Medical Monday: Medical Honey and St Johns Wart

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Welcome to everyone who's tuning in live this evening, everyone in the shot room, and all those folks who will be listening to the download later. This is episode number eleven, and tonight we're going to continue the discussion from last week. I ran a little bit older. We're going to finish talking on the medicinal properties and healing powers of honey, and we're also going to talk about Saint John's Wort and why every Prepper should be growing there so before I say anything else, like I mentioned, this is Memorial Day weekend, I just like to take a moment and recognize those who gave their lives and made the ultimate sacrifice. And for a Villas listening live. If you have something you would like to share, or you have a nagging question, join us in the chat room. There's always a great discussion going on there or there yet. I invite you to get involved in calling to the show. The phone number to do so, at least for tonight is six four six seven one six for zero zero eighth and is always. There's a lot to cover tonight, only one hour to do it in, so let's get right to it. On tonight's agenda, I have a couple of brief reminders I need to mention, and then we're going to talk about honey, why it's ideal for wound and burnt care. And we're going to talk how to make infused honey, honey based syrups, electuaries, and honey based need gummy candies. That's so it's little unusual piece and we're gonna then we're gonna talk about Saint john Ford, which is hypericum perferatum. There are other hYP pericombs out there. You want perferatum, and this is not just for mild to moderate depression. That's usually what it's pigeonholed for, but it also has positive effects on several systems of the body. 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If you get to check out the new schedule, if they got they got a player that's going twenty four to seven, there's so much, there are so many resources here. You're really short changing yourself if you don't come on over here. But the switch over to the twenty four to seven format is happening. It's going to be happening within like a day or so, so come on over and keep up with your favorite latest episodes. And there are plenty of new shows. And among these new shows, I have to mention is The medic Shack, which I co host with Chuck Hudson. Chuck is in electro physiology tech. He's worked as a paramedic. He's a four ARE combat medic, and he teaches emergency medicine, wilderness survival, and firearms instructions. And he's you know, been in and around the medical field since nineteen eighty two and he teaches many of his classes in New Mexico and Arizona. And we take that and I bring the herbal piece together. And what's great about the show is that we bring both orthodox medicine and erbal medicine worlds together for what I'm going to call a feald ready strategies for healthcare preparedness. And nothing's off the table. We don't limit ourselves to only one modality. We draw from both of our toolkits to develop real world solutions for when there may be no doctor, no hospital, and no pharmacy. And there's a very nice banter back and forth. I think that you're really you know, you'll like the show. It's a it's a lot of fun to do. So it's always nice having a co host and someone else to talk with. So please tune in for the medic shack and also an update. Yesterday, I held my very first online herbal burn care class, and even with a couple of technical hiccups, it was really a huge success. Everyone seemed to really enjoy it. They got a lot out of it, and I see a lot more of these coming in the future. I'm used to teaching in person, but this was, you know, it was there were some technical challenges for me, as I had to learn a few new new tricks, but this was I think an overall very positive experience for everyone. And everyone had to keep the PDF of the presentation and I had some videos that I made out that they get to keep in a recording of the webinar. And it's you know, after a class with me, it's not like, oh well, now the class is over, you can never get in touch with me again. Just email me. I don't care if it's a day after the class or a year after the class. Get in touch with me. I'm pretty approachable, so at least I think I'm approachable. To just send me an email at chat at rbalprepper dot com and you know, after a class, and I'll clarify whatever I need to clarify, and the next thing, for those who don't know I am putting together I mentioned this last week, but if you didn't hear it, I'm putting together a monthly program based on the CFA or community supported Agriculture model, and this is going to be a community supported herbalism program where members will pay either one time or maybe a monthly see and they'll get handmade of ale products shift to their store, along with a member's only newsletter and quite possibly some other verbal goodies down the line, like feeds for your survival herbal garden, maybe through videos and other exclusive content that won't be available anywhere else. So that's coming down the pipeline. Just keep keep that in the back of your mind and I will have more information as a launch data set and as that