Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Juglans, Walnut

[00:00:00] Hey y'all Welcome to this week's show. I hope you're having a very very happy independence day. I am. I just ate a couple of hot dogs and a big slice of one of the best watermelons I've had in a long time.

[00:00:17] It's hot as blazes, but it's a nice day. You know, I do like to call it independence day. I believe I said this last year for the Fourth of July show for that one, but

[00:00:29] because it's not about a date on calendar, you know, it actually is about our independence and I had several ancestors who fought in the Revolution, including one side of the Declaration of Independence and

[00:00:42] another that was Charles Carroll. Another of my ancestors is General Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox. You may know him if you ever saw that old show that used to come on, I guess it was what the 60s? I saw reruns of it as a kid.

[00:00:57] The Swamp Fox, it was when, you know, Daniel Boone and such things were popular that you may know who my ancestor was. He was a pretty great general and many who served under Colonel Green and

[00:01:14] I think was a general white, observed under them, but yeah, I mean very almost all sides of my family contributed to the American Revolution in some way, shape or form.

[00:01:27] Probably had a couple of loyalists too, you know, part of my family was English. I'm directly descendant of Lord Cheshire and I know the tailors on that side of the family did fight for America, but yeah, I mean probably some of them were loyalists.

[00:01:40] There were a lot of Scots actually who their loyalty was to America. They wanted freedom and independence, but they had signed an oath to not fight against England and actually up at, oh, what's the name of that battlefield?

[00:02:01] It's right up near Bowie's Creek, North Carolina. It's right on the tip of my tongue. It's crazy. I can't remember it all of a sudden. A few hundred Scottish folks from here in North Carolina strapped on broadswords and just marched into

[00:02:18] British musket fire knowing they were gonna be killed. You know, their loyalty was to America, but they had signed an oath and had to do with Fort McDonald and Bonnie Prince Charlie and all that stuff that was going on then. So yeah,

[00:02:32] it's a day that I like to remember everything that our ancestors fought for and died. Many of them died for. Charles Carroll's whole family was slaughtered. I mean he lived to be the oldest signer of the Declaration of Independence,

[00:02:46] but the British, I mean he was an Irish Catholic. He was the only Catholic signer of the Declaration and they particularly went after him hard. He was also the wealthiest man in America.

[00:02:55] So they went in, you know, burned his home, killed his family, tried to take everything he had to punish him for essentially funding the entire Continental Army. There really would not have been. America wouldn't have been able to stand up an army had he not

[00:03:11] provided the funding for much of it. So it's a good day. Just remember why they fought and what we should be fighting for. So now let's get on to the herb and the herb, we're continuing our series on medicinal trees.

[00:03:27] And this one is really one of my favorites. Really, I think everybody knows what a walnut tree is, right? We have Native to the Americas actually several members of the family. We have, well, it's the Jugglin's family,

[00:03:45] okay, but we only have a couple of true walnuts. We have the black walnut. That's Jugglin's Nigra black walnut. My grandfather had them on his property. I mean, I grew up trying to crack those things and I mean,

[00:03:59] it takes a lot of work to get the nut meat out of a black walnut. There's also Jugglin's Centerao which is butternut. That one is very closely related to hickory nuts and mucker nut hickory is even harder to get the nut meat out of than

[00:04:18] black walnut, which is almost impossible. What my grandfather used to do when he just let him fall off the tree and then he let him dry and he husk them and he'd put them in the driveway and just keep driving over them coming in and out.

[00:04:31] And if one cracked open, you know, that's how I could do it. But they're a little easier if you soak them in water and then try to cut them, break them up with a nutcracker. They're just really tough.

[00:04:41] But the English walnuts, of course, is much easier to get into. And there's so many of European and Asian walnuts that are now, you know, naturalized in America. They brought over tons of them. We've got, oh gosh, 16 varieties of which have been

[00:05:00] used in herbal medicine. And there are a couple other natives like we got Texas walnut, different ones like that. But the Chinese walnuts really good. The hard seed walnut, there's a California walnut. They're all delicious. They're all incredibly nutritious. And they're all used modestly.

[00:05:18] And I would say this is among the most regal and storied of medicinal trees. Now they're in the jugland deshi-e family. And that's said, and by the way, pecans are also in the walnut family. And pecans also have this quality.

