Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Rosemary

Hey, y'all, welcome this week's show. Today we will talk about a really interesting herb that you probably have on hand already and really haven't thought about its medicinal qualities. But first of all, I have a big announcement, and that's my new book has just been published, and it's it's called Herbs at Heel and it's written I co authored it with Steve Cunningham, and it's offered by Sophia Press. So this is, you know, fairly good sized publisher, and it's going to be available in stores and everything. You won't just have to go to Amazon to buy my books, which you can still do if you want to do, I will complain it all, but you can go straight to Sophia Press look for Herbs at Hell and a beautifully illustrated book, excellent information. We worked about a year on it, and it's a very good practical guide for what I always call kitchen medicine, which is what I I'm always talking to y'all about here. Anybody really of any skill level could pick up this book and use it. An absolute beginner gets instructions on how to make infusions and tinctures and all that, and really basic herbs to use. Stuff you're going to find already in your urban spice cabinet or in your backyard, or you something you can just easily buy an advanced herbalist. We'll find a lot of really useful information as well. It has tons of great history, and it just turned out to be a really really nice book, So especially if you're looking for you know, most of my books, only one other really has illustrations. It's The Herbs and Weeds of Father Johann Kunzel. My books are so long, most of them, and I just don't have room for illustrations. Plus, it makes the more expensive to print. It makes them more expensive for the buyer. When you go through a larger publishing company like Sophia Institute Press, they already have all their licensing agreements in there, so it doesn't really increase the cost of the book. In fact, the book's very reasonably priced and it's really high quality. I think you are going to really like it. But what I was thinking is, you know, if you wanted to have one for yourself, I think you're going to find it just incredibly useful, especially if you have a family and you know you're taking care of spouse kids stuff like that, but for yourself as well. But if you wanted to give a nice herb book as a gift to someone and you didn't want them to be like intimidated by an eight hundred page book that has nothing but text in it, like my Encyclopedia of Medicinal Bitter Herbs, which is ridiculously long. I mean it really is, and I may hardly put any money off of it, like on maybe a dollar maybe two dollars off each copy. It's so long. Everything goes to printing and shipping costs, So you know, that's the downside of the I've been doing things through Amazon, but I mean it's great information. That's what we've been going through on this show. For someone who has a really strong interest in herbal medicine, yeah, I mean absolutely. I would say in between would be something like my Herbal Medicine for Home series, Permaculture People, Well preppers Homeseries, Permaculture People, I think title or Growing your Survival Herb Garden. But then you get you know, I do more technical books, like my books on trees and grasses and weeds that have medicinal uses and such as That got another one of those it's gonna be coming out before too long. Hopefully those are real. Really for the serious herbalists, for the serious prepper who wants something like that in their library, and you know, when the blank hits the fan, you know, that's the one to go to for everyday use and for casual use, and for maybe someone who's just getting into herbalism. You know, maybe a young couple just starting out, had a kid, maybe you've got a grandkid or a niece or nephew out there, is what I'm saying, and you want to buy the parents something that they could really use and it's enjoyable read. Steve and I are both just you know, Southern guys. I'm from North Carolina, he's from South Carolina. We tell stories and jokes, you know how I do things. But it's also just packful, really good information and interesting history and stories, but very very useful and practical and very beautifully illustrated. So it really isn't a class by itself among herbal books. I think, you know, I have a shelfs I have shelves full of herbal books. I have herbal books that are more than two thousand years old. I have just I mean tons and tons and tons of herbal books, and I really do think this one is it would be one of the top five I would recommend to somebody. I think it's that quality. And I can say that without blushing because it's co authored, you know, Steve did his part two. You know. I always tell people, you know, like, what's it like to be an author? And I'm like, it's pretty cool. And they say, well, what's it like to see your name in print? And I'm like, well, honestly, I never do, because I never buy my own books. You know, that's just not me. I don't. I know, it's in my head. I don't need to have a copy of a book I've written, and it seems like kind of arrogant, you know, to display them. I know that's a weird concept, and maybe I need to get over that. I know, Steve definitely says I need to get over that. A lot