Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Medicinal Trees, Pawpaw and Bush Groundsel

[00:00:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Hey y'all, welcome to this week's show.

[00:00:04] [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to get into a really interesting tree today.

[00:00:08] [SPEAKER_01]: You have another one of these medicinal trees and this one also has some really good food

[00:00:12] [SPEAKER_01]: properties.

[00:00:12] [SPEAKER_01]: It's the pawpaw.

[00:00:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Pawpaw was once a very popular fruit in America.

[00:00:18] [SPEAKER_01]: It's native to America, to North America.

[00:00:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Also called custard apple.

[00:00:25] [SPEAKER_01]: They grew up wild.

[00:00:26] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, where I live in the mountains, you may want to look into them as a plant.

[00:00:32] [SPEAKER_01]: You could grow your yard as part of your landscaping.

[00:00:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Not a very large tree and there are some cellars.

[00:00:38] [SPEAKER_01]: I believe Stark Brothers Nursery has them.

[00:00:41] [SPEAKER_01]: One green world.

[00:00:43] [SPEAKER_01]: There's some nurseries that do carry pawpaws and I believe some of them have been bred

[00:00:49] [SPEAKER_01]: to tolerate some warmer climates than we have up here in the mountains.

[00:00:53] [SPEAKER_01]: So definitely look into that.

[00:00:56] [SPEAKER_01]: But before I start talking about this very interesting tree, I want to give you a little

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[00:03:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Now let's get into the tree which comes from my book, The Additional Trees of the American Southeast and Herbalist Guide.

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[00:03:34] [SPEAKER_01]: The proper name of the pawpaw is Asimina triloba.

[00:03:40] [SPEAKER_01]: There's actually a little i in there that's kind of hard to pronounce.

[00:03:44] [SPEAKER_01]: I usually say Asmina, it's Asimina.

[00:03:47] [SPEAKER_01]: So A-S-I-M-I-N-A triloba.

[00:03:51] [SPEAKER_01]: More commonly known as the pawpaw.

[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Very easy to identify this tree because there's only one.

[00:03:57] [SPEAKER_01]: The pawpaw has a very unique looking flower.

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_01]: You pull up a picture of that online real quick.

[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Very easy to spot this tree once you come to recognize it.

[00:04:07] [SPEAKER_01]: It's a really unique native plant and I'd love to tell you it has all kinds of really impressive medicinal properties.

[00:04:16] [SPEAKER_01]: It does have some, but really the main value is the fruit.

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_01]: And planting fruit trees is a really good thing for preppers to do, fruit and nut trees.

[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Or identifying them in the wild.

[00:04:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Pawpaw is sort of our native tropical fruit, but it grows in temperate regions.

[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_01]: It was long considered a variety of papaya, but it's actually not.

[00:04:38] [SPEAKER_01]: It's a unique tree and like I said sometimes it's called the custard apple.

[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_01]: The fruit is somewhere between a papaya and a banana.

[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_01]: So it really does have a fairly unique flavor.

[00:04:53] [SPEAKER_01]: And it is very good. You'll very rarely see pawpaws for sale in a store though because they just do not ship.

[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_01]: They bruise easily, they spoil quickly.

[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_01]: It's when you're going to have to grow yourself or find it in the woods.

[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_01]: And like I said, it does like the mountains where I live.

[00:05:11] [SPEAKER_01]: I think it probably grows best naturally in the mountains and hills.

[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_01]: But I think there has been some breeding to allow it to be grown in other climates.

[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_01]: So look into that.

[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_01]: It's a small tree as I mentioned.

[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_01]: It's one that inhabits the understory and it would really be far more common if it wasn't for real estate and forestry practices.

[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Take the understory.

[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean people like to go in and clear the understory and just leave the big trees.

[00:05:40] [SPEAKER_01]: They actually, it's not a very good practice at all.

[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Really a clear cut is much better for the forest than going in selectively taking trees

[00:05:48] [SPEAKER_01]: because everything kind of grows back and finds its own natural place again when everything's cut down.

[00:05:54] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, it would happen after a major forest fire.

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_01]: I know there may be some forestry guys out there that disagree with me or some logging folks

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_01]: but really a clear cut is much better than clearing the understory.

[00:06:08] [SPEAKER_01]: The plants, the trees, everything is growing in relationship to each other.