[00:05:34] Jugland is a chemical exudate from the roots of this tree that actually keep other trees from growing around it. It shuts out the, or plants, it shuts out the competition. Weeds won't grow around the base of a walnut tree. Grasses tend to be pretty sparse around them.

[00:05:54] And that just, you know, not all plants get along. This is a plant that actually has a defense strategy. The properties of walnuts are many. And not the least of these, of course, is they're delicious and nutritious. Walnuts are rich in protein, omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids,

[00:06:11] alpha-lipoic acid, copper, folic acid, manganese, vitamin 6, I mean sorry, vitamin B6, of course, vitamin E, and a variety of antioxidants and other useful substances. Our ancestors used to believe what's called the doctrine of signatures. And that was the belief that God made each plant with a little signal

[00:06:33] that told you what it was useful for. And if you look at a walnut, it actually kind of looks like a brain. So in the School of Thought, which we call the doctrine of signatures, it would indicate that it's good for brain health and actually it really is.

[00:06:49] William Cole, an ex-mote, well, a guy that really promotes the doctrine of signatures, wrote, Walnuts have the perfect signature of the head, the outer husk or green covering representing the perichranium and outward skin of the skull, whereupon the hair growth, and this was written in 1657.

[00:07:11] So I'm kind of trying to translate as I go from Old English. This is a really old herbal, okay? And therefore salt made from those husks or bark is exceedingly good for wounds in the head.

[00:07:23] The inner woody shell has the signature of the skull and the little yellow skin or peel that covers the kernel of the hard, thin scarfs that envelop the brain. The kernel has the very figure of the brain,

[00:07:37] and therefore it is very profitable for the brain and resists poisons. For if the kernel be bruised and moistened with the quintessence of wine and laid upon the crown of the head, it comforts the head and brain mightily.

[00:07:53] I have no idea if that's true or how that works if it is. But they're basically saying take walnut, nut meat, bruise it, mix it with wine and use it as a compress on the head. The medicinal properties of the walnut are not in the nut alone however.

[00:08:08] The husk, shell, leaves and bark all have their uses. The medicinal properties of the walnut aren't just in the nut, the husk, shell, leaves and bark all have uses. The so-called Lost Book of Herbal Remedies as if they were ever lost,

[00:08:23] but it's a good book, I'm not knocking it, states that black walnut is anti-inflammatory, antifungal, antiviral, astringent, emetic, laxative, painkiller and vermafuse. The green holes are more potent than the mature black holes. We have those vermafuse properties, a lot of folk use for that in America.

[00:08:41] But let's turn back to St. Kildegard von Bingen about 1080. Take the leaves of this tree while they are fresh, squeeze the juice from them onto the place where maggots are eating a person or where maggots or other worms are growing in him.

[00:08:55] Do this frequently and they will die. But if the worms are originally in his stomach, he should take the leaves of the walnut tree. With equal amount of peach tree leaves before the fruits are ripe and pulverize them over a hot fiery stone,

[00:09:08] he should eat this powder often, either with an egg or in broth or cooked in a bit of cereal. The worms in his stomach will die. That's the vermafuse property. One of the most common uses for walnut. She said if leprosy has begun to grow on someone,

[00:09:23] squeeze the juice from the leaves and add old fat to it, making an ointment. When the leprosy is still new in him, he should anoint himself with this near the fire. Without a doubt he would be healed unless God did not wish it.

[00:09:37] One who has much phlegm in him should take that which exudes from the walnut tree when it branches a root-sock or cut. So this app, he should cook it gently with wine, with fennel and a little savory and strain it through a cloth and often drink it warm.

[00:09:52] It will throw off the phlegm and he will be cleared out. One who has bad scabies of the head should take the outer skin of the walnut, that is its shell, and squeeze its juice over the wounds, that is over the scabies of the head.

[00:10:05] I think she is really more talking about the husk, actually, than the shell. The outer skin of it would be more the husk. When they have swollen up from the bitterness of this juice, he should anoint them with olive oil, which would check the bitterness.

