Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Mugwort

Hey, y'all, welcome this week's show. Last week we discussed mother ward and I mentioned that that would be one of the most essential herbs that I would grow. Really for two reasons. The one is that both mother ward and we're going to talk about this week have certain effects on the mood and the heart. The other is because they're particularly good for women's issues. I would add by Burnham to that list, and you pretty much got just about everything you need, I mean to deal with well most pre minstrul issues. Will put it that way. You'd also want to have some shepherd's purse and sage on hand for excessive bleeding. So if I had a woman in my life, which I do not, not my choice by the way, things just didn't work out right, I would definitely be growing those herbs I prioritize because they're going to make her life a lot easier and by comparison, your life a lot easier. So let's talk now about that other herb, and it is mugwort. Now, mugwort is a super interesting herb. I did talk about it just a little last week. About these herbs, I can think of four or five off the top of my head. That have really interesting mental emotional effects that science really cannot explain. For thousands of years, mugwort was used to bitter beer. That's why it's called mugwort. Sometimes seats spelled mugswart. It's a member of the Artimesia family, cousin to wormwood and such. Wormwood, you may know, also has psychological effects. This, the Artemeesia family does tend to affect brain chemistry in ways we really don't understand. Mugwort was used for people going through grief. It was called the herb of forgetfulness. It doesn't actually make you forget. There's actually this really interesting I may have it in my notes here, but just there was this legend about a little girl, orphan girl, lost in the woods somewhere in Italy, you know, north of Italy, and the little people took her in, you know whatever they call their sprites, fairies, everybody's got their version of the little people, leprechauns, brownies, whatever. Took her in and raised her and taught her all about herbal medicine, and she became the greatest healer in Europe, but was worn never to drink a cup of mugwart tea or she would forget everything. And in fact, she wasn't even supposed to say the name mugwart, but she did and she forgot everything. So that's just not true. Like I said, it actually does not cause amnesia or anything like that. It's not cause forgetfulness. What it does is it somehow makes grief easier to deal with, or what we might call PTSD in terms of the memories that haunt you. It kind of puts a little space between you and those memories that keep nagging at you, that keep coming to mind unprompted, and it helps you get through that period. Very very useful for that purpose. Others borage. Borage is really interesting herb. But it tastes like cucumbers. It's another one that used to be combined with wine. It was caused, it said, to increase courage. Soldiers would take it before going to battle. But it also made the heart merry. Nobody knows how that works. Oh wow, Past flour and nemony, that's one a little more dangerous to use. You really want to get expert in its use before you start using it. Also, so just incredible for PTSD. For what they call fuge state when you're just like losing it and you can't pull it together people. I mean, it's it's one that's like really powerful. Actually several several others come to mind, but I want to focus on. And of course we said motherwort last week, which helps with anxiety and depression. These are really good urbs to learn to use. You know, we as preppers were always like prepping for that. You know, should hit the fan situation right. And if you've ever been through a bad hurricane or you, I mean certainly if you're been to war, I haven't. You know, I'm not Sydney Blumenthal here. I'm not gonna act like I have. Uh. And why was he never charged with stolen valor? Can you tell me why we have a sitting US senator who lied about his service in Vietnam who was never charged with stolen valor? Is they're just not a single law enforcement officer with jurisdiction that has the guts to do it. I had, so ob should have been in jail or as stripped of his office years decades ago. I mean that really makes me mad, really, and I'm not a veteran. That really makes me mad because you know, so many of the guys I grew up with did die in battle or have been really messed up by it or served just really bravely and are like heroes walking among us. And I mean yeah, and of course all my family members, well I'm not the only generation not to serve. I mean, like I think of my great great grandfather. He was born in between the War of eighteen twelve and the Civil War. You know, there was no nothing for him to do, like his great grandson who was born between the Civil War and or his grandson, I guess between the Civil War and World War One, there was nothing for him to do. But yeah, I mean, all my great uncles and everybody served in every theater of war there was, so you know, that doesn't actually really make me man. Sydney Blumenthal should be tard and feathered in my opinion, not that I'm advocating any violence, but let's just say metaphorically trd and feathered. His