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_01]: So the game of the deer and the rabbits and all that, they need that understory.

[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_01]: There need to be bushes and shrubs and all that clearing everything out like a park

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_01]: which is unfortunately what a lot of people do.

[00:06:26] [SPEAKER_01]: It's just actually quite destructive to a natural woodland.

[00:06:31] [SPEAKER_01]: If you've got to build a house obviously you've got to clear a lot.

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_01]: But again I have a neighbor up in the mountains.

[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_01]: The man is just obsessive. He's retired.

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Every few days he goes into the woods and cuts down everything that is in a very large tree.

[00:06:47] [SPEAKER_01]: And he just likes to walk around out there and drive his golf cart around in the woods

[00:06:50] [SPEAKER_01]: and it's like, dude you're ruining the habitat but he doesn't care.

[00:06:55] [SPEAKER_01]: And it really annoys me because he's ruined some of my best mushroom hunting grounds

[00:06:59] [SPEAKER_01]: because he takes out all the dead wood.

[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Mushrooms need to have dead wood to eat.

[00:07:04] [SPEAKER_01]: They decompose the dead wood.

[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_01]: But he thinks it looks messy.

[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_01]: So I know there was a wonderful stand of shantarelle mushrooms.

[00:07:13] [SPEAKER_01]: It's not there anymore thanks to his endless and tireless efforts.

[00:07:19] [SPEAKER_01]: The property is close enough to my house that he really gets on my nerves with the chainsaw

[00:07:24] [SPEAKER_01]: and the leaf blowers he's constantly using and the tractor, I mean he makes more noise

[00:07:29] [SPEAKER_01]: for no valid reason.

[00:07:32] [SPEAKER_01]: And when you've got to use equipment, power equipment, you use power equipment.

[00:07:35] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean I use a chainsaw to cut down trees, no big deal right?

[00:07:38] [SPEAKER_01]: But this guy is like, I don't know, he just has way too much time on his hands

[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_01]: and he just kind of drives me crazy.

[00:07:46] [SPEAKER_01]: But hey you know another thing I need to work on during Lent is forgiving people.

[00:07:50] [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm not going to talk bad about him.

[00:07:53] [SPEAKER_01]: I'll just say God bless him whatever.

[00:07:57] [SPEAKER_01]: That's actually when someone says that in the South like bless your heart

[00:08:00] [SPEAKER_01]: it's not actually intended to be a very nice state

[00:08:03] [SPEAKER_01]: but it's like all your so pathetic and pitiful just you know God bless you.

[00:08:07] [SPEAKER_01]: But anyway we'll get back to the subject at hand.

[00:08:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Like I said pawpaw is like a mix for us not a park like setting.

[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_01]: The two factors that have led really though to pawpaw falling out of favor

[00:08:20] [SPEAKER_01]: is that the fruit just doesn't shift well and really you know a lot of it

[00:08:25] [SPEAKER_01]: and this is something I've written about extensively.

[00:08:29] [SPEAKER_01]: I probably talked about it on this show before.

[00:08:32] [SPEAKER_01]: The reason so much of our knowledge of foraging,

[00:08:36] [SPEAKER_01]: of hunting and fishing, of herbal medicine, etc. has been lost.

[00:08:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Home preserving, canning foods, etc.

[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_01]: is because of the breakdown of the nuclear family

[00:08:46] [SPEAKER_01]: and especially though the extended family.

[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_01]: You know I know so much of what I know because I got to grow up

[00:08:51] [SPEAKER_01]: around my grandparents and great-grandparents and great-aunt's and uncles.

[00:08:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Kids today you know don't.

[00:08:59] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean the most marriages are ending in divorce

[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_01]: and then actually most people aren't even bothering to get married.

[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_01]: The kids that are actually raised in a two-parent family

[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_01]: are now the minority.

[00:09:15] [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's like less than 30% of the population

[00:09:19] [SPEAKER_01]: and a lot of people you know marry two, three, four times.

[00:09:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Like another neighbor of mine.

[00:09:25] [SPEAKER_01]: They've been married I think three or four times each

[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_01]: and have just gotten divorced from each other.

[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_01]: That doesn't exactly lead to intact families.

