Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Winter Storm Prep and Mallow

Hey, y' all, welcome this week's show. I hope you are batten down and prepared for the storm. I have been trying, but not being on my home base. You know, I'm down in the central part of the state North Carolina. Looks like we're go need to get hit with a lot more ice in the center of the state than I would if I was home in the mountains. And of course I don't have all my preps at hand. I do have my bug out bag, but I'm not bugging out in an ice storm. I've had to adapt it to bugging in in a place that's entirely dependent on the grid. This is not like it is where I'm in the mountains. In the mountains, I have a well spring, a creek, and a river across the road. I never have to worry about water plus two hundred and seventy days a year of precipitation. I have a big old fireplace and plenty of wood. I have a pile of coal. I have a kerosene heater with backup kerosene. I have propaane. I don't even know what all I got, you know, I mean, you just keep stacking it and stacking it stored food, which you know pretty much had to get out of there after the hurricane and just try to go through it because otherwise it was just gonna get nasty, you know, between mice and mold and all that, you know, flooding and everything. Got my batteries out of the air course, got my radios out of there. I guess I'm about as prepared as I can be in this location because this is you know, heat pop electric. There's a backup gas fireplace, so I've got a you know, a few ways of cooking. I got some stern o, and I got my alcohol stove, and if need be, I've got you know, a little twig burner and a grill and all that and charcoal. Heat would be pretty much dependent on that gas fireplace, and I think the tank would hold out for a week or two. So I'm not too worried about it. You know, there's nothing to complain about. I'm not gonna be out driving around in this ice. I know that I went out yesterday and the day before and stocked up on groceries and hit the ABC stores. You know, got a couple of books to read, got my instruments to play. So I'm not terribly concerned. You know, got the bellfang. If I want to listen to the scanner, I've went to what's that channel? There's a little tip I can give you if you haven't done this before. Absolutely be sure to go to the site. There are a couple of really good ones. But Radio Reference, Radio Reference dot Com, I guess it is, yeah, And be sure to find your police dispatch EMS, county emergency management, your weather stations. Be sure to get your weather stations pre programmed into whatever radio you use. You know, they're certainly better radios than the UV five R. But as a UV five R pro, I like it, and I was really surprised to see what kind of range I was getting done here with just you know, a little antenna upgrade, not what they call the rubber duck or whatever it comes with it pretty decent antenna actually, you know, let me give you another tip. On eBay. There's a seller that has the cheapest, best quality antennas I have found for a Balfang. They probably work with you know, other comparables. Let me see, this was Thebalve. This was the ten lot for the Balfang UV five R through eighty two thirty mh z dual band antenna. Four bucks. I've paid four bucks for it. Let me put that in perspective. Let me give you the I'm gonna give you the seller. Be sure to show this guy out. Gravity Standard neat name, very cool. Actually, gravity Standard got excellent feedback. One point six million of these sold, so you probably got one already. Well, okay, he's got other items too. I see, you know, like the cables you used to program, some jewelry, you know, interchargers and such on his site. So it's not all antennas, and it's pretty eclectic site. Actually replacement batteries. But yeah, dude, seems to be in a jewelry and radios. Gravity Standard that's eBay dot com, Ford sluss sdr ford slash gravity Standard. So check that out. I mean for four bucks. And I mean, you know, Balfing's a cheap radio in the first place. You don't expect a whole lot out of it. So when I first got down here, you know, in the mountains, I have like incredible reception. I am like ten miles from well as the crow flies you go about well, let's say fifteen miles and then straight up to get to the repeater up on Mount Mitchell. So I mean literally from well, especially from the ridge behind my house, which is like five thousand, two hundred and some feet, or Mount Mitchell, which is the highest peak east of the Mississippi. With just the old, you know, cheap bell fang, with the rubber duck antenna, I mean I'm picking up I can pick up John C. Tennessee, I can pick up Hickory and Charlotte. I mean, I'm getting just incredible range. So when I got down here in the central part of the state, I tried it, and I was only picking up I don't know, stuff within ten fifteen, maybe twenty miles at best. So I saw that antenna I had good reviews. I thought, heck, for four bucks, what do you have to lose four bucks with free shipping? I mean, come on, So