approaches. So now for what everybody actually tuned in today for, which is our topic our content for today, And I'm gonna start off with honey. I left off with that last week. I got go into talking about bees and beekeeping because it's really, honestly, if you've never kept bees, you don't realize how addicting it really is. They're so you can just sit and watch the bees forever. They're They're very meditative and enjoyable to watch, and you get to watch all the pollen on their on their little legs come in as they're bringing them into the hive, and it's it's really very fascinating. But I was here to talk about honey and its properties in healing and how you can use this in your rbal practice and setting up your own home apothecary and for your emergency kits and so on. So honey and why it's ideal for wound and burn care. Well, bns are wound, so I'm just going to refer to womb care because burn is a wound after all. And there are four reasons why honey is ideal for wound care. And one is antibiotic. And I've I've seen some arguments online where people get really picky whether it's antibiotic or bacteria static. It's actually both. It is antibiotic because it's low water content literally draws the water right out of bacteria. It just denies them their water content and it drives them up, so it kills the bacteria. That's one way that it does it, one of a couple of ways. It is also acidic, with a pH of about three point two to four point five, which is simply too acidic for most bacteria to grow. So that's actually where it's bacterial static, so where the bacteria just can't grow. It won't necessarily the acidity won't necessarily kill it, but it won't let the bacteria grow. But it's also antiseptic, and that will kill off bacteria. It's antiseptic because honey, not on its own, but once in the body, manufactures hydrogen peroxide in dilution when in contact with bodily fluids in a slow time release way. While the honey it's a very surface, will remain more acidic and won't allow the bacteria to grow. The honey that's actually directly in contact with the body and the bodily fluid, it will slowly start to mix with those fluids and the pH starts to change and it'll raise to about five point five to eight point zero. And at this pH the glucose oxidase in the honey is able to glucose. That's that's part of the sugars. It is able to be activated when they when it was more acidic, the glucose oxidase couldn't do anything. But now it's now it can be activated when the pH is raised, and all it takes at that point is the addition of a little frodium which is present in the bodily fluid, and when that's at can to mix the glucose, oxidase begins to break down the glucose and that process manufactures hydrogen peroxide in very minute amounts and on a very slow and continuous basis. So where you might pour hydrogen peroxide on a wound and it can stay in bubble oppos it's infected. That's because the hydrogen peroxide I think I can't recall the percentage of it a three percent, I think so, but it's usually in too high of a percentage that it can sometimes irritate the skin. But the percentage that it's in the honey, it doesn't do that. But that low, slow release of hydrogen peroxide is right there in the deepest part of the wound where you need to really be the most concerned about an infection. So ideal for it now as far as they are the tissues that's surround it. Honey is also a humectant, which means it reduces the loss of moisture tissues heal better when they are moist Drying out tissue is not a good way to heal it. If you've ever had your wisdom teeth out, you know, if you've ever had someone like dry socket, you'll know how painful a wound can be when it gets dry. Well, you don't necessarily want, you know, to be to allow the tissue inside to dry out at all. And the honey, being a humectan, holds the moisture in, especially if you've lost skin. If you have lost skin due to a burn or some other type of a wound, you don't have. One of the functions of the skin is to hold in moisture. So by putting the honey on there, it's sort of like a second skin in effect. When you put the honey on, I mean it can be viscous and very thick initially when you're taking it out of the bottle. And what I have for bottles, I get my bottles from brushing mountain beekeeping or the thing is brushing mountain beef on and they have a plastic bottle, a sixteen ounce bottle with a dripless lid on top, and you screwble it on and automatically see a little foil thing on it. And I get some people that call for honey when they buy honey from us, that don't want plastic at all, And I just put it in a mason jar and I charge an extra for the glass. But I know that some people really don't like plastic. But what I will say is that when you are trying to apply this to a wound, it's so easy just to squeeze it then squeeze it right onto the wound. You don't have to worry about getting a spoon or a spatula or anything like that to apply it. It's just so much less messy. And the dripless lids, it really makes for a very clean, for a very clean situation, especially if you're putting it back in your kit. You don't have to worry about the honey billing anywhere. That would just be a a very very big mess. But let me see what am I talking Well, the