MEDICAL MONDAY: Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Herbs for Stress, Blood Pressure, & Anxiety

Hey, y'all, welcome this week's show. Today, we're going to get into a really important topic and it's herbs for blood pressure and anxiety specifically. Of course we're talking high blood pressure. We all know that in a stressful situation, our greatest enemy, our biggest threat, is our own response, our own reactions. That's one of the reasons, you know, what's what we train, That's why we learn to do what we have to do before the time comes that we do it. Because the worst thing you can do is panic, is lose your head. That's when you make mistakes. Now, for some people, for many people, stressful situations are a way of life. At this time last year, I was visiting my mother and she needs some work on her vehicle, and of course her vehicle is a lot nicer than mine, and I did not feel comfortable doing it myself. Besides, she needed some new tires, and you know, if you're going to have tires put on, you need to go to somebody that has the proper equipment. Because I've done. That once, you know, with hand tools, when I was much younger, and that is a loyal pain, I mean, and getting in a balance, you know, you really do need to go to somebody who knows what they're doing. So I took her vehicle in to you know, have some tires put on, just various other things that needed So I was really stuck in his place for a couple of hours, and there was a Chinese fellow that was sitting there dry cleaner, and we were talking. He saw that I was reading a book about herbs, and you know, he had an interest in herbs. He still used a lot of the Chinese herbs that he had grown up with, and we really started talking about medicinal suit He was a pretty cool guy. He had a concealed carry permit. He was showing me his pistol and everything. And as he's showing me his pistol and works walks of cop and I'm thinking, oh, you know, what's this guy going to think that's going on? Right? Well, it turns out their friend, the Chinese guy, says, hey, I know this pop pull, you know it. It was a fun kind of scene actually, And in terms of this guy's this guy's wife was I can't remember she was Tie or Vietnamese, But anyway, we got into talking about medicinal soups and that's a whole nother topic for another day. But in Asian herbal medicine, they have these wonderful medicinal soups that are really just one of the very best things for colds and flues. So anyway, this guy turns out to be a real character. Combat wounded marine went through tons of rehab for his physical injuries, some PTSD. Of course, he becomes a cop. And this is in eastern North Carolina, which is actually a really rough place near Fattville, you know, Fatteville, Vietnam as they call it. I guess you'd say central eastern North Carolina, really really rough place. Honestly, there are so many gangs and so much drug trapping on the interstates. And then of course Bayville is just it always has been. They put a little lipstick on that pig. But you know, when I was a kid, it was nothing but hookers and drug dealers, and hay Street was crazy, you know, absolutely crazy. So since he's become a cop around last fifteen or twenty years or so, he has been and I don't know how many fights. I don't know how many gun fights, physical fights. He's had his shoulder ripped out of joint, he's had his knee dislocated, serious back injuries. Tell me about this one girl he arrested, you know, to check her for weapons. They get everything. She's hiding a razor blade under her tongue. She turns around and as soon as the custer off grabs that thing, it splits her. Boyfriend open from the base of his goal down to his coctic bone, so that his spine is literally laying open. And then he had to physically subdue her. Yeah, that was a very interesting story. The crackheads and the myth that freaks that he had been in, you know, chasing and then they turn on him and attack him like a wild animal. This guy is dealing with some serious stuff plus everything he had already gone through. Well, really cool guy, very into herbs, very into foraging. You know, he's asking me questions and I'm thinking I'm talking to like a living legend here, and he's showing me respect. In fact, when his partner comes up, he says, you need to know this guy. He's pointing to me. He says, you need to know this guy. His information will save your life when blankets a fan. So we ended up, you know, we really hit up, became friends, and he finally says to me, you know, I know how to deal with all kinds of stuff, but there's one thing I have trouble with, and that's my own physical reactions high blood pressure, anxiety, and stress. Are there any herbs recommend I said, well, of course, you know, legally I can't recommend anything, but I can give you a list of herbs that you can look into and explore. And that's what we're going to discuss today. And the first one I think, well, I