The Prepper Broadcasting Network - MEDICAL MONEY: Honey and the Healing Powers w/ Cat Ellis

Episode Date: March 16, 2026

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Visit us in the interactive chat room at Prepper Broadcasting.com. And good evening, everyone, and welcome back to the herbal prepper live where we discuss herbal medicines for preppers because your health deserves a plan B. I'm your host, Kat, the herbal prepper, and it is my mission to educate as many people as possible in the safe use of herbal remedies, especially in preparation, for tough times ahead. Before I kick off tonight show, however, I need to satisfy the legal department here on my end with a few quick disclaimers. I am not a doctor. I do not prescribe or practice medicine. and I do not diagnose, treat, or claim to cure any disease or illness.

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Use it your own risk and with a heavy dose of common sense. With that said, the herbal preparerizes one woman's opinion on alternative to modern medicine during a total collapse of our way of life. In this hypothetical scenario, there are no doctors, no EMTs, no hospitals, and no pharmacies. Professional medical help is simply not an option. If you or your loved ones need health care, the buck stops with you. So I ask you if we were faced with the end of the world as we know it tomorrow,

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everyone in the chat room, and all those folks are going to be listening to Download Later. This is episode number 10, and tonight we are talking about honey and the medicinal properties of honey and how to incorporate honey into herbal remedies. It does so many wonderful things. It's so versatile.

And, you know, this is really one of the great treasures that we have in herbal medicine. So for those listening live, if you have something that you want to share, if you've got a nagging question, join us in the chat room or call into the show. The phone number to do so is 646-716-4008. Please do take advantage of this being a live show, and let's have some interaction either in the chat room or call in. I think it's really one of the great benefits of doing a live show. And let's see.

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and get used to signing in there to listen. That way the transition will be nice and smooth because the transition to a 24-7 format is already underway. So please go over to prepperbroadcasting.com and check out all of the truly, there's a very impressive array of preparedness podcast and resources available there and just start getting into the habit now of going there to listen to the show because it's going to be coming off of the talk soon

and you won't be able to find your new episodes there. So go over to prepperbroadcasting.com and all of the archive shows are there. So that's where you want to be tuning in when you tune into the shows from now on. So among these new shows, One I want to point out is the medic shack, which I co-host with Chuck Hudson. Chuck is an electrosiology tech. He's worked as a paramedic. He's a former combat medic.

He teaches emergency medicine, wilderness survival, firearm instruction. He's been around the medical field since 1982, and he teaches many of his classes in the New Mexico and Arizona area. And, you know, so we team up. And I think what's great about this show is that we bring both. Orthodox medicine and herbal medicine world together. Nothing's off the table. We draw from both of our toolkits to develop solutions and strategies for the healthcare preparedness. So I think that I think it's a nice balance between those two worlds.

Also, next Saturday, I am offering an herbal burn care webinar. And I don't know if you could hear that. There was a very loud vehicle that just drove by the house that had to have come through the microphone there. Oh, better than earlier. There was this huge, wonderful motorcycle ride, charity ride. Very impressive going out on outside, but I'm positive that I've been going on now, then that would have come through the microphone too. But anyway, the herbal burn care webinar, this is going to be happening this coming Saturday at 2 p.m.

And it's going to last for an hour, and there's going to be a 30-minute question and answer session afterwards. And if you have any questions regarding the material covered in class, you know, that's the time to cover it, but, I mean, if you don't think of something in those 30 minutes, you know, it's not like I'm going to be out of touch after that. You can always shoot me an email

or something get in touch with me. I tend to be pretty accommodating and available for that sort of stuff. So don't feel like, oh, well, I didn't come up with a question within that 30 minutes, well, you know, now I can't get my questions answered. No, I just shoot me an email and

and I'll see what I can do to help you out. So let me see. Where was I? This is something I want to point out, though, I'm offering this particular class for probably a really ridiculously low cost this time around because it's sort of a pilot program as I venture into the world of online classes. This is all sort of a new venture and, you know, a new thing I'm testing out new, new, new technologies here.