heumectant. I think I think I covered all that. I got a little carrying away talking about the bottles, but oh it was the the tissues feel better when they're moist, and you can just sort of squeeze that right right in there. It becomes like a second skin. But oh, I don't know what I was saying. It was the viscous, the thickness of the of the honey when it when it goes on to the skin, it immediately starts to sin and it's less it's less thick, and I'll start to thin out because of the body temperature. And what you want to do is you want to get some gaws on that very quickly. Otherwise you're gonna have honey running down your arm or running down your leg or wherever the woom happens to be. I I know this. I do this a lot for myself. I put honey all over my face. It's like the least expensive best facial you'll ever give yourself because it's a back burial and it's a humectant. And I don't you know, I can't imagine going and paying to have that din in a spa when I can put honey on my face at home. But really, when you do put it on, it really gets very thin. It doesn't stay thick and glocky all over your face. So you kind of need to watch a little bit for drips if you leave it on for too long. But fifteen twenty minutes or so it shouldn't be dripping off the face, but you go too much longer than that, or if it's a hot day, yeah, it can kind of start to drip. So a lot of times when you're making rival remedies, it's kind of beneficial to warm up the honey a bit because then it will it will be easier to pour, easier to blend. But you don't want to cook it. You absolutely do not want to cook your honey. You don't want to cook off the enzymes that are in it. I mean, you have this beautiful, live, very complex product that the bees made, and when you cook it, you kill it, and you still many of the beneficial properties that that honey has. So this is why you really can't get your medicinal honey from a grocery store because they don't sell well. Maybe maybe some of the natural ones are the smaller ones will sell raw honey, but you want law honey, and most of the stuff at the grocery store is well, it's barely honey. It's often it is cut with other sweeteners, and it's perfectly allowable by law. It's federal law anyway for them to do that, because it's an industry standard practice, and they can stretch the honey out that way, but it's all pasteurized, and I don't understand why they pasteurize it because it doesn't make it any safer. The only risk fact that with honey is for infants a year or younger, because their digestive system has not developed enough to handle bachulism spores, which would be which could be on any raw food. But you can wash that off. If you wash off your produce, you'll wash that right off. There's no way to wash off bodulism sportes and honey. You can't rinse off honey doesn't work that way, so that's why you can't give honey to an infant. But even if you pasteurize it, you're not going to kill the sports so I don't understand why they do that. But most of the honey that you find at the store will be pasteurized. So if you are not allergic to bees, I highly encourage you to keep these because then you have this renewable source of medicine and sweetener and you can use that also. You can use it to preserve food. Of course, you'll be cooking the honey. It's not necessarily a live product anymore, but you can certainly preserve fruits and stuff in honey. I have a wonderful canning book that goes into that, and you know, if you're not going to be able to get shipments sugar in, then you know you've got honey right there. That's one that's one use for it. But you also have a wonderful medicinal product there that's renewable every year if you keep bees. If you don't want to keep bees, either because you're allergic or because you're afraid of you know, thousands of flyings, singing insects, like I used to be before we started keeping bees, I was very very fuldic of them, but now I love them. But if you if you can't get past that, get very friendly with a bee keeper. Find your local county bee keeping association. Every county in the country has one. Find them, email them, ask who has honey for sale, and get to be friendly with that bee keeper, Or go to your farmer's markets and find a local beekeeper and and make a relationship with this person. Because you want access to honey post collapse, and that honey is going to become a really valuable barter item. So I really encourage anyone who can keep bees to please keep bees. Not only that, but your garden will be that much happier for having the pollinators right there. So that being said, now how to make some things with honey. The first thing and probably the easiest thing to do, is making infused honey. And what you want to do is you want to take a jar. It takes some plant material. Stuff as much plant material in there as you can. You'd be surprised how it ends up floating to the top and you thought you'd packed it well, but there was still plenty of air. Yeah, you pack it as tightly as you can. And you want to use preferably fresh plant material for this, fresh ketals, fresh leaves. That's kind of a thing because honey has a very low water content. The low water content is what makes it draw that fluid out of the bacteria