of people have said, you know, when you're on camera or something, people need to see your books behind you. So I'm going to have to think along those lines. It just goes against the grain for me, you know, I'm I'm I'm sort of a travel light kind of person, you know, because I'd rather much rather be in the woods sit in an office. But yeah, I probably do need to do more kind of on the professional author marketing side, which I've really avoided. I've avoided that all along. I'm much sure that I have an informal conversation with Gaul like I'm doing now. But I get people's I mean, you know, James and a lot of people have really told me you need to do more to market yourself, and it just, ah, you know what I mean. It just I'm not gonna say I'm a humble person because that would sound like I'm bragging about humility. But I'm not a real, I put my face on everything, I put my name everywhere kind of person. I'm just not even though you know, to sell books, I have to do a lot of marketing. I have to do a lot online, and it just doesn't come easily to me. You know, if I had Gosh, if I had somebody to help me with marketing, it would be a whole lot more comfortable for me. I can tell you that much. I'm not going to toot my own horn. In other words, but I've said far more than I should have on that topic. Bottom line is I don't mind promoting this one a little bit more because it is co authored, just like my book Rbs and Weeds of Father Johann Kunzel with Jelanta Wittib. She's an herbalist and author from Austria. I've always been much more comfortable promoting that book because they's co authored. So anyway, you'll probably start seeing some more images of that book in my work, and maybe I'll grab a few copies of the others and start putting them behind me in videos and such. But for this show, you don't have to worry about that because it's all audio, so you don't even have to have the displeasure of looking at me. You can just listen to my voice, which is it's funny this, you know. I spent so many years playing music semi professionally we're talking decades now, and spend time in journalism and politics. Used to give speeches to the lot of talk radio and such, and I have gotten very used to speaking in public, and it's funny to me. I also worked as a storyteller for a while Appalachian folk tales. That was something I did for a good ten to fifteen years and probably really need to get back into that because it's a real lost art. But so many people will send me emails and say, I put on your podcasts sometimes just to relax, just because your voice relaxes me. And I thought about it for a while, and you know, I think I figured out the reason, and it's because so many people grew up watching the Andy Griffith show. You know, when they hear that Appalachian southern accent. You know, Andy was from not really high up in the mountains here, we're talking the Pilot Mountain area, mount Airy area, and then he spent a lot of time on the coast. I was actually born in the mountains, kind of raised near the coast and went back to the mountains. So you know, whether it's Sandy Griffith or Randy Travis or Charlie Daniels, yeah, you're going to hear a lot of familiarity in the voice. And I think that's it. I don't think it has that much to do with me at all, to tell you the truth. But yeah, it's always an interesting comment. And it's so strange when people say that because I'm like, you know, when a lot of times when I do a show, I'll say something very opinionated or politically incorrect, and I'm like, everybody's going to get mad at me. Basically no one does. Every now and then, you know, one or two people disagree with me over politics or religion or something like that, or just whatever my opinion is. I never try to hide it, and I am very opinionated. But it's so funny to me the people that are like, you know, you kind of remind me of my grandfather. You remind me of my father or something. And I do think it's probably just the accent and the point that I don't hold back that I do tell you if I think something's a load of crap. But anyway, let's say I'll get into an herb that is anything but a load of crap. It's actually one of our very best medicinal herbs, and it's rosemary. Now I love Motorsmary. I cook with rosemary quite a bit. It is generally thought of as a simple culinary herb, but it's powerfully medicinal and has a really fascinating history. Views it's really important during the cold flu And yeah, I guess now we have to include COVID season. Let's hope we don't have to include Hanta Navola and all that kind of crap. Monkey pox and no, I'm not even going there. There's something you can definitely do to avoid monkey pocks, and that would be not be a gay prostitute. Other than that, yes, rosemary does have some anti viral properties and it might be useful, but I'm not going to get into all that. Just keep it in your pants, okay. Rosemary has long been featured in pothcaris in kitchen medicine. Rosemary is mentioned in the Cuneiform stone tablets dating to five thousand BC. Can you believe that? Five thousand BC? And it was used in the ancient burial rights of Egypt. It's written about by Planing the Elder and Diascorides. The history is amazing and I could literally go on about the history of rosemary for an hour or two, so