MEDICAL MONDAY: Fire Cider Recipes with Sam Coffman

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Make medical kits by Doctor Bones Nurse Amy a part of your medical storage. You'll be glad you did. You've just joined the Prepper Broadcasting Network, where we promote self reliance and independence. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of the host or their guests visited us in the interactive chat room at Prepper broadcasting dot com. Hello, this is Sam Coffin with the Human Path at the humanpath dot com. The show I like to help you out with ideas, with concepts, and with information to help you live your life a little more prepared for disaster. Also to help you live your life a little more fully, and to help you be the best possible person even in the worst possible circumstances should those befall us. I am a former Green Beret or Special Forces medic from in the US Army. I have over twenty five years experience both living and teaching survival and survival concepts to civilian and military. I also have over twenty years experience with plant medicine as an herbalist. In today's podcast, I would like to discuss a few subjects about the cold and flu season and dealing with that using herbs and nutrition and even lifestyle. Now, I know that I have discussed some of these subjects in the past. If you go to my archives on Prepper Broadcasting, of course you'll find there are there is there's a podcast on viruses and nerves. There is a podcast that kind of is more more specific towards the cold and flu type stuff, upper respiratory type stuff. So I know that some of this will be a little bit of a repeat, but I'm going to add some stuff in here that you haven't heard before. One of the things I'm going to talk about is going to be the concept of firesider and how good that is for the immune system, especially in cold and flu season, how warming it is, and sort of the energetics behind it, the energetics behind cold and flu, working with cold and flu's illnesses, acute viruses, especially the upper respiratory tract, coughs and running nose, et cetera. I'm going to talk a little bit more about things I haven't talked about in the past relating to sinusiitis. So you're going to get new material here. This isn't just a repeat of other stuff I've done in the past. And I want to specifically talk about firesider too, because I think there's sort of a political storm that brood in the in the irbalist world about firesider, and I think it's I think it's important to bring that out. I'd like to I'd like to share that, and I'd like to share some of my own personal, of course, opinions not only on the on that on that matter, but also on the actual ingredient in firesider itself, you know, and and to and share with you how to make your own firesider. It's very easy to do, and many of you already may know this, know how to make it. But but I want to share some ingredients that that that I use that you might not use, and that know most people don't. And then also a couple of firesider makers who I think are really good. They just do a great job with some really good quality quality firesider. And then I kind of want to do a shame uh you know, hall of shame type of thing as well for another maker that's really done something I think is very they've really done a disservice not just to the irbal community but to everybody by by pulling sort of a nest Lee Corporation type thing where they try to trying to trademark a concept or trademark something that's been around for thousands of years. And and this is a similar thing too. If you're familiar with Nephley trying to trademark the usage of nettles leaf for instance, uh and and and other other herbs as well, not not the not the plant because they can't get away with it, but they're trying to portrademark the usage of it and say, you know what, only we can use this herb in this particular way. You can't. So this is really kind of a similar concept, except as a small it's a small company, relatively small company, and it's people that should know better, and so I think it's fitting to do kind of a hall of shame thing on that as well. I try not to get negative about things and usually on the on my podcast or trying not to talk smack about other people, but I think these people really need. You need to hear it because as a general public, I want to tell you what my opinion is to warn you away from that product, because I think that the strength in herbalism for all of us, and the strength in herbal medicine that I'm trying to share with you. The reason it's strong is because we realize it's open source. You know, it's nature's version of open source. It's for everybody. There is no such thing as my herbs, not your herbs. Now, I make people pay me for my time because if I didn't, I couldn't. I couldn't do what I do. If I had to work full time doing other things, I could never be anything close to what I'm doing, what I'm able to do. So because of that, you get my information and you get as much as I can give you for free. But if you know, if you were to consult with me, I have to have you have to pay for my time. Become to my school. Of course, you have to pay for my time. Granted, my costs, I try to keep them very affordable, and I try to I try to be the lowest cost of what anybody does. I'm right there, right there. We calculate it by actual class hour per person and it comes out usually ranging somewhere between seven dollars to ten dollars per class hour per person for all of our courses, depending on the materials, fees and such. So, and not to get involved in a big cost thing. But my point to this, I don't want you to think, well, yeah, sure, Sam, it's free for everybody, but how come you're charging? And my answer to that is, well, I have free podcasts everywhere. I have free YouTube videos. I have free downloads that you wouldn't believe. If you go to the AHG, the American Herbalist Guild herbal Medics chapter free downloads. We have free free webinars there, you know, free and these are classes by not just myself but by other professional herbalists free. You know, there's no charge whatsoever. And it's not because we're trying to sell something, although I wouldn't have anything against you buy in my book and buy in my things. But what we're trying to do is is make sure that this isn't open. This is the medicine of the people. So as little as it takes for me to make sure that we survive and we're able to do this