And normally I teach in person. That's what I'm used to. And this is all, you know, the whole technical aspect is a little new to me. But it's very exciting because this opens up so many opportunities to reach people that I would not have been able to reach otherwise. And so because there might be a slight learning curve in the actual mechanics of it, I decided to offer this very, very first class. at a very low cost, which is 20 bucks,

which is probably even low for that. Because there's a lot of value in it. I've packed a ton of information into it. I've packed a lot. You'd be very surprised about how much more stuff you can get into this type of a format than I can in the same amount of time in a life class. But let's see, you're going to be learning some very important stuff. is, you know, if you don't have anyone, if you don't have any medical care nearby,

if you don't have any option for getting any kind of skilled care and you have a burn, you can't just ignore it, you know, you have to deal with it. So rather than, you know, leave something untreated, which could turn very serious very quickly, you will learn in this webinar how to address first, second, and third degree burn, assess the extent of the burn, and how to respond appropriately. You will learn how to make herbal products that do four things, promote cell proliferation, fight infection, provide pain release, and facilitate the healing of the tissues with minimal scarring.

And, you know, one of the things that is also going to be doing is I'm giving away a burn care kit. And this is the ProDotype kit that I created to go with this course when I was putting together all of my final recipes to put together for this. Things are a little different when I teach in person things to be a little bit more fluid. But in this kind of scenario, I kind of had to be a bit more precise. So I put together a kit based on this class, and I'm going, I made several of these things, and this is the final, the final kit that I came up with. So it doesn't have lots of fancy labeling or packaging, but this is, you know, this is a very workable herbal burn care kit that if I were to package it up nicely or something,

the retail value would be at least twice the cost of the class. So, you know, if you can make the date on this coming Saturday at 2 p.m., I'd strongly recommend that you do so. Now, if you can't make the state, I'm going to be offering this class, you know, hopefully every couple of months. I'm going to be scheduling one for next month also because I was sort of flooded with emails. I didn't realize when I scheduled the class that next weekend is a long weekend, and people are going away.

And I had a lot of inquiries about, you know, when am I going to do it again? Well, instead of doing it in two months, I'll schedule another date next month to do it because I know that there was a substantial number of people who did contact me and said, yeah, this next weekend's not going to work because we're going out of count. So I will schedule one for next month, but it's not going to be at the $20. It's still going to be very affordable. but it's not going to be $20, but it might be in the 35-ish range or so. I think that that's a fair, somewhere in that ballpark would be a fair rate for this.

So anyway, it will be to register for my webinar. And let me just say something else about webinars too. Don't let that term turn you off because I know that a lot of webinars are pretty much giant infomercials. If you've ever attended a lot, you know, any of these things where people say, oh, you know, there's a free webinar. You need a free one.

But there's a lot of free webinars that, you know, people host and they talk, you know, they promise to teach you something about, you know, whatever their, you know, whatever their product is supposed to, you know, deal with. And you spend an hour waiting to hear any real information and then by the end of it,

you realize they're just trying to sell, a product. This is not what this is. This is a class. The product is the class. So the burn care webinar again next Saturday, 2 o'clock. If you want to sign up for it, go to my website.

That is herbalprepper.com and go to the courses available page. And if you can read a little bit more about the course and there is a PayPal button down at the bottom. You do not have to have PayPal to

use that payment feature. But it's there at the very bottom of that. And I have to point that out because I'm so proud of myself that I figured out the technology to add a Paysaw button. So these little things make me happy, figuring these things out,

do make me very, very happy. All right, so I have a giveaway update. If you've been following my Facebook page, you know that I've had a giveaway going on for two fluid ounces of Valerian root thing sure. And the last I checked, there was only a couple of people left because I was going to be giving this away

when I reached 600 likes, and I think there was only maybe like five more likes to go. If you want to get in on that, go to my website because then you'll find a link directly to my Facebook page, or you can search on Facebook and look for herbal prepper. Go there. Like the page. Share the photo of the Valerian Root Tinkshire

on your Facebook wall, and you will be entered. If you miss out on the Valerian route, I'll need to tell you the next one that's going to be going right after that is for a bottle of cayenne tincture. So if you want to make sure that you get in on these chances to win some type of an herbal product, then go to my Facebook page and like it. And I think that this

is a neat way to kind of promote the page without having to shell out a ton of money to Facebook, which doesn't necessarily give you a whole bunch of good leads for that. I really only want people on the page that are actually interested in learning about, you know, learning about for, you know, emergency preparedness. So I'm trying to stay pretty engaged over there. So let's see. And the last announcement before we start talking about honey, I have been tossing around an idea in my head.

