Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Medicinal Trees, Dogwood

[00:00:00] Hey y'all welcome to this week's show. We're going to do a tree that well it's

[00:00:05] pretty darn easy to identify right now. It is dogwood. You'll be amazed some

[00:00:10] additional uses of this tree and you know right now it's in flower really

[00:00:15] doesn't matter if it's white dogwood or pink dogwood. They're actually it's

[00:00:21] actually a really interesting family of trees of plants. Some only grow a few

[00:00:27] inches tall believe it or not. They actually they grow in the woods all

[00:00:32] around me. I don't know if they're native to my area or naturalized but they're

[00:00:35] just these little tiny dogwoods that have a flower right on top and they're

[00:00:39] quite pretty. They're just as useful as a big dogwood tree. Some dogwoods

[00:00:45] actually bear fruit that are edible. I think this Cornelian cherry is what

[00:00:50] that dogwood goes by if I'm not mistaken. I think I have that in my

[00:00:53] notes. You know this all comes from a book on the medicinal use of trees and

[00:01:00] you know especially this time of year when we talk about trees such as red

[00:01:05] red bud and dogwood it's super easy to identify and I think it's just an

[00:01:10] excellent place to start learning about herbal medicine because you know it's

[00:01:15] so hard to misidentify a tree really especially one like a dogwood so

[00:01:21] there are actually only three native dogwoods to my region and that's cornus

[00:01:29] alternifolia. So you know that's pretty simple Latin right cornus is actually the

[00:01:35] dogwood family and alternifolia means alternate leaf foliage is obviously

[00:01:41] leaves you know also known as pagoda dogwood. There's roughleaf dogwood

[00:01:46] and there's cornus flower to the flowering dogwood which is by far the

[00:01:50] most common because people planted it all over. White flowering dogwood, pink

[00:01:55] flowering dogwood yeah. The you know they're little tiny dogwoods there's

[00:02:04] actually a whole species of dogwood that only grows about a foot tall you'll

[00:02:07] find them in the woods. Additionally they're just as useful as the big old

[00:02:11] dogwood tree and there's one that's really a special interest and it's

[00:02:16] called cornelian cherry. Now you know I always have a permaculture side of my

[00:02:21] show that I think is particularly good for preppers obviously. Cornelian cherry is

[00:02:26] very popular in permaculture and the reason is it's a dogwood tree that

[00:02:32] bears fruit and tastes like sour cherries it's not a cherry it's actually

[00:02:38] dogwood but it can be used in pies or to make jam just like cherries. Actually

[00:02:44] pretty good substitute for cranberry it's not quite as tart as cranberry but it's

[00:02:48] yeah it's got a little bite to it so it really goes well with fatty meats you can

[00:02:54] sweet it up and make a nice wine out of it. It's a really good plant to

[00:03:02] consider growing you know the it's been known for a long time it just is not

[00:03:07] widely grown in America I don't know why for some reason we tend to grow

[00:03:11] food plants in the garden and just want ornamental plants on the yard well you

[00:03:16] know edible landscaping is a great survival tool I mean if things are bad and

[00:03:21] you can just walk out in your yard and pick food you're gonna survive a lot

[00:03:25] better than most people. I consider edible landscaping an essential prep

[00:03:31] my grandfather did my grandfather planted his property full of edible

[00:03:35] landscaping and that's how I grew up that's how I got into foraging was

[00:03:40] you know when I was like three years old my mom's pulling me around a little red

[00:03:43] wagon and she's showing me all the edible plants in the yard and there were

[00:03:46] tons of fruit trees and nut trees there are also a lot of things you wouldn't

[00:03:49] expect and yeah so to me planting something like Cornelian cherry which

[00:03:56] the herbless Gerard called as a dainty plant it's a pretty one it is a

[00:04:03] pretty member of the dogwood I think makes total sense. The morbid distal

[00:04:09] uses of dogwood that I mean people just look at it as a landscaping tree an

[00:04:14] ornamental tree people don't even it's not much use for wood it's really hard

[00:04:20] wood it's crazy hard one of the first I think the first two pieces of wood I

[00:04:26] tried to carve spoons out of you know it's sort of a side business of mine I

[00:04:29] carve spoons and bowls and all kinds of things like that make cutting boards and

[00:04:33] I do everything the old-fashioned way you know it's green wood and I use

[00:04:37] knives and gouges no power tools it is something I really enjoy and it's become

[00:04:42] a nice little business if you're interested in that go to Justin Carole