[00:10:17] If he does this often, the scabies will be cured. Turning to the English tradition, John Gerard, the great English herbalist and plant collector, and grower of most any plant he could grow in England, he was the queen's gardener, and William Shakespeare was said to have had a property

[00:10:36] just next to his property, which was the queen's garden, and all those great plays like Mid-Summer Night's Dream and all that were probably written right there in John Gerard's garden. He wrote of English walnut. He said, Dry nuts taken fasting with a little fig and roux withstand poison,

[00:10:56] prevent and preserve the body from infection of plague, and being plentifully eaten, they drive the worms forth of the belly. The green and tender nuts boiled in sugar and eaten as a succade, that's basically just candied walnuts, since we've talked about, are a most pleasant and delectable meat

[00:11:14] comfort the stomach and expel the poison. The oil of walnuts made in such manner as oil of almonds make it smooth the hands and the face and take away any scales or scurff, black and blue marks that come from stripes or bruises. Milk made of the kernels,

[00:11:30] yeah they were actually making almond milk and walnut milk in the 1500s, believe it or not, that's not a new thing. But he says milk made of the kernels as almond milk is made, cooleth and pleaseth the appetite of the languishing sick body

[00:11:46] with onions, salt and honey, this is cooked together with onion, salt and honey, and then laid on a dog bite. They are good against the biting of a mad dog or a man, so I don't know if that be true, if that is true.

[00:12:00] I'm falling into the old English phraseology here, but you know, take that with a grain of salt. If they be laid upon the wind, the outward green husks at the nut teth notably binding faculty, the leaves and first buds have a certain binding quality

[00:12:18] and yet their doth abound in them a hot and dry temperature. Some of the later physicians use these for bass and lotions for the body, which they have a force to digest and also make one sweat. Okay I can't even pronounce this right now.

[00:12:35] So he was somewhat of an herbal historian and he included the sentence, being both eaten and applied, they heal in short time as deus corides seeth, gangrene's carbuncles, something I cannot pronounce, a jillops agile, yeah no way I can do that. And the piling away of the hair,

[00:12:58] it should be good for baldness actually. This also is effectually done by the oil pressed out of them which is of thin parts, digesting and heating, gale and devised and taught to make the juice thereof a medicine for the mouth, singular good against all inflammations thereof.

[00:13:17] So coal pepper, also believable and it's to be useful for dog bites. I don't suggest them for rabies, go to the doctor, go to the hospital as quickly as you can, but I guess if there was no other treatment it'd be worth a try right?

[00:13:31] Also good for venoms and poisons. That's also not a modern use, but who knows if it works or not, I don't. Coal pepper in the 1600s said if the leaves be taken with iron salt and honey they help the biting of a mad dog

[00:13:45] or the venom of infectious, or infectious poison of any beast. Callus pumpellus found in the treasury of Mithran... Mithranides, King of Portia Pontius that when he was overthrown a scroll in his own handwriting containing a medicine against any poison infection which is this. Take two dry walnuts

[00:14:12] and as many good figs and 20 leaves of roux, bruise and beat together with two or three corns of salt and 20 juniper berries which take every morning fasting preserves from danger of poison any infection that day taken. Mithridate was the great cure for all poisons, right?

[00:14:34] It said that in legend, Mithrodites took this every day and eventually built up such a poison to... such a tolerance to poisons that when he was invaded, I guess it was a grease of Rome, I can't remember, and they wanted to force him to be a servant.

[00:14:50] He tried to poison himself and couldn't kill himself. So there... I don't know. The kernels when they grow old are more oily and therefore not fit to be eaten but they are used to kill wounds with the sinews, gangrenes and carbuncles. The said kernels being burned

[00:15:04] are very astringent. Being taken in red wine, they stay the falling of the hair. Interesting. And make it fair, being anointed with oil and wine. The green husks do like... do the like, being used in the same manner. A piece of the green husk

[00:15:19] put into a hollow tooth eases the pain. Well, that's interesting. We're getting into more modern traditions. We're going to get to Maude Grieve in the 1930s in her a modern herbal. She said that the bark and leaves have alternative laxative, astringent and detergent properties. Alternative means it basically

[00:15:38] gradually brings you back to health. Detergent means cleansing it. You can figure out the rest. They're used in the treatment of skin troubles. They have a highest value for curing scrofulous diseases. That's swollen glands, infected swollen glands basically. Herpes, eczema, etc. For the healing of indolent ulcers