Oh, maybe a couple of months now. And I decided to press ahead with it. I still have a few things to flesh out about this. But I'm going to be starting some type of a membership service, and it's based upon a CSA or community-supported agriculture farm model. Only this wouldn't be a CFA because I don't have a farm yet, but we're talking about herbal products instead. So this would be like a community-supported herbalism instead.

Now, if you don't know what a CFA is this is where a farm sells shares. They don't sell the produce or whatever they raise or they sell a share. And this is much like the corporation sell shares to its shareholders. And the farm gets paid up front for the season and the risk for good or bad weather or pests is shared among all of the shareholders. And this helps keep small farms viable. And, you know, most of the paperwork for them is like handled one time. And the rest of the season, they just get concerned themselves with actually, you know, being a farmer and producing, you know, their produce.

And you get, you know, the shareholders then get the absolute precious, you know, most local food they can possibly get. And we've had a share in a CSA for about seven years in addition to what I grow in the backyard. And it's consistently produced, you know, far more food for our money than we could have, ever glown ourselves or because our backyard is quite small or that we could have ever have gotten from a grocery store and it's far better quality than we could have gotten from the grocery store so yeah as far as an investment like one would buy a share in a corporation as far as an investment this has paid out far greater dividends to us there was only one year due to some very unaccommodating weather where the share was

noticeably smaller every single week and it was then it was on other years but even still it was pretty comparable to what we would have you know paid if we had gone to a grocery store to buy everything but it was far better quality than we would have gotten then so you know it's been I think a very good investment I also like the food security in it because it's local you know it's community-supported It's a little bit different. I grow many of my herbs here at home. I don't have a farm yet.

That's something that I hope to get started, well, not hope to, it's something I will get started once we transition here from Massachusetts up to Maine because we do have land up there that would certainly accommodate that. And, you know, while I can't grow everything here, though, so I do sometimes wildcraft, which is, when you go out into, you know, wilder places out into nature

and you find the plants growing naturally. And you have to be very respectful when you do that because if you're not careful, you can pay too much. You can not leave enough for other people to other herbal to come or, you know, other people who are coming out to forage and collect, you know, from the plants. And, you know, you also want to make sure that you leave enough for the plant to continue to survive. For instance, if I were to harvest all of the flowers off of my elderberry bushes, then I won't have any elderberries when, you know, when the time comes for collecting those.

So you want to make sure that you, you know, that you also don't wild harvest endangered plants. Goldenfield is one of them that is as horribly over-wildcrafted. And let me see, with another one, slippery elm, that's another one that is a bit endangered from people over-harvesting that in the wild. And if you get ingredients like that, I think it's probably more ethical to just purchase them from someone who's, like, you can, instead of getting them wildcrafted, when you buy herbs, if you didn't know, they will tell, you know, they'll tell you whether they're cultivated or whether they're wildcrafted. And if they are cultivated, especially like if you buy something like organic golden seal or organic,

or I guess they'll say, slippery-owned, yeah, slippery-owned bark, then not only, the organic label can only be put on something as cultivated. So this is being managed. It's not being overharvested. It's being preserved along with being harvested. So this is not just going into an open area and just taking all that you can. It's someone who's managing their crop of this. So there are certain things that in this community supported herbalism program that I would put together,

put together that I would choose not to go wildcraft and if I can't grow them either do the space or restrictions on my property now or because they just simply don't grow where I live. I mean, I use a lot of coconut oil in my product. Yeah, I'm not growing any coconut trees here in Massachusetts. It's just not something that we would be very good at here. So there's there'd be some blend of purchased products, but I try to stay only to the organic products because I don't want

the chemicals to get in there, but whenever I can I use stuff that I've grown myself or stuff that I've wildcrafted myself. So what I was thinking and feeling is putting all this together and creating like a monthly share, which would go out to a membership base