full time, that's how much it takes for me. Everything else is you know, you got my time, and this is all I do every day. Then the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed, and usually I dream about it. All I work with is the stuff we do at the school, where there's survival, where there's my courses, and most of the time it's all about herbal medicine because that's a lifetime of study and it's just I'm always immersed in it, and I always have been and I always will be. So that is the men's mentality. I think of verbalism, and that's what we all owe, I think to each other. You know, if it's the people's medicine, it has to be that way. It can't be something that we categorize and say only you can only I'm allowed to call this my herbal concoction, that this is my proprietary blan. You're not allowed to use those plants, right, I mean if you look at you look at even my erbal first aid kits. I have all the ingredients of my erbal first aid kits are open for anybody. You want to download and make your own, please do That's why they're there. You know. If you want to take my first to buy my first aid kit, which is really not much over the cost it takes to make it, and you want to use it as a springboard to do your own learning, do it. If you never show up in a single class iman that mine, that's fine. My only goal is to make sure that herbal medicine is used by everybody, and everybody has the free will, they have the right, the constitutional right as an American and the human rights as somebody who lives on the planet. They have the right to their own medicine and their own plant medicine, their own relationship to the plant world. We have to have that. We're not going to survive as a species. We have to have that connection to the planet. So this is one part of it. But secondly, we also have to have that right to be able to to useer medicine as we see fit. And in order to do that, you need to be informed. You have to have an informed you be able to be able to make informed decisions. 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All right, we're back, and let's start off by talking about preventative medicine in regards to cold and flu season, and in doing so, I think what we should start with actually is more of an energetic approach, so energetic medicine, and we would be able to borrow from some of the different energetic medicine disciplines around the world. And one of them places I like to go for this is, of course, as you probably already know, it's to Chinese medicine. And I think where we can borrow something that's very useful from Chinese medicine would be in the area of the concept of seasonal change when the seasons change. Anytime the seasons change, you find that you are more we are more vulnerable energetically to becoming sick. And what this means generally is, you know, of course from spring to summer, summer to fall, fall, the winter, winter to spring. But mainly where we really see it, I think, especially in our culture in America, is going from from the warm months into the cold months, so it can be you know, fall to winter, or even you know summer the end of summer into fall, or that portion where we start to get enough temperature change that we not only get a change in the in the temperature in the air and which can be part of this, but also in terms of our behavior culturally, so we find ourselves spending more time inside we're not outside in the sun as much, there may not be as much sun less vitamin D, which is very important and integral part of our immune system, not just getting the vitamin D through the sun, but also the fact that you when you're not get the sun on your skin, but you can't wash it off. This is one of the big problems we have in our culture is we shower too often, and I mean that's related to why we don't get vitamin D the way that we need to, along with sunscreen, you know, and other things that we've done. But if you you know, vitamin D has become one of those things that's kind of a big buzzword in mainstream medicine now. So if you go in for a checkup with the doctor, more than likely he or she is going to ask you or do a check or find out what your vitamin D levels are. But the funny thing of the matter of this is that we just don't get enough, and when we do get enough, we wash it off our skins. It takes about twenty four to forty eight hours for that vitamin DED of metabolize to our skin that we get from sunlight. So this is one of the things we don't get from it. As we go into the colder months, we're more enclosed areas, we are more exposed to people who are coffin sneezy, and so whenever there is a virus of you know this in the air, it's much more likely to be a higher concentration around the areas that where you out we are, so it becomes something that spreads very rapidly, usually usually their respiratory and so that's what we're going to focus on today. Really, it's a respiratory aspect of them. So how do we prevent us How do we just keep our body strong? Let's talk about that first. And I think the standard things that you already are fairly aware of, the fact that you need to have your body has to you have to get some sort of exercise. And this is not just because you exercise to help your cardiovastrosystem and all the other things that we know about exercise, but also because of the fact we need to reduce the adaptogenic or the adrenal input or or effect on our body through stress, uncompensated stress, so raised cortisol raise, adrenaline raise nor upenephron type type influence on our body is going to lower our immune system. That's a fact. It will lower our immune system. What do we give to somebody who's having an autoimmune or an auto allergic type of type attack. We give them some sort of a steroid, right, So cortisol would be an example of that. It helps lower inflammation. It also helps lower our immune systems response to something, especially over time. So if we're constantly under stress and we have no outlet for that stress, and it's uncompensated biouncompensated, I mean there's no there's no physical activity to compensate for that stress. If we have a fight or flight in you know, type of reaction to something, then the stress is happening a couple of different ways. The physiology of it is that it starts in the hypothalamus and either through our central nervous system to art directly down to our adrenal glands. We get a nervous response, We get a nerve system