what I mentioned earlier. So what will happen is if you have when you have the low water content in the honey, it makes it easy for the honey to stuck that water out of the petals and the leaves when they're fresh. Now, when they're dried, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just not going to happen as much, so you're not going to get as much out of dried plant material as you would with fresh plant material. So you would then stuff all that in the jar, cover it with the honey, let it fit for two to six weeks, strain the herbs out of the honey, and you would then just bottle up all the honey and it will have many of the medicinal properties of the herb or the flour whatever that you were using, whatever plant material you're using, will be transferred to the honey. And that makes for a wonderful syrup, a wonderful cough syrup, a wonderful way to give medicine to kids that don't like other types of medicine. I'd happen to prefer a nice thick syrup if I want a cough syrup, because I want it to coat my throat. But there are other ways to make syrups as well that are a little less thick, and that is I can tell you ahead that with a couple down builded up. The next to make a syrup, what you can make a decoction, which is you put your herbs in water while it's cold, and you let it cook down to half of its volume. I do a double decoction because then I take that and I let it cook down a half volume from there. So instead of getting half the volume, I get like one quarter of the volume of the water. And you let it, you let it evaporate, and it usually takes for a regular decoction. You start out with you put everything in while it's cold, and you were talking the hard parts of the plant, of the roots, the stems, bark, that kind of thing, not the delicate parts, not the flowers or the leaves that you would make an infusion for. But you take the hard parts. You put that in the cold water on stove. You bring it up to a boil, let it boil for ten minutes, and then you reduce it down with swimmer, letting it evaporate. The cover is not on and the water just reduces. Let it reduce down, you know, whether you let it reduce by half. I like to go again and let it reduce by another half, so I have twenty five percent of the volume of water I started with. Because I like to fick a syrup and I strain everything out and then and if if you were going to add delicate plant material leaves, the petals if you mean, yeah, these are petals. At this point, you could before you strain everything out, put them in at that point and put a lid on it because you don't want anything more to evaporate from there, and let it sit for about, you know, maybe fifteen twenty minutes and it will still be warm. You strain everything out and put it in a in a bottle with and then you can put the honey light on top because it's warm, the honey will still incorporate with it well. And I have recipes for those syrups like elderberry syrup on my website at herbalprepper dot com. You can go and look and see. I've got all kinds of pictures on how to make syrups with honey there. I think it's with some elderberry syrup. And you know, it's funny because I've been making that full like I don't know, my gosh, forever, it feels like. And last year I kept seeing you know, blog after blog after blog with recipes for you know, elderberry syrup, you know, with ginger and garlic and clothes and cinnamon, and I'm like, yeah, that's that's what you know. Such said of Maake. It was for a long time, and it's like, you know, good, it's it's getting it's getting out there. I mean, it's not my recipe. I got this from another herbalist, you know, who has a shop down on Cape Cod. But it's it's a very common traditional remedy. It was like, it's nice to see it spreading around and becoming really popular for people to make. So he can go to my site and look up how you know how to make elderberry shirt. That might with the pictures might show that a little bit better. The next thing you could do, if you don't have fresh plant materials, you could make an eluctuary, which is where you take an herbal powder so it's dry, and you take that plus honey and you just mix it up so that there's a paste. And I really can't give you a proportion of that because every powder is just a little bit different. But whether you were using slippery elm or ginger powder or turmeric powder, or let me see what else might you be cinnamon or whatever you'd be mixing that, or maybe from fiberian gin sing and a straggolus for those adaptogens, those tonic adaptogens that sort of strengthen them build you up and help you adjust to stress. You could make one with some of those, and maybe you could put in some rose powder as well. And basically you can use whatever powders that you wanted and you mix them up with a honey so that you make a paste. It's not gonna it's not going to stick together like to make a shape. It's not that dry. It's still maybe like the consistency of spreading, spreading butter over toast, that kind of a consistency. You could still spread it, but it's definitely not a liquid like honey, you know, would be pouring out of a bottle, not like that anymore so, But that's another thing that you could do. If you don't have the fresh plant material me. You could also