and there'd be several different levels of participation based on time and amounts, and there'd be a special members-only newsletter that would match up with the items in there, going into quite a bit of detail of what these things can do. And, you know, I realize that a lot of people may want to learn about herbs, and, you know, they really like the idea of being able to, recreate their own remedies at home. But if you're like most preppers, you've got this really

long list of skills that you're learning. And if you didn't grow up with all of this, you know, then as an adult, you're kind of, I mean, I know I'm not the only one out there that sort of feels like they are scrambling to learn tons of new skills. And, you know,

and sometimes there are ones you really want to learn how to do and they keep getting put to the back burner because other things become more pressing. So I thought, well, maybe, you know, I could just put together something already prepackaged. People could get accustomed to, you know, using them and get more familiar with herbal products and also to see, you know, the great variation of different types of uses and the remedies that are out there. So I thought that might be a nice bridge between someone who wants to learn about verbal remedies

and how to make their own, how to grow their own medicines and how to make their own medicines and actually doing it in that in-between phase because, like I said, that list just keeps growing and growing and growing. And then there are some people who just would prefer to buy a product. And, you know, they get all the benefits of it, but they just really don't, for whatever reason, are not interested. in learning how to make it themselves, and that's fine. You know, I mean, there are some tasks that I have been meaning to get to skills that they're on my ever-growing list that I want to get to that, yeah, I haven't gotten there yet, and like making soap is one of them.

I saw on the list because I know it's something I need to know how to do, but I know a lot of soap makers and a lot of people who make their own homeowner. soap and I have access to, you know, several friends that do this professionally. You know, they market their homemade soap and getting very high quality soap is not difficult for me. So sometimes it's hard for me to justify taking the time away from something else to learn how to make soap. So it hasn't happened yet.

And I'm sure that that's happening for some people with herbal remedies as well. So I'm thinking that this community-supported herbalism model might work to help fill in that doubt. So anyway, I just throw that out there. So be on the lookout for that. I'll probably be mentioning more of that in the coming week. So now, getting on to honey, I am very fortunate in that my husband, and keep speeds. And about, I want to say,

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years ago. No, seven, well, it's been a while now. My husband was, we were getting into need making, which is homeblowing, and we were making wine from honey. And I came across an article on colony collapse disorder. And I remember, you know, looking up at my husband and saying, oh, geez, we just started eating in his hobby. I hope that honey is not going to become too expensive. This was, you know, where I was coming from at this point. I hope honey is not going to be too expensive that, you know, we can't continue with it. And I don't know where he just looked up with me and said, you know what?

I always wanted to keep bees. And I'm thinking, are you out of your mind? I mean, you want to actively get involved with thousands of flying, stinging insects? Yeah, I'm like, okay, all right. I'm up for this. Let's try this. And I will tell you that this is, I am someone who has had a lifelong phobia of flying, stinging incense. I, I, this is, this is, this was not an easy transition for me.

This was not easy to get the guts up and go out there and participate in working on the hives with him. But I have to say from someone who was terrified, but to the point of like hyperventilating terrified of being around them, they are fascinating. And I'm so glad that, you know, my husband has this odd interest in, you know, wanting to, I certainly learned a lot about the bees themselves. And it's, you know, definitely been a huge boon to my herbalism practice to have, you know, pretty much a never-ending supply of honey.

and I think that, you know, the ability to produce honey, if you are preparing and you're stockpiling and you are increasing your independence, and I think that if you can keep these, you should. If you are not allergic, then I think it's a very valuable thing to do. I mean, just the barter value alone on the honey and the wax. Well, I mean, I can, well, I'm not going to talk about the wax today,

but all I'll say about the wax is that I don't think I've ever smelled anything as beautiful as beeswax. It's just a, when my husband starts putting frames together for the hive, you know, and he's in, you know, this one room where he's putting them together and there's all the wax foundation and he's putting the frames together. I have to go in there and just sort of sit here in the room and just take in that aroma.