[00:15:58] and infusion of one ounce of dried bark or leaves, slightly more fresh leaves to the point of boiling water allowed to stand for six hours and strained off, taken in wine glassful doses three times a day. The same infusion also being employed

[00:16:13] at the same time for outward application. Obstinate ulcers may also be cured with sugar well saturated in a strong decoction of walnut leaves. The bark dried and powdered is making a strong infusion and it's a power... The bark dried and powered and made into a strong infusion

[00:16:31] or tea, just like she just explained is a useful purgative. It's more of a decoction actually. The husk, shell and peel are so terrific for wound healing especially when used when the walnuts are green whilst unripe, the nut has worm destroying virtues. They really like to use

[00:16:49] unripe walnuts in England. They actually make what's called a walnut ketchup traditionally. It's not ketchup like we would think of it, but it's as a sauce. It's very good for game meats and such, but anyway... The fruit when young and unripe makes a wholesome anti-scorbutic pickle.

[00:17:07] It's pickled unripe walnuts and that helps against scurvy. The pickle in which the fruit has been pickled... The vinegar in which the fruit has been pickled is a good gargle for sore throat, since slightly ulcerated throat. Walnut ketchup embodies some medicinal fruit of the unripe nuts.

[00:17:25] The leaves have a very strong characteristic smell, very true. Aromatic, not unpleasant at all. Said to be injurious to sensitive people, however. The... She said gather leaves in fine weather and dry, warm sunny weather but in the shade. Half shade, she said was actually

[00:17:49] better to preserve the color. You don't want to put them in full sun. The juice of the green husk boiled in water... The juice of the green husk boiled in honey is also a good gargle for sore throat and inflamed throat. The distilled water of the green husk

[00:18:05] is good for Quincy as an application of wounds and internally as a cooling drink in ag use or fevers. The thin yellow skin which closed the inner nut is a notable remedy for colic being first dried and then rubbed into a powder administered

[00:18:21] doses of three grains with a tablespoon of peppermint water. The oil extract from the ripe kernels taken inwardly has often proved good for colic and is efficacious applied externally for skin diseases of the leprosy type of wounds and gangrains. In the Irish tradition John Kehoe tells us

[00:18:41] that two or three walnuts eaten with a fig and a little roux on an empty stomach provide prevention against infection. The kernel oil will heal bruises and scabby itchy skin and taken internally will break out the stone and the bladder and the skin will be removed.

[00:18:59] A decoction of the green peel or husk of the walnut is useful against tumors and ulcers in the mouth and throat. The bark of the tree, the green dried or crushed encourages vomiting. According to the German tradition Brother Aloysius said an infusion

[00:19:15] of the leaves and he used about a half to a three fourth cup per two cups of boiling water is one of the best remedies for scrupulous constitutions done basically the same is used for leucaria. The green rind of the unripe fruit prepared in gin is

[00:19:31] a well known stymatic so the rind soaked in gin probably taking very small amounts it's a very bitter substance so it's going to be good for the stomach. The fruit of the C.P. ground into powder is a remedy for such things as gangrene.

[00:19:49] Powdered sprinkled around the wound or combined with sugar and taking in wine. Young buds can be used to prepare an excellent ointment to prevent hair from falling out and to prevent dandruff a handful of buds should be fried for about

[00:20:05] a half an hour in one and a half cups of lard and take one to two cups of the flour infusion daily for jaundice, heavy bleeding or lupus. So that was being cooked in lard was to make the

[00:20:19] ointment you would apply to your scalp so it's going to get a little greasy but you know may help your hair from stop falling out I don't know more modern in the German tradition Maria Treven said a tea of walnut cleanses the blood as effective remedy

[00:20:33] for intestinal disorders as well as for constipation and lack of appetite it is used successfully for jaundice and diabetes. A tachythole is added to bath water is beneficial for scropula, rickets, caries and swelling of the bone as well as for festering toe and finger nails

[00:20:49] improvement is noted soon if areas affected by cradle cap scabs and scur for wash with a decoction of the green leaves. Bath and washing is enriched with this decoction used for acne festering eczema, sweaty feet and lucaria as a mouthwash is used for stomatitis