response, a CNS response, or through hormones from our hypothalamus to a pituitary and then down to our to our adrenal glands we get a hormonal response. We get both of these things. Both of these things affect the amount of cortisol in our in our body and our that's going to be moving through our bloodstreams and affecting every cell in our body, the affecting amount of adrenaline, amount of of norop and ephrin. So basically a you know, what we would consider a sympathetic fight or flight response to stress. That's going to happen on a constant basis if we are constantly under stress. And so what happens is our dreanals become fatigued. After a while, our body becomes tolerant more and more tolerant of this of the hormonal you know, stress, the hormonal presence throughout the bloodstream. Similar to another issue we have in this for a second, I mean this is this seems like a tangent, but it's not. But another similar analog to this is the presence of insulin. Constantly presence of insulin in our bloodstream. If we overeat all the time, we're overeating all the time because we don't get enough nutrition because our food is not nutrient densit anymore because we grow it in absolutely idiotic manners, and so we really have thirty to forty percent less nutrient density in our food now, which means we need more of it, and also because of stress, we eat more. I think also because we're emotionally dependent on food, because we're disconnected from the planet, we eat more and our body continually needs more insulin. As we eat, we raise our blood sugar right in our blood, and what happens our insulin has to kick in. We have to excrete more insulin through a pancreas as a hormonal as an indocrine hormone, and we have to excrete more of that in order to be able to act on the raised glucose levels in our blood so that our cells can take in the glucose and use them to do the things that our cells need to do to keep us alive. So the problem is that we build up a tolerance to that over time, and this is what type two diabetes eventually becomes. Is our body keeps releasing more insulin. We become hyper insulin emic. That means too much hype insulin in our blood on a kind of consistent basis, and we've become tolerant. Well. I think the same thing happens in stress hormones. We get too many stress hormones consistently because we're always under stress, and our body becomes stressed to become tolerant to it, and pretty soon our body we build up sort of a resistance almost to the adrenal hormones or to other hormones in our body as well that are related to stress. And so by doing so, we have we no longer have the the the kind of pulsatile, you know, pulsing type of patterns that we need to be healthy in our body. Whereas where hormones go up, hormones go down, right, hormones go up, and our body uses you know, whether it's the way that our adrenal glands affect the way that we use our blood sugar, which that is part of a two, or whether it's the way that our you know, our our our pancreas responds. You know, all all of these different hormones are pulsatile. There are cycles, and so what happens is instead of a pulsatyle up and down and patterns that are you know, what we would consider normal cyclic patterns that we have to go through, just like anything else in our life. We sweet sleep, we're awake, we eat, we do all these things inside and you know, in different patterns that are that are cycles. Instead of that, we get more of a flat line. You know, it's just a constant hormone, constantly out there. So this is what I mean by uncompensated stress. This affects our immune system greatly. It weakens our immune system. So this is one thing. So this is one of the reasons that we need to exercise. Another reason we need to exercise is because it affects our lymph system. What drives our lymph in other words, the length that's flowing through our you know, basically flowing through our lymph into our lymph nodes and all of the things that are related to lymph and our immune system, which is our you know, our innate immune system, our macrophages and dendritic cells and neutrophills all the way to our T cells and B cells and lymph nodes and how and so the actual flow, the movement is necessary to be healthy. I always say this, now, I always say static. And this is not just me, This is that this is a theory across the board, across the board in many different many different approaches to healing are euvetache and Chinese traditional Chinese medicine and in the old traditional grief medicine all would say the same thing. When you have stat and when you have a static system that's not moving, that is when you start to have disease, you know, something other than health. That is when you start to have you have a stagnacy, you get sick. If you have constant flow and movement through these systems, whether it's your blood moving through the through the vessels in your body, whether it is your lymph moving through the lymph vessels in your body, whether it is extracellular fluid and pulses of that, whether it's your your fluid in your in your spinal cord. You know, with this moving it has a cycle as well. All of these different fluids move in and out and through the same compartment, through in and out of other compartments, and all of this movement is very important. Your urinary tract. If you if you were to stop, if you were to stop the flow of urine that comes from your kidneys down to your bladder through your urinor you know, this is not I'm not saying stop, you know, being able to not after it's already in our bladder, but even before it gets your bladder. If you were to stop the flow of urine for even a short period of time, you're very likely to start getting an affection in that region. So you have to have that movement. That's how we keep things clean. That's how we detoxify. So we we take things in and we excrete them and through that process we metabolize and use some energy and we detoxify or get rid of other things that we are not supposed to be there, that are waste products. That constant flow has to be there, that ebb and flow, So if that ebb and flow is gone, then we're going to start getting sick. So that's what I mean by seasonal steps. We have an ebb and flow of seasons as well that we have to be aware of. And then the lymph. When we're talking about exercise for the length, we have an ebb and flow and a movement of length. This is related to the movement of what we would call