think any herbalists would start with Valerian. Valerian is Valeriana fish and fishing. OLiS means it's one of the old herbs that goes back to the free hospitals. The Benedictine monks operated from the beginning of the Holy Roman Empire through the Middle Ages, you know, almost up to modern times. They were the main herbalists, the main ones sit around the hospitals. Their hospitals essentially civilized Europe and converted most of Europe to Christianity through their charitable actions and their knowledge and their compassion. Aficient OLiS means this is an herb that was in the office Sena, which was their apothecary. Valerian grows wild in the mountains where I lived. It grows wild in a lot of places. You can grow it in the garden. Hilarium is what we would call a simple sedative. It is a nerveine. That's an herbal word. Essentially just means it calms the nerves. I mean, if you want to look at it that way, it is a tranquilizer. It will put you to sleep. It is an anti spasmodic. It will stop muscle spasms, cramps, and pain. It is such a strong tranquilizer that even if you've broken your leg and you know how bad it hurts me, broken bone just throbs and you can't sleep right, it will knock you out. You can take a large handful of hilarium pills, capsules, an ounce of the tincture, whatever chock blasts are too full of it, and it will knock you out. You will sleep, and you will wake up feeling like you've been hit by a truck. But it will actually calm the nerves better than just about anything. Obviously, for someone who's in a situation where he's going to have quick reflexes, he's got to be able to pull a gun and defend his life or save someone else's life in the blink of an eye. That would not be my go to. Okay, guests taken for bed before you go to sleep. Absolutely, you got to shut your mind off. You've got to calm your body. You've got to have your eight plus hours of sleep to handle situations like that, or your bloodsher is going to get all messed up and your blood pressure is gonna get even worse. The only real side effect of valaria. There are two side effects. One of them is another reason I wouldn't recommend Valerian long term in a situation like his. In long term large doses, and this is what we would call overuse. This is using way more than the average person would can cause rational hot temper. I mean, it is really strange. It causes people just snap. I don't know why. No one knows why. It really hasn't been studyed by modern medicine. Obviously that would not be good. The other thing is it can cause really in weird ras. Valarian in about they say twenty percent of people causes intense dreams. These usually are not nightmares, tends to be bringing up memories of past trauma. They're intense, they're troubling. They're disturbing a lot of bad memories. And so a lot of people cannot take valaria, well, about twenty percent of the population. And no one should overuse it. In fact, the more you use it, the less effective it is. But you know, a couple of years ago, my mother had to have some it was it was eye surgery or dental surgery. She was really worried about it. I mean, she just does not like that experience. No one likes someone poking around in their eyes or drilling their teeth, you know, nobody likes it. And her blood pressure just would not go down. And they said, you know, if your blood pressure goes over this point, we're not going to operate on you. We're sending you to the hospital. Well, she took Valarian and she was able to keep her blood pressure low enough to get through the surgery. So for that short period of time, that was a godsend. And I have used Valerian off and on for years, for years, for pain, for sleep, you name it. Vlarian is a very good herb to have and one you should absolutely know how to use. As I said, it's what we call a simple sedative and tranquilizer. Meaning it really doesn't have more effects used properly than lowering the heart rate, lowering respiration, lowing blood pressure, and inducing sleep. Gold Cap is a nerd we've discussed before for nerve pain, for muscle spasms, for cramps, for menstrual cramps. Even it is an anti spasmodic, it is also nervine. It also reduces respiration and soothes the nerves, and it is not as strong for most people as valarian. For some people it can be very strong. For some people it actually can have sort of a narcotic effect. You have to be aware of it. You need to learn how to use it before you need it. For most people, it's only mildly calming and relaxing. Ditto for hops. Hops are the hops in beer. Hops are Humulus loupis. They're one of the most ancient commonly used sedative herbs. This is one you really could use long term without really without slowing your reaction time, unless for some reason, hops affect you longerly, more strongly than others. I mean, for most people, it's just mildly relaxing, mildly sedative, mildly nerve mine, and the only kind of caveat