I'm not. I won't, but I kind of know. A little entry here from Plants for a Future said that medicial use of rosemary. Rosemary is commonly grown in the herb garden as a domestic remedy, used especially as a tonic and pick me up when feeling depressed, mentally, tired, nervous, et cetera. Research has shown that the plant is rich in volid oils, flavonoids and phenolic phenolic acids, which are strongly antiseptic and anti inflammatory. Rosemrinic acid has potential and the treatment of toxic shock syndrome. It means it's actually really powerful. That's toxic shock is nothing to take lightly. Whilst the flavonoid the osmen is reputedly more effective than rooting in reducing capillary fragility, rosemarle an extract from the leaves has shown remarkably high antioxidant activity. The whole plant is antiseptic, antispismodic, aromatic, astringic, cardiac, carminative, coligog diaphoretic, a minagogue, nervine, stimulant, stematic, and tonic. We cover those terms, so do I need to define them? I don't know. Maybe the first time you hear the show, and if you stuck with me this long, maybe I ought to any subject, kills, germs, any spasmodic, It helps with cramping and muscle spasms, muscle tension as well. Aromatic, well, it just means it strongly aromatic, a stringent titans tissue, cardiac, good for chest tissues and heart and lungs especially, but more of the heart in that case. Carminative good settle, stomach, colagogue, dit diaphorretic hels with a fever. A minagogue brings on mensis nervine, relaxes, settles and nerves stimulant. That's more of an appetite stimulant, but it can the scent can also stimulate mental cleric e stematic tonic, same kind of stuff good for the stomach and infusion of the flowering stems is made in a closed container to prevent the steam from escaping, and is effective for treating headaches, cold and nervous diseases. Okay, so, as we mentioned before, an herbal tea is properly called an infusion, which means absolutely nothing. What it means is you take the tops of the plant essentially as opposed to decoction, which is the roots, and you make a tea of it with hot water. The difference between an infusion and your regular, you know, herbal tea, you might get served in a restaurant or something if you do that. I've never ordered I've never ordered herbal tea in a restaurant. I mean, that's something you do, right, They're going to bring it out to you in maybe a cup or a pot that you pour into a cup that has no lid, and your volid oils are going to gas off. So when we make medicinal herbal teas, we always cover the cup with something or the pot, put a lid on it, keep the oils in there until it cools down enough so they don't gas off. It's that simple, really, And I usually just lay a saucer over my give it ten minutes, and then drink it. You know. It's just a big deal. Yeah, not rocket science by any means. Distilled water from the flowers used as an eyewash. The leaves can be harvest in the spring or summer and used fresh. They can be dried for later use. This riving should not be prescribed for pregnant women. That's right. It can cause a miscarriage. Anything that is called in a minagogue that can bring on minci's should not be used in medicinal doses by pregnant women. Now that includes the entire mint family, which would be basil, would be rose well rosemary mint, No, I'm thinking of regular. No, rosemary is not in the met family, No, which would be lemon, balm, even motherwart. You could go on and on and on about the mints, mainly anything in the art of mesia families. Really, any herb and medicinal dosages should be avoided during pregnancy unless you know an herbal expert midwife. You're working one on one and they give you advice. You know, take your advice if you think it's right, and don't if you don't. But I don't recommend any herbs and medicinal dosages during pregnancy. As we've discussed many times, culinary dosages or culinary use, I should say, is usually not an issue. And that's like you know, fourth teaspoon or rosemary and some facacia bread or in your spaghetti sauce. It's not gonna you know, basil the same thing, even though you know basils are fairly strong mint mint in cookies and such as that ice creams. You're not using a medicinal dose in that amount. But still be careful, use common sense. Anyway, where were we? Yeah? Okay, there we go. In essential oil distealed from stems is often used medicinally. That that distilled from the flowering tops is superior, but not often available. The oil is applied as a rubefacient. Okay, what does that mean? That means it rends and heats the skin. And they say it's added to linaments, rubbed into temples to treat headaches, and used internally as a stomach and nervine. Now, as I always say, be very careful with essential oils. The essential oil taken internally what almost certainly cause serious issues during pregnancy. When they say used as a ruvifation, it means it can actually burn your skin if you're using it straight. Okay, you can get a chemical burn for many essential oils. So we're diluting it in a liniment into a salve or something like that, we're cutting it with a neutral oil. Olive oil would be fine really whatever you want to use, you know, and if it was used internally at all, it would be just be in minute doses, might like