yeah, put in order, not expecting much. Very pleased, very pleased. I can now sitting here in More County, I can pick up all. I can pick up the Southern Pine Police Dispatch, I can pick up Pinehurst EMS and fire. I can pick up they're county and like school stations like THEIRS. School buses are still on these bands. But there's a GMRS in the county. I can pick that up great. But I can pick up all like seven counties around me, which is actually a pretty huge range for a balfang, which is a little antenna. I can get anything available out of the Fayetteville area. And if you know Fort Bragg and Pope and all that, you know there are a lot of channels that are not available to the public. But there's a there is a gm R S repeater, and there are some a couple of channels I can get almost up to like the Triangle area. I can get at least into Lee County, which is Canna, look toward Chapel Hill and Raleigh, Randolph, Montgomery, Rich. I mean, you don't know all these places. I understand. What I'm saying is with a four dollars antenna upgrade, I am picking up everything essentially from Florence, South Carolina, Charlotte and Raleigh and Wilmington and all the weather stations. And I'm just like, Wow, this is surprising. So I can't wait to get back up on the mountains and see what this cheap little antenna does up there. I mean, this is really kind of mind blowing. So and of course I got my weather radio with the crank and the solar panel and all that, and my little short band and everything, and so you know, I'm pretty good, pretty good. I always carry with me, what seven eight ways of making fire, and three or four ways of purifying water. You know, I'm pretty much prepared on just about eight thing. And of course it's wintertime, so we don't have to worry about food. Story, it's spoilage so much so if the power does go out, I got some frozen meat in the freezer, and plenty of rice and beans and canned tomatoes and herbs and spices and stuff I would need now. But for you, of course, I don't know where you are. You may be in a place like up in Michigan or Chicago or something where it's going like I don't know forty below. Take every precaution and if you can stay in do I mean, cars can trucks, some things that go can really act up in cold weather like this. I mean it can sap your battery and the blink of an eye, you could be stranded. Be sure you've got some emergency gear in your vehicle. I mean obviously have your coat, your gloves, your hat with you and all that be gassed up. Have an extra gas can if you can, you know, in case you get stuck and have to run your vehicle for a while to stay warm. That's never ideal. Cheap my large space blanket always good to have on hand. There is ol another thing I really like. It's a little emergency tent and I like this both in an emergency outdoors. It would not be like ideal, but it's certainly better than nothing if you get stuck in your vehicle. This thing is really great. It's the go time gear life tint. They usually come in I think they do one in green, but usually the bright colors, like you know, signal orange or yellow, and inside is lined with my lar. And like, if you're an suv or something, or you got a camper on the back of your truck or whatever, this thing could save your life. Of course, you could use it as essentially a sleeping bag and a car. It's a tube style tint. You just kind of like, well, you don't even really stake down the corners. You put a rock or something in the corners. If you're using this outside and run a line what do they call that line that goes across, well, you know what I'm talking about. You just take a piece of pair of cord and gosh, why am I blanket on that word benchline? That can't be right when you know what I'm talking about. It literally just goes up with a piece of pair of cord between two trees or a post, whatever you got. It can be used in your vehicle very easily. Can absolutely be a lifesaver. Be sure you got food and water in case you're stuck for a while. A little alcohol burning stove would not be a bad thing to have. Just remember you've got to have ventilation. You don't want to be stuck in there with fumes and such. Yeah, I mean, but take tape precautions. Backup batteries are always good. A jump starter for your vehicle, absolutely, And if you're home, be sure keep those pipes dripping, be sure to keep those taps going, open your cabinet doors. Just chuck in and try to get through it. It's going to be a bad one for most of the United States, and it looks like the South's gonna get ice and the North's just going to be in an absolute polar deep freeze. And you know you should be prepared. If you're listening to this show. You're probably more prepared than I am, so I'm not too worried about you. But I just wanted to give a few tips. You know, just in case if the power goes out, if the cell towers go out, have that radio on hand at least to get to the weather stations and emergency messages. And you know, if you got your license GMRS or Ham radio license, that's great, but remember, in an emergency situation, you