make honey based homemade gummy candies, which it would use gelatin, a honey based herbal syrup and some juice. And I also have this on my website where I've got pictures and I and I'm pretty detailed about how to make them. There be a lot easier to just look at the photographs. And I've got a silicone candy mold, and you you mix the gelatin with the the herbal syrup and you you warm up the juice and with the heat and the heat of it will help to melt that gelatine in it. You pick them all together, and you know, you get a little funnel thing and you pour it into each of the little candy molds and you just refrigerate it. Just like making jello, but a little bit more homemade, made from scratch kind of instead of you know, jello out of the box. But I will tell you I've made all kinds of I've got a recipe in my site for how to make like a chocolate elder very flavored one because my daughter is very, very picky, and the only way sometimes I can get her to try anything new, or to try a different remedy, especially if she's sick and cranky, is to make it somehow chocolate flavored. So I have that up on my website. But you can make these little gummy candies and kids will eat them, and fouss will eat them. And I mean another nice thing is that it does incorporate geladin. Geladin is very healthy for the body, and people don't get enough of it. Because we don't consume enough bone broatht and it was something that we evolved eating was, you know, the jeldin from within the bones. And I'm not surprised why so many people have problems with arthritis and other breaks and pains, because there are compounds in that jelevin that we are supposed to have. So the next thing I wanted to mention is that with going back to the wounds care a little bit, you can pour it on and bandage it up. But now we can also add in some of the urbs now that we've talked about that rose is one that effects builth the body and the mind, and you can either infuse rose petals. You can you could use the rose powder and you could also include which is the orb that we're going to talk about now, wich is Saint John's wort. And you know, if you infuse honey with Saint John's wort and rose petals, I'm gonna tell you you have a very powerful wound healer right there, a very powerful one because roads helps with the pain if it helps to soothe the the traumatic, the emotional traumatic portion of being injured, and the Saint John's is excellent for healing from the inside out, which is exactly what you want when you have a wound. This is very important for preventing infections. So here's a segue into talking about Saint John's wart. It heals from the inside out, and this is this is really a big deal because some herbs that are really good with self proliferation, like comfrey, might actually work too fast on the superficial layers, so you would end up with the skin healing over leaving an open wound underneath, and you could have a very serious infection brewing underneath it. You'd have to open up and properly drain. And because honey and Saint John's wort are are really good for healing from the inside out and protecting that wound, allowing the wound to stay open while it's knowing they make they make a really great combination. So most people know Saint John's Wart. It's been pigeonholed as an anti anxiety herb, and there's a reason for that. It's really good at it. I mean, it's it's really good for mild to moderate anxiety, depression, hysteria. It's been used to help with insomnia, seasonal seasonal effective disorder or the winter blues, but also feeling like you can't trust anyone. She'sle chronic fatigue. If you just feel burned out, when you are just spent and you just can't do anymore, you don't have any less to give. This herb just lifts you up a bit. And I'm not denying it's great for all of those things, but that's not that's not the end of it. That's not the only purpose of it. I mean, it's excellent at it, but that's not where Saint John's world ends. It is wonderful for trauma of all types, whether it's emotional trauma or physical trauma. Just like Roads. I don't think enough rubles really use roads enough. I mean I think that you know, people sort of write it off. It's a pretty flower. You know, it's connected to romance, and there's a lot of rubles that use it in cosmetic preparations. But it's really nice as in your first aid applications as well, especially for pain and managing that that emotional aspect of the trauma, because it does impact the mind, and it does impact your mood when you smell it and when you get when you ingest it and rose really does have an impact on how you perceive the event that taken place. So when you add that and Saint John John's War together and you get that in honey, this is a really great ideal remedy for serious wound care. And you can just it's you know, it's one of those things where it's like, Okay, great, it's wonderful for anxiety, but look at this. It's great for wound care too. But you know, it's not marketed so that for that purpose. It is marketed more for the anti anxiety. So it is great for that. I'm not trying to take away from that, but it's you're also wonderful for relaxation. And when I say relaxation, I don't just mean oh now I can just sit back, kick back and relax. I