drop here or there and mix with water or something, you know, not taken straight, but anyway, you wouldn't be really careful of essential oils used internally or not cut. Essential oil is used in aromatherapy. The were keyword is stimul Now let's get into the history. Let me goe sip of water here, I actually bit my tongue yesterday. You ever do that, I'm sure everybody does. It drives me nuts. But since I had a tooth pulled about a year ago, my tongue will kind of, i don't know, overlap the tooth that was next to it. And so yeah, I'm probably gonna have to sip on the water a little bit because my tongue is a little swollen. Anyway, I always get so mad at myself when I do that. It's like, you have the one thing you've done since you came into this world is eat. You should know how to eat without biting your tongue or the inside of your cheek or something. But I don't know. Anyway, I'm sure we all do it all right, So plea eat. The elder listed eighteen remedies using rosemary. He said, there are two kinds of rosemary. We won't get into that. The root applied fresh effects, secure of wounds, prolapse of the wreck, and piles or hemoids. The juice of the plant, as well as the roots, is curative of jaundice and such diseases has required detergents cleansing agents. It is also useful for the sight. The seed given in drink for inveterate diseases of the chest. That's the cardiac aspect. It's it's very good for helping costs and congestion and all that. But also I always say soothing to the heart. It has that nervine quality, and let's see, and with wine and pepper for affections of the uterus. It also acts as a minagogue and is used with a meal of darnyl darnal being old an ancient grain, as a liniment for gout. Okay, I said Donald's an ancient grain. It's actually a false grain. Darnal is really interesting plant. If you remember, the Bible talks about how the enemy planted tears among the wheat or weeds among the wheat, and anyway, it's one of Jesus's parables. Darnel is a plant that looks very much like wheat. The thing is it's poisonous and hallucinogenic. So you can see it was a really fit parable because people of that time they needed bread to survive, but that bread could also poison them and make them hallucinate and see demons and such. So yeah, you can draw your correlations between that. But Pleaning figured it out a way to use darnyl topically as a liniment for gout, which is pretty interesting. I haven't seen this other places. It acts as a detergent upon freckles. It means it kind of lightens the skin and helps remove them. And people were really big on that back then, because if you were freckled, it meant you worked in the sun, and if you had perfectly pale, pure, beautiful skin, it meant you didn't work for a living. And that's why I always say I like freckles, I like callouses on hands too. And it is used as an application of diseases which require calorifics or pseuterifics, and for convulsions. Essentially, I mean soothing helps with sleep and it has anti spasmodic properties the plant itself or else. The root taken in wine increases the milk, and the leaves and stems of the plant are applied with vinegar to scrapulous stores skin elements because it has anti septic properties. Used with honey, they are very useful for cough and yes, rosemary and honey is a really old remedy for coughs. The Ascorides wrote about it, and let's see he describes it quite a bit. I'm just gonna let you look up. If you don't know what rosemary looks like, I'd be surprised, okay. But he says it is warming and cures jaundice. It is boiled in water and given to drink before exercises, and then he who exercises bays and is drenched with wine. It is mixed with remedies for the removal of the fatigue and in ointments. They must have had a lot of wine on him, that would be nice. Rosemary was one of the herbs grown in the physic gardens of the Benedictines, hence the name of fish and Nalis, and was mandated to be grown by the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne. Abbot Walafrid Strawbo included rosemary and his Horseless. Now I probably mentioned Horseless before. It's one of my favorite herbal books. It's the first book written in the Christian era. Its about seven hundred a d. And he wrote it entirely in poetry, and he had a really great sense of humor. But anyway, he says of rosemary, would it not be a shame if this spicy herb escaped the attention of the gatherer for the household. Apotheca. Rosemary is an excellent stomatic. Prepared as a tea. It cleanses the stomach from phlem gives a good appetite and good digestion. Whoever likes to see the medicine glass this comforter in illness shining on his table. Let him fill it with rosemary tea and take from two to four tablespoons morning and eat. The stomach will soon become sensible. You will not him I e will not stick fast much longer in flim clears the stomach of congestion. In other words, rosemary wine taken in small doses, has also proved an excellent remedy against heart infirmities. It operates in a sedative matter, and in case of heart dropsy, it works strongly on removal through urine. It helps, it's a diuretic. It's sort of excess full. It such wine renders the same service in dropsy in general, against both complaints. Three or four tablespoons or a small wine