[00:21:07] inflamed gums, throat and larynx A strong decoction of the leaves added to bath water is used for chill planes it is also beneficial for hair loss, wind massage frequenting to the scalp this is just a tea of it not mixed with lard this decoction is excellent remedy for

[00:21:23] head lice. The fresh leaves are used for pale insects about the middle of June the unripe nuts are picked, a pin should easily run through them to show that they are unripe and used to prepare a delightful cordial which cleanses the stomach, liver and blood, strengthens weak stomachs

[00:21:39] and improves phalintestines is an excellent remedy for thick blood let's get to American tradition resources southern fields and forests written in the 1860s says the extract was a favorite remedy in general Merian's camp, hey my ancestor General Francis Merian during the Revolutionary War it is very

[00:22:01] efficacious and habitual constipation in doses of often to 30 grams grains it acts as a laxative and as a purgative where it is spoken as a mild cathartic operating without pain or irritation and resembling rhubarb in its property of evacuating without debilitating the elementary canal

[00:22:25] Dr. Rush employed it during the war said it is highly esteemed in dysentery the rind of the fruit and skin of the kernel are extremely astringent and phalmentic and cathartic the oil extracted for the fruits very drying in nature he remarks that the inner

[00:22:41] bark of the root is acrid and caustic so don't use that to extract the cathartic principle the bark is boiled in water for several hours remove the extraneous matter and boil down the decoction to a to the consistency of honey or molasses

[00:23:01] pills may be made of this a syrup may be made the bark is strongest in the early summer powdered leaves are a rubofacia it means redding or warped to the skin and act as a let's see they also mention because research said fields and forests

[00:23:17] was also about making use of all these plants the juggledasie family the sap can be collected to make a syrup just like you would maple syrup and that was really popular in the south at one part one point and especially

[00:23:31] a lot of the hickory nuts and butternuts and such the trees were used very much to make syrups and it's really delicious stuff of the black walnut specifically he said the bark is styptic and acrid meaning it will help stop bleeding

[00:23:49] the rind of the unripe fruit is said to remove ringworms and tatters the decoction given with success as a vermafuge this root of worms they were used making a nut bread of the fruit at least in 1860s in the Chester district of South Carolina and also an oil

[00:24:11] an oil of the walnut kernel or the nut itself was used for toothaches and help with the pain and we get into a lot of well obviously a lot of medical research that was being done at the time a lot of

[00:24:27] journals but I think we're pretty much good on that getting up to around 1900 we've got the thomsonian system of medicine instead of the butternut describes it first of all the bark of this tree used by country people to as a dye okay the bark taken from

[00:24:47] the body of the tree or the root boiled down thick could be made into pills and operated as a powerful a medican cathartic could be cleaned out a syrup made by boiling the bark and adding one third of molasses

[00:25:01] and a little spirit or alcohol is good to give to children for worm complaints the buds and twigs may also be used for the same purpose and are more mild that was uh juggling senorea um several doctors in the thomsonian system are talking about how to use butternut

[00:25:21] we started with Dr. Thompson himself and there's a Dr. Greer and a Dr. Lyle and they're talking about their experiences with using it. King's Medical Dispensatory of 1898 says butternut in small doses is a mild stimulant to the intestinal plant intestinal tract proving laxative in larger doses is a

[00:25:43] gentle and agreeable cathartic causing no griping with nor subsequent weakness of the intestines resembles rhubarb and effect so that's really good to know um good for chronic constipation um gastric uh deficient gastric secretions atonic dyspepsia indigestion gastric irritation flatulence etc they were making pills of that syrup

[00:26:09] we already discussed how to boil the boil the bark down and make that syrup out of it um uh same also good used in chronic skin diseases and scrofula again that's glandular being particularly indicated in skin affections exhibiting vesicles vesicles or puscules um uh they said juglands is

[00:26:35] an efficient cathartic when used to free the extra the bowels is demanded in rheumatism and chronic respiratory affections uh it's interesting um strong decoction made same way as a domestic remedy for rheumatism especially affecting the muscles of the back with intermittent and remitted fevers as well as