can broadcast without a license. No one's ever been charged with a crime, to the best of my knowledge, for saying help, I'm about to die. Send the EMS to this location, Garman. What garment in reach is absolutely superior or just about anything I know of right now. If you've got one of those, you're probably set on comms. If you haven't looked into go carman. Man. Did we learn about those things during the hurricane? I mean, when the Hurricane Helene came in and knocked out power for weeks, sell powers for weeks. There were like two things that worked, and that was starlink that Elon Musk brought in. Well, let me say there's three things that work. Starlink, Ham radio coming off of Mount Mitchell Dad was a lifesaver for so many communities because the guys were getting on there and communicating saying, you know, this community is completely cut off, dropped supplies there. You know, all the private helicopters and stuff and Samaritans perse and everything that was keeping people alive. The government was doing a horrible job. Ham Radio really helped. But those Garment in Reach they are so cool. They're really made for like hikers and backpackers and such as that. I think that's what they're designed for, you know, boaters, sailors, whatever. It's like a little tiny pager almost you can it's satellite linked. It's crazy cheap. I mean, it's a little bit of an investment, maybe you know, one to two hundred bucks depending on the model you buy, and then it's like six bucks a month and you essentially have a little sat phone that goes with you everywhere. It does not have voice capability in most of them. It gives you GPS, it will give you maps. On the larger versions it will It has an emergency button. It will send you know, signal to the closest like nine to one one and show them your GPS location. If you get in trouble. It will send text, it will send email. It will actually send encoded messages if you set it up that way, if I'm not mistaken. I have not tried that on one of those, but I've been told it can shoot. Even the little Balfang can send one of those if you've got the app on your cell phone, so that's probably you know, I'm sure it probably can do that. It can even update your Twitter if you need to do that or send an email. I mean, it's crazy. And you know where I live, we have very spotty cell coverage. On a good day, I mean middle of summer. Basically between one end of the National Forest to the other, there are may be three locations where I can get a couple of bars. If I had to send a text and I can't make any calls, I mean even from my house. I basically used to have to use the Wi Fi to use the cell phone. You know those garment in Reach and there is a competing brand that's a little bit cheaper. The name doesn't come to me. Be sure, check those things out. They are so cool, I mean really and absolute life saver. If I mean, look, if you were heading from let's say Morganton, North Carolina, to Boon, North Carolina, and you were driving through the area where I live, which is almost essentially directly in between those two towns, or to Johnson City or to Asheville, you know, even to a large town like Asheville, if you were coming through my area, which is sitting like I'm like right on the edge of one National forest and in the middle of another national forest, you know, Nasca, I mean Piska in Natahala, plus all kinds of state land and the Parkway and all that around. Let's say you're coming up the mountain or down the mountain even worse, and this ice storm hit and suddenly your car is off a bank and you're stranded, and you're not getting cell coverage, and you would have to hike up a steep slope and you're probably banged up, maybe got a broken leg, right, I mean, and you're having to hike up a steep slope in you know, thirteen degree weather or colder nine degree weather when ice, You're gonna die. I mean, that's it. You're dead. I mean, unless you can camp out in your car and keep a fire going so somebody, until somebody sees the smoke, you're going to die. One of those little Garment in Reach or competing brands Fantastic build. You're getting out of there within a couple hours. I mean, depending on road conditions, they're going to get the EMS to come from one of those counties and you're getting out of there. Even if they have to come in by helicopter, they're going to come get you. I don't like to have to rely on other people, but you know, that just makes sense. The same would be true, you know, if you're in a boat and you're get in a storm and you get off course and you know whatever. Those things are really cool. If you're in a city, you might want to look into mesh Tastic or mesh Core really great capabilities. I do believe this is like the wave of the future. I could easily see these replacing a lot of cell phones. They're essentially pagers that operate over basically ham radio channels, and there are various companies that make these like pagers like Lily Goes is one I really like where I live. Totally impractical. I mean, they are not five people in one hundred miles radius