our voluntary or striated muscle. That's our muscle tissue that we actually have control over. Not smooth muscle, not cardiac muscle, but striated muscle, our muscle like our biceps. If we pick something up and we're using you knowing if we're doing curls. Something that you know, for instance, that particular emotion that would be biceps. We're doing pull ups biceps and triceps and traps and all the different smooth muscle I'm strayed muscle. All are different voluntary muscle groups around the body. One of the ones that is most affected but the most effects are lymph is a diaphragm, so breathing, deep breathing that we get when we exercise. For instance, nice full deep breathing, full body exercise. Swimming, I always say is very good. Grappling, things that take use your whole body, Yoga, stretching. All of these things are things that are very important to do on a consistent basis when you start to get through seasonal changes. You should do them anyway, but especially when you start to get into seasonal change. So exercise and getting enough sleep, okay, getting enough rest throughout the day if that means being able to take a nap or two throughout the day, and as well as getting enough sleep and good sleep at night. Getting rid of all the lights in your room so you're not sleeping with lights that are on blue light in other words, computer type light, a phone lights, or a clock, digital readouts. You know, you don't you want to get rid of that light. You'll sleep a lot better for that eight hours of sleep if you can hopefully, you know, eight hours of sleep is really what you need to be healthy, you really even more. But eight hours of sleep. And then of course nutrition, So when we get up in the morning, our breakfast, when we break the fast, is that that is some kind of whole food nutrition. It's not going to get into excuse me, nutrition in this this talk, because it's it's an entire talk on its own and more it's mini podcasts on its own, but basic whole food, common sense stuff. You know, you don't get up an eat junk food. You know, do not get up and eat donuts. Don't get up and go and go buy yourself a McDonald's breakfast and drink a coke. You know, these are things that are going to They're absolutely going to be destructive to your immune system. And if you're if you're on the borderline of getting sick, you're going to get sick. If you can tell your body, you have to be aware of your body. You have to you know, if you're going to your users going to be into holistic health. You have to be more aware of your body. Now. If you're in a situation where you feel like you're getting sick, and we all should know what that feels like, you should be able to just say, oh to yourself, wow, I feel like I'm getting sick. You know, I know that feeling. So try this out the next time that happens. Ask yourself, when you're starting to get sick and you're really starting to feel sick, how your body you think would feel if you went and you bought a candy bar. You just went out and ate some something that had almost pure refined sugar. And by candy bar, I'm not talking like quality chocolate and I'm talking a Hershey's or or you know, a Snicker's bar or something that's basically you know, crap, you know, to put it mildly, something that's that refined sugar, almost pure refined sugar. You know, ask yourself, you know, how would I feel if I ate that? And see what's your body? How your body responds. You should be able to feel this. You should be able to feel your body reject that concept and say no way. You know, now, if you're absolutely starving because you didn't eating breakfast, you didn't eat any lunch, and now you're succumbing to the propaganda of a television commercial you saw that said, hey, you should eat a Snickers bar, right it fills you up? Yeah, you know. Then then you are Then you're in that point where you have you have forced yourself into a situation where you're so hungry you'll eat anything, it doesn't matter. You'll eat any kind of junk to satisfy that hunger craving. So don't put yourself in that situation. You know, eat high protein. If you're trying to lose weight, eat high protein. Don't don't get those huge glycemic glycemic spikes. Not saying you have to go on on an adkid's diet or anything, but just have more more protein in your diet and have less of the sugar craving, and don't eat the dessert right after you eat food, like you've got to get that that sugar rush, You've got to get that hyperglud. What what happens is we've become addicted to the hyper hyperinsulinemia. We need that, we feel like we need that. We're addicted to starches, we're addicted to breads and pastries and those kinds of things, and have to have an ice cream after, you know, the dessert after the meal. Those are that those are the addictive things that you get into. So those are the unhealthy habits that you have to get rid of to try to stay stay healthy, especially if you're being exposed to disease like cold or flu, and especially during the change of seasons. Okay, so that's sort of the basis. Now let's talk about the herbs. Herbs in general. Anything that's going to help your circulation is good. Anything that's going to help your what I call your skin alimitative channel, which we call diaphoretics and orthodox pharmaceutical terms, even though it's much more than just a diaphoretic. It's not just an herb that makes you sweat, although it will do that too. It's an herb that increases the member I just talked about how you get rid of You need to get rid of toxins out of your body, right, you need herbs that help your body do that. The herbs that do that are herbs that heat you. Herbs that heat you are herbs like ginger, horseradish, anything heating, cayenne obviously would do that. Of course, prickly ash is a beautiful one. That's an excellent one. Yarrow will do that. It's a very good herb for that. These are herbs that you can use to do that if you are if you can take internally to do that, or you can actually put them in a bath and take the in a bath. A yarrow bath will heat up your body like nothing else. So if you have if you're in that state where you're feeling like you're getting a cold or let's say a flu rather you have poor circulation, you're just kind of chilled all the time. You're feeling chilled by all the time. I say, you know, let's let's say you were at work, everybody's sick or you has been thick, and you just suddenly, you know, you feel like