reputation should have been absolutely destroyed and he should have been prosecuted. But anyway, I'm wondering, for a field the issues I would if I had any of these issues, or had some of my family had had any of these issues, or a friend or a neighbor. Definitely look into these plants. Hawthorne would be another one I would use. There's another one like right on the tip of my tongue. Gosh, it'll come to me probably as I talk. Actually now I can. You know, I can get a little down sometimes I have some trouble with depression such and usually don't take my advice. I don't take my own advice, and I should, and that's stupid of me. I should at least, you know, get some borage and keep it around. But these herbs are very full. You know. I was just brought up with the tough at out mentality. I think a lot of us were brought up with the tough at out mentality. But you know, in certain situations that's not the best thing to do. I mean, like after a major natural disaster, you're in shock. You know, there are herbs that help with shock. Past Flower anemony is actually excellent for shock. I used properly, and it's just like a few drops of a tincture, and it can make all the difference in the world, and I mean both physical and the emotional effects of actual shock. It can. Then you can save a life. But then there's also that exhaustion that comes afterwards. You know, there's that anxiety. You know, if you've got some herbs that help with anxiety, that can really help not exhaust or adrenals essentially adaptogens or motherward or something like that, a combination. Guyness stema is an adaptogen. I think it's really good for that. It's a very inexpensive tea. It just really cheap. It's Gino's stema. I'll probably do a show on it sometime. But anyway, Yeah, you're you know, you're adrenaline just going, and then after it's over, there's the exhaustion, and then there's usually that period of time where you're just kind of out of it. You're just going through the motions, and then the sadness really starts to set in, you know, realizing people have died, the and realizing your own property has been damaged, and you know, worry about finances and such as that. While it's not good to avoid facing such things, it is good to have those helps that God put here on earth to help us get through those hard times, and certainly grief after losing a loved one. I think mugwort is just really a good herb to have around, and it has anti viral property and has a lot of properties we're going to get into, so fascinating history of all the artemis is. Really, wormwood was probably the first one used and discovered because, as the name implies, it repels insects to some extent, but it's also really good for getting rid of thetestinal worms. Like some thousands of years ago, probably somebody puts some mug wart I mean wormwood in their bedding and noticed that they weren't getting fleas and ticks and such. Most everyone in that era would have had intestinal parasites and worms, so it's not hard to understand how someone would have seen that, Oh, wow, this this herb keeps bugs away. Maybe I should make a tea of it and drink it and see, right, And fortunately they didn't die, because it's not always the case, right. So, but really, the artemis is, the wormwoods and mugwarts and sweet annie and different ones in that may have been the first herbs our ancestors used for that very reason. And the sages tru sages are very closely related, and you may know that some of the sages have a psychological effect. Some of them are actually get you high. I mean, you know, salvia, you probably remember that was popular in the nineties. But yeah, sage t is like the dominant herb and herbal medicine for the first few thousand years, right, and the mints would have been very much used. So any of those three herbs are probably the first herbs our ancestors started using. But you know, you also have to remember that bitterness was more common in ancient vegetables than it is now. Our ancestors spent's thousands of years breeding the bitterness out of say, cucumbers. If you ever get a cucumber, that's sort of like a throwback to its original genetic material. It's as bitter as can be. I mean, I like, I actually like bitter flavors. They can be incredibly bitter. Well, as humanity is kind of gone in that direction, we've kind of lost our tastes for bitter herbs. Whereas our ancestors would have used all these herbs probably frequently. Now people are like, ooh, you know, it's bitter, it's nasty, I don't want it. You got to get over that, because those bitter herbs tend to be very potent, very good. The well They also would have been used to settle an upset stomach and for food poisoning and all that. Now, wormwood is probably the highest of the Artimesia family in thusion. Thusion is a chemical in wormwood that can cause hallucinations in large doses, like essential oil, absolutely kill you. I mean, without a doubt. You may remember the liquor absynthe absynth was flavored with wormwood. It was actually made illegal even in France. But you know, like Vince v A. Goh and such were said to have gone crazy drinking absynthe and painting wild paints. Well, actually he also drank a lot of paint thinner and such. He was just he was a terrible alcoholic and the wormwood