[00:04:47] Woodcraft that's another one of my sub-stack newsletters always have the

[00:04:50] link you know my show notes somewhere but yeah they've been real popular but

[00:04:54] one of the first the first two I tried to carve one was Pear you know

[00:04:58] Bradford Pear and yeah it's not too bad a wood to carve it's I would call it like

[00:05:07] medium hard and so but when it's green it's really kind of easy if your tools

[00:05:13] are sharp you know when you first get started in carving you don't know how

[00:05:17] sharp sharp is you know the more you keep going and the more you get used

[00:05:21] to sharpening your tools you realize like razor sharp tools or what you want

[00:05:26] to use otherwise you slip and cut yourself a lot you can still slip and

[00:05:30] cut yourself with a razor sharp gouge or spoon knife or something and it's going

[00:05:35] to do it's going to go really deep actually because it's so sharp but it

[00:05:39] actually does less tissue damage and the wounds heal faster they don't hurt

[00:05:43] as bad I actually jammed a gouge into my thumb about three days ago and you

[00:05:48] know just put a bandaid on kept right back at work and hasn't hurt me a bit

[00:05:53] I mean you know one I think you kind of get used to it your nervous system doesn't

[00:05:57] react as badly I know that's true from cooking most chefs will just put their

[00:06:01] hands straight into a hot pan a hot oven boiling water and pull something out

[00:06:05] somehow the nerves in the hands get used to being burnt and they don't react

[00:06:11] as strongly and I think that's true also when you're a woodcarver or a

[00:06:15] woodworker I think most people well mechanics who busted your knuckles

[00:06:18] about a hundred times I mean you know what I'm talking about your hands

[00:06:21] just I don't know they toughen up or just kind of the nerves dead in a little

[00:06:25] bit but the first time I tried to carve dogwood eat about with me I mean that

[00:06:34] is the hardest wood especially down at you know the base of the trunk that's

[00:06:37] always gonna be the hardest part of a tree and I you know it was it was very

[00:06:41] difficult and that's really where I learned to sharpen my tools and I

[00:06:44] started I made some beautiful pieces out of it and then I wanted to make a

[00:06:47] big ladle out of the base of the trunk and wow I mean I literally had to I

[00:06:56] could not carve it by hand it was so hard I had to clamp it down and use a

[00:07:00] mallet that awesome at our dogwood that with me you know but then I'm trying

[00:07:04] to carve a ladle and I take my gallows and just you know tap pound them

[00:07:08] and pound them and pound them like almost like stone dogwood is crazy

[00:07:12] hard I was talking with a guy well he asked me what's the hardest wood to carve

[00:07:18] and I said dogwood he said oh I'm not surprised he he'd work for a

[00:07:21] landscaper at a golf course and he said it was a dogwood they were taken out

[00:07:27] in the trunk of it at the base was so hard that when they took the chainsaw

[00:07:31] to it it started making sparks you know it was just like metal it's there's

[00:07:36] crazy what hardwood that is you know obviously that can be very useful I

[00:07:41] mean if you're gonna use it's a good word for tool making mallets anything that

[00:07:48] you really need some very hard wood for I would put it right up there with iron

[00:07:53] wood and white oak certainly white oak white oak is actually easier to carve

[00:07:57] now it's I don't know if it's not as hard as dogwood but the grain pattern I

[00:08:03] think maybe just is a little bit easier but you know medicinally let's talk

[00:08:10] about medicinally decoction of the mouth the bark is useful for mouse sores

[00:08:15] sore throat styria skin inflammation very astringent it helps with the

[00:08:19] inflammation it's good for swellings and blisters you can use it as a

[00:08:23] compress just take that T at a cox of the bark decoction okay I probably

[00:08:28] explain that since it's been a while when you make herbal tea which is

[00:08:34] technically called an infusion you've taken dry herbs usually and you pour

[00:08:39] hot water over them simmering water cover let them steep don't let the steam

[00:08:44] escape because all these central oils the volatile oils are in that steam okay

[00:08:49] that's the biggest mistake people make making tea is they let 90% of the

[00:08:53] medicinal properties that are gas off seriously with decoctions we make

[00:08:59] those out of roots and bark twigs stuff like that right we're not worried

[00:09:04] so much well we're not worried really at all about volatile oils in 99% of them

[00:09:09] you know and you just put that in a pot of water and boil it until the water is

[00:09:13] reduced by half that's your good rule of thumb and it should be it's gonna

[00:09:16] be dark it's gonna be strong and when you do that with dogwood or wow I mean