[00:26:55] diseases attended with the congestion of the abdominal viscera wow we'll go with specific indication uses uh chronic constipation gastrointestinal irritability irritability with sour eruptations flatulence and either diarrhea or constipation dependent there on diarrhea and dysentery burning and fetid discharges who torpid liver chronic skin affections or vesicular character

[00:27:25] uh discharging freely and eczema essentially modern use, let's go to modern news plants for future walnut the walnut tree has a long history of medicinal use being used in folk medicine to treat a wide range of complaints the leaves are alternative enthomintic anti-inflammatory astringent and depurative

[00:27:45] they are used internally in the treatment of constipation chronic coughs asthma dyspepsia etc dyspepsia is just an ingestion by the way does anything else that's weird enthomintic means it helps get rid of intestinal parasites I think you got the rest of it

[00:28:01] the leaves are also used to treat skin ailments and to purify the blood they are considered to be specific in the treatment of strumus strumus sores male inflorescences are made into a broth that means the male part of the flower is made into a broth

[00:28:17] and used in the treatment of coughs and vertigo the rind is anodyne and astringent it is used in the treatment of diarrhea and anemia the leaves are anti they help get rid of they help get rid of kidney and bladder and stunts basically antelithic

[00:28:37] I think that's the way you pronounce it diuretic and stimulant they are used internally in the treatment of low back pain frequent urination weakness of both legs it helps get rid of the most patient due to dryness or anemia and stones in the urinary tract I think

[00:28:55] we would now say more like lithantripic but they use the word antelithic that's why it threw me externally they are made into a paste and applied as a poultice to areas of dermatitis the oil from the seeds is anthomintic again gets rid of warms

[00:29:11] it is also used in treatment of menstrual problems and dry skin conditions the cuttle are used in the treatment of cancer one has a long history of field use in the treatment of cancer some extracts of the plant have shown anticancer activities the bark and root

[00:29:27] bark and root bark are anthomintic, astringent and detergent plant is used in bok flower remedies let's see more modern use Peterson field guide to eastern central medicinal plants says butternut in the winter bark tea or extract early American laxative thought to be effective in small doses

[00:29:51] without causing griping or cramps American Indians use the bark tea for rheumatism, headaches, tooth aches strong warm tea for wounds to stop bleeding externally for motor healing oil from the nuts used for tapeworms fungal inflections jug loan a component is antiseptic and herbicidal anti-tumor activity has been reported

[00:30:13] very interesting black walnut specifically American Indians used inner bark tea as a medic laxative the bark was chewed for tooth aches the fruit husks, juice and used on ringworm and husks chewed for colic, poultice or inflammation leaf tea astringent insecticidal against bed bugs very interesting

[00:30:35] and finally botany day states there are about 20 species of walnuts in the world all produced edible nuts but of varying quality medicially the leaves and bark can husk rich in tannic acid with some bitter components walnut is used mostly as an astringent but also as a vermicfuge

[00:30:51] again it gets rid of worms internally to get rid of worms externally for ringworm fungus the green husk is rich in vitamin C butternut bark contains napthaquianone laxative you have to wonder how our ancestors discovered all the medicinal uses of the walnuts family

[00:31:13] I would suggest that it probably came about through observation, walnut as the latin name suggests produces juggling juggling prevents other plants from going around the tree our ancestors probably thought hey I wonder what else it will do maybe it helps get rid of worms but

[00:31:31] walnuts definitely don't play very well with others obviously I can only speculate how they looked at that and thought maybe we could use that against parasites or bacteria but I recall as a kid we had horses on the farm and they would eat the tender spring leaves

[00:31:49] or the pecan and black walnut trees that grew in the pasture and I was always told not to let them eat too much because it could upset their stomach but to let them be because horses knew that to eat those leaves would prevent worms

[00:32:01] I also heard of folks feeding them to chickens for the same reason to prevent parasites I don't know if that's recommended but I know the old folks would always say animals know what they need they know what plants are medicine of course sometimes cows eat poisonous things

[00:32:15] so that's not always true but in the case of the walnut it sure seems to be you know the title of my book is look up the medicinal trees there's so much medicine just right over our heads we just take for granted

[00:32:36] so y'all don't take anything for granted on independent stay don't take your freedom for granted don't take your family for granted don't take for granted all the people that provided this for us and do go just enjoy have a great time

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