[00:09:35] [SPEAKER_01]: That doesn't lead to traditions being passed on

[00:09:39] [SPEAKER_01]: from generation to generation.

[00:09:42] [SPEAKER_01]: And you know people move all around the country

[00:09:44] [SPEAKER_01]: and they don't grow up and stay in their hometowns anymore.

[00:09:47] [SPEAKER_01]: So you know I mean it reminds me of episode of Duck Dynasty

[00:09:51] [SPEAKER_01]: where Phil and Miss Kay realized it was very important

[00:09:56] [SPEAKER_01]: to take the grandkids out and show them how to harvest black hall berries

[00:10:01] [SPEAKER_01]: and then they took them home and they made a hall jam.

[00:10:05] [SPEAKER_01]: And I mean that's not something most kids these days grow up doing.

[00:10:10] [SPEAKER_01]: So you know obviously that's a big reason

[00:10:15] [SPEAKER_01]: why people don't even really know what a hall, a pawpaw is anymore

[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_01]: much less a black hall or another member of the you know, Hallthorne family.

[00:10:25] [SPEAKER_01]: When just a few generations they were so popular

[00:10:27] [SPEAKER_01]: there was a kids song picking up pawpaws put them in your pocket

[00:10:30] [SPEAKER_01]: that you know it was the song the kids played.

[00:10:32] [SPEAKER_01]: It was like a nursery rhyme saying I guess it was like you know a nursery rhyme.

[00:10:36] [SPEAKER_01]: And now nobody seems to really know what they are.

[00:10:40] [SPEAKER_01]: So I think on one hand that's you know great tragedy

[00:10:44] [SPEAKER_01]: on the other hand you know as a prepper it means

[00:10:46] [SPEAKER_01]: you can have these trees in plain sight

[00:10:49] [SPEAKER_01]: and it's probably one of the few fruits kids aren't going to be sneaking

[00:10:52] [SPEAKER_01]: onto your property stealing you know.

[00:10:55] [SPEAKER_01]: And I lived in Fosco, North Carolina had a beautiful huge cherry tree

[00:11:02] [SPEAKER_01]: right at the edge of the yard and two apple trees

[00:11:05] [SPEAKER_01]: oh you know blackberry bushes everywhere.

[00:11:08] [SPEAKER_01]: It was great it was really great.

[00:11:11] [SPEAKER_01]: But that cherry tree every kid in the neighborhood

[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_01]: knew that cherry tree and knew it had just great delicious cherries

[00:11:21] [SPEAKER_01]: and it was a real challenge to get out there

[00:11:24] [SPEAKER_01]: or to get a ladder high enough to go where the kids had gotten

[00:11:27] [SPEAKER_01]: and get some cherries before they were all gone.

[00:11:31] [SPEAKER_01]: So but you're not going to have that problem with a pawpaw

[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_01]: and really not with a lot of your heirloom more sour apples

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_01]: the ugly apples that make the best ciders and pies

[00:11:44] [SPEAKER_01]: and apple butter you can't go wrong with heirloom apples

[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_01]: they're just fantastic they're not pretty enough to sell in stores

[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_01]: and you know most kids probably wouldn't even recognize them as an apple

[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_01]: but anyway so as far as the medicinal use

[00:12:02] [SPEAKER_01]: the fruit is laxative with eating in large amounts

[00:12:06] [SPEAKER_01]: the leaves are diuretic and make for a good poll to some wounds

[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_01]: and boils infections and inflammation

[00:12:12] [SPEAKER_01]: now that's probably the way you're going to use it most

[00:12:14] [SPEAKER_01]: it's really good.

[00:12:16] [SPEAKER_01]: The bark may be used as a digestive bitter

[00:12:18] [SPEAKER_01]: actually the bark of the pawpaw tree is quite good for the stomach and liver and all that

[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_01]: and there's also some history, some information I found in old books

[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_01]: that it was used as a wash to treat head lice

[00:12:33] [SPEAKER_01]: so you can see it would be a very useful plant

[00:12:37] [SPEAKER_01]: if you happen to be able to grow it.

[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Other seeds they have an ametic property

[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_01]: okay they can be used as an epi-ket

[00:12:46] [SPEAKER_01]: they can be used to make you throw up

[00:12:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Miss Grieve said that ametic for which a saturated tincture of the bruised seeds is employed

[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_01]: does being 60 to 10 to 60 drops

[00:12:58] [SPEAKER_01]: okay so what does that mean?