you got it and you're feeling chilled and you just can't get warm, and you just you know, you're feeling like your skin is kind of cool and clammy. You know that you if you you probably know what I'm talking about, if you've ever had the flu, that you've felt that feeling, a Yarrow bath and you don't even have to submerge yourself in it really just even halfway up your body will get your It will open up those channels of elimination like nothing else. It will get everything flow. And this is good for people to who have like a you know, chronic cold and feet type of you know syndromes. You know, even renowned syndrome. Things are things that that are that are you know, a lack of circulation for whatever reason, the lack of circulation in the extremities. That's a good way to do that too. And then of course drinking those you know I said as a tea, as a hot tea especially, so any of these, any of these skin eliminatives or what we would call, you know, your heating herbs are more heating if you can take them hot. So a hot tea is a really good way to take that. And now I know I usually use tinctures, and that's because of the convenience of it in the first age standpoint. But from home, if you can take the time to make a tea out of it, whether you make a tea out of the tincture or whether you make a tea preferably out of the herb itself, great way to take it. So you can put these herbs, and these are herbs, It all really go well together. A great ginger tea is one of my favorites. For if you want a hot ginger tea is just take some ginger root. You don't have to you know, nothing fancy, Just some ginger root that you bought from the store. Okay, take it and put it on a grated on the cheese grater, give yourself about a tablespoonful of that nice and pack. Put that in the bottom of a glass, Pour some boiling water on top of it, simmer, put in about another tablespoon of honey, and a couple of slices of lemon. Squeeze in there for the lemon, fresh lemon, and they stir that up. Let it cool enough to drink it, but drink it hot, and that's going to be a great way to get a good skin eliminative that tastes good. You could put any number of other herbs in there that are heating herbs that we just talked about. Prickly ash is one of the arguably one of the better ones in yarrow, and another one that's not a heating herb per se. You wouldn't think of it. It doesn't heat. It's not a hot or but it will. It is a great skin and limited for flu and for virus in fact, viral infections. And it also tastes good. Is elder elder flour. Now you can use elder berry as well, but elder flour, in my opinion, is even better. I also like billberry, which is the Vaccinium martillus. It's a cousin to blueberry. It's called whortleberry. It's a European is in England. You find in England and in Europe more. But you can grow it here. You know. It's like typical blueberry likes really acidic soil, but you can grow it here. And the berries are smaller than blueberries, but they're really packed with their nutrient dance there. I use the I use the berry and that's kind of a heating nerve too, that will that will heat you up when you drink a billberry tea. And you can buy the billberries drive. They're kind of expensive. But if you're not growing them, which I don't even try anymore, just because it's so hard to I can't even water them with the water from you know, on our city tap. It's that like the pH is almost at eight, you know, so I can't even I have to use rain water, which you know, it's hard to hard to keep the rain water here too, because it doesn't we're constantly in drought or or you know, acidify the water in order to even be able to raise blueberries. So but if you can, if you're if you're an advantage to where you can grow billberries, then you're in the luck. Otherwise you can buy them, but they are kind of expensive, buy them dried, like from Star Wars botanicals or from Mountain rows or wherever Pacific botanicals might to. I'm not sure, but that's a good heating nerve too to bury itself, you know, so you can throw in other other herbs, so you could throw an adaptations that kind of help along with that, like like your your gin sang along with something like your ginger so ginger gin saying it goes well together, prickly ash and Siberian gines saying go together really well. Yarrow and elderberry go really well. Another really good skin eliminative, but it's not very tasty, but it's a little bit on the bit it's on the bitter side, but it's really really good. Skin liminitative is your bone set. That's your upatorium portfolio autumn and that is phenomenal, phenomenal cold and flute type herb to help get to help heat you up as well. Plus, bone set does something that de kinaesia does also, which is it raises your white blood cell count, so it raises your innate immunity, which is really good to have. It's good. It helps stimulate your immune system. So and prickly ash does the same thing, by the way, So prick ash, bone set, elderberry, for instance, is a great combination. Elderberry yarrow is a great combination. All you know. So so, But but keep it in mind here what we were talking about originally that we want something to help heat us up with. Now I'm going to come back to that in a second because we're going to talk about firesider, which is really the ultimate way to do what we just talked about. But before we do that, let's just talk briefly about the mucosal tissue, the mutinum. By that, I mean the mucosa of your upper respiratory tract. That would be the lining inside your mouth, inside your nose, your nasal farynx back in the back, you know, behind in the throat, behind your nose, your oro ferrens, behind your you know, the throat behind your your mouth, all the way down into your respiratory tract, all the way down into your lungs. That's your mucosal, your respiratory mucosa. Now, when we have a when we get a respiratory illness like a virus, like a virus, some kind of respiratory virus like a cold or a flu, the first place that attacks is the immune is the mucosa that attacks the mucosa of our throat or our signes somewhere in our mucosa effects. So what we need to do, aside from the heating side of things, we also need to have something that's really what we would consider cooling, and not so much not because it's cooling, but just by the nature of the types of plants that work really well with the mucosa, they tend to be cooling and sweet. Those would be, for instance, your