It's just deliciously sweet. And, you know, the honey that comes from it is, it really is a gift. I don't know of anything that is as good for wounds or burns as honey. And I think that if we're looking at a future where, you know, if we can't rely on the systems that we have, they are, we know they're vulnerable. And if we are, you know, if we're aware that, you know, civil unrest is something that is coming down the pipeline. If we're, you know, whether there are going to be food shortages and we're aware that, you know, there are risks from, you know, there are risks from,

MRSA out in the community. It's not just in hospitals anymore. There's, you know, community acquired MRSA. And we know that there's, you know, there's, you know, there's, we know that there are certain types of threats out there that would make having something that, you know, helps protect us, you know, certain types of injuries like burns and wounds and this, you know, these skin infections, you know, it's, you know, it's, you know, it's, you know, it's This is very simple medicine.

It's a very powerful thing. Honey has been used for, honey has been used for wounds and burns, as well as, you know, other applications, but those two specifically, I think, are what's going to probably catch most preppers' attention. For thousands of years, I mean, going back maybe, as the earliest mention,

was on a Sumerian tablet. And so, you know, it probably goes back before that. I don't think that, you know, they discovered the healing properties of honey that day and then started chisuling on a tablet. This was like 4,000 years ago. So, you know, we've been working with these for a long time. Honey has stood the test of time, you know, for care in wounds and bones. And what it does with wounds, when you pack a wound with honey,

It prevents infection. It allows for healing from the inside out. And it helps the tissues to heal in a much more natural way. It cuts down on the scarring. And, you know, that may be an issue for some people, not an issue for others, but it's a humectin. It keeps things from drying out. It prevents a deep wound from turning into a bad day.

And it does the same thing for burns. It's amazing for burn. I'm part of the reason why I think I started off my online classes with the burn tear webinar. Burns and I, I mean, especially when it comes to sunburns, I mean, I know that when people think of a sunburn, you know, no big deal, it's a first-degree burn. I've had some serious burns on the sun. I have very, very light skin, and I'm very photosensitive.

And when I go out into the sun, I really have to be very careful. And I can't be outside for very long without protection. And there was a time where I was, I want to say about maybe eight. Yeah, that's about right in that ballpark. I went to the beach with some of my mother's cousins, and they, very different backgrounds. I'm adopted. I'm their background as Portuguese, and they were much darker than I am, and they could stay at the beach a lot longer than I could. They weren't really accustomed to how much protection I really needed, and I was severely burned.

I mean, severely, like, blistering burned, and you can get blistering burned from the sun. So when it comes to knowing remedies for what works for burns and what does it, trust me, this is my, this is, this is, I know from personal experience how much they hurt and how much honey helps. If there's a remedy out there for a burn, I know what it is, and honey is just one of the best, and I really credit it for leaving me without tons of scarring from some of the burns that I've had. I think a lot of people are aware that honey is anti-bacterial. And I know that someone's probably thinking it's bacteriastatic, it's not antibacterial, it's bacteriastatic, and I think we're just sort of splitting the difference. It's a difference without a distinction, really,

because ultimately in the end, the bacteria is killed, and that's what we're going for. So it is also anti-allergenic, So if you've got seasonal allergies, it's another very common use that people use honey. Four, it is antifungal, it's anti-inflammatory, it's anti-viral. It works very well as an expectorate. I've got more cough syrups and respiratory-related syrups, and you can shake a stick out. It does function as an immune stimulant, and it is a tonic.

And a tonic means that it is supportive. It is, it provides nutrition and support to the body. So it promotes healing for wounds, moist wounds, peptic ulcers, bacterial gastroentitis. It is, it facilitates debreedment, which, again, for burn care, this is something, you know, this is a positive thing. If you have a severe burn and, you know, there's dead tissue. You need to know how to remove this, and honey does help with that. I mean, if you don't remove that dead tissue, you're never going to be able to get that burn to heal. So you definitely want to have honey on hand for burn care.