with hops is. It does have an estrogenic effect. The hops in beer. The reason you're actually people are getting a beer gut and gaining weight doesn't so much have to do with the alcohol as it does with the true chin. So take that with a grain of salt. Passion flower is another one that is mildly calming. It has good set of properties. It is officially considered anti spasmodic, tranquilizer, narcotic, hypnotic, and vasio diarting dasodilating. Now when we say narcotic, we're not talking like opium, Okay, It literally just means it lowers the heart rate and respiration. A passion flower can help you to sleep. Passion flower can help stress. Passion flower can help with muscle and nerve pain. It's not that strong. It's really pretty easy to work with, and you know, the plants bear wonderful fruit. Passion fruit is very delicious and the only reason we don't see it in stores more often it's because it's so tender. It just won't ship very well. It spoils quickly. Oh and you can grow passion fruit in most of the states whether way. One of my favorite herbs that I gain I would not use long term, but would definitely use if I needed it. Short term is bugle weed a juga riped tense now. Bugle weed has a cardiotonic effect. It is somewhat like a very small dose of digitalis. It slows and strengthens the heart rate. Along with doing that, it lowers blood pressure. Bugle Weed is in the mint family. The part we use is the flowering spikes. You have to harvest it in the spring. You can eat it fresh. Just eat it fresh. It's very bitter. It's actually very good for the liver. It shrinks liver or reduces liver inflammation. It is really very good for blood pressure and heart issues. But it should not be overused. Basically, you eat one or two of those flowering spikes, or you dry them carefully and make a tincture to use later. The effect is like having maybe two glasses of wine. I mean it will slow you down noticeably. It's like having a couple of beers, obviously, and it's in a situation where you have to be really quick reaction time, you would not want to use bugil, but in a situation where you need to get your blood pressure down and you need to reduce stress quickly, One or two flowering spikes of bugle ee is gonna knock that down within I'd say it takes twenty minutes to get into your system. Another very interesting herb that I have found in my experimentation is Collias. Collius is an ornamental plant. It's in the same family as bugle weed. It is the plant that has, although wildly colored like tid eyed leaves, those leaves full of them are very better just like bugle They don't seem to affect the heart rates so much, but they are definitely sedative and nervine, and you're okay to be eaten fresh or made a tink sure out of after dry now. The only thing I have to say about collias it has not been thoroughly researched. Far as I know. I'm one of the one of the first and one of the few herbalists to ever experiment with callias. It may well be that collias has horribly negative effects over long term use. I have no idea. I'm not recommending it. It seems safe to me, and it's a neurby growing us. That's all I can tell you. It is pretty strong, actually, I mean it will definitely put you down. If you have enough for it, and it's cheap and legal, and you can grow it in flower pots and have it when you need it. I'm just not recommending it, okay, I'm just saying it's when I use one, I feel much more comfortable with one that has thousands of years actually of use official use. In the herbal medicine of India, what we call aaveda is an herb called ashwaganda. The Latin name for this is with thaneas omniffera. Somniffer means it can actually put your sleep if you took a lot. But ashwaganda is an adaptogen. Adaptogens are herbs that help the body deal with stress. Ashwaganda take in regularly, take in daily for months, years at a time. That will bring the blood pressure down. I will help you deal with physical and emotional stress. It's particularly good for emotional stress. In larger doses it does have a sedative effect, but in small tonic doses it really doesn't seem to slow the reflexes or calls. This This would be the go to for someone in the situation. Like I described adaptagens, all of them are herbs that help the biddeal with stress. Now, some of them, like gensing, can actually elevate the blood pressure. You would not want to take gensing if you have high blood pressure without consulting your position, he's probably gonna tall you. Genzyng does nothing but could raise your blood pressure, and not to take it. But it actually does help the body recover from physical stress. It can help you recover from an injury and illness, or just like you know, running a couple of miles, it's going to help you catch your breath death. There are many other adaptagens. Siberian gensying is actually very different than American or Chinese or Korean gen sing. It's also very good for physical