was like seventy percent alcohol. So, I mean it was pretty darn closed to paint stripper in the first place. So probably blame it a little bit more on his other habits. Yeah, I mean you're talking not just alcohol. He was drinking hard chemicals, anything that would kind of mess him up. So anyway, wormwood in small amounts generally considered safe. Mugwart in small two medicinal amounts generally considered safe. But with this entire family. Because they do have the ability to kill intestinal parasites. Pregnant women should never touch them. I mean absolutely not. Anything that will kill you know, worms and such will kill your child without a doubt, and is probably gonna do you a lot of harm as well. So, oh golly, so spring pollen's getting to me. So let's talk about specifically mugwort. And this is artemsia. Vulgaris or common artemesia is what that means in Latin. It's funny people think of no vulgar as being like a bad thing. Actually, in Latin it just means common. The first complete Bible translated into the common language of the time, which was Latin, was done by Saint Jerome in three eighty. I mean you think of about that. For like twice as long as America has been a nation, Christians did not have a Bible. They had a few Old Testament scriptures here and there. They had a few letters from the Apostles in different languages Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew, very little in Latin. I think only one Gospel was written in Latin. So anyway, the church got together and said, we need to decide what books are going to go in the Bible, and they did, and that took about good hundred years. Three councils. Finally, I think finalized at Nicea where we get the nice Seeing Creed if you're familiar with that, and then they chose Saint Jerome to translate it because he was familiar with all those languages. He was sort of almost a hermit that was largely self educated and a really brilliant guy. It was a really interesting character. Took him I think thirty years if I'm not mistaken, and so like three eighty AD is when the first Bible was published. That's true for Catholics, Orthodox, everybody. I mean, you know, the Orthodox Codex comes from the same Bible translated by Saint Jerome. The Ethiopian Bible comes from the same Bible translated by Saint Jerome. There's not an older Bible than that, bits and pieces, fragment, but not an official Bible. And it was called the Biblios Sacra vulgatta because it was the sacred Bible or collection in the common language, that's vulgata. So anyway, when we see mugwort artemisia vulgaris that means common art emesia, and it really was common. It goes throughout Europe and people would grow it and plant it. And the other interesting thing about the artimesias is many of them were used as incense and they are slightly mind altering, we might say, when used in that way. And one of the ways that mugwort was used was to give people vivid, lucid dreams. And yeah, that's a really old use, not a use that I like. Honestly, I don't always like vivid lucid dream and I think people sometimes can start to believe their dreams and can get a little dangerous, So not a use I recommend. But they also noticed that mugwort taken in tea as a tea or in wine and beer would help them forget traumas and bad memories. And you know, as I said, nobody knows why mugwort has this company property, but it's been noticed in documented for thousands of years by people in different countries I mean from China to Greece to England, I mean all over the world. So anyway, mugwort, being bitter and have also has preservative properties. So before hobs were used, mugwort was very much associated with beer. The two main herbs used to bitter beer and preserved beer were mugwort and illhoof, and both are very good medicinal herbs, and to my taste, actually taste a lot better than hops. I like hops, but hops is a little I don't know, hoppy. You feel like a good ipa, you know exactly what I'm talking about, or an English bitter or something like that. When you get that like real strong punch of hops, it's really nice on a hot afternoon sometimes, you know. But the mugwort and alhoof are both a little more balanced to their bitterness. They're earthy, they're not quite as aromatic, and much more complex flavors. And I actually, you know, I used to brew. I haven't done it in a while. I need to get back into it, but I really prefer using alhof and mugwort, and like I said, very medicinal as well, not just a bitter and preservative, but also very good for anti viral properties and inflammatory properties, you know. Going on with that. So, the artemies of family verbs is very closely associated with ancient Greece. It's actually named after the goddess Artemis I believe was out or a goddess. I can't remember. I was never good with my Greek mythology. But in the Artemisia, okay, well there's artemis and there was someone named Artemisia who was the sister and wife of the Greek Persian Kreeing king Masulus. So he was both. She was both his sister and his wife. Sounds like Johan Omar. I guess she could say, hey, wait, you know the king of Persia in Greece he married his sister. Why can't I do it? So anyway, she ruled after his death until three fifty three BC, and apparently was somewhat of a botanist and medical