[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_01]: it means you take all probably about a pound or so of the seeds

[00:13:07] [SPEAKER_01]: and bruise them, put them in a quart jar

[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_01]: and fill up the jar with some good vodka

[00:13:14] [SPEAKER_01]: let it sit for a month

[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_01]: and then it could be used for emergencies to make you vomit

[00:13:19] [SPEAKER_01]: okay the bark is a bitter tonic

[00:13:22] [SPEAKER_01]: and said to contain a powerful acid

[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_01]: and that's probably why it was used for head lice

[00:13:29] [SPEAKER_01]: and the leaves are used as an application to boils and ulcers as I said

[00:13:33] [SPEAKER_01]: and that reminds me, another great tree we'll talk about soon

[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_01]: that most people don't know about anymore is persimmons

[00:13:40] [SPEAKER_01]: wild persimmons, I gather tons of them every year

[00:13:44] [SPEAKER_01]: and the bark and leaves are fairly similar properties actually

[00:13:48] [SPEAKER_01]: you'll be interested in the persimmon, so good

[00:13:51] [SPEAKER_01]: when we get to that show I'll give you my recipe for persimmon bread

[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_01]: basically you make it just like banana bread

[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_01]: and it's dense and chewy

[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_01]: it has like a molasses texture

[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_01]: and it's really actually very good

[00:14:04] [SPEAKER_01]: and I think George Washington was very fond of making persimmon beer

[00:14:11] [SPEAKER_01]: he would actually make a bread like that, dry it out

[00:14:15] [SPEAKER_01]: and then use that to make beer out of

[00:14:18] [SPEAKER_01]: which anyway we'll get into that another time

[00:14:19] [SPEAKER_01]: another one you might want to think about is passion fruit

[00:14:22] [SPEAKER_01]: you get passion fruit vines established and they grow rampantly

[00:14:28] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean you have trouble keeping them under control

[00:14:30] [SPEAKER_01]: and that's absolutely delicious fruit

[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_01]: and those are things, wild persimmons, passion fruits, paw paws, haul berries

[00:14:37] [SPEAKER_01]: you never see those in stores

[00:14:39] [SPEAKER_01]: and they're just really good for you too

[00:14:42] [SPEAKER_01]: alright so back to the paw paw

[00:14:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Resources of the Southern Field and Forest

[00:14:47] [SPEAKER_01]: says that it preferred rich soils and particularly grew along streams

[00:14:56] [SPEAKER_01]: and had been observed in Spartanburg, South Carolina

[00:15:02] [SPEAKER_01]: and along the Savannah River

[00:15:03] [SPEAKER_01]: and let's see North Carolina

[00:15:06] [SPEAKER_01]: so yeah I mean but I know it also grows in New England

[00:15:09] [SPEAKER_01]: so it's not necessarily a Southern plant

[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_01]: and I think you can probably grow this one in most places

[00:15:17] [SPEAKER_01]: which says the rind of the fruit

[00:15:19] [SPEAKER_01]: which is a part we haven't talked about yet

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_01]: it possesses a very active acid

[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_01]: and is sometimes used as a topical application in ulcerous wounds

[00:15:31] [SPEAKER_01]: the juice of the unripe fruit is a powerful and effective vermafuse

[00:15:36] [SPEAKER_01]: which means it helps get rid of intestinal parasite, specifically worms

[00:15:38] [SPEAKER_01]: the powder of the seeds answers the same purpose

[00:15:42] [SPEAKER_01]: so they're saying the seeds can be dried and ground

[00:15:44] [SPEAKER_01]: to get rid of intestinal worms

[00:15:47] [SPEAKER_01]: and this oh this is also very interesting

[00:15:50] [SPEAKER_01]: they say the tree has the property of rendering the toughest animal substance tender

[00:15:55] [SPEAKER_01]: by causing a separation of the muscle fiber

[00:15:59] [SPEAKER_01]: it's very vapor even does this

[00:16:02] [SPEAKER_01]: now I'm not sure I have not tried that

[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm wondering if this is maybe a case where they're confusing it with the pawpaw

[00:16:09] [SPEAKER_01]: because see the...

