You may want to go and check it out. Definitely very cool. And I do think.

Starting point is 00:18:18 that's probably I mean depending on what Elon Musk is doing with Spectrum and all these you know cell phone networks and satellites the meshcore messatastic may very well be the next big thing and with an investment of less than a hundred bucks to get started and no monthly fee I love it I just it it's totally impractical for me I live in a community of 70 people 70 people they're literally more bears than people the nearest town that I mean about eight miles away to get to the nearest grocery store and to really get to a town where like you'd have a Walmart or something right or a hardware well there's a small hardware store I shouldn't say that

Starting point is 00:19:07 but like a Lowe's or a Home Depot or you know something you're looking for 17 20 miles depending on which direction I'm going I'm just not going to find anybody on that network And then, of course, I'm also in that very mountainous terrain. I would have to go to the top of the mountain to broadcast, which for me means a five-mile hike up the ridge, which I don't mind doing, but I wouldn't want to go out in this weather to do it. I can tell you that much right now. So now we'll talk about herbs. I think we've wandered far enough afield, and I'm sure there are many other things I am not thinking of as far as prepping.

Starting point is 00:19:45 I mean, you know, priorities always shelter. Think of your car as a shelter. Prepare it as you would a shelter or stay home if you possibly can. I definitely do not advocate going out driving around and mess like this. Stupid people get, well, play stupid games and get stupid prizes, you're right? After shelter, you know, first aid, water, fire, heat, food. so yeah I mean just cover the basic communications should certainly be on that list though I would think especially if you do have to be driving around you cannot always rely on that cell phone don't be too dependent on that cell phone we learned that the hard way

Starting point is 00:20:29 yeah wool blankets are always great to have mylar space blankets you know emergency blankets I keep one in my in glove box I keep one in my actually in my wallet. I have a little compartment. I guess it was like a change compartment. I keep one in there. You know, just never know. And, um, heck, you can stick one in your hat. And it costs like a dollar. I mean, what excuse do you have, right? Change of socks, um, good warm gloves. I can't really think anything else right now that really jumps out. I mean, make sure you have your fuel sources. Um, and otherwise, just hunker down and let's get through it and don't act like idiots because that's when you get hurt. People act like idiots.

Starting point is 00:21:15 And golly Pete. Have I seen that many, many times? Many, many times. Oh, gosh. I remember when I was in my teens, maybe around 20, or probably early 20s. So, you know, I come from a family that grew up doing this. We're used to hurricanes on the coast. We're used to ice storms in the winter and blizzards and everything in between.

Starting point is 00:21:42 Family's been in North Carolina since the 1600s. people often ask me, what should I do? What should I do? Have chains. There's one. I should have all the chains for the tires, right? Emergency flares, you know, just simple advice. As I always say, I don't really consider myself a prepper. I just consider myself someone who grew up in this, hey, you know, the power's probably going to go out for two or three weeks, be prepared mentality. So people would always come to me for advice. So I was going to a local community college, getting a couple of those ridiculous requirements out of the way. So I didn't have to pay for them at an actual university.

Starting point is 00:22:21 Always a good plan. Don't spend more money than you have to. So I was taking a couple of those. And, you know, a few of the students. What do we do? Okay, here's what you. You know what they did? Instead of preparing me and a buddy of mine from Illinois,

Starting point is 00:22:39 rural area of Illinois, he was down in North Carolina, taking some classes. And we had a. great time together we hit it off like gangbusters you know and so we're always like out you know hunting and fishing doing all the stuff that we both enjoy and so here you know these city kids and they're like what do what do we do we're away from home we don't you know our parents have always taken care of us all right and we give them the list we'll do this do this do this right down this number right you know this is your emergency contact numbers they're pretty much everything i just ran through

Starting point is 00:23:07 talking to you minus the radios because we weren't well he had a cb but you know how good how good was that you know anyway probably one or two took our advice literally most of them just kind of hunkered down in their apartments and almost froze to death and three or four them just decided to come stay with me yeah in the middle of the night phone rings in a blizzard I'm off the side of the road can you come get me I was coming to your house I'm like why well I figured you were prepared and you could take care of things all right i'll come get you the two of us spent a weekend pulling people out of ditches taking him to our house my my mother fixing soup for them i am not kidding we had to make it a two-family