researcher. And to honor her husband slash brother, she built a tomb called the mausoleum, which is one of the seven Wonders of the ancient world. And that's where we get mausoleums from because his name was what was that, Masils. Yeah, So anyway, the elder gave wrote about a lot about its skipped a lot of that. Diascorides wrote about it in the Materia Medica. He said, the scent of this is sweeter than of the other. He was talking about different artemecias, but they both warm and relieve boiled. Their good put into women's bass for driving out the menstrul flow and after birth for closure and inflammation of the womb, for breaking of stones both urineary and kidney, and stoppage of urine. Much of the herb applied to the low This is all external. By the way, much of the herb applied to the lower parts of the bowels induces the mentrel flow, so it can induce mencies. The juice needed together with mirh draws from the womb as many things, as does bathing with it. It's like you could do an ointment. Three teaspoons full given a drink would do the same. If anyone has artemesia with him while traveling, it dissolves weariness. That's one of the reasons the soldiers, Roman soldiers and such used to carry mugwort. It would help with sore feet and tiredness of muscles, often including liniments. Even to this day, the artemesia family absorbing junior I think is almost entirely artemesia based. So you may have even used that before I know I have. It said it would drive away venous beasts and yeah, I mean, you know, mostly insects like spiders and scorpions don't really like it. But I don't know, maybe snakes too. I have no idea who I have to experiment with that when we Yeah, I'm not gonna be doing with that. But anyway, see, after the blood is hardened around the joints, take bigger branches and having boiled it, rubbed a sick man all over with this as he goes to sleep. I guess it was. That's probably what bruising. I'm not sure swelling, you know, it's hard to say. So good for slow pain for your nation. A form of tetanus. Yeah, so a lot of interesting uses there now. Mugwart in the Christian tradition is often associated with John the Baptist. Miss Greeve says in the Middle Ages the plant was known as singulum Sunkti Johannes singulum Saint John it is. I don't know what singular is though, C I N g U l U M not familiar with that one. It is believed that John the Baptists were a girdle of it in the wilderness. There were so many superstitions connected with it. It was believed to preserve the wayfarer from fatigue, sunstroke, wild beasts, and evil spirits. Generally a crown made from it born on Saint John's Eve to give security from evil possession. In Holland and Germany, where its name was Saint John's Plant because of the belief that if gathered on Saint John's Eve, it gave protection against diseases and misfortunes. Miss Greeve mentioned mugwort's popularity in Germany and so obviously first place to look there is Saint hilogarv i'm Bingen. Writing around eleven hundred, she said, if it is cooled and eaten as a puree, it heals the intestines and warms a cold stomach. But if someone eats or drinks something which has given him pain, he should cook and eat warmed mugwort. Worked with meat or lord lard, or as a puree or with any other condiment, it will attract the rotten matter which has been previously ingested food and drink and chase it away. If bad humors gather in some part of the body, flowing out from broken skin, where there is no poison wound, the person should take mugwort and express his juice. The juice, he should add a small amount of honey. He should spread this on the affected area and then covered with egg white, tie up with a cloth, and he should do this to us better. Okay, that's an excellent antibotic treatment. I mean we're talking eleven hundred a D ten eighty somewhere in that range. Right. There was no germ theory whatsoever. There was no understanding of anti or anything, and I would not be for wow, how many hundreds of years later. I mean, really, we just got penicillin in World War One, and this would be a perfect antibiotic treatment. This was your neosporin of the day, okay. And of course the eating of bitter greens. I mean, my great grandparents used pot liquor leftover cooking liquid for collars and mustards and turnips anytime you had, you know, a stomach issue. A lot of times they'd say, you leftover pot liquor in case anybody got sick, you know, and you could just drink it straight and I'm actually quite good dip some corn bread in there, or make a little thin gruel for somebody that tried. Didn't really a sick person just trying to bring their appetite back was bitter herbs, especially with a little apple cid or vinegar. You know, it just really helps the stomach fantastic so In Poland, Sophie Hotterick Snab says the plant had an infinite variety of uses around the house and was considered to be most both medicinal and magical. Mugwort, collected from nine different fields, was thought to increase a woman's fertility in the I don't know the name of that town, kill Ka, I have no idea. A baby was born in mugwart in time in order to give the child strength. In the Raydom area, mugwort was tucked in the ease of house of a house in order to protect it against uncleanliness, and done so on Saint