marshmallow root or common mallow root. That would be Alpaeo fisionolus or common mallow vulgarus. It's Malva malve volgarus in the marshmallow in the mallow family. Basically, all of the malos really are good, very good demulsions and very good for the mucosa to help the mucosa regenerate, to strengthen it, to tone it, and to stimulate the lymph beneath the mucosa in what we would consider the base base of membrane beneath the mucosa itself. These are polysacrized or muco polycaps sacirize it that help them that stimulate lymph movement. They beneath the mucosa, they stimulate lymph. You know, aonify the lymph and and gives a lymph polyphachrites to help rebuild as well. They helped that they help that tissue itself because if you think about it, if you were to look at it in a microscope, if you were to see where a virus, for instance, attacks your mucosa, if you had a you know, let's say a sore throat, and you were able to, you know, somehow, if you could, if you could take that live tissue, which you really can't, but if you could take that live tissue out and put it underneath a microscope and look at what's going on in your body, you know in devo, not in a test tube, but not on the slide. But if you look at it in your body, you would see that the mucosal cells are damaged. They're being attacked. Their damage is causing what we would consider almost a lesion, right it would it would be cause it would be similar to to almost the way an abrasion would look on your arm. And you can look. Indeed, you can see that if it gets bad enough to where it hurts you. If you look in this if you say, ah, look in the light in sign of flag slight near in the mirror down your throat, you'll see that there's a big red patch or red patches in your throat. Okay, And those are those are areas of tissue that are highly inflamed because they're under attack and because they they if you look at them nder microscope, those cells are damaged. They're being damaged. What we're trying to do here with the muclesial vulnerary like marshmallows, we're trying to repair that and we're giving it, we're giving it an herb that really helps it repair. So some of those herbs again would be anything in the mallow family. SAIDA is another good one. Our wire weed and our o Cida species that's our Cida acuta, Sida rombefolia, Sida beautifolia. There's there. They're they're considered almost a weed, and it's really difficult unless this is something you're not going to probably find online. You're not going to find anybody who's selling side, or you might, but uh, it's unlikely. It's not a common weed, but it is a common weed everywhere around US. It's I guess it's not a common herb of commerce, but it is very much a common all over the place. It grows as a wild weed in a lot of places. It's more of a tropical in south you know, southern US is where you're going to see it more, but it does grow all over the place. Now, this is a good one. It's all in the mallow family as well. But another good one for our mucosa is of course licorice root. We are always to be aware of the fact that we don't give that to somebody who's got a real problem, a severe problem with with high blood pressure. But in general the liquorice root is very good for the upper respiratory tract as well, very soothing, very very toning slippery elm or any of the elms as well will do the same thing or very very soothing to the upper respiratory tract. Okay, these are all These are all what we would consider demulsons. Demulson turbs, okay, very good for that. There are others. Another one that's also a respiratory er, but it was also a good demulson. Actually is a pleurisy root or a butterfly weed. It's also called right that would be a scleepiss tubero, so very good one as well. So that's our Those are those are just things that we're going to use to take care of as much as we can. Also, I should mention the prickly prickly pair of cactus. Now we could use the actual slimy part of the inside of the cactus, which is really very demulsion. But the best part of this is really the flower, the prickly pair of flour, the part that comes out on top of the tuna, on top of the fruit when it blooms in the spring. That's what we want there. So these are really good demulsions for the respiratory tract. Excuse me, I think I need one myself right now. I just need a glass of water. That is that. That's the second thing I wanted to talk about. Now let's go and talk about finally. I'd like to like to finish off by talking about the concept of firesider and where that can help with your immune system as well, because there's really a great thing to make, and this is something you can make at home. You can make all by yourself. You don't have to have you know, you get online and look up recipes. You can go off of what I'm telling you here and use my recipe recipes, you know, whatever you want to do, or you can buy buy it as well. But let me first describe how you can make your own firesider. Now, firesider might be called something else by most herblists, which would be an oxenmel o x y M E L and oxymel would be a mixture of sweet and sour. It is a cross between honey usually and apple cider vinegar on the other side. And and this doesn't have to necessarily be what fire what is in firesider, but it usually is. Bear in mind that the recipes for firesider are their their their legion. There as many recipes for firesider as the number of years it's been around which is probably well over a thousand. I mean, this probably dates back to Hippocrates. It was called during the Middle Ages. During the plague, it was called thieves vinegar, which people would use they would drink and and put on their body as well. That because they would would claim that it helped keep them from getting infected by you know, infected by the plague, and especially thieves vinegar, you know, grave graver and thieves. Because there were so many dead that some people would try to make a living robbing the you know, there was no chance to bury every individual dead person, so it was easy to rob the dead. So thieves vinegar was one way that they would protect themselves. And it may very well be it may very well be that it is. Even some of the recipes we have today would be somewhat repellent to fleas, which is you know, of course, how bibonic plague was spread. So let's talk about the general you know, the ingredients and how you go about making this. So first of all the ingredients you need