Starting point is 00:24:00 effort bring in you know extended family uh we spent a good 48 hour period pulling people out of dishes off the side of the road treating frostbite getting warm food into people giving them a place to you know get a hot shower and a warm bit and don't be that person um and you would think there would have been like you know lifelong gratitude after that uh i don't think i ever saw any of them again except maybe one person i ran into and they were just like hey how you do it um you basically saved somebody's life there's no gratitude and i'm sure you're you're sure you're you all know that. They just, that's the way things go. So anyway, now we're going to talk about mallow, the uncommon mallow as I entitled this chapter in my encyclopedia of bitter herbs because

Starting point is 00:24:56 we think of mallow as being really common. All right, first of all, it's not marshmallow in the candy. Used to be, those marshmallows used to actually be made out of the plant mallow. Most herbless will use a plant, an herb called mallow. marshmallow. It's the mallow plant that grows in marshy areas. There's several other maloes. All of them are edible. All of them are good for food. The mallow family includes hibiscus. It includes okra. I mean, a lot of things that have that almost like slimy, musilageless texture come from the mallow family. When people used to make the candies, originally, they would take that like mucilage from the mallow and whip it with sugar and get

Starting point is 00:25:39 air into it. And it would actually turn into marshmallows. and if you've never had the real stuff, you've got to try it. There's actually, there's a recipe in my book. You can find it in different places. It's delicious. They're not soft and fluffy, like stay puffed marshmallows. They're more like a dense, like if you've ever had French chocolates that are marshmallow covered in a real rich dark chocolate or Belgian chocolate, something like that. You know, you bite into that marshmallow and it's not fluffy.

Starting point is 00:26:07 It's actually kind of chewy, more almost, almost. more like a nougat in texture and really delicious I mean really delicious but like I said there are many of them and they're all good for food the little unopened flower buds used to be called cheeses and they were really important like survival food in England and such and in well they look like the wheels of cheese that's why they were called cheeses they're like in these little wheel-shaped you know forms a culpeper writing 1652 so the common mallows are so generally well known that they need no description. And, you know, now basically

Starting point is 00:26:48 there's probably not five kids in the entire United States that can identify a mallow and probably just as few adults. And that's a real shame because they really grow all over the place. Y'all may be familiar with Dr. Patrick Jones, taking a few classes from him. He's one of my favorite herbalists. He does a lot, well, he did a lot through the Grow Network that's unfortunately just closed its doors. But you can still go to to his homegrown school of herbal medicine, he's great. He uses Mallow in his veterinary practice. He uses it in all cases of external tissue irritation or trauma and for any digestive issues. It's very soothing. It's also slightly as stringent. One of the books you may have seen online

Starting point is 00:27:36 is called The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies. I don't like the title because none of their herbal remedies are lost. I mean, I've certainly been preserving so of a lot of other people, but it's actually a really good book. Okay, so I got a copy of it, and I did not pay full price for it. It was one I'm just like, okay, I'm just going to dive in and see if this thing's really worth the hype. Pretty darn good herbal book. And in that, they list malo for acid indigestion, peptic ulcers, leaky gut, and digestive issues. dry costs bronchitis bronchia asthma congestion pluracy yeah

Starting point is 00:28:18 we also listed for teething pain skin irritations inflammation, swellings skin ulcers injuries and for removing foreign objects it can actually be made as a poultice that like pull a splinter out it's pretty neat that's that softening quality along with this is a stringency and I'm not going to I'm not going to quote at length.

Starting point is 00:28:40 Do you need a sip of water here. Oh, there we go. I'm not going to quote at length because, you know, it's a fairly new book. I guess it was published about five, ten years ago. It's still for sale. I don't want to. I like people to buy my books. I don't want to discourage you from buying your book.