exertion and stress athletic performance. They are the aralias there. They are very several of them, and one that comes to mind would be red root or cordyceps. Cordyceps is actually a mushroom. They can really raise the blood pressure, I mean especially in certain individuals. Ashwaganda is sort of the opposite. It helps a boy ideal with stress and keeps you calm and peaceful. Really good or definitely one. It is tonic for the p puitary. It's just It has a lot of good properties and it's also one that will grow in most of the United States. It can be very expensive. If you order it from an herb company, you can grow it. You can get a pack of seeds for less than five bucks and it's probably good takeoff. It can grow pretty thick. Kava Kava is such an interesting herb. This was very popular in the nineties. There were some bad studies, okay, there were some of these kind of fake studies that were sponsored by drug companies that did not want an herb competing with their pharmaceutical products, and people start pulling it off the shelf. It was later found to be safe and put back on the shelf, But anyway, look it up if you want to be cautious about it to do so. For thousands of years, the Polynesian people have found it very safe and they use it, okay. Copakava is actually in the pepper family, like black pepper. It is a really weird herb in that it numbs the mouth and throat and you take it, it definitely lowers blood pressure. It definitely helps with stress in large amounts that can be very intoxicating. They have all these traditions like, whereas an American might go to a bar on a Friday night and get drunk, the Polynesians, Hawaiians and such go to a coba kava bar and they keep drinking that kaba kava until that numbness spreads from their mouths to their whole body and they have to be dragged home. And frankly, I've known several Hawaiians that are like three times my size, and I'm not a small person, and I would hate to have to drag them home. It's a really interesting herb. You can absolutely good it over counter. I mean, they haven't even seen it for sell grocery stores. It's not only good for stress and anxiety and blood pressure and pain. It's specifically good for net pain because it kind of helps numb that area, and it's good for sore throats. It's a really interesting herb. It is tropical. I wish we could grow it in the continental United States, but you'd really have to have a hothouse to do so. Borage is another herb, the traditional use going back to Ancient Greece. In ancient times, especially I believe in the Anglo Saxon and Roman traditions, they would add borage to beer. They said it gave people courage. Other herbalists say Culpepper sixteen hundred England said that it gave joy to the heart, dispelled melancholy and induced euphoria. You know, I can't say that I found it to be that strong. It's probably a very good tonic herb, maybe somewhat like ash Wagonda's. It tastes like cucumber, I mean, the flowers you can grow, the in a salad. I mean, it's actually very good to eat. But one thing that has been shown in clinical trials is that regular consumption of borage lowers blood pressure. I cannot say anything about euphoria. I cannot say anything about it stirring courage. But it is a very pleasant herb. It's a pretty flower. It tastes good, and if it does lower blood pressure over time regularly using it, I don't see any drawbacks or side effects to borage. Borage is not one that's going to make you sleepy. It's not one that's going to slow reflexes. And it's just pretty nice herb to have on hand. It really is, and it actually really does taste good infused in wine and such the way that the ancients used to do it. Camma meal is you know, the tea you give to babies when they're called balms them dam. Cama meal is especially good for reducing stress and lowing blood pressure. If you have that association with camer mil from your childhood. If when you're a baby, your mother or grandmother or whatever calmed you with camomile, as an adult, you're much more likely to be calmed by camamel. That said, it does have a nervine slightly sedative, anti spasmodic effect. It's anti spasmodic enough to stopping testinal cramping. It does help lower blood pressure. And the thing with camo mil, if all you've had is the tea from the grocery store, you probably you really have not experienced camamel that stale. You know it wasn't. But fresh camon meal smells strongly of green apples, and that's actually where it gets its name in ancient Greek. It smells like apples, and it's really very, very nice. It's a really appetizing, appetite stimulating, enjoyable tea. And I'm not a really a tea drinker, but I do enjoy a little bit of cameramell every now and then, you know, especially if my stomach's a little upset. Club moss is like a podium. Like a podium grows all over the place in the mountains where I live. I did not even recognize it for a long time. I thought