to begin with just the base ingredients or honey as I mentioned, and then apple sider vinegar preferably organic apple side or vinegar like you know, the with the the brands that even still have the mother that that are you know that you can make more vinegar from that are that are very much pure, as pure as possible, as organic as possible. The one of the people who makes this at all all, I would highly recommend they use organic apple side or vinegar from the oldest organic apple farm in the United States up and then they're up in Maine. The people that make it are up in Maine. But we'll talk about that in a second. But first let's just say so apple side are vinegar, and then honey are going to be necessary in there. Now, you can do a couple of different things. You can do there's all of this together, or you could infuse honey by itself, and you could infuse vinegar by itself, and then you could strain and you could mix the two together. But let's just do it the way that I would normally do it, which is about I like about a one to one ratio. It can be a little less honey than vinegar, but normally about a one to one or about half of each gives you a pretty sweet version of it as opposed to being you know, really more on the vinegary side. Now, the ingredients of that you're gonna want in this are going to be things that are usually fairly spicy and hot, so onions, garlic, horse radish, ginger, turmeric, halipano, even a little bit of clothes is okay. Those are you definitely want. You want to have things that are very spicy, cayenne, things that are going to definitely make you sweat. They're going to open up that skin channel of elimination. It's very important. So those are things that I just talked about earlier. In terms of herbs, Any of those herbs could go in there. You can put any herbs you want in this. You can put any food you want in this. And so what we were gonna do is we're gonna chop that up. Chop up those herbs, grind them up, slice them up. You put them in the blender with the vinegar if you want to, and we're gonna put them in the vinegar. What this is generally, what I'll do is I'll do the vinegars first and then I'll add the honey afterwards. But you don't have to do it that way. This is just one way to do it. So we put in the put these into the vinegar. Now things that I would add in there. I like to put in rosemary, fresh rosemary. I like to put in time, especially because of his expectrant properties and it's very good flavor. I like to put in a regano, also a little bit of an expectrum and also somewhat anti antimicrobial. I like to put in Echinacia, echination and gustafolia especially, but perporea and gustafolia. I like to put in a straglus, which is a little more on the sweet side. That helps sweeten it. I like to put into Mulsen's as well sometimes, so I'll put in a little bit of marshmallow root, and I'll put in the licorice, which will also help sweeten it. And then I put in a lot of the spicy stuff. Horseradish is one of my favorites. For instance, I'll put in a lot of ginger. I love to put ginger in there. I'll put in prickly ash. I'll put in spillanthes. Spillant is also a very very good kind of not so much spicy, but very will definitely get you know, make your tongue tingle, sort of like the way the prickly ash does and it's somewhat heating as well. Put in that and I grow that, so I put that in fresh. When I do this, put all of these into your vinegar, put it in a blender for a couple of minutes, blend it up really good, and then let it fit. And so you want to pretty much you want to supersaturate that the the solids in there just barely, so it's going to look like when you have it. So you put all this together in a mason jar, for instance, a court mason jar. You put in just enough vinegar to cover it in the court mason jar, so it's really going to be strong, you know. Blend it up, make sure that it's covered. It's completely covered. Shake it up a couple times a day, just like you would a tincture, okay, the maceration tincture. Shake it up a couple of times a day. And then after a couple of weeks of doing that a couple of times a day, you strain it off and that's your vinegar. Now what you can do is you can just heat it just barely and you can add in some honey. So you stir in the honey and then you're that's your final product. So about a one to one mix. You can just do it to taste. Some people like less honey than one to one, than fifty percent honey fifty vinegar, but I liked about fifty percent each. You can do that. You could put the honey in first if you want to make life, if you just want to have, you wouldn't have as much when you're done. But you can put the honey and vinegar in half and half, and you can put the with the herbs in there. It's going to be thicker, of course, which you can do the same thing. You can infuse the honey separately with herbs that you like to infuse in honey. You can do that with and that's very easy to do that. It's basically the same thing. You put put the herbs in the honey and and just turn it. Turn the honey honey jar upside down, you know, a couple times a day, just so that you've got movement through there with your herbs, and keep it in the in the in the window sill where it gets some sun. You just want to warm it. You want it to warm. You never want to get it over About one hundred and ten degrees, but you want to try to keep it warm. You could put it in the attic even if you wanted to. You can put it in a in an electric blanket, you know, and keep it kind of keep it goining and warm. And you want to do that for a couple of weeks. So most people do this during the summer and do it this is in the windowsill and just warm it that way. So you can do that, and then you can either strain the honey, which is a little hard to do because it's thicker, but you can put it into a metal calander and strain it, or you can just use powder in there and then just let it sit in the herb. That's fine if you do strain it and you need to strain it and you end up with the lead and let us sit overnight and let it just a drip and get all the honey out that you can through the colander through a strainer. Then you're gonna end up with the leaves and they're still gonna have some honey of course on them, in the in the metal strainers that you use or whatever kind of strainer that you use, which you can do is scrapefield leave out, put them in just a little bit of water and heat it up pretty good. You just