And I'm going to tell you a little while how to not just have just the honey, but how to augment it for a really nice burn care remedy. You know, since I got the class on the line anyway, I may as well share a little bit, a little bit of it with you guys here. It stimulates skin and muscle regeneration, and it acts as a wound barrier, and it soothes inflamed tissues. So it does also help, because it's soothing some of the inflammation from a wound and from a burn,

it does help with some of the pain management. and I mean you can put it directly on, you know, a wound or a burn and then cover with a sterile bandage. You change the bandage a couple of times a day, but you don't really need to wash out the honey. It's not, I mean, it's going to, when you put it on the body, it is going to start to thin a little bit. It starts to get a little bit runny, which is, you know,

partly why I have to put the bandages on. And it does rinse out very easily, but it's not something that you have to worry too much about, about going in and cleaning it all out. Every time you change a bandage, you don't have to fiddle in there with that wound as much as you might if you didn't have, you know, if you had something else that you were treating it with. It is using the prevention and treatment of any type of skin wound. It doesn't have to even be a deep wound.

I mean, I know I'm focusing on deep wounds here, but for any little thing, for any little cut, any little abrasion, a scrape, and don't discount how in a FHTF situation that, you know, a very little cut could turn very seriously, very quickly, depending on if, you know, bacteria got in there, You can certainly have, I believe it's lymphagitis, but we'll track up the arm and, you know, ultimately that's a very toxic situation. You don't want to have that.

You can also use, and I've known people who've done this and, you know, it works very well. Honey can be used to help if you've got diabetes, if you have like an ulcer on the foot, nothing's healing it. honey I've seen happen too many times to ignore honey will do the trick I you know I mean diabetes is very common if you ask around you probably know someone who's got diabetes if they've ever had a wound that does not heal honey that's the thing it it does an excellent job with with that type of ulceration

it does let me see I've got a whole list of things here It does help with radiation burns. It does help with, I mean, it does help with, let me see, abscesses. And if you have any bacteria on the skin, not just Mercer, but if you've got any type of a boil, and I know that people don't like, what, a boil, and I'm not just talking about regular acne, although this does help for that. If you ever want the least expensive and most effective facial ever, instead of going to a spa,

you can just put the honey directly on your skin, tie your hair back, and just put that on and let it sit on the skin for about 20 minutes, and it will begin to warm up and get a little bit more. It will lose some of its thickness, but you wipe it off with a hot cloth, and because it's not only is antibacterial, but it's also a humane. It's a wonderful treatment for the skin.

But not only that, if you have ever seen a boil get out of control, and these things can grow huge, and there is some danger with that being a very severe infection. You do have to get in there and drain it, and you then end up with an open wound. Lots of infected pus comes out. this is a wonderful application for honey.

Put that on there after you've cleared it. Put that on there to prevent infection. But not only is it preventing infection, in case there's any bacteria is still under the skin, this is the perfect application for honey. Something that I want to mention now is about the difference between when people talk about herbal honey, there's two different things they might be talking about.

like for instance I'll give a example of lavender honey this may be the result of a beekeeper taking their hives over to a lavender farm or whatever farm whether it's a blueberry farm or wherever these varietal honeies and they are they've placed their bees in the middle of you know acres and acres and acres of a single monocrop and this is the only

forage that the bees are going to have. And, you know, this is a pollen they collect, and therefore the pollen from these plants gets into the honey and will impart certain medicinal properties into the honey. Another way to get that is to infuse the honey. And what you would do then is you would fill up a jar with whatever plant material, and one of the things that I like to do a lot is I like to get rose petals, and I like to and use rose petals into my honey, and I fill up a jar, and I cover it, I fill up a jar with rose petals, and then I fill that with honey, and I let that sit anywhere from two to six

weeks. You have to kind of go in there and check it and see if it's, let's see if it's at a strength that you like. And, you know, don't just write off, you know, rose petals as, you know, the romantic thing or it just smells nice. Rose actually, this makes a lovely pain-relieving honey. It really does.

It's got several effects. I mean, when I give, it has a very calming effect when ticked internally. And when my daughter, who's very picky about eating just about anything, and now she's becoming picky even when it comes to, you know, mom's home remedies here, when I can give her a teaspoon of some rose-infused honey, and not only will it help her sore throat, but her whole demeanor will start to change, and she becomes a bit more receptive, and it has, because it has an impact upon, you know,

many different systems of the body, and it will, it does help to calm you down and relax you, and it's, I think, a wonderful addition to, let's say, if you were making a burn care or a wound care honey, and you wanted to make an infused honey specifically for those purposes, and you could then infuse that honey not only with both petals, but you could infuse it with St. John's wort flowers. And St. John'swort, in honey, for wound and burn care, this is a very powerful combination.