John's Eve. Both wormwood and mugwort were placed in the coffin in the belief that it would delay the decomposition of the body and actually probably did that. Anti well antiseptic quality would just go with that would slow the you know anyway. In a Jesuit publication from seventeen fifty, besides numerous medications for all types of illness and ailments. There is also an attachment that indicated mugwort would protect against the evil eye and recommended carrying it on your person from Saint John's to Saint John's that is all year round. Okay, Yeah, there was a lot of superstition in Poland and such. Is there any truth to it? I have no idea the bore. Well, you know, I'm a Christian. I'm not a superstitious person, but I do believe in demons and evil spirits. They're talked about in the Bible. And if Saint Hildegarde says that certain plants were given to us by God but to keep the demons away, I'm not going to disagree with her, because hey, I'm not a saint. What do I know? She said she was taught by the voice of the Living Light. I mean she was literally taught herbal medicine by angels and Jesus Christ himself. Really, if you look up Saint Hilgard. But I'm binged. I mean she wrote about herbs. She also wrote about theology and all this and it was absolutely given to her by higher power because she was so sickly as a child. She was mostly uneducated, and she wrote things about like germ theory that we didn't understand for another almost thousand years. She wrote about viruses in ten eighty that we could not see until we had microscopes, and her theology is very much beyond me in many instances. I mean, someone who's seen heaven and understands heaven probably has a very hard time explaining it to someone who hasn't. So when I read her work, it's just like, yeah, sometimes this is a little bit over my head. Sometimes it's a lot over my head. And then sometimes like this Polish tradition, maybe just playing superstition, I don't know, but she said that young maidens were made a belt of wormwood to wear around their waist while singing and dancing around the midsummer fire, and they believe this would ease the pains at the lower back, and it probably did. Like I told you about absorbing junior and such shows. To that country, villagers wipe their hands on mugwort to keep bees from staying and it does have those insect repellent qualities, so very valid. All right, let's see about Oh well, she also mentioned so that they can make fly traps and fly repellents out of mugwort hanging in doorways and such, So sat I mean, okay, so what Four or five hundred years after Saint Hildegarde wrote, We'll turn to England, John Gerard says that Plini has Pliny the elder or plinie is it's properly pronounced. Apparently saith that mugwort does properly cure women's diseases. So Elizabethan English is actually harder to read than straight translated Latin. By the way, Diascordies writeth that it bringeth down the terms the birth and the after birth, and that in like manner it helpeth the mother and the pain of the matrix to be boiled and bathed for women to sit in. We've discussed all that with discoritis, all right. So plenty against was apparently the one that wrote that the traveler a wayfaring man who tied the herb about him and feel no weariness at all, and it could be hurt by no poisons or wild beast. Well, it's probably a great overstatement, but who knows. Also, it was used as a counter to opium overdose. They yes, almost a thousand years ago. Opium was quite often used black opium juice of the black poppy as he puts it, and the mugwort was used to prevent overdose. Mugwort pounded with the oil sweet almonds laid on the stomach as a plaster, cureth all pains and griefs. It cureth the shaking of the joints, including the palsy, and helpeth the contraction drawing together the nerves and sinews. Which is interesting because one of the signs of an overdose of thusion like from wormwood is actually tremors, and over use of it it will cause tremors and palsies, even seizures, pretty dangerous when used improperly, perfect well fairly safe when used properly. So Coldpepper about one hundred years later said, well, he goes through all the stuff we talked about. Also, you know, good for kidney stones, stop urinary passages. Mm HM being made up with hogs grease that means makes it into an ointment. It takes away hard knots and kernels that grow about the neck and throw this infected glands. Essentially eases the pains about the neck and more effectually, if some field daisies be put with it, the herb being fresh or juice taken thereof is a special remedy upon the overmuch taking of opium. So again, one hundred years later, they're still using it for that. Three oil powder and dried leaves taken in wine is a speedy and the best certain help for sciatica. Still use that way today. Actually, like I said, usually as an ointment in Ireland. See it's around eighteen hundred. John Keyho said, if pounded and applied with the oil sweet almonds, it cures the pains of the stomach. The juices mixed with the oil of roses and applied it will ease the pains or aches of the joints and cramps. It provokes menstruation. If it is added to barrels of ale, it will prevent them from souring. So miss Grieve, we're going to get to about in nineteen thirty she