[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_01]: confusing it with the papaya

[00:16:12] [SPEAKER_01]: because see the papaya which is actually you know a tropical fruit

[00:16:16] [SPEAKER_01]: contains an...

[00:16:18] [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's an amino acid I think it's called pepein

[00:16:21] [SPEAKER_01]: P-A-P-I-N

[00:16:23] [SPEAKER_01]: and it actually does cause the breakdown of protein

[00:16:26] [SPEAKER_01]: it's a very good meat tenderizer

[00:16:29] [SPEAKER_01]: you know it's something chefs like to use

[00:16:33] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know that the pawpaw

[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_01]: even though they actually say this is a triloba that they're referencing

[00:16:39] [SPEAKER_01]: has that same principle

[00:16:41] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know I'm gonna have to try that

[00:16:43] [SPEAKER_01]: next time I have some tough meat and I've got some pawpaws in season

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_01]: and because yeah that would be pretty cool

[00:16:51] [SPEAKER_01]: you know sometimes especially as a hunter

[00:16:54] [SPEAKER_01]: you get some tough meat sometimes

[00:16:56] [SPEAKER_01]: and that would be another nice use for the plant

[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_01]: and it would add really good flavor too

[00:17:01] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean like I said it's somewhere between papaya and banana

[00:17:04] [SPEAKER_01]: so I mean I could totally see that going with like

[00:17:07] [SPEAKER_01]: pork or bear meat

[00:17:08] [SPEAKER_01]: oh yeah that'd be good

[00:17:09] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean that'd be really good

[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_01]: pineapple can also have some meat tenderizing qualities by the way

[00:17:17] [SPEAKER_01]: if you happen to live where you can grow pineapple

[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_01]: oh they went on to say

[00:17:22] [SPEAKER_01]: on that same subject that

[00:17:24] [SPEAKER_01]: newly killed meat suspended over the leaves

[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_01]: and even old hogs and poultry

[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_01]: when fed on the leaves and fruit

[00:17:30] [SPEAKER_01]: become tender in a few hours

[00:17:32] [SPEAKER_01]: that would be amazing

[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_01]: well might be worth raising some pigs under your pawpaw trees

[00:17:39] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean you know absolutely

[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_01]: pigs also love honey locust pods by the way

[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_01]: that's a really good tree that we'll get into

[00:17:47] [SPEAKER_01]: that's a great one to grow

[00:17:52] [SPEAKER_01]: that's actually the

[00:17:53] [SPEAKER_01]: well they don't know if it was the locust tree

[00:17:56] [SPEAKER_01]: or the carob tree

[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_01]: they're related

[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_01]: that's mentioned in the Bible

[00:18:00] [SPEAKER_01]: you know in the product of the sun where he said

[00:18:02] [SPEAKER_01]: he would eat the pods that were intended for the hog

[00:18:04] [SPEAKER_01]: so you know that's a very old way

[00:18:06] [SPEAKER_01]: of raising pork actually

[00:18:09] [SPEAKER_01]: the sap of the pawpaw tree

[00:18:12] [SPEAKER_01]: is extracted

[00:18:14] [SPEAKER_01]: okay on this one they are actually

[00:18:16] [SPEAKER_01]: are talking about the papaya

[00:18:17] [SPEAKER_01]: so I guess I'll

[00:18:18] [SPEAKER_01]: I'll skip that

[00:18:20] [SPEAKER_01]: we'll look at King's American Dispensatory

[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_01]: from 1898

[00:18:25] [SPEAKER_01]: they listed the actions, usage and dosage of

[00:18:29] [SPEAKER_01]: pawpaw properly

[00:18:30] [SPEAKER_01]: proper I mean not papaya

[00:18:33] [SPEAKER_01]: as a medic which we already discussed about

[00:18:36] [SPEAKER_01]: using a saturated tincture of the bruise

[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_01]: see it's 10 to 60 drops

[00:18:39] [SPEAKER_01]: just like Miss Grieve said in England in the 1930s

[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_01]: nubarque is a bitternic

[00:18:44] [SPEAKER_01]: and has been used in domestic practice

[00:18:46] [SPEAKER_01]: the medicinal properties of this agent

[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_01]: have not been fully investigated