it was a little pine tree or something. It's actually like a podium club bottom, and it is very good for lowering blood pressure. I have done a whole podcast on that on my Southern Apolagian Herbs podcast. Check it out. It's in my book, the Encyclopedia of Medicinal Bitter Herbs I have, you know, I don't know ten to fifteen page article on it or chapter on it. It's a really interesting herb with a lot of interesting uses, especially in traditional European herbalism. Shepherd's purse is one of those wild plants we usually forage for the greens. Well, it's what they call a circulation equalizing herb. It's been used for a long time in Europe and it does help blood pressure. It can actually help with either high or low blood pressure. Now, one warning I'm going to give you is in a lot of herbal books that especially all the European books they will recommend missiletoe for blood pressure. They're talking European missiletoe, which is very different. It's actually entirely different plant than American missiletoe, and the two are like direct opposites. You know, mistletoe goes all over eastern North Carolina and South Carolina. I mean, we always had mistletoe in the house at Christmas. That's American missiletoe. Even just eating a few berries of American misstletoe has caused death. Is actually very poisonous. It actually raises the blood pressure and increases muscle spasms and contractions. That can cause death. I mean obviously it can cause miscarriage, it can cause strokes, it can cause heart attacks. Unless you have I'm just gonna say, do not do anything internally, don't even you know, do not eat or do anything with American missiletoe. European missiletoe, you know the ones the Druids used to be fanatics about four thousand years ago in Ireland. That's a completely different plant, and it does help more blood pressure. It is slightly sedative. Those two plants are exact opposites. One lower's blood pressure, one raises blood pressure to the point you would die don't mess with American missiletoe. I mean, some people say, unless you really know what you're doing, I say, don't mess with American missletoe. Now, one thing that's really interesting all the alioms, onions, garlic, chives, shallots, leaks, ramps, my beloved wild ramps that I looked for every spring in the mountains, like my favorite wild food. All of the alioms, over long term, eating daily, reduce arterial plaque, relax the blood vessels, and lower blood pressure. So not only is are they essential to making food good to eat, Everything savory should have some aliens in them. They're really really good for you. They also are anti viral and antibiotic and anti you know, they're just they say. The reason like the Jews, especially the ashkan Nazi Jews have survived the thousands of years they have moving around all over the place, persecuted and everything was because they eat so much garlic and onions. And all I can tell you is, you know, I could live in a Jewish Delhi. I absolutely love the food, and yeah, it's really good for you. Dandelion, which I did my podcast on Southern Apole ech nerves last week, has a diuretic effect well, what does that mean. Well, when you remove excess fluid from the body, it helps lower the blood pressure. If you go to a doctor and they say you have of high blood pressure, of first scene is going to give you it's a diuretic. And you know, Dannulon is a very simple herbal diuretic. Evening primrose is well pretty common wild plant around where I live. I usually have the little shoots. They are almost like asparagus, but the seed oil has been shown to reduce high blood pressure. Only basil is really fascinating or it is a member of the basil family. It's called holy because in high Land they always plant it in your temples. It is a sedative effect and it does help regulate blood pressure. If you can use lavender. I am actually allergic to lavender. If you're not allergic to lavender, it has a setive effect. It's also diuretic. It's nervine, and you know, women love the smell. I mean, it's one of the most popular perfume ingredients. But I'm just gonna put it this way. If you have high blood pressure and you're not allergic to it, and maybe your wife's the cause of your stress, we'll get some of this lavender growing, maybe you can make her happy and it'll be easier to put up with her. All right. So lemon balm is also in the mint family, like several of deserves we've discussed, and it is a mildly calming tea. Usually if you dry it and you make it into a tea, it's just like caramel. It's no stronger, and it's very pleasant. It has a wonderful scent in flavor. If you harvest the leaves in the morning before the hot sun hits them, you immediately put them into an already running blender full of the highest proof vodka you can get, like ever Clear or something even stronger. If you can get something stronger, put the lid on so none of the essential oils can get out. Make a fresh