bring it just barely to a boil. And then what you can do is you can strain that again and that'll get all the honey out of those leaves and put that put what you strained out is gonna be a little bit watery, but you put that into the final mix of the honey too. So you could do that separately and then have infused honey. You can infuse your vinegar separately, and you could then and strain it, and you can mix those two together, so you have infused honey and fused vinegar. And if you do it that way, then you're gonna have honey that is separate that you can use separately too. For instance, one of the things I like to make is I like to make a garlic honey. So I'll take garlic, you know, and and like I like I just talked about, I'll crust the garlic are real good and let it sit in the air for about ten minutes. Because what that does is that helps the lantinine come out the anteline. Then you can you're going to It's one of the really heavily antibacterial constituents of the of the garlic. Put that in with the honey, okay, and then uh, and then do the same thing that I just talked about. You can do that with with honey. I usually will put in an echination with that as well. I'll put in bone set with that as well, because even though it's a bitter, it'll be sweetened by the honey to quite to a great degree. You can put in any kind of a good antibacterial nerve if you want to, in that. So you could do that again again and mix it back in with your vinegar when you're done. So there's a couple of different ways to make this just in terms of the actual you know, the process of making it, in terms of the herbs you're putting in there. Those are my favorites that I just gave you, all the spicy ones and then plus I straggle as I like to have in there as well as a good immune stimulant as well as being a little bit of sweetener, and of course that can nation as well. Now, if you want to buy this, let me tell you a place that I would go to buy it. I would go to Herbal Revolution and buy their firetonic. They call it their Firetonic Number nine. And they are just they have a great and absolutely awesome set of herb not just this. I mean they make a lot of very cool mixtures and you'd find them an Herbal revolution erbal Revolution Maine dot com. They're up in Maine, in the state of Maine, so Herbal Revolution Maine dot com and so Herbal Revolution fire tonic is really really good. It's they're the ones I was talking about that use the oldest apple sider or vinegar farm in the US for their base applesider, and then they get it straight from this guy. They're good friends with him. They have horseradish and onions and garlic, hot peppers, birdock root, dandelion root, hissop which is a very good spectrant, thyme, rosemary, and then raw maine Maine honey. They also use all organic ginger in there. They use turmeric and they use limon in there. So that's their recipe and they have the recipe online if you go to their site. I think they've got a couple other recipes as well. Now let me just tell you who not to buy this from. Do not buy this from Shire City Erbals, s Hire City Shire Cityerbals. If you do, you're supporting of people who are trying to trademark the term firesider, and they're given grief to every other eblist out there who's been making firesider for years. Rosemary Gladstar arguably one of the most who has been doing this arguably longer than anybody else out there. She was doing this before the people who the kids at Shire City Earbrils who were thirty something, she was doing it before they were born. She was making firesider. But they say that, you know, it was passed down to them from their from their grandparents and they and they put out a trademark thing and nobody even knew it was happening, so nobody disputed it. So they've managed to trademark the term and they've had a lawyer whispering in their ear this whole time. Now, this is a term firesider, and this is a this is an actual you know, this is a concoction again that has been around for thousands of years. So the term that's been used since Rosemarie Gladstar and earlier than that, since since since the fifties, since the sixties, is something that they're trying to say is all theirs, and so they are not herbalists. Not a single one of them is what I would consider it to be an erbalist. They're just their business folks who have marketed or man needs to uh you know, get get good success and good distribution off this particular product. However, not a single one of them has any clinical experience of in inerbalism. Not a single one of them has any kind of respect of any herbalists that I've ever heard of or I've ever known of. So I'm gonna this is where I'm putting in kind of my my plug. So, uh, what I suggest is the first thing is just to make this for yourself, you know, go and get some from the helpful store, gets yourself some good organic apple side or vinegar, and follow this this recipe I talked about. If you have any questions, feel free to email me saym at the humanpath dot com. If I had time, I'd put a recipe page up myself. I used to have one. I think you know, I may still have one on my blog. If I do, I'll put it up on my I'll make sure it's up on the as a link on this podcast I'm not sure that I do though, so I may check in actually too when this podcast being aired tomorrow, because I'm not teaching tomorrow night. So if I do and I find one, I may check in the chat and actually post it to But I need to go find them and see if I do. But that would be your first choice, second choice if you're going to buy it, buy it from anybody that's out there, but except for shire City Herble, So if I could, if I could recommend that, and I highly recommend again the folks at Herbal Revolution and a Serbal Resolution main dot com. I know those folks and I think they're just absolutely awesome. Uh and so if you have any questions again, feel free to email me. This has been I'm running out of time here, but hopefully this is useful for you in terms of working with herbs and nutrition and basic basic health ideas to help stave off and prevent yourself from catching the cold or flu, and do the same for your family. Stay safe, stay sound, stay healthy, And until next week. This has been Sam Coffin, goodbye. Hey. Want to get the best fields possible on preparedness items vocally and online, check out the American Preppers Network Buyers Club membership APN Gold. 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