[00:18:50] [SPEAKER_01]: but the Peterson Field Guide

[00:18:52] [SPEAKER_01]: for Eastern and Central medicinal plants

[00:18:55] [SPEAKER_01]: which is you know that is my favorite field guide

[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_01]: I always recommend Peterson

[00:18:58] [SPEAKER_01]: the fruit is edible, delicious

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_01]: and also laxative

[00:19:03] [SPEAKER_01]: the leaves are insecticidal

[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_01]: that's remember we said that the leaves

[00:19:07] [SPEAKER_01]: have been used as a wash for

[00:19:10] [SPEAKER_01]: head lice

[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_01]: the leaves are also diuretic

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_01]: and can be applied to abscesses

[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_01]: as apoltis as we've mentioned before

[00:19:17] [SPEAKER_01]: the seeds are a medic

[00:19:19] [SPEAKER_01]: that makes you throw up

[00:19:21] [SPEAKER_01]: but also I guess it's really

[00:19:23] [SPEAKER_01]: the warning that needs to go with this plant

[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_01]: although these herbivores have recommended

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_01]: making a tincture of the seeds

[00:19:31] [SPEAKER_01]: you don't want to eat pawpaw seeds

[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_01]: or have too much of that tincture

[00:19:36] [SPEAKER_01]: they actually are somewhat narcotic

[00:19:39] [SPEAKER_01]: and can cause a stupor

[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_01]: and have some

[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_01]: level of toxicity

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_01]: so you could actually get kind of sick

[00:19:49] [SPEAKER_01]: if you ate pawpaw seeds

[00:19:51] [SPEAKER_01]: the powdered seeds formally applied

[00:19:53] [SPEAKER_01]: to the heads of children

[00:19:54] [SPEAKER_01]: can control lice having insecticidal properties

[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_01]: and they also under their warnings

[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_01]: say the leaves may cause a rash

[00:20:02] [SPEAKER_01]: so you may you know

[00:20:04] [SPEAKER_01]: it can cause contact dermatitis

[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_01]: if you have an allergy to it

[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_01]: that really wraps up pawpaw

[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_01]: like I said it doesn't have a lot

[00:20:13] [SPEAKER_01]: of medicinal uses

[00:20:14] [SPEAKER_01]: the value of it

[00:20:17] [SPEAKER_01]: is more in the fruit

[00:20:18] [SPEAKER_01]: but I think it's a really important

[00:20:21] [SPEAKER_01]: plant for us to discuss

[00:20:23] [SPEAKER_01]: because

[00:20:24] [SPEAKER_01]: one, like I said you can grow it

[00:20:26] [SPEAKER_01]: but two, once you can identify it

[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_01]: you can find it fairly easily in nature

[00:20:31] [SPEAKER_01]: and just remember

[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_01]: you can use your phones

[00:20:34] [SPEAKER_01]: GPS and such to mark where

[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_01]: those useful plants are

[00:20:39] [SPEAKER_01]: in the woods when you find them

[00:20:40] [SPEAKER_01]: that's one of the few things I like about cell phones

[00:20:46] [SPEAKER_01]: and like you know the other thing is

[00:20:47] [SPEAKER_01]: most people don't know what they are

[00:20:49] [SPEAKER_01]: so you're not going to have a lot of human competition

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_01]: for such fruits

[00:20:52] [SPEAKER_01]: and since we've wrapped that one up

[00:20:55] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to give just one more because it's a really short entry

[00:20:57] [SPEAKER_01]: this is Bacchorus hemifolia

[00:20:59] [SPEAKER_01]: bush groundsel

[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_01]: now there are four

[00:21:04] [SPEAKER_01]: species of Bacchorus

[00:21:05] [SPEAKER_01]: that's Bacch

[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_01]: C-C-H-A-R-I-S

[00:21:10] [SPEAKER_01]: that

[00:21:11] [SPEAKER_01]: have been used in

[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_01]: herbal medicine

[00:21:14] [SPEAKER_01]: my favorite one goes by the common name mules fat

[00:21:18] [SPEAKER_01]: don't you just love that

[00:21:19] [SPEAKER_01]: I love the name mules fat for a tree

[00:21:21] [SPEAKER_01]: I'd have it just for the name

[00:21:24] [SPEAKER_01]: but anyway

[00:21:25] [SPEAKER_01]: this is not native to my region

[00:21:27] [SPEAKER_01]: actually hemifolia is the only one that grows around here