plant tincture of that I've told you before fresh plant tincture. There's plants have water in them, so you have to use a higher strength to higher proof alcohol. The water doesn't dilute the alcohol and calls it a rot. Well. Fresh plant tincture of lemon bomb is actually a very very strong sedative. One of my teachers was Michael Moore. The herbalists not Michael Moore, the jackass Communist filmmaker, Well, Michael Moore the herbalist was also a jackass communist, but he really knew what he was talking about when it came to herbs. He actually told the story when he had an herb shop and a bunch of Hell's Angels were around, and one of them really likes sedative herbs and he comes in and he's like, what have you got there will knock me out? And he says, well, I just made this lemon bomb fresh plant tincture. It seems to be pretty strong. The guy takes probably a half ounce an ounce of the tincture and just like sits down, zones out, passes out for a while, gets up, says I want more of that, buy some more, gets on his motorcycle, drives a couple of miles and just kind of falls over sideways into a bed of poison ivy. That is how strong an actual fresh plant tincture of lemon balm can be. So if there's something you want to explore, be careful with it. Obviously, don't have it before you drive or anything like that, or have to get into a gunfight or you know anything. Self fuel is Prinella vulgaris this stuff like half my yard. Is sel fuel or heal all is another name for it. It's it's in the met family and it's diuretic and that helps with blood pressure. It's notative sweet marjoram. The essential oil of it is said to lower blood pressure if inhaled. Okay, I don't really get it into essential oils too much, but that is one like lavender, where the actual scent of the herb seems to lower blood pressure and reduce stress. Cat's claw is an herb we discussed as an anti viral. It's also very anti m flammatory and seems to help lower blood pressure. It's an herb from South America. We're really just experimenting with it in Western verbal medicine. We're finding out it's a really neat herb. False helibor. I am really hesitant to mention false helibor because it is incredibly poisonous. So I'm just going to say, if you see false helibor, that's I think arrada verriddy or something like that. And it grows all over the place in the mountains, it's by the stream, it's in my backyard. You'll reckon. When you see it once, you're going to recognize this plant. It's a really unique looking plant. Old herbal books will say it's good for blood pressure. I'm going to tell you this stuff is poisonous. Stay away from it, okay. It is one of the herbs that when people come up to the mountains where I live and they try to go foraging, they mistake it for another plant and they die. Okay, So just stay away from that one. But you know one that is so common, especially in the South, is kudzu. Kudzoo was used to help stop erosion. It became the vine that ate the South. Kudzou is actually has many herbal uses, one of which is reducing blood pressure. It lowers blood pressure and increases oxygen to the brain. The leaves, the flowers are edible. The root is anti viral and actually reduces the craving for alcohol among alcoholics. It is an incredible plant. An incredible plant. You can actually use the vines to make a fiber like linen, which can make clothes or fishing lines. It's it's a really neat plant, and if we ate more of it and used more of it, we wouldn't have it taking over so much. Mugwort is one of the artimesias. It's one of my favorite artemisias. It not only is mildly sentive and helps lower blood pressure, but mugwort seems to help people forget bad memories and trauma. Mudwort burned is like an incense while you sleep. Tends to give you more restless sleep and better dreams. That would also probably help with blood pressure. Ipsisila, which is Samphila on blatta. It's one of the winter greens. There's several plants called winter greens. Just a little plant that grows along the ground, and I talk about it a lot in my medicinal shrubs of the Southeast. It was once one of our most important exports. It was used for winter green oil, which have aspirin like properties sued joints, you know. It's sort of like a liniment, good for sore throats and colds and all that too. It is a very good diuretic. And along with that raspberry raspberry leaf tea especially often used by pregnant women as a uterine tonic. It's diuretic. It helps lower blood pressures that way. Solomon seal is another plant, another wild plant in my area. I have tons of in my yard. It has cardiotonic property, sort of like bugle or Lily of the Valley. These are generally considered safer alternatives to plants that contain true digitalis, you know, like fox club and one Foxicut plant can be stronger than another, and if you take too much, you'll die. I am not going to recommend any of these plants. Like I said, I use