[00:09:23] oak bark makes it incredibly strong decoction but dogwood really good for

[00:09:27] blisters and sores and sore throats is a mouthwash for diarrhea it's the

[00:09:33] same as oak because it has a stringent properties it's just gonna tighten up

[00:09:37] that tissue and dry things out you know use oak bark oak galls actually that's

[00:09:43] where a wasp is made a little wound in the tree essentially that's the most

[00:09:48] tannic part of oak traditionally that's what's been used to tan leather you

[00:09:51] know now things are done more with chemicals but for years for centuries

[00:09:55] thousands of years people sought out oak galls for tanneries and there was

[00:10:00] a good business in harvesting and selling them tanneries for like you know five

[00:10:05] for a penny a couple hundred years ago that was actually good money you know

[00:10:09] inflation again right so I'm adding dogwood leaves and bark to a bath is

[00:10:16] really good for sore joints and muscles but that's not all let's start with

[00:10:22] some of the historical uses really oak dogwood we're gonna look at as an

[00:10:27] antiviral or maybe not so much an antiviral as one to combat the symptoms of

[00:10:33] certain viruses it has a quinine like property that will get into a minute but

[00:10:38] first of all I'm going to tell you in Germanic in the German folk school of

[00:10:43] medicine the Cornelian cherry the one I said was used for fruit was very much

[00:10:49] used really not a plant very well known to America even today even today but

[00:10:55] brother alowicious who's a monk who's an herbalist said the bark and fruit of

[00:11:00] Cornelian cherry that's actually a dogwood are used medicinally the bark is a

[00:11:03] stringent and febrile fusal that means it reduces fever so you know that's what I

[00:11:08] was talking about this this all dogwoods have this property really good to know

[00:11:13] the fruit is a stringent and desiccate meaning drying application of

[00:11:18] fresh bruised leaves staunches bleeding the fruit to coxswain is used

[00:11:23] for fevers burning and dysentery and also stimulates appetite so really good

[00:11:29] plant to put in your landscape like I said all the dogwoods are useful but if

[00:11:34] you got one that you can use for both food and medicine and it's a pretty

[00:11:37] plant you know even if you're in a HOA or PLA I mean you that that's one I

[00:11:43] would prioritize another one that's in a similar family I'm just gonna go a

[00:11:48] little tangent on this it's

[00:11:54] osier I think red osier or it's sometimes called a willow and it's

[00:12:00] sometimes called a dogwood I've caught it's a car red osier dogwood I've seen

[00:12:06] it called red willow the Native Americans the Indians call it can can he

[00:12:13] connect or can I connect I think if I remember correctly it is a gorgeous plant

[00:12:19] I mean the stems of this plant are bright red and it's gonna be so pretty in the

[00:12:23] winter when there's snow on the ground great for basket weaving but and I may

[00:12:31] get into this another day I may have to do a whole show on it you may know

[00:12:35] can he connect as a ingredient in Native American smoking mixtures they

[00:12:41] would take tobacco and combine it with a few other herbs to make the smoking of

[00:12:46] tobacco more relaxing well that's like can he connect is like the main thing

[00:12:50] okay that and oh what is it squalvine matchella repent is that right the

[00:13:00] common name for that one's not coming to me but it's a low-growing ground plant

[00:13:05] much like wintergreen yeah it's just not coming to me right now those are

[00:13:11] really the two main ingredients that they would combine with tobacco they

[00:13:14] properties of that can he connect bark really in the stems twigs help with

[00:13:21] pain and relaxes the muscles and can help clarify the mind and can actually be

[00:13:27] intoxicating in a large amount so if you're looking at two plants to add to

[00:13:33] your landscaping they have medicinal properties and are just really

[00:13:36] gorgeous yeah Cornelian cherry and the red osier dogwood I think that's the most

[00:13:45] common name it goes by and I cannot remember right now the Latin name or

[00:13:49] anything else but you can just Google that you're seeing it it's just stunning

[00:13:52] I mean it's just bright red now another one my favorite plants to have in the

[00:13:59] landscape is burning bush fire bush wahoo a spindle tree is in the same family

[00:14:09] we'll talk about those separately they can actually be quite toxic but they do

[00:14:13] have some additional value but I mean just you know when you live in the

[00:14:17] mountains and winter comes in and everything is just white and gray it's

[00:14:20] just really nice to have something out there that has some color and so I

[00:14:24] really like those plants barberry is really nice to have because it gets so

[00:14:29] red you know in the fall and winter yeah I guess that's all it comes to mind right