St. John's Ward also helps to heal from the inside out. Whereas, let's say, Comfrey, which, you know, is wonderful in like a salve for like a scrape or something, something that's really superficial that you just want to get the skin to, you know, get a layer over real quickly, to prevent infection from that. Comfrey is wonderful for that, but you don't want to use it on any kind of deep wound because it's probably going to heal on the outside first and you can have an infection inside. Well, St. John's forth the opposite.

It starts in the inside and it works its way out just like Honey does. But St. John's work also helps to heal the nerves and prevents nerves. It prevents nerves damage. I don't know what I could say that. nerve damage. It helps to heal any kind of injury to the nerve. If you've had a burn that's severe enough and you know, you know,

the third-degree burns where they get down to the actual nerves and, you know, you'll find burn victims that they don't feel any of the pain. Well, it's because he's burnt the nerves. This is a wonderful application for St. John's Ward. They get in there and help to heal some of that nerve damage. So as they do begin to heal, that sensation of feeling is going to come back and it's not going to be all that pleasant. but I think St. John's Ward in there is a really nice addition to honey.

And when you do this, you have to use fresh St. John's War flowers. This is not an application where you can use dried. There's actually very few applications for dried St. John's Fort. It's really got to be fresh. And if you're not growing it yourself, then you're probably not going to be able to make this. And they're very, very pretty flowers, and, you know, they have, I'm probably going to do a whole show on, you know what, I think next week I'm going to do a whole show on St. John's work because I don't want to take up any more time now, but this is such a wonderful and valuable medicinal plant that covers so many, many applications. I want you to know a little bit more about it, but at least for our purposes right now, it's excellent to add into a honey if you wanted to infuse a honey. honey for deep wound care or burn care.

Let me see. There are several different ways that you can incorporate honey into your herbal products here. I'm just looking through my notes here. Where is this? Ah, I didn't put that down there. Well, all right. Some of them are syrups, which I think a lot of people are familiar with. But basically what you do is you take whatever herbs that you are.

There's two ways that you can do syrup. But one way that you can take all the different herbs that you want to get their properties into the syrup, and you can put that on the stove, and you can make a decoction. That's where you evaporate the liquid down to half of its volume. And I prefer to do a double decoction, where you take that, where it's reduced down the half, I reduce it down to half again.

Because for me, it becomes too liquid. It's too much liquid in the syrup. I mean, it's technically a syrup, but it's not thick. It's not, to me, a syrup has to have a little bit of body to it. That's what I expect in a syrup. So I do a double detoxion, and I take that liquid, and I put it in my honey. And what I do is I get it off the stove, I strain out everything, and I wait.

before I add the honey for the temperature to come down. And I think this is where some people might, you know, might not think about it, but you want your honey to be raw. The stuff that's at the grocery store, that's not raw honey. And I don't know why they pasteurize it. It doesn't make it any safer.

It doesn't eliminate the risk of botulism because that's, you know, there is a risk of botulism, for children under one year old. They haven't developed their digestive system enough. But it's really any raw food, you know, you shouldn't be giving to children without washing off, and you can't really wash off hunting.

So it's not to be used with children under one year. I've seen some people give a two-year warning on that. I'm going to tell you right now that's only because they're trying to be super cautious and cover their butts legally. it has really nothing to do with science. It's one year and younger. But I have seen that out there, and I've seen no evidence to suggest that a two-year-old,

you know, you have to be two years old before you can have honey. It's one year. But the raw honey is where all the magic is. Once you pasteurize it, you basically now have a dead product, and there are more enzymes. in in in honey than i i think probably any other food that i can think of and we haven't even studied most of them and it's largely been unstudied we have no clue what these things do but when you hear people talk about oh well you know i got rid of my seasonal allergies because of this um well

that's also a very interesting thing there's something very interesting that happens when you take the pollen from a plant this episode is brought to you by spreeker the platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives, and saying things like, sorry, I can't talk right now, I'm editing audio. If this sounds familiar, you're probably already a podcaster. The good news is Spreaker makes the whole process simple. You record your show, upload it once, and Spreaker distributes it everywhere people listen, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and about a dozen apps your cousin's swears are the next big thing. Even better, Spreaker.