glassful of this pleasant drink, or taken daily morning and evening. The Preparation of this wine is exceedingly simple. A handful of rosemary is cut up as small as possible, put into a bottle, and good, well well kept wine poured upon it. White wine is preferable even after a half day's standing. It may be used as rosemary wine. The same leaves may be used a second time. That's an excellent way to make rosemary infusion in wine. You can make a tincture, but you can't only sip on a tincture, and you know, get congestion and cough and everything. You want something you can sip on. You can add a little honey to that. It's a very really good remedy. And I don't know why herbolists don't do a lot of wine infusions anymore. We tend to go more for the higher alcohol tinctures. There really is a very very strong place for them. Huh. Maybe I'll get into that sometime. Maybe I'll do something with that. Yeah, that would be fun. O Via, actually a great deal of fun. Getting the old recipes from the old monastic journals of all their medicinal wines and such. That would also a lot of very tasty. The most famous of them is remooth, the essential ingredient and a real martini. Please don't let me ever see you drinking an apple teini. Don't tell me you listen to my show if you drink appletini. So just put it that way. You can use gener. I certainly prefer gin a medicinal infusion of its own and dry, vermooth, and that's it. That's it now. I don't care if you had an all look, that's fine. A little cocktail audion, that's fine. Don't be putting sugar and all kinds of weird fruity. I mean, have some self respect, people. I did see what one time that looked actually pretty darn good. It had a big crab claw in it. And you cracked open the crab claw and I think it was raw. No, it was just it was barely poached. I'm sorry, you know, just till the shelterns red and you cracked open the claw and I think maybe it was a little salt around the rim. That was interesting. Okay, that's not my thing, but you know, I'd certainly take crab meat over weird neon color jolly rancher syrup any day. That's just oh, that's that's that's an American I'm sorry, that's that's that's not right, all right. So anyway, approximately one years later, Rosemary, I'm sorry, excuse me. Rosemary was still prominent in the practice of modestic medicine. Brother Aloysius wrote, Rosemary rose marina sufficient OLiS used for stomach disorders, promotes digestions, stimulates appetite, cleanses the stomach. Recommended for feigning dizziness, stroke, diarrhea, mucous heart complaints, hydrothorax dropsy to strengthen the nerves, expel gas as a diaphoretic for the kidnies and liver disorders, roemanticism, actes, and edema. So well, see, Rosemary is really good for you. Yeah, you have no sip of water here now. It reminds me whenever I think of Martiniz, I think of my You're probably gotta think of James Bond, right, I think of my favorite detective movies, which is the thin Man series William Powell and Myrna Loyd from the nineteen twenties and thirties, brilliantly funny, one full movies. Anyway, they were this this couple that was just a great couple. They were always like, you know, jokingly picking on each other and solding each other, saying, you know, really like a real you would imagine they were that way in real life, and they actually were. They were great friends even though they were never married. Very you know, caustic and biting and just but very funny. And William Powell plays this detective who's like a really really hard drinker, you know, and he's in a bar and he's he's talking to the bartender about how he likes his martini made, and she comes up and says, how many martinis have you had? And he said eleven? And she says, well, I'll take twelve line above, and you know, she's got to catch up with him. This is the Roaring twenties, you know, probably not far fetched for the Roaring twenties. And anyway, the next morn she's like, what hit mean, He's like the twelfth martini. Anyway, great movies they usually show. Want to turn a classic movie he's at on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day, be sure to check out The finn Man. And of course the novel was written by Dashall Hammett, who was sort of the father of the hard nosed detective. I mean, if you like Mike Hamer and stuff like that, yeah, I mean any guy that I mean, any role that like Clint Eastwood would have played, you know, just real tough and everything. You loved the Dashal Hammett novels. But The Thin Man's actually unique because it was actually about himself and his own relationship. He had been a Pinkerton detective. Well, he served in World War One, lost to a long dude of mustard gas. But then he became a Pinkerton detective back in you know, nineteen teens, twenties. Those were tough. Those were really tough guys. Not always the best either. A lot of them were pretty nasty characters. So he brought a lot of hard nos realism to American literature. But The Thin Man is just hilarious. There. There was one joke after another. It's a really great story and I love it. I mean, honestly, if I could. You know, I am a boots and jeans kind of guy, and people always say don't you like to wear a suit, And I'm like, yeah, I don't like modern suits. If you could find me a tailor that could make