MEDICAL MONDAY: Prepping w/ Arthritis on The Herbal Prepper

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. Visit us in the interactive chat room at prepper broadcasting dot com. Good evening, everyone, and welcome back to RBAL Prepper Live, where we discuss urbal and natural medicine for emergencies and erisis Because your health deserves a plan B I'm your host, Katy Irbl Prepper. My goal is to help you and your family be better prepared for life's emergencies, especially when there are no doctors or pharmacies available. Before I kick off tonight's show, however, I need to satisfy the legal department here with a few quick disclaimers. I am not a doctor. I do not prescribe or practice medicine. I do not diagnose, treat, or claim secure any disease or illness. If you need medical advice to treatment, please seek out a licensed physician. 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You certainly can't, you know, go about living in pain, and there's no need to because there are plenty of options around you, but you need to be able to recognize them. You need to be able to prepare ahead of time to either grow them or in some cases you know, order them and stock up on them. You've got to be ready ahead of time. So let's see. If you are over a blog talk, come on over and join us in the chat room at prepper and globhats. I can't talk tonight preper broadcasting dot com. And while you are here, check the other hosts and their shows and all the archived episodes. You'll be doing yourself a big favor if you do so. Pretty much anything that you could want to know about preparedness is somewhere in these archives here, so huge resource. Take advantage of it for those who may be listening for the first time. 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I maybe get a couple of hundred bucks a year, but that, you know, deflects a lot of the costs of running the website and and so on. What's that being Herbal Prepper dot com. So this the email that I got from them there. They've changed their policies now, and I guess my channel did not get enough hours watched in the course of this year. And I try not to be super pushy about it. You know, people if they want to sign up, you know, watch videos great. You know, I'm not a person that likes the hard sell. I find it. I find it's distasteful to listen to and distasteful to do it. So I don't like to do it. But I'm actually, you know, somewhat close to their minimum hours watched. So if you could go on over to YouTube and look up rbal Prepper over there and make sure it's me. There's somebody else who's calling themselves herbal Prepper and I'm trying to get to the link, but my my browser has frozen. I will pop that link in the chat room later. 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So I appreciate that if you if you can get that done for me, that's that's awesome, and you get plenty of wonderful additional information and it's free to you. So all right, let's get talking about arthritis here. So what is arthritis? I just when you break it down, you know, is a word that means inflammation, irritation kind of. And you know how the root word of arthur h ar t hr there in medical terminology. You know, we're dealing with the joints and so on, so it breaks down inflammation of the joints. And something that I had, I had gone off on a little mini rant when I was on Jack Speareco's show, The Survival Podcast, was that it was when I was reading notes about arthritis for the show and I was, you know, doing some research into it. You know, I see this everywhere. It's inflammation that causes the arthritis. Inflammation, inflammation, it's the cause of it. But no, it's not the cause of it. Presenting something's causing the inflammation. Inflammation doesn't just happen. It's not like the body says, Oh, I think we're going to go into this inflammatory mode for no reason at all. Something's causing it. In inflammation is a reaction to something. So yes, it is inflammation of the joints. But the inflammation didn't come from some you know, it's not this nebulous thing that just pops up randomly, you know. I mean things happen. So the things happen to cause it, and some of those causes it can be genetics, so that's that's one thing. It also can be something more like an infection. It can be having it can be metaphors they're having too much acid with people call that gout, but it's also called metabolic arthritis. You can have arthritis that you know is degenerative, so that's osteoarthritis when it's working on the breakdown of cartilage between joints. And then you've got rheumatoid arthritis, which is you know, uh, And this is a autoimmune disease where the the immune system is attacking the joints and not just the joints. It can attack other parts of the body, including the heart and the eyes and a whole bunch of other things. And there's also another form of arthritis that's associated with psoriasis, which is psoriasis is also an autoimmune disease. So arthritis is not a single disease, but the term you know, covers all of them as far as the description of you know, the symptoms of it. So some of the symptoms thinking of that, we're looking at pain, swelling, and stiffness, and all of these lead to a