Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Medicinal Trees, Paper Mulberry, Hornbeam and Hickory

[00:00:00] Hey y'all, welcome to today's show. I think we're actually going to get through about three medicinal trees today.

[00:00:07] At least one of them is super common where I live. It's the hickory tree.

[00:00:12] And what would barbecue would be without hickory wood? I mean it is like...

[00:00:17] What three trees define North Carolina? Pine, certainly, oak, and hickory.

[00:00:24] That's North Carolina in a town but you can call it a village if I go two miles in

[00:01:43] one direction I'm to my favorite fishing hole if I go so much in gas just to drive my big heavy 1989 Chevy pickup truck around. I could save a whole lot of money if I rode a bicycle. There's also, you know, wear and tear on a vehicle, maintenance, always the danger of getting in an accident or something breaking and you know I fear I can put a basket on there for I don't know 10 15 bucks you can buy one off of eBay or make one yourself which I'll probably do a rack on the back I can do some foraging out on the bicycle I can do some fishing out on the bicycle heck I can actually do some

[00:04:20] small game hunting I mean that is sort of like the the northern England roads, ice and snow and all that. And I wouldn't take it a long distance and I'm certainly not going to put on spandex or try to race somebody. No, I'm going to be in my boots and jeans and, you know, just to hillbilly on a bicycle. But I'm... What was weird? I was thinking about it, I guess it was Sunday, and I was looking at the tracking number to see when it was going to be

[00:05:42] delivered and I thought, I'm actually more I'm foraging, two I'm looking for fishing opportunities three I'll make the stalking game I'm hunting four I'm looking for areas to trap that means slow down walk stop sit look around observe

[00:07:03] I'd you know people go flying past England thought it was like an old folk show and I think maybe the older folks

[00:08:20] in England thought it was like sort of an old-fashioned way of life they wanted bike that I can ride. I think this is going to be fantastic for foraging and gathering wild herbs. You can probably expect, I have a rumble channel, I've got Southern Appalachian herbs set up with a podcast on and then I've got more videos on Herbal Medicine 101.

[00:09:40] You're probably going to see a whole lot of wild crafting and foraging videos of me just What is it? Oh, I've forgotten. They'll come to me later. Is it the synergy or something? A virtual God online that would be the sum total knowledge of all humanity plus what all this computer could figure out on its own. Synchronicity, that's it. That would be like a virtual God.

[00:11:02] As a religious human being, I

[00:11:05] firmly believe something real bad is going to happen soon. I love this show, I may have told this before, I do three podcasts, three separate podcasts a week, so I mean like actually a total of, I don't even know, eight episodes a week, so sometimes I lose track. But Justin Wilson, the great Cajun chef that used to be on PBS used to tell his story.

[00:12:22] He said that these two little boys grew up in Louisiana, a little Baptist boy, and he does the same thing. He says, you know, we come in and those are the hymns we sing and the preacher is going to go up there and and then the preacher takes his watch out and sits it on the on the lectern. Now if you all grew up Baptist, you know what I'm about to say. Little Catholic boy says, what does that mean? The Baptist boy says to him, it don't

[00:13:40] mean a damn thing whatsoever. I guarantee you. like fancy latin names of plants you would think they would at least put it keep in mind let's give the tree a name something that somebody can pronounce no they don't in fact they seem to pride themselves on putting as many syllables as they can into a word but as I said that's called the paper mulberry and

[00:15:01] it's naturalized in my region it's friend I wonder where those people go on vacation so I can avoid

[00:17:22] A lot of herbs do that. About what, two years ago there was this big shortage of baby formula.

[00:17:31] And I was on Twitter and there are thousands of women freaking out because they can't get baby formula.

[00:17:37] And I said, don't worry y'all.

[00:17:40] I actually know probably a hundred herbs or more that will increase lactation. uh... kapinas that is not right it uh... but it's actually the name of its carpinist let's see if i can get right carpinist hornbeam you may have cut that out that is so good all this hornbeam uh... for horn beams have been used in herbal medicine carpinist

[00:19:01] betulist

[00:19:02] hornbeam carpinist car my region. Obviously, I'm just like, you know

[00:20:25] Not that far from Virginia

[00:21:26] actually known as hickory and there are 18 varieties of hickory known in medicinal use and 12 that are native to my region. This is literally one of the

[00:21:31] most important trees in North Carolina. We've got butternut, pig nuts,

[00:21:37] moccarnuts. Much of the Confederate Army actually died their uniforms with dye bourbon, forget it. That's gonna be like the best thing you ever had in your life. Or a hickory nut pie, you can make the same as you would pecan pie, put some bourbon and chocolate in there. And you will thank me for that. That will blow your mind and you will not ever find anything better you can put in your mouth, seriously.

[00:23:00] The cracked chopped nuts are fantastic with sausage, scrambled eggs for breakfast. Droop it's not actually a nut it's a droop. So if you wanted to say tree fruit that isn't an apple Yeah, pecan probably actually per surpass it the main thing about it is the barxist stringent. It's good for treating wounds Yeah Very likely like walnut the leaves has some vermifuge or anti parasitic properties all members of this family

[00:24:24] Which are the juggling day CA family?

[00:25:24] against intestinal parasites and rubbing on the body can help keep bugs off.

[00:25:25] They're really very useful actually.

[00:25:28] As a kid, horses used to eat pecan leaves or walnut leaves or something.

[00:25:33] The old folks would say, don't let it have too much, but they know what they do and

[00:25:36] they know what they need.

[00:25:37] It would keep them free of worms and parasites.

[00:25:40] It seemed to work.

[00:25:41] That's all I can tell you.

[00:25:43] I don't know if it Stearns is, but apparently he did some studies on hickory, has called attention recognize the practice of herbal medicine and there is no governing body regulating herbless. Therefore, I'm really just a guy who studies herbs. I'm not offering any advice. I won't even claim that anything I write or say is accurate or true. I can tell you what herbs have been traditionally used for.

[00:28:22] I can tell you my own experience and if I believe an herb has helped me.

[00:28:25] I cannot nor would I tell you to do the same.