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that bees are collecting the pollen from that, which is why local honey is always the best for that kind of thing. Beyond the allergy thing, it doesn't necessarily need to be local, but it absolutely needs to be raw. And you don't want to be getting honey from China. You can look up online all about that. I'm not going to take up a whole lot of time here,

but in a nutshell, the honey from China, it's not even honey. It's so disgusting. And not only that, they filter, out all of the pollen, it's technically no longer honey. But just Google that and you will never want to buy honey from a grocery store ever again. Oh, fun fact about buying honey at a grocery store. This might be something that you don't know. When I was looking up the labeling laws for what we had to have on our honey bottle

when my husband was going to farmage markets and we were selling honey, A little fun fact, if you have a food ingredient, excuse me, if you have a food item that is a single ingredient item, such as eggs or milk or honey that doesn't really have a list of ingredients that goes with it, if it is an industry standard practice, that was a thing, an industry standard practice, to add something to this single ingredient item doesn't have to be on the label. I blew my mind away

And I'm like, what do you mean? It doesn't have to be in the label. If it's in the food, it's got to be on the label. No, it doesn't have to be on the label. If it's only a single ingredient item and the entire industry does it, you don't have to put it on the label. So, for instance, in the dairy industry,

they can add powdered milk to their skin milk to turn it a better color and to give it a better mouth feel, but they don't ever have to tell you that there's powdered milk in it. With honey, what ends up happening is people, well, resellers, a lot of the big major honey distributors in the U.S. They will buy honey, but they will cut it down with other sweeteners.

So like corn syrup, high-profile corn syrup, and who only knows what else. But they will cut it because those other sweeteners you can get for pennies per pound, whereas honey is several dollars per pound. So it's much to their advantage to be able to be able to. stretch their honey supply. So please seek out your local county beekeeping association. Every single county in the U.S.

has one. And contact them. They should all have a website. And just send an email and ask if any of their members happen to sell locally. Or you can go to something like Localharvest.com and look for a local

beekeeper that way. Or even better yet, you can contact your beekeeping association and take a class on beekeeping and you can keep your own bees. And another fun story about bees and maybe, you know, some preppers might appreciate this for home security. One of the old-time beekeepers nearby here, he was telling us a story about how he and his life were going away on vacation.

There had been a rash of burglaries in his area, which was very unusual for his area, but it was going on. and they were very nervous about leading to go on vacation. So what he did was he moved hives underneath each of his windows and on his porch in the back and then on the front. And there were like about four or five houses all around him that were hit. But his house was left alone. And I have to wonder if all those stinging bees had, you know,

something to do with that. So anyway, I always found that story entertaining. Other things that you can do with honey, however, you can make called, oh my gosh, I'm already this far into the show here. Did not realize how late this was. Lectuaries are the pace that you can make by putting powdered herbs into the honey.

There's really no measurements for this. You just kind of start working at it. You can also make past feals if you don't put too much honey into the mix, which is basically powdered herbs with a little bit of honey to moisteness or any liquid, actually. But I like doing it with honey, and you can roll it up. Let me see, you can add honey to an herbal vinegar that you've made, and I usually do a 50-50 mix of that, and that gives something called an oxymel. and then you can also

you can make elixir from your honey where you instead of making a tincture with vodka you can make it with brandy it's a little less on the alcohol but then you mix that also with honey and you know if you

if you need to take a remedy that way it's a very pleasant way to take a remedy especially with like elderberry I think that one is a very lovely one here and I could talk about honey forever and apparently I have so we are really just about out of time and I'm just going to mention next week I'm going to talk a little bit more about

honey next week because I didn't get to all what I wanted to talk about this week but I'm also going to talk about St. John's Ward next week I really think that you need to know more about that plant it's a wonderful plant to work with and you really have to have it fresh that's that's that's very very important important so that's going to be talking about next week and as I wrap up the show here the statements made here I've not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration these statements are not intended to diagnose treat or cure or prevent any disease this notice is required by the federal food drug and cosmetic

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