decrease in range of motion of the joint and a weakening of that joint. I mean, if you've got arthritis in your hands, you're going to find it much more difficult to open up a jar, you know. So when I was sort of the image that I was thinking of when I was trying to relate you know why we're going to talk about arthritis and prepping. You know, think about all those canning jars that you're going to have to open up. You don't want to have to rely on someone else to open up all jars, you know what I mean. Just these things they get in the way, They get in the way of all kinds times of tasks. And you can get arthritis not just in the hands, but in the hip, in the knee. So and when I'm when I'm talking about this sometimes about like osteoarthritis, where you know you've got this degeneration thing going on. With rhumatoid arthritis, you end up even with like misshapen joints at times. And a lot of people of rhumatoid arthritis also get I have a diagnosis of fibromyalgia. Those two go hand at hand frequently. So what I what I would say there, there's a lot of different diseases that we all call arthritis, and you know, approaching them, I'm going to sort of oversimplify here a little bit and approach them both in give you one sort of a way to look at all of this. And because when you work with ORBS and you work with a person, and I shouldn't even say, I would like to see if I could change the world, if I am going to change the medical you know system at all, what I would like to see happen is instead of going after a disease and saying, you know, this person has this disease and we attack it with this medicine, I would like to see more practitioners of all types of fields, you know, be able to look at someone and say, okay, what are they presenting with? What is this? How is it manifesting in this individual? You know, and treat the person and how it's impacting them, and find out when these things happened, when did it start? Find out more information about what are they eating, what are their habits, what are there what are their daily routine and take the time to get to know the person and you know when these things started, how did this come about? And not just say oh, okay, so it's a live of you know, here's a diagnosis, and let me sow a prescription, any prescription you know, and put this down for them because I know this drug is associated with this illness. So and the thing is the reason why I say that is because not every drug works for every person, and not every herb works for every person. This has been sort of a seme in conversations that I've been having over the past few weeks about with individuals who you know, have been maybe slightly combative with me with herbs don't work, herbs can't provide real pain relief herbs. I tried herbs and they didn't work well. When you start picking apart with someone when they say you know, when you start digging in and saying, okay, well, what do you mean by you tried herbs? You know, what does that? What does that look like? You know, what exactly do you mean by that? It's you know what I mean? How did you take them? You know, where did you get to the herbs which are take You know, was that the only herb that you took or were there other things going on at that time? How long did you actually give it before you decided it didn't work. I think for some reason people think, oh, it's it's a natural remedy, therefore it should work perfectly immediately or it doesn't work at all. There's there's a lot of that, and sometimes it just you need to get to know a little bit more about the person and their overall health, and then you can match a more appropriate herb to them. So, as I go through the herbs that I'm going to talk about tonight, don't think that you need to take all of them, although I think each one of them has a role to play, and you know you have to you know, see how how you know how you might best help an individual. So look at it from an individual point of view, and don't just like check off box Susan say, okay, it's arthritis. So they get this, this and this, like this is the herbal arthritis protocol, and this is what they get, or they get or every herb that might ever possibly be associated with it, just throw it all at them. That those are not great ways to approach it. So what I would suggest for individuals when when I talk about some of these herbs, read up on them a little bit and get to know each one of them sort of individually, and then try each one individually and see how it affects you and see, like is this working? And when I say, you know, see is it working, you know that means maybe more than just you know, thirty minutes after taking it, oh I didn't get full release, and oh the pain came back. So therefore it doesn't work, because I mean, you certainly wouldn't do that if someone said, oh, which takes them ibuprofen for that arthritis? You know, our ibuprosen. You take it about fifteen twenty minutes, it starts to kick in, maybe about an hour later you're feeling kind of okay, and about three hours later, you know, you start to feel that pain coming back and you know, it starts creeping back by about like four hours later, you're back to square one. And we accept that. But when an herb does