me a suit like the men wore back then, you know, where every man looked like Superman, double breasted suits, the high waisted pants, I do it, you know, I put on a fedora and a you know, absolutely some shiny shoes, some capito oxyords or something that's not, of course, going to be appropriate where I live in the mud and the woods and the garden and everything are out fishing. But you know, at least to go to church and I put on something like that, and I'm you know, just maybe sometimes pulling a sports shacket if I got to. I just hate the boxy modern suits. You know, they're not made for a southern climate in the first place. They're made for a cold climate like England, a damp climate. I don't know why we ever thought we had to adopt English suits in America at all. And yeah, I'd love to have a summer one made in linen, you know, the way whether they used to wear over the twenties, set off white linen and you put on a white straw fodora to go with it. And that's sharp. That's that's darn sharp. I don't like seersucker, but I mean, that's that's darn sharp right there. Anyway, get sipp water here, So Gerard said of rosemary. Rosemary is given against all fluxes of blood. Now that's any kind of internal bleeding. It could be usually going to be menstrual bleeding, but it could be something else. It is also especially good, especially the flowers thereof, for all infirmities of the head and brain that proceed from a cold and moist cause. For they dry the brain, quicken the senses of the memory, and strengthen the sinewy parts. Well, he's actually talking about the sinuses. They obviously don't dry the brain. But you know this is fifteen hundreds England. He said, rosemary is good against the stuffing of the head. Again, the sinuses. But actually it's interesting. They use it topically. They make a garland, a little wreath and wear it on the head. So I guess you're inhaling the vapors of it, which makes sense. Dias Courdy's, Well, we covered diascordies good for jaundice, distilled water, the flowers of rosemary. Drunk in the morning and evening, first and last, taketh away the stench of the mouth and breath, and make it very sweet. There you go, And he said, add to it a few clothes, may cinnamon, a little aniseed. So yeah, there's a fifteen hundreds mouth wash right there. Obviously, the Arabians and other physicians do right, that rosemary comforteth the brain, the memory, the inward senses, and restoreth speech to them that are possessed with the dumb palsy, especially the conserve made of the flys and sugar or in any other way confected with sugar being taken every day fasten. Oh see. Arabians also said it was good for this to heatth the subtle parts and good for the cold room which falleth from the brain. Okay, I don't know. It helps with driveth away, windiness, helps with bloating in other words, provoke it the urine and stoppings of the liver and milt. Interesting stopping of the milt. All fishermen know what that are, what that is. I'm not going to try to explain it. Uh Tragus writeth that rosemary is a spice in German kitchens and other cold countries, and wine boiled with rosemary taken of women troubled well with various minstrual issues. And that's the anti spasmodic and aseptic. And you know a lot of qualities. It has these stringent qualities and et cetera. Flowers made we'll see with sugar eat and comfort the heart and make it merry, quicken the spirits and make them more lively. The oil of the rosemary, chemically drawn comfort at the cold, weak and feeble brain. If your brain is cold, weak and feeble, which I'm sure mine has been before, I think we would call that brain fog. Now, yeah, I could see that rosemary and wine. That would be nice. Let's see. It goes on about different cultures and how they use it. Also put in a chest among clothes, preserve them from moss and other vermin. You know, it's a good, very practical use coldpepper about one hundred years later, use very much both for inward and outward diseases. By the warming and comforting heat thereof, it helps all cold diseases both of the head, stomach, liver, and belly to cockture. The wine thereof helps the cold distillation of room in the eyes. So that's actually you know, cloudiness due to mucus in the eyes essentially, and other diseases of the head and brain and in the giddiness are swimming therein. That means dizziness essentially, drowsiness and dulness of the mind and senses like stupidness. It's good for stupidness, so you know, if you happen to be stupid, That's what they always say. Stupid people don't know they're stupid, so how would they know they should use the rosemary. I guess someone has to tell them. The dumb palsy, the loss of speech, the lethargy, the fallen sickness. So it was actually being used for some form of epilepsy, drank in the temple's bay, therewith. It helps the pain of the gums and teeth not by okay, okay, helps with stinking breath, helps weak memory, quick as the senses, very comfortable to the stomach and all the cold griefs thereof helps both retention of meat and digestion. Yes, that's why we use rosemary in cooking. Antiseptic properties helps guard against food poisoning, but also helps stimulate the appetite, helps aid digestion. So people started adding it to food thousands of years ago, and we still think