bugle weed. I think Lily the Valley's a little stronger. I don't really use Lily the Valley. Solomon seal seems to be somewhere in the middle. You know, helps regulate heart rate and normalize blood pressure. Okay, and along those lines, Hawthorne cretagious very similar. You know. Recently a friend of mine said, yeah, really helped with his irregular heart rate. Again, too much could be dangerous, so you're going to have to trust your own judgment on this. I'm not telling you to use these plants. I'm just telling you they are usable. They are useful. Bass Wood American linden Tilia americana. It goes by several names. The fresh flowers, especially of the European variety, are quite sedative and relaxing stale flowers. The American version oftentimes not so much. Apparently there's one that grows in Mexico and South America that's even stronger than the European version, almost has like a narcotic type property to it. But linden is used very much in herbal teas throughout Europe. They de fine it moderately relaxing. Billberries and blueberries are diuretic. They also help tonify the heart and veins, the entire circulatory system, so that can be good. A kiwi for very very similar in that you know already mentioned hawthorn. It has you know, hawthorn is such a great plant. It's actually what they think that the Joseph's staff, Saint Joseph's staff was made of, and the crown of thorns that Jesus war was made of, and so it's been a symbol of Christianity and it is one of the most comforting herbs for the heart. And I think there's a strong correlation between, you know, the religious significance of the plant and it's help us. I mean it, it is very good, but again don't use too much of it, and some people can be very sensitive to it. Very sensitive to it. Use with care and investigate into your own research. Another one, Rishi mushrooms, are a dapogenic type mushroom. They grow all over the place in the mountains where I live in China. They're one of the most expensive herbs. Turkey tail also can help regulate stress and blood pressure. Water or plantain is one with diuretic properties. The spice cinnamon, cinnamon is very good following blood sugar and blood pressure. You you can make a tea out of cinnamon. You can just eat a lot more cinnamon. You know, whatever you like. Cinnamon does not tink. Sure well. I will say that turmeric very similar anti inflammatory, improves the function of the blood vessels. Cleavers cleavers a gallium a very common weed. I have some growing in my driveway right now. It has been used traditionally to help lower blood pressure. The vegetable asparagus is diuretic. Again that can help lower blood pressure. Per slaine a weed which is a good vegetable to forage, sort of slimy like opra. It is diuretic. And the last one is rattlesnake master. That is one of those many American herbs that are called rattlesnake man master. This one is Manfreda virginica. It was first identified in Virginia as the name when imply the root tea is diuretic. It's also called false aloe if you see it in old books. You know, there's so many other options. I wouldn't even bother looking for it unless it's growing on your property already. I mean, as long as you have three or four of these, and I mean again, starting with something as simple as valarium, that would just knock that blood pressure down within about twenty minutes of taking a couple of capsules or a tincture and moving up through skullcap and hops and passion flower and maybe try and bugle weed, and definitely it was really you know, the Valerian and ash Ganda would be the two that I would really keep on hand, honestly, And if I could grow enough as Ganda to have long term if things get bad, I'd be very happy to have ash Ganda. I mean, I've been through many hurricanes, storms and not in the power out for several weeks, and it's interesting how at firsts you're dealing with things just fine, and like over the days the stress begins to build. You know, you don't really notice it for the first forty eight hours, and then you start realizing your blood pressures up a little bit and you're a little more irritable, and you're you know, ashral Ganda is going to be really good for that, and so I would have it growing in my garden for that reason, if no other, All right, I'll have a great week. I hope I've given you a few herbs that you might want to try. You know, some of these have more than one effect. I mean, they don't just help with stretch a little blood pressure, but they help you get a good night's sleep. I like to have these herbs. This is one of my favorite categories of herbs to grow and use. So anyway, we'll see you next time. Please buy my books. Remember they're all on Amazon dot com, or you can get the PDFs directly for me. But if you want a paper copy, go to Amazon dot com look for Dudson Carroll and I will see you next week. Have it going. 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