[00:14:34] now but now we get into Cornus Florida the flowering dogwood the one that's in

[00:14:40] far right now the one that you can look at your window probably and see

[00:14:44] everywhere okay according to resources of the southern fields and forest

[00:14:50] during the late war and at this point I think he was actually talking the war of

[00:14:54] 1812 because he was working for the this is a French botanist that was working for

[00:14:58] the Confederacy so he wouldn't have called the Civil War the late wars or

[00:15:02] they were in the bark was employed with great advantage in the place of

[00:15:06] quinine in fevers particularly in cases of low forms of fever and in

[00:15:11] dysentery on the river courses of a typhoid a void character so you know

[00:15:17] typhoid can cause a lot of diarrhea and fever you remember typhoid Mary and that

[00:15:21] whole epidemic chinchona or quinine was a really good remedy and dogwood maybe even

[00:15:28] a little better actually he said it has been given as a substitute for Peruvian

[00:15:32] bark that's chinchon or quinine in fact in almost any case when chinchon a

[00:15:37] bark was used it is effective this well-known plant possesses tonic and

[00:15:44] anti-intermittent properties and her mittens are fevers usually caused by malaria

[00:15:48] they called it a minute because they come regularly there are tertian fevers which

[00:15:56] come every three days quatern fevers which come every four days they're so

[00:16:00] reliably accurate that Sir Walter Raleigh when he had run afoul of the

[00:16:07] British government you know great hero of British history who founded the

[00:16:12] first colony America you know in North Carolina we certainly know him because

[00:16:17] that's how we got here he's had a colonies in North Carolina and James

[00:16:21] down Virginia the he well apparently was quite a ladies man and maybe made a

[00:16:29] pass at the Queen or something like that or what a princess or something I don't

[00:16:35] remember the entire story and it may have gone a little further than that

[00:16:38] because the king decided to have him beheaded and he had malaria and he knew

[00:16:44] that every four days at the exact hour and minute when his fever would hit and

[00:16:48] he requested he be beheaded before that time so that's how how regular

[00:16:55] intermittent fevers are and so it's very easy to tell when something works

[00:17:01] against them because they're very predictable and quinine and dogwood

[00:17:06] are very good tulip poplars of other one and I think we've already discussed to

[00:17:10] a poplar if not we'll get to it soon Lirio dendron see if I'm in cornice no

[00:17:15] we've certainly not gotten to the algea but I'm we will soon anyway the well

[00:17:22] known plant possesses tonic and anti intermittent properties very nearly

[00:17:26] allied to those of Tinchona or quinine in periodic fevers one of the

[00:17:31] most valuable of our indigenous plants dr. greg states that after employing it

[00:17:36] for 23 years in the treatment of intermittent fevers he was satisfied that

[00:17:40] it was not inferior to Peruvian bark again quinine generally you know they

[00:17:47] caught it peruvian bark at this time because it had been known as the

[00:17:51] Jesuits bark the Jesuits of course are religious order of Catholic monks

[00:17:56] and priests and they actually are the ones that discovered Tinchona from

[00:18:01] the natives of Peru and introduced it and in most British and early American

[00:18:07] herbals they will not call it Jesuits bark they'll call it Peruvian bark or

[00:18:12] Tinchona because their bigotry against Catholics was so very strong in fact if

[00:18:19] I'm not mistaken it was either Thompson dr. Thompson or Jethro Kloss went on

[00:18:25] quite a tirade in one of his books about how the only good thing the

[00:18:30] Jesuits ever did was discovering Tinchona because they weren't worship Satan and the

[00:18:33] horror of Babylon you know trust me as a Catholic in the south we get that a lot

[00:18:37] I always say your good Christian neighbor down the street will likely show up

[00:18:46] on your doorstep one day to tell you you are going to hell and he'd be glad

[00:18:49] to help you get there faster yeah that's kind of what the whole point of

[00:18:53] the clan was you know they really teach this in school either but the

[00:18:57] Ku Klux Klan lynched I think about three times more white Catholics and it did

[00:19:02] all blacks and Mexicans and Jews put together yeah yeah anyway the fresh

[00:19:10] bark let's see generally given in conjunction with laudanum now of course

[00:19:15] laudanum is tincture opium so that was corpus be very anti-spasmodic which

[00:19:20] that would help you know with cramping of the bowels and such it also

[00:19:24] possesses antiseptic powers in recent in the recent state it is less stimulating

[00:19:30] than Tinchona bark but it affects the bowels more the dried bark is a

[00:19:34] preferable form in other words better to use it dry than fresh and that's probably