that are using these services, so there's no one to communicate with. But you can set up your own repeater in your house. You can find the highest area in your area and set up a repeater for a community. If you're in an urban area, that's essentially free once you buy the equipment and download the software, and I mean no more cell phone build that's pretty cool. The only thing is somebody on the other end has to have something that is on the same network. So it's not like the garment where it will communicate with cell phones all over the world right through text message through your little device that connects the satellite, like a little tiny SAP phone that has no voice capacity. Well, the meshcre meshtastic are similar. They have no voice capacity. They send text, but they're only going to text somebody that has that device or downloaded the software the app essentially to their phone. And how often is that going to happen? Not where I live. You know, if you're in a city, there may be thousands of people already on that network. You may go to check it out. Definitely very cool and I do think that's probably I mean, depending on what Elon Musk is doing with Spectrum and all these you know, cell phone networks and satellites. The mesh core mesitastic may very well be the next big thing, and with an investment of less than one hundred bucks to get started and no monthly fee, I love it. I just it's totally impractical for me. I live in a community of seventy people. Seventy people, they're literally more bears than people. The nearest town that I mean about eight miles away to get to the nearest grocery store and to really get to a town where like you'd have a Walmart or something, right, or a hardware well, there's a small hardware store I shouldn't say that, but like a Lows or a home depot or you know, something you're looking for seventeen twenty miles depending on which direction I'm going, I'm just not going to find anybody on that network. And then, of course I'm also in that very mountainous terrain. I would have to go to the top of the mountain to broadcast, which for me means a five mile high cup the ridge, you know, which I don't mind doing, but I wouldn't want to go out in this weather to do it. I can tell you that much right now. So now we'll talk about arps. I think we've wandered far enough afield, and I'm sure there are many other things I am not thinking of as far as prepping. I mean, you know, priorities always shelter, think of your car as a shelter, prepare it as you would a shelter, or stay home if you possibly can. I definitely do not advocate going out, driving around and messy. Stupid people get well, play stupid games and get stupid prizes. You right, I have to have shelter, you know, some first aid, water, fire, heat, food, So yeah, I mean, just cover the basic Communications should certainly be on that list, though, I would think, especially if you do have to be driving around, you cannot always rely on that cell phone. Don't be too dependent on that cell phone. We learned that the hard way. Yeah, wool blankets are always great to have. Mylars space blankets, you know, emergency blankets. I keep one in my in glove box. I keep one in my actually in my wallet. I have a little compartment. I guess it was like a change compartment. I keep one in there, you know, just never know. And heck, you can stick one in your hat and it costs like a dollar. I mean, what excuse do you have? Right? Change of socks, good warm gloves. Yeah, I can't not really think anything else right now that really jumps out. It may make sure you have your fuel sources and otherwise just hunker down and let's get through it. And don't act like idiots, because that's when you get hurt. People act like idiots, and golly pete have I seen that many many times, many many times. Oh gosh, I remember when I was in my teens, maybe around twenty twenty, urban to play, early twenties. So you know, I come from a family that grew up doing this. We're used to hurricanes on the coast. We're used to ice storms in the winter and blizzards and everything in between. Family has been in North Carolina since the sixteen hundreds. People often ask me what should I do? What should I do? Have chains? There's one day? Should I thought of chains for the tires? Right emergency flares? You know, just simple advice. As I always say, I don't really consider myself a prepper. I just consider myself someone who grew up in this. Hey, you know, the power is probably going to go out for two or three weeks. Be prepared. Mentality, so people would always come to me for advice. So I was going to a community college, getting a couple of those ridiculous requirements out of the way so I didn't have to pay for them at an actual university. Always a good plan. Don't spend more money than you have to. So I was taking a couple of those, and you know, a few of the students said, what do we do? Okay, here's what you know what they did instead of preparing. Me and a buddy of mine from Illinois, a rural area of Illinois, he was down North Carolina take