talks about using it and brewing beer and malt liquor. Yes, they were pretty big on malt liquor. It was not you know, you remember that show news Radio. Phil Hartman was in it and he was doing well basically a parody of a malt liquor commercial. I think it was something like cold Cock forty five. It'll mess you up, Bill, I think that may be a little racist. Well, I'm just reading what it says here in this it's just hilarious. I mean, one of my favorite shows of all time. But I don't think many of us got through school without drinking a few forties. Let's see parties. Medicinally, Lee's collect in August, dride in the same manner as wormwood, root dug and autumn and dried. Let's see. I want to get to medicinal actions and uses. Here we are. It has a stimulant and slightly tonic property that's for digestion and as a value as a nervene that means calms the nerves, and a minagogue induces. Minci's also having diuretic and diaphoretic action, so it increases urine and calluwer fever. Chief employment is in a minagogue, often combined with penny royal and southernwood. Penny roy is fairly dangerous, used in medicinal amounts, and more not too bad to use a little here there. It's just a very strong mint. Southern wood is another member of the Argamuesia family. As a nervine mugwort is valued in palsy fits, epileptic and similar affections, an old fashioned remedy for epilepsy and good for withering muscles and joints where and hysteric sterical effects where for many where other remedies have failed. Okay, so oh, she says. Juice also good for intermittent fevers and ag us baths and to modern use. I think we can wrap it up plants for future said. Mugwort has a long history of use in herbal medicine in matters connected to the digestive central system, minstrul complaints, and treatment of worms. It is slightly toxic, however, and should never be used by pregnant women, especially in the first trimester, since it can cause a miscarriage. Large prolonged dosage can damage the nervous system. All parts of the plant are antlemenic, gets rid of worms, antiseptic, anti spasmodic carminative that means settle stomach cola, gog diaphorretic digestive. I think I've covered all these words. Expectorant gets some mucous ot of the nerves or the lungs. Nervine purgative which means makes a good laxative, We'll just put it that way, stimulant, slightly tonic, and used in the treatment of women's complaints. The leaves are also said to be an appetizer, I mean to increase appetite, not like a delicious appetizer. Diuretic amystatic is good for the liver and stematic. They can be used internally or externally, and infusion of the leaves and flowering tops is using the treatment of nervous and spasmodic affections, sterility, functional bleeding of the uterus, dysminerhya, asthma, and diseases of the brain. I'm not sure which diseases those are. They don't explain. The leaves have an antibacterial action inhibiting the growth of Staphylococcus, Bacillus typhie, dysenteriai, Streptococci E coli. Get what a pseudomonass subtlest most of everything that causes sore throats and food poisoning. I mean it's really very, very very useful. Lee's harvest in august strive fi later use. Stem is said to be anti rheumatic, and that's good for arthritis. By the way, anti spasmodic and stematic roots are tonic and anti spasmodic, said to be one of the best stematics. They are harvesting the autumn drive fil air use, so lee's placed inside shoes are said to be soothing for sore feet, impressed dry leys and stems are used in mocks abustion. You know, I'm not going to get into that, but if you've ever seen like Chinese medicine where these like little glass cups and they kind of light something under it and put it in it, it kind of sucks the skin up and get it. Okay, if you don't know about it, don't worry about it. If you do know about it, you know what I'm talking about it. Another report says that it draws. Another report says that the down from the leaves is used in mocks abuction. So yeah, really really interesting plant, really really fascinating history, extremely useful, and I mean it's one I would definitely plant in my garden for no other reason. Rabbits and groundhogs hate it. If you could plant it as a bury a boundary around your garden, I'm not saying it's gonna keep all of them out. Deer, don't like it either. If you've got a big patch of mugwort, usually deer one will go around it. They won't walk through it, So it's it's actually, you know, I have not tried it with squirrels, so I can't say anything about that, but I know rabbits hate it. They really will stay out of your garden. Well, a good deer repellent is actually sorghum. So actually, if you could grow like some mugwort and then some sorghum, you could probably keep a lot of stuff out of your garden that would eat it. Anyway, y'all have a great week. I'll talk to you next time. The information of this podcast is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease or condition. Nothing I say or write has been evaluated or approved by the FDA. I'm not a doctor. The US government does not recognize the practice of verbal medicine, and there is no governing body regulating herblens. 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. 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