Starting point is 00:28:56 I'm actually giving it a backhanded recommendation. Even though I hate the title, it's a darn good book. I'm glad to have it on my shelf. So Plants for a Future says of marshmallows, specifically, is a very useful household medicinal herb. It's soothing to mollcent properties make it very effective in treating inflammation and irritations of the mucus membranes, such as in the alimentary canal, the digestive system essentially.

Starting point is 00:29:22 The urinary and the respiratory organs. The root counters excess stomach acid, peptic ulceration, and gastritis. It is also applied externally to bruises, sprains, aching muscles, insect bites, skin inflammation, splinters, etc. The whole plant, but especially the root, is antitussive, means it helps stop coughing. Demulcate means softening. Diarrheic removes excess fluids. Highly amolient also means softening. Slightly, an infusion of the leaves that used treats cystitis and frequent urination. The leaves are

Starting point is 00:29:56 harvested in autumn. Dried for later use. Root can be used in ointment for treating boils and abscesses and the root is best also harvested in the autumn from two-year-old plants. historical references Miss Grieve really got into this one her book A Modern Irbal from the 1930s She starts with Job Yeah Job from the Bible

Starting point is 00:30:19 We would have malo eaten in time of famine But they thought they could also be orates Orich or personaline Anything with that musilaginous quality You know like Okra But anyway There's always a little debate over which plan is what In the Bible

Starting point is 00:30:36 even, this is a little aside. I remember one time a, I think it was a botanist said that he believed that the locusts in the Bible that John the Baptist State, you know, they said he lived on locusts and wild honey, could have actually been the pods from the honey locust tree. And it's, you know, you remember the prodigal son, he ate the pods that were supposed to the hogs. Well, those are the pods of the locust tree. Now, originally I proposed this to a biblical scholar.

Starting point is 00:31:09 He said, no, no way, it's got to be locust because of this Greek word and all that. But then I was speaking to another one and said, well, wait a minute. And this is a total sense. You know, the mosaic law, the law of the Deuteronomy and all that, forbids eating insects. So, yeah, that really could have been pods from a locust tree. So I don't know that we'll ever know. because you've got to remember that the Hebrew was translated into, well, Greek and Aramaic and then Latin.

Starting point is 00:31:41 And we don't really know if John the Baptist was eating insects or honey locust pods. Not that it's important, but there's always that, you know, just speculation, I guess we would say, of a witch plant that's actually being named. perfect example adjust myself here my chair there we go perfect example we've all remember this the parable that Jesus told if you have faith the size of a mustard seed you can move mountains right well let's see what that was actually the one I was going to quote it was the mustard seed which is the smallest that grows into the big tree that's it yeah the mustard seed the smallest of the seeds grows into big tree and all the birds take refuge in it and all that It's all part of the same parable, but that was the line I was trying to remember.

Starting point is 00:32:37 Most people think he's talking about mustard, the little plant we grow in the garden, right? Mustard as in mustard greens. Mustard as in the seeds we grind up and make the condiment mustard. Actually not. There's actually a mustard tree, an entirely different plant that grows in the Middle East. So the seeds look almost identical, and apparently they both have that hot peppery nature to them, and could pretty much be used interchangeably, but I think it's a persecaria grows into a tree. So for, I don't even know, several hundreds of years in Europe and America and anywhere in English-speaking countries,

Starting point is 00:33:22 we thought the mustard was that mustard we grow in the garden or make the condiment from, which doesn't make any sense because we know it doesn't grow into a tree. Well, there you have it. But anyway, I'm a plant geek. I get into that kind of stuff. But when it tells you that the mustard in the Bible is the mustard that grows in their garden, nope, it's not. It's actually two very different things.

Starting point is 00:33:47 But, you know, without that cultural experience, you don't have that knowledge. Because that tree literally just grows in a little area, you know, around Israel and Egypt and Babylon and all that Syria and Turkey and you know unless you're for that part of the world you have no idea what they're talking about which is why it's always good to put things in context always good to have context without a doubt people get very messed up reading the Bible out of context pulling a verse pulling a chapter reading it thinking they understand what it means not reading the entire book the entire chapter at least but just a line

Starting point is 00:34:27 here and there can really mess people up and has many many times throughout the ages. So anyway, she mentions that Horace and Marshall and Virgil all wrote the laxative properties of marshmallow leaves and roots and that Virgil was especially fond of using mallow for goat forage. Deas Corridis said really they didn't use it a whole lot as medicine in his time. it was the musk mallow was used to decorate graves, interestingly. Now, Pliny, or Pliny, I should say, Pliny the elder said, Who shall ever shall take a spoonful of mallowes? Shall that day be free from all diseases that may come to him?