something similar or is an herb, you know, it's something that you need to take over a longer period of time because there's something chronic going on, and you know, you it's it's something that develops over time, you know, especially when we when we look at diet and you know, a progressive you know, healing, you know, if it suddenly, if if if sudden results don't happen, to just give up on it. So I think we've just sort of become accustomed to this, But I just want to throw that in the background, especially because arthritis is one of those chronic conditions, one of them. I mean, there's it's many, many different conditions and of itself, but it's one of those situations where you know there is some inflammation going on. You may have to do a little investigation to figure out where that inflammation is coming from, and you know, you may have to you may have to implement these changes over a period of time before you can you know, maybe like three weeks, four weeks, six weeks, somewhere in that ballpark to really see a difference like from you know, oh, let's say having you know, severe pain every day to you know, hey, I can kind of function. It generally doesn't. It doesn't happen so instantly where we get that level of relief, you know, on an ongoing basis, which we accept with we accept with pharmaceuticals. But I guess the terms people are looking for a magic pill. So all right, So that's enough of my ranting there about that. I you know, it's just something I want kind of make a point of that. You know, you have to at least, you know, give it a real chance. And you know, there's so many different things. The quality of your where did you find it? Is this something that you wildcrafted yourself? And you know it was really potent because wildcraft that are you know, tend to be the most act the most potent there. And store bought powdered herbs that have been sitting on a shelf for here not going to pack the same kind of punch. So all right. Something that I would say first to anyone who's dealing with arthritis, this is an inflammatory situation. So we're going to want to look at anti inflammatory and anti inflammatory diet would be where I would for a number of people who have improved simply by getting rid of sugar. There's that wonderful you know, sugar again, Sugar is is quite an enemy. If I must say so myself, it is, Oh it's sugar does so much damage in the body. It's really it's amazing what it does. It's not going to get rid of everything, but I mean it is going to help reduce some of that inflammation. And even if it doesn't help with the arthritis itself specifically, by cutting down on the sugar consumption, it just helps with body wide inflammation overall. And you may realize that overall you're in less pain and less soreness, and you have less fatigue and a whole bunch of other things than you had before. So in general, it's good to consume less sugar. Sugar feed inflammation in a big way. And this is sort of my number one target. When people say, oh, inflammation is at the root of all disease, Well, something's causing the inflammation. And when I kind of sit back and take a very broad view of things, I think sugar is at the heart of most of that. You know that that that inflammation that popped up out of nowhere. Other things. With an anti inflammatory diet, we're going to be looking at essential fatty acids. We're going to be looking at including a lot of bone broth, which can naturally contains a lot of gelatine. Those things help to lubricate those things. Gelatine helps the lubricate the the joints, helps to make it more comfortable, helps to it, helps to the word I'm looking for just escape me anyway. Moving on from that, I'm sure it'll pop back into my head. So gelatin is very healthy to to the joint and I think that people who have our rights, I mean they really need to start including this in their daily diet. And by bone broth, I don't mean you have like a cup of soup, you know, once a week. I mean every day, like a quart of it. And I would strongly suggest that you make your own so that you're not consuming gross amounts of table salt, which is often what you find in commercially prepared bone broths and chicken stock and whatnot. I actually have not you may have noticed this or not. I have not been able to access the chat room in just a little bit here, So I am. 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So while I try and get in here, the first herb that I would mention people it's very easy to begin to incorporate, and I have to mention it for historical purpose as well, is nettle. This may not be earth shattering to some of you that have been listening to the show for a while or are familiar with herbs, but nettle is an excellent anti inflammatory, and nettle has a historical use with arthritis going back to the Middle Ages. Let me see, Oh, I can't tight and it goes back to the Middle Ages. Once that's here. It's stinging nettle. And what they used to do is they used to get the stalk. And what I'm suggesting isn't nearly it's painful, but they used to get the stalk, and they would actually with people with the stalk, and what would happen is all the little hairs that are on the plant that have the little toxin in them