mean it's good for relaxing the muscles when you've got muscle spasms, when there is a muscle injury. It's for relaxing the respiratory organs when they are when the respiratory when the lungs is you know, like spasming themselves and you have these violent, violent costs, and it's it is good for relaxing the mind, but it's also very good for relaxing the digestive system when you got indigestion and heartburns. It just calms everything down. It's calming and soothing to every part of the body. It's calming to the skin. It's calming to the nerves, and not just not just your When I say your nervous system, I don't just mean your mood. I mean your nervous system, your actual nerves that you know that sense pain. It's calming to that as well. If you have any nerve damage, which also makes it an excellent choice for wound and burn care because those nerve endings are gonna need quite a bit of help to heal if they're gonna hurt while they're doing so, and the Saint John's war can definitely help with that. But not only that, there are other nerve issues like sciatica, pinched nerves, bulging discs, and herniated disks in the back. The Saint John's Wart infused oil is excellent. Something I used in my massage practice, you know, a lot, when I had someone who had siatic pain. So any kind of nerve related issue, whether it's nerve damage from a wound, whether it's a pinched nerve, whether it's you're just frazzled nerves and it just calms all of that down. Now I had mentioned it relaxes the lungs from violent coughing. It relaxes the lungs with in cases of like looping cough, but also asthma, and I think, you know, that could be very helpful in a post collapse world. I have a very close friend of mine who has asthma, and I want to make sure that he's around and survives with us, so I you know, he doesn't actually think things are going to get that bad, and I'm like, that's fine, I'm still going to prep a few things for you just in case. And he knows, and you know, I've been putting together herbs in pink shures in a blend form, and Saint John's Wort's one of them along with the others to help this as a preventative, which you know, if if he didn't have his asthma medication, it would be a bad day for him because it's severe. So this would be something that I would, you know, I would personally suggest to my friend as a preventative. I would not turn to it immediately for an acute attack, I might turn to lobilia or something like that for a sudden acute attack to to relax the lungs there too. I think it's the bronchial uh, the bronchoide. Excuse them, my my brain just is not letting me grab the right word. But anyway, in an acute asthma attack, I would be choosing lobelia instead of Saint John's Walk, but as a preventative it would absolutely be beneficial in that case. Saint John's war infused oil also be because it's anti inflammatory and it has other pain relieving properties. When applied topically, it can also help in cases of rheumatism and fibromyalgia, but if you're also using it topically as well as internally with a tincture. It has been used in cases of paralysis. It doesn't work instantly. This is something it has to take multiple doses and over time, and with other therapies as well. But it has been used in some forms of paralysis because it does relax the muscle. So other injuries to the nerves. In addition to sciatica and bulging discs and still on wine disease, there's a lot of nerves pain associated with wine disease, and Saint John's Wart is a very big help with wine disease as well. When you think about a well, maybe it's just my area of the country, I'm not sure, but to me it feels like everybody's you know, everybody is getting bit by a tick. I mean, I know it's not prevalent in other areas of the country, but where I live in New England, line disease is a big, big deal, and you know it can lay dormant. You may not get that traditional vulseye rash that comes up around it, but you may still end up with line disease. So I know a lot of people that are having nerve problems and have a lot of pain as a result from the damage that was done to line disease that went undetected, undiagnosed for a while because they never had that round circle or they didn't they didn't think to go to the doctor because they never saw you know, that kind of a rash and a disease is allowed to progress before they went and got treatment for it. So certainly you want to add Saint John's Ward into a recovery program for align with these now, its use as alone earn it a place in your garden. But here's why every prepper really should be growing Saint John's Ward, because in order to make a proper remedy from it, you have to have the fresh Saint John's wart flowers. The powder or the drive flowers retain very little of the beneficial properties. So if you're ordering powdered Saint John's Ward, it's not like there's no properties left, and it's not like it's completely useless, but it's pretty close. So whatever benefit you're getting from the drive form, if if that's what you've been taking, if you've been encapsulating that and taking that or adding that to your to your remedies, if you've been playing with that. I don't mean playing with it, but I mean if you've been If you've been taking that, then when you