[00:19:39] how you're going to collect and keep it you know in your herbal medicine

[00:19:45] cabinet the fresh bark was sometimes act as a cathartic meaning it could

[00:19:49] actually well it could actually cause diarrhea essentially it is more

[00:19:56] stimulating than thorough wart your petorium and therefore is less happenable

[00:20:02] during the hot stages of fever so they were saying use thorough wart the stove

[00:20:06] high weed you know very closely related to fever for you and that was better

[00:20:13] for intense high fevers but the dog was better for low lingering or intermittent

[00:20:20] fevers according to dr. Walker's examination the bark contains an

[00:20:27] extractive matter gum extractive matters gum residentanin and gallic acid and

[00:20:34] dr. Carpenter announces it has a new principle in medicine at this time in

[00:20:38] 1960s corn corneen corneen that's you know specific chemical that comes from the

[00:20:44] cornice or dogwood species dr. Jackson found from experiment that he was

[00:20:50] satisfied that the contains the principal analogous to quinia so corneen

[00:20:56] and quinine very very similar it has been exhibited from dr. S. G. Morton in

[00:21:03] intermittent fever with success we start getting to references from medical

[00:21:08] journals we obviously don't need that the ripe fruit infused in brandy makes an

[00:21:13] agree agreeable and useful bitter which may be a convenient substitute for the

[00:21:18] article prepared in shops digestive vitters were very popular at the time

[00:21:22] and I have actually never used the fruit the berry of cornice Florida

[00:21:27] run up I was told it was poisonous I never thought about even trying it

[00:21:31] honestly and I'm gonna have to experiment with that this fall the

[00:21:34] summer and fall the okay medical surgery journal 1849 he gave the extract

[00:21:43] and doses of 10 grains without it producing any disturbance to the stomach

[00:21:48] as alleged by some writers so apparently it was thought to be poisonous at

[00:21:52] the time they're saying maybe not usual care look into it you know from the

[00:21:58] gallic acid contains link may be made and the bark of the fibrous roots the

[00:22:04] Indians extracted a scarlet color yes root of dogwood was used as a dye we don't

[00:22:09] need to get into that but that was you know very interesting at the at the time

[00:22:13] because the whole job of this botanist was to replace everything imported to

[00:22:19] the south from outside by native plants during the blockade the dogwood

[00:22:24] bark and root into coxswain or in the form of cold infusion is believed to

[00:22:27] be the most efficient if efficient substitute for quinine also in

[00:22:33] treating malarial fevers certainly might be using cases of occurring cramp to

[00:22:38] prevent the waste of quinine they should be substituted now think about this

[00:22:42] during covid people are freaking out you know they needed this fever

[00:22:47] antiviral property of quinine and couldn't get it and there were all these

[00:22:52] like crazy recipes of how to make your own quinine on the internet out of

[00:22:56] grapefruit peels and such which doesn't actually work it's similar you can

[00:23:02] get a similar compound but it's it doesn't do what actual quinine does well

[00:23:07] you probably had a dog tree dogwood tree in your yard or down the street think how

[00:23:12] useful this would have been right or tulip poplar which is yeah Luria

[00:23:16] dendrum very very similar you combine that with you peturium bone set or

[00:23:23] Joe pie weed epilobium I think it is is that right yeah I think so and you

[00:23:29] know you could have had some stuff you could really have used to help you in

[00:23:33] such a viral condition and this is why we need to know this you know absolutely

[00:23:37] and he encourages people to grow opium poppies mustard flaxseed and dogwood to

[00:23:46] replace a lot of the imports coming in so yeah I'm not gonna encourage you to

[00:23:52] grow opium poppies you might go to jail but California poppy prickly poppy

[00:23:56] can be used and they are legal so yeah maybe look into that not that I'm

[00:24:01] advocating the use of opiates actually I do everything I can to avoid the use

[00:24:05] of opiates he also talked about red willow and swamp dogwood that red willows

[00:24:12] at Red Ozier dogwood and he found it to be more bitter and more

[00:24:18] stringent and talks about how Indians favorite combination was combining it

[00:24:22] with tobacco for smoking blood red dogwood apparently could be used

[00:24:27] similarly and that's more of a swamp plant Kings medical dispensatory of 1898

[00:24:33] says this is in you know official medicine at the time dogwood bark is tonic

[00:24:38] a stringent and slightly stimulant it forms an excellent substitute for

[00:24:41] Peruvian bark again that's quite nine having frequently proved efficient