some classes and we had a great time together. We hit it off like gangbusters, you know, and so we're always like out, you know, hunting, fishing and doing all the stuff that we both enjoyed. And so here, you know, these city kids and they're like, what do we do? What do we do? We're away from home, you know, our parents have always taken care of us, all right, and we give them a do this, do this, do this, do this right down this number right you know, this is your emergency contact numbers. Pretty much everything I just ran through talking to you, minus the radios because we weren't well. He had a CB but you know how good? How good was that? You know? Anyway, probably one or two took our advice. Literally most of them just kind of hunkered down in their apartments and almost froze to death. And three or four of them just decided to come stay with me. Yeah, in the middle of the night, phone rings in a blizzard. I'm off side of the road. Can you come get me? I was coming to your house. I'm like, why, Well, I figured you were prepared and you could take care of things, all right, I'll come get you. The two of us spent a weekend pulling people out of ditches, taking him to our house, my mother fixing soup for them. I am not kidding. We had to make get a two family effort, bring in you know, extended family. We spent a good forty eight hour period pulling people out of dishes, off the side of the road, treating frost by getting warm food into people, giving them a place to, you know, get a hot shower and a warm bit, and don't be that person. And you would think there would have been, like, you know, lifelong gratitude after that. I don't think I ever saw any of them again, except maybe one person I ran into and they were just like, hey, how you do it? You basically saved somebody's life. There's no gratitude, and I'm sure y'all know that. They just that's the way things go. So anyway, we're going to talk about mallow, the uncommon mallows. I had titled this chapter in my Encyclopedia of Bitter Herbs because we think of mallow as being really common. All right, First of all, it's not marshmallow in the candy used to be those marshmallows used to actually be made out of the plant mallow. Most herbalist will use a plant, an herb called marshmallow. It's the mallow plant that grows in marshy areas. There's several other mallows. All of them are edible, all of them are good for food. The mallow family includes hibiscus, it includes okra. I mean a lot of things that have that almost like slimy, mucilagelous texture come from the mallow family. When people used to make the candies, originally they would take that like mucilage from the mallow and whip it with sugar and get air into it, and it would actually turn into marshmallows. And if you've never had the real stuff. You've got to try it. There's actually there's a recipe in my book. You can find it in different places. It's delicious. They're not soft and fluffy like stay puffed marshmallows. They're more like a dense like if you've ever had French chocolates that are marshmallow covered in a real rich dark chocolate or Belgian chocolate something like that, you know, you bite into that marshmallow and it's not fluffy. It's actually kind of chewy, more almost more like a nougat and texture and really delicious, I mean, really delicious. But like I said, there are many of them, and they're all good for food. The little unopened flower buds used to be called cheeses, and they were really important, like survival food in England and such. Well, they look like the wheels of cheese. That's why they were called cheeses. They're like in these little wheel shaped you know forms cold paper writing sixteen fifty two. So the common mallows are so generally well known that they need no description. And you know, now basically there's probably not five kids in the entire United States that can identify a mallow, and probably just as few adults, and that's a real shame because they really grow all over the place. Y'all may be familiar with doctor Patrick Jones, taking a few classes from him. He's one of my favorite herbalists. He does a lot well. He did a lot through the Grow Network that's unfortunately just closed its doors, but you can still go to his homegrown school of Verbal Medicine. He's great. He uses mallow in his veterinary practice. He uses it in all cases of external tissue irritation or trauma, and for any digestive issues. It's very soothing. It's also slightly as stringent. One of the books you may have seen online is called The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies. I don't like the title because none of their herbal remedies are lost. I mean, I've certainly been preserving him, so of a lot of other people. But it's actually a really good book. Okay, So I got a copy of it, and I did not pay full price for it. It was one I'm just like, Okay, I'm just going to dive in and see if this thing's really worth a hype. Pretty darn good herbal book, and in that they list mallow for acid in ingestion, peptic ulcers, leaky gut and digestive issues, dry