act takes the remedy made with the fresh product, you'd be very surprised that the difference. It's it's a whole different world when you use the fresh product. This is why you need your own supply. You can't order this one. You need it fresh. So unless you happen to have this growing in a huge, you know, patch near where you live, and you can go and even wildcrafted and it's not going to impact the plants coming back year to year. You're probably gonna want to grow this one. So and it's a very pretty plant. It's pretty, really yellow flowers. I mean, it's it's it's got a place in a garden. You know, it's it's wonderful medicine. But I guarantee you most people are gonna look at and they're not even gonna know what it is, you know what I mean. They might go by your garden, they might recognize, oh, you've got a cucumber growing there, and you know, they might want to take a look at your food stores, but you could have medicine growing there and they're not even going to be They're not going to know what you're doing. Let me see other things here they want to mentioned about this. It's also anti viral. It's very helpful in cases of herpes, which also includes shingles and chicken pox. There's a huge influx of shingle cases all of a sudden. And I grew up, nobody had the shingles. I mean except unless you were older, and you know, it was rare. Now, I mean everyone my own age and younger is now getting shingles and my theories on that, but I'll say that for another time. But it is a viral thing, and Saint John's Ward has a traditional use in treating things like that as well as the flu, but not the cold. I don't know why, but it has some effect on the flu virus but not the cold virus. So dad is one of life's mysteries and I don't know why. I don't think anyone knows why it doesn't work on the cold virus. It's too bad because the cold virus, right I could you know, it is something everyone that dealing with every year, and it would be lovely there just to eliminate that one. Now, I gotta I gotta wrap up here soon, but I want to talk about the contra indication before before we close the show, because out of all the herbs that I can think of, Saint John's Ward has more contraindications than just about anything else, which I always kind of find a little funny where you know, there's a certain element, you know of of of people that will always say, well, herbs don't work, but yet you know they have some. You know, there's a pretty long list of contraindication, so it's like, okay, well, they really do have an effect on the body, but apparently, you know certain certain types only want to acknowledge the negative one, and the contraindications are are mostly for interactions with pharmaceutical so keep that one in the back of your mind as well. But there are a few things you need to know. Saint John's water, especially in higher doses, may make you more photo sensitive. So if you are already a fair skinned person who is prone to burning no sunbathing after taking it seriously, you could burn quite a bit more, but even more so if you are taking higher amounts of it. Some people have been known to break out in hives when they go out in the sun. So if you are taking a large amount of it for whatever reason, stay indoors. If you're sunburned, you'd probably want to stay indoors anyway. If you're using it for a sunburn remedy or any other kind of burn remedy, you probably don't want to expose that out to the sun anyway. There are some interactions with ADHD medications. It's contraindicated for schizophrenia. It can cause manic episodes if you're bipolar, can decrease the effectiveness of the growth control pill. So if you are taking the control till, you need to know that Saint Charren's wort might impact its effectiveness. But for the rest of the the rest of the contraindications, they're mostly anti anxiety, antidepressant, m AOI inhibit or drug they are. Then they're the other ones that are like barbituous and other prescriptions that are controlled substances. So if you're taking some of those really heavy hitting controlled substance medications, this probably isn't the rub for you. But I wouldn't, you know, I ADHD medications. You know, if that's you know, something that that probably would not be around or available post collapse. Many of these medications would not be available post collapse, So I don't know how applicable that would be in the scenarios that we're discussing. But for WILL times are good, probably shouldn't be mixing those. But you know, I'm going to leave it leaves you with all the benefits of it, and I think that it's worthwhile, especially for wound's care in addition to just trauma care in general, both emotional and physical. So I would encourage you to grow it, grow it yourself, get yourself from beehive, and you'll be offset. So we're just about at the end of the show. Next week, I'm then to have a brand new live show for you. Remember, we're going to be in Preper Broadcasting exclusively believe I believe from tomorrow on so preperbroadcasting dot com. Not to blog talk if you want to hear the latest episode, not just on my show, but if everyone in the show here. There's many shows here you're going to want to stay on top of. 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