Starting point is 00:35:11 Yeah. I mean, it's been known as food and medicine for many times. And actually, what she said about Deiasequartis wasn't quite true. He wrote of two types of mallow, and I think she was probably looking at the wrong one. He said, you know, used for bee and wasphings as a poultice, used for sores as a poultice, for burns, was good for those bitten by harvest spiders and et cetera. Althea is really the one, I think, that's more like the marshmallow. And he said that make a good poultice or, well, for all kinds of inflammations.

Starting point is 00:35:53 bruises, ulcerate sores, etc. Also a pecery, which is sort of like a suppository, essentially. Decoction of the root, take us drink and wine, helps with dysentery, pain in the hips, trembling in those trouble with hernia. It sootheses toothaches, boiled with vinegar in the mouth, washed with it. The seed, rubbed down with vinegar, would help with a certain form of skin. disease a lepros type condition good against dysottery vomiting of blood excess discharges from the bowels bee stings bites of small creatures etc so yeah he knew was about it I don't know why she I think she was reading about the wrong plant actually

Starting point is 00:36:41 so Mallow's very popular in the monastic medicine that began in Christian Rome and spread throughout Europe you know all the hospitals in Europe were once run by monks and nuns. The Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne commanded it be grown in gardens throughout the empire in his capitulare, issued around 802 AD. St. Hildegard von Bingen said that marshmallow prevails against fevers. If a person has a fever of any kind, he should pour a marshmallow into vinegar and drink it in the morning on an empty stomach and at night. The fever, whatever its nature, will cease. A person who has pain in his head should crush marshmallow with a bit less sage and mixing in a little olive oil and should warm it in his hand near the fire and place it on the forehead.

Starting point is 00:37:29 He should tie in all of the cloth and go to bed and he would do better. So headache remedy from about 1080. Continuing in that tradition, Father Nape in the 1800s, let's see, what does he say? Well, we don't even have to worry about it. Good for flam in the chest. sore throat, he goes on, he's very flowery and I'm going to run out time here

Starting point is 00:37:55 so I'm going to skip ahead his protege, brother Alwisha said, used for inflammation of the mucus membrane's consumption, inflammation and all complaints of the respiratory elements marshmallow especially

Starting point is 00:38:09 as a healthy official analyst for bladder complaints, painful urination, chest complaints, painful cough, sore throat, heavy bleeding, onset of pneumonia, inflammation of the stomach, diarrhea, dysentery,

Starting point is 00:38:18 dysentery and other intestinal complaints used for any type of inflammation wasp or bee stings. So yes, mallowes are quite useful. I think I'll skip Gerard this week. He basically says the same thing. Man, I already quoted coal pepper. So we're good there. If you're interested, look at my book, The Encyclopedia of Bitter, medicinal Herbs, got all this stuff in great detail. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:38:51 So, okay, one thing I didn't want to mention before we move on. The recipe for natural marshmallows. I believe Rosemary Gladstone has a really good one, but Yule Gibbons in his classic book, I guess this would be, I don't think it was stalking the wild asparagus. I think it was stalking the medicinal herbs. He loved marshmallow.

Starting point is 00:39:14 He did not, he was unable to make a good candy out of, it Rosemary Gladstar's recipes online so be sure check that out you can get it for free but he really liked to take the roots and boil them and then fry them up with butter and onions and he also used the the leftover like slime the mucilage from them as a substitute for egg white so that was pretty cool I thought but like I said the the leaves and flowers are all edible really it's a great plant get to know your maloes. They're really all over the place. And there's just good for so many things, from digestive issues to lungs, to sores, and wounds, and you name it. Anyway, y'all, hunker down.

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The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Winter Storm Prep and Mallow

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