[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_01]: and

[00:21:31] [SPEAKER_01]: that's known as bush groundsel

[00:21:33] [SPEAKER_01]: as I mentioned

[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_01]: bush groundsel

[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_01]: is mainly grown as a

[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_01]: hedge plant

[00:21:40] [SPEAKER_01]: it's more of a shrub

[00:21:41] [SPEAKER_01]: but medicinally it's really good

[00:21:44] [SPEAKER_01]: it's very useful for coughs and lung ailments

[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_01]: it's demulsant

[00:21:48] [SPEAKER_01]: and calming to the lungs

[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_01]: so if you have bronchial issues

[00:21:51] [SPEAKER_01]: as I do

[00:21:52] [SPEAKER_01]: definitely one to consider planting

[00:21:55] [SPEAKER_01]: definitely one to be able to identify

[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_01]: and

[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_01]: do your research on it

[00:22:01] [SPEAKER_01]: investigate again that's Bacchorus hemifolia

[00:22:04] [SPEAKER_01]: hemifolia

[00:22:05] [SPEAKER_01]: bush groundsel

[00:22:07] [SPEAKER_01]: I am so tongue twisted today

[00:22:09] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why that is

[00:22:11] [SPEAKER_01]: alright y'all have a great week

[00:22:13] [SPEAKER_01]: and I will talk to you next time

[00:22:15] [SPEAKER_01]: remember shoot me an email at

[00:22:18] [SPEAKER_01]: JudsonatJudsonCarol.com

[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_01]: and I'll be glad

[00:22:21] [SPEAKER_01]: to send you a free PDF

[00:22:23] [SPEAKER_01]: of any one of my books

[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_01]: just let me know what you like

[00:22:26] [SPEAKER_01]: have a wonderful and blessed

[00:22:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Linton season

[00:22:30] [SPEAKER_01]: and get ready to celebrate

[00:22:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Easter in 40 days

[00:22:34] [SPEAKER_01]: and spring a little bit earlier than that

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_01]: which I'm really looking forward to

[00:22:37] [SPEAKER_01]: I got a lot of new things I want to

[00:22:39] [SPEAKER_01]: grow from seed this year

[00:22:41] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just holding off on starting them

[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_01]: just yet you know

[00:22:45] [SPEAKER_01]: so anyway have a good one

[00:23:06] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not a doctor

[00:23:07] [SPEAKER_00]: the US government does not recognize

[00:23:10] [SPEAKER_00]: the practice of verbal medicine

[00:23:11] [SPEAKER_00]: and there is no governing body

[00:23:12] [SPEAKER_00]: regulating herbless

[00:23:14] [SPEAKER_00]: therefore I'm really just a guy who studies herbs

[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not offering any advice

[00:23:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I won't even claim that anything I write

[00:23:19] [SPEAKER_00]: or say is accurate or true

[00:23:21] [SPEAKER_00]: I can tell you what herbs have been

[00:23:23] [SPEAKER_00]: traditionally used for

[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_00]: I can tell you my own experience

[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_00]: and if I believe in herbs help me

[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_00]: I cannot nor would I

[00:23:29] [SPEAKER_00]: I tell you to do the same

[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_00]: if you use an herb anyone recommends

[00:23:33] [SPEAKER_00]: you are treating yourself

[00:23:34] [SPEAKER_00]: you take full responsibility for your health

[00:23:37] [SPEAKER_00]: humans are individuals and no two are identical

[00:23:39] [SPEAKER_00]: what works for me may not work for you

[00:23:41] [SPEAKER_00]: you may have an allergy

[00:23:43] [SPEAKER_00]: a sensitivity and underlying condition

[00:23:45] [SPEAKER_00]: that no one else even shares

[00:23:47] [SPEAKER_00]: and you don't even know about

[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_00]: be careful with your health

[00:23:50] [SPEAKER_00]: by continuing to listen to my podcast

[00:23:53] [SPEAKER_00]: or read my blog you agree to be responsible

[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_00]: for yourself, do your own research

[00:23:56] [SPEAKER_00]: make your own choices and not to blame me

[00:23:59] [SPEAKER_00]: for anything ever