of it mostly as a culinary herb. I'll say with a ragano, same with your basil, same with a lot of these IRBs. It helps those that are liver grown swollen liver by opening the obstructions thereof there's a remedy for the windiness of the stomach, bowels and spleen. It expels it powerfully. It helps dim eyes and procure clear sight. The flowers of it being taken while it is flowering every morning, fastening with bread and salt. Yeah, it would be nice. I mean alma facacca bread. I can see that at a little olive oil, and I'm happy. Let's see decoctions these quoting other people. Dried leaves. Oh, this is interesting again. He talks about how it's good for the whites. That's a agile discharge, good for singularly, good for the comfort of the heart, and to expel the contagion of pestilence. Burning the herb and the house and chambers corrects the air in them. So they thought it had a fumigation type properties. But that interesting, he said. The dried leaves shred small taken in a pipe as tobacco help those that have any cough or consumption by warming and drying the thin distillations which caused those diseases. So expectorant uses smoking it as well. Leaves use much in bathings and ointments, and oils singularly good to help cold benumbed joint sinews or members. Yeah, good for all inward griefs like that. So miss Grief tells us that the ancients were well quint of whether. Of course, we know that it was used in weddings, funerals, and for decorating churches and banquet halls, used in incenses, in religious ceremonies and such. At weddings, brides wore a wreath of rosemary. Let's see, I'm going to try to get more medicinal use. Yeah, she's got some wonderful history and old ancient Anglo Saxon poetry about rosemary and all that kind of stuff I love, But I'm not going to take up your time with it. Yep, yep, yep. Incense legends. I'm gone through about three pages of this now. I want to get up to her modern use. Syria Misi uses an action tonic astringent diaphoretic stimulant oil. Rosemary has the carminative properties of other volatile oils, is an excellent stomatic nerve and curing many cases of headache. It is employed principally externally and hair loceans for its odor and stimulating effect. On the hair bolts. Yes, they believed, and there is some evidence that rosemary can help prevent baldness by stimulating the skin. Of course, you wouldn't want to use too much because you could burn you. Royal is also used as a rub patient in liniments, and Hungary water was very, very popular through the nineteen hundreds. It was said to be invented by the Queen of Hungary, who put a pound and a half of fresh rosemary tops into one gallon of spirits of wine, allowed to stand for four days, and then distilled it. Hungry water is considered very efficacious against gollups at the hands and feet by rubbing it onto them vigorously. But the main reason was popular is she said that it helped prevent aging. She was said to be like eighty and looked like she was twenty. I don't know, but yeah, I mean, it's really really popular in Europe, and she must have looked pretty good for people to believe it. I mean, I'm thinking so anyway, she says rosemary wine is a quieting cordial to a weak heart subject to palpitation, and really use accompanying drops you by steaming the kidneys. And we already talked about that Rosemary tigued for headaches, cold to colic nervous disorders. Care being taken to prevent the steam escape from the preparation spirits of Rosemary's antispamismodic yep, Rosemary and Colt's foot good combination be used for the lungs, good for asthma and other issues. Well, yeah, so Father Nape and the German connect tradition said, would it not be a shame of this spicy herb escaped the attention of the gatherer for the household of pathaka. Rosemary is an excellent stomatic prepared as a tea. It cleanses the stomach from phim give us a good appetite and good digestion. Whoever likes to see the medicine glass dis comfort or in illness shining on the table, I think we've heard that before. Let him fill it with rosemary tea and take from two to four teaspoons full every morning and evening. All the herbalists have the same books and things do to have tendency to get repeated. The stomach will soon become sensible. Rosemary wine taking small doses good against the hart. We covered all that. Yeah, so, I think we can wrap it up there. I mean, you got the point of rosemary. It's an excellent digestive herb, excellent lung herb, good for some heart issues, good for some liver issues, good externally especially for arthritis, and good antiseptic herb, and good for stupid people and brain fog. So there we go. I mean, you know, what work can you ask of an herb? So anyway, you know, and really, with all the medicinal properties of rosemary, you probably think I'd use it a lot of teas and tinctures, but I really don't. I just cook with it all the time. It's just it's excellent with meat, bread, facaca bread I flavored heavily with rosemary, steeping an olive oil, using the dipping sauce for a lot of things. It's delicious, wonderful with tomatoes, and you get all the anti viral properties and all its other great properties just by eating it. So why not That's what I do? All right, y'all have a great week, and I will talk to you next time. M