[00:24:46] periodic attacks when the foreign drug failed so you're saying it's even more

[00:24:50] effective than quite nine it may be used in many cases where quite is indicated and

[00:24:54] can be administered owing to its idiosyncrasy or I'm not sure what I mean by

[00:25:00] that it may be used with advantage in cases where tonics are required so the

[00:25:04] bitter property good for your stomach in periodic fevers typhoid fevers etc. it

[00:25:09] is its internal employment increases the strength and frequency of the pulse it

[00:25:15] elevates the temperature of the body so it helps break a fever by actually

[00:25:18] increasing the temperature of the body it should be used in a dried state as the

[00:25:23] recent bark is apt to derange the stomach and cause more or less pain in the

[00:25:28] abdomen so that doesn't sound good I think he just means cramping an upset

[00:25:31] stomach essentially prepared by boiling water so it's just a decoction and

[00:25:37] again this one says the right berries formed into a tincture with brandy

[00:25:40] or whiskey are a popular bidders among some country people I'm gonna give a

[00:25:45] try and the flowers are occasionally used in the place of chamomile well yeah I'm

[00:25:51] gonna have to do that dry specific indications it uses tonic anti periodic

[00:25:56] intermittent and or my as mcfever's good for headache general exhaustion feeble

[00:26:03] relaxed tissues feeble pulse and a subnormal temperature getting more

[00:26:09] up-to-date here the Roe Dale or a book said the Indians were the first to

[00:26:14] use the native dogwood for healing and the white settlers were quick to add it to

[00:26:18] their folk medicine although the bark was the principal part use the flowers and

[00:26:22] leaves have been used the Delaware's alabamas and humas of Louisiana all use

[00:26:27] the inner bark to make a febri fuse tea the T for fevers it is good in low

[00:26:32] continual forms of fever where the patient is generally exhausted reports

[00:26:36] one 19th century Indian folk herbal during the civil war dogwood was used

[00:26:42] as one of several native plants is substitute for quinine which was obtained

[00:26:46] for the bark of the chinchonetry a Peruvian native when the south was cut off by

[00:26:50] outside supply sources botany and day said it states that dogwood contains

[00:26:54] varying amounts of cornic acid and the alkaloid al the alkaloid cornein mostly

[00:27:01] in the bark and inner bark is mildly narcotic and analgesic in effect

[00:27:05] especially helpful for any individuals who have negative reactions to willow or

[00:27:12] aspirin so uses substitute for salicin the bark is also quite a stringent which

[00:27:20] further helps draw down inflamed tissue and we end with the physicians desk

[00:27:24] reference verbal medicine you know this is what your doctor would use if you go

[00:27:28] in and say doc I'm taking this herb he's gonna pull it out and see if you

[00:27:32] know official medicine now says it's safer not they say it does have a cardiac

[00:27:38] effect at different levels up to the cessation of heartbeat so you could actually

[00:27:42] if you took way too much it can hurt you okay but it depends on the

[00:27:47] concentration of the mental extract it has an anti-spasmodic effect it is

[00:27:53] used in malaria and similar to quinine or sulfa diaz sulfa diazine sulfa diazine

[00:28:03] there we go today results cannot be sufficiently assessed the bark works as

[00:28:09] a tonic and a stringent a stimulant stimulant in northern in North America the

[00:28:14] dried bark was using folk medicine to strengthen and stimulate the appetite

[00:28:18] for fever and chronic diarrhea it is used externally as a stringent for wounds

[00:28:23] and boils formally it was used as a replacement for quinine it is still

[00:28:26] used for headaches and fatigue health under health risks and side effects it

[00:28:31] says following the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages

[00:28:39] health risks are not recorded so yeah I'm sure if you took a whole lot maybe

[00:28:46] you could hurt yourself that's true of just about anything though isn't it and

[00:28:51] the the pdr positions test references says used in Derek designated

[00:28:56] therapeutic dosage it's pretty much safe so look into it research it consider

[00:29:04] planning some dogwoods they're not just pretty trees they're ridiculously

[00:29:09] useful for many things so y'all have a good one and I will talk to you next

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[00:29:23] the FDA I'm not a doctor the US government does not recognize the practice

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[00:29:31] therefore I'm really just a guy who studies herbs I'm not offering any

[00:29:35] advice I don't even claim that anything I write or say is accurate or

[00:29:39] true I can tell you what ours have been traditionally used for I can tell you

[00:29:43] my own experience and if I believe in others help me I cannot nor would I

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