costs, bronchita, at bronchitis, bronchio, asthma, congestion, implorisy. Yeah. I also list it for teething, paint, skin irritations, inflammation, swellings, skin ulcers, injuries, and for removing foreign objects. It can actually be made as a poultice that like pull a splinter out. It's pretty neat. That said, does softening quality along with a stringergency. And I'm not gonna I'm not gonna quote at length. Sip of water here, Oh, there we go. I'm not gonna quote at length because you know, it's a fairly new book. I guess it was published about five ten years ago. It's still for sale. I don't want to I like people to buy my books. I don't want to discourage you from buying your book. I'm actually giving it a backhanded recommendation, even though I hate the title. It's a darn good book. I'm glad to have it on my shelf. So plants for a future, says of marshmallows specifically, is a very useful household medicinal herb. It's soothing demulcon properties make it very effective in treating inflammation and irritations of the mucous membranes, such as in the elementary canal. The digestive system essentially the urinary and the respiratory organs. The root counters exis stomach acid, peptic ulcerration, and gastritis. It is also applied externally to bruises, sprains, aching muscles, insect bites, skin inflammation, splinters, et cetera. The whole plant, but especially the root, is antitussive, means it helps stop coughing. Demulsion means softening, diuretic demos exis fluids. Highly emolient also means softening slightly laxative, and infusion of the leavesers used treats cystitis and frequent urination. The leaves are harvest in autumn, dried for later use. Root can be used an ointment for treating boils and abscesses, and the root is best also harvest in the autumn from two year old plants. Historical references. Miss Grief really got into this one her book, A Modern Herbal from the nineteen thirties. She starts with job Job from the Bible, we have mallow eaten in time of famine. But they thought they could also be orts or purslaine, anything with that mucilaginous quality, you know, like okra. But anyway, there's always a little debate over which plant is what in the in the Bible. Even this is a little aside. I remember one time a I think it was a botanist, said that he believed that the locusts in the Bible, that John the babtistate, you know, they said he lived on locusts and wild honey, could have actually been the pods from the honey locust tree. And it's you know, you remember the prodigal's son, he the pods that I'm supposed to be fed to the hogs, Well, those are the pods of the locust tree. Now, originally I proposed this to a Biblical style. He said, no, no way, it's got to be locus because of this Greek word and all that. But then I was speaking to another one said well wait a minute, and this total sense. You know, the Mosaic law, the law of the Deuteronomy and all that forbids eating insects. So yeah, that really could have been pods from a locust tree. So I don't know that we'll ever know, because you got to remember that the Hebrew was translated into well Greek and Aramaic and then Latin, And we don't really know if John the Baptist was eating insects or honey locus pods. Not that it's important, but there's always that, you know, just speculation. I guess we would say of a witch plant is actually being name perfect example, just myself, here, my chair. There we go, perfect example. We've all remembered the parable that Jesus told of if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can move mountains. Right. Well, let's see what that was. Actually the one I was going to quote. It was the mustard seed, which is the smallest that grows into the big tree. That's it. Yeah, the mustard seed, the smallest of the seeds, grows into big tree, and all the birds take refuge in it and all that. It's all part of the same parable. But that was the line I was trying to remember. Most people think he's talking about mustard, the little plant we grow in the garden, right, Mustard as in mustard greens, Mustard as in the seeds we grind up and make the condiment mustard. Actually not. There's actually a mustard tree, an entirely different plant that grows in the Middle East. So the seeds look almost identical, and apparently they both have that hot peppery nature to them and could pretty much be used interchangeably. But I think it's a persecaria grows into a tree. So for I don't even know, several hundreds of years in Europe, in America and anywhere in English speaking countries, we thought the mustard was that mustard we grow in the garden or make the condiment from, which doesn't make any sense because we know it doesn't grow into a tree. Well there you have it. But anyway, I have a plant geek. I get into that kind of stuff. But when it tells you that the mustard in the Bible is the mustard that grows in their garden, Nope, it's not. It's actually two very different things. But you know, without that cultural experience, you don't have that knowledge because that tree literally just grows in a little area, you know, right around Israel and each and Babylon and all that Syria and Turkey. Unless you're from that part of the world, you have no idea what they're talking about, which is why it's always good to put things in context. Always good to have context without a doubt. People get very messed up reading the Bible out of context, pulling a verse, pulling a chapter, reading it thinking they understand what it means. Not reading the entire book, the entire chapter at least, but just a line here and there can really mess people up, and has many many times throughout the ages. So anyway, she mentions that Horace and Marshall and Virgil all wrote the laxative properties of marshmallow leaves and roots, and that Virgil was especially fond of using mallow for goat forage. Dias Cordes said, really, they didn't use it a whole lot as medicine. In his time, it was the musk mellow. It was used to decorate graves. Interestingly, now, Pliny or Pliny, I should say, Pliny the Elder said, who shall ever shall take a spoonful of mallows, shall that day be free from all diseases that may come to him? Yeah, so it's I mean, it's been known as food and medicine for many times. And actually what she said about Discordes wasn't quite true. He wrote two types of mallow, and I think she was probably looking at the wrong one. He said, you know, used for being Waspingting's is a poultice used for sores, as a poultice for burns, was good for those bitten by harvest spiders and et cetera. Althea is really the one. I think that's more like the marshmallow. And he said that it make a good poultice or well for all kinds of inflammations, bruises, alternate sores, et cetera. Also at which is sort of like a suppository, essentially decoction of the roots. Taking his drink and wine helps with dysentery, pain in the hips, trembling in those trouble with hernias, who's toothaches boiled with vinegar in the mouth, washed with it with seed, rubbed on with vinegar would help with a certain form of skin disease, a lepars type condition, good against dysentery, vomiting of blood, excess discharges from the bowels, beastings, bites of small creatures, et cetera. So, yeah, he knew about it. I don't know why she. I think she was reading about the wrong plant. Actually, so malo was very popular in the monastic medicine that began in Christian Rome and spread throughout Europe. You know, all the hospitals in Europe were once run by monks and nuns. The Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne commanded that'd be grown in gardens throughout the hire. In his capitular Air issued around eight two a d. Said Hildegard von Bingen said that marshmallow prevails against fevers. If a person has a fever of any kind, he should pour a marshmallow into vinegar and drink it in the morning on an empty stomach, and at night the fever, whatever its nature, will cease. A person who has pained his head should crush marshmallow with a bit less age and mix it in a little olive oil, and should warm it in his hand near the fire and place it on the forehead. He should tie it all with the cloth and go to bed, and he will do better. So headache remedy from about ten eighty. Continuing in that tradition, Father Nape in the eighteen hundreds, Let's see what does he say? Wow, we don't even have to worry about it. Good for flamming the chest, could throat, sore throat et cetera. If he goes on, he's very flowery, and I'm going to run now time here, so I'm gonna skip ahead. His protege brother alwish is used for inflammation the mucous men, brains, consumption, inflammation, and all complaints of the respiratory elements. Marshmallows especially s healthy efficient knowledge for bladder complaints, painful urination, chest complaints, painful cost sore throat, heavy bleeding, onset of pneumonia, inflammation of the stomach, diarrhea, dysentery, and other inteestinal complaints. Used for any type of inflammation, wasp or beastings. So yes, mellows are quite useful. I think I'll skip Gerard this week. He basically says the same thing. Man already quoted Colpepper. So we're good there, if you you know, if you're interested, look at my book Encyclopedia of Bitter Medicinal Herbs, got all this stuff in great detail. Yeah, so, okay. One thing I didn't want to mention before we move on, the recipe for natural marshmallows. Rosemary Gladstar has a really good one, but you'll Gibvens in his classic book, I guess this would be. I don't think I was stalking the wild asparagus. I think it was stalking the medicinal herbs. He loved marshmallow. He did not. He was unable to make a good candy out of it. Rosemary Glad recipes online, so be sure to check that out. You can get it for free. But he really liked to take the roots and boil them and then fry them up with butter and onions. And he also used the leftover like slime, the mucilage from him as a substitute for egg white. So that was pretty cool, I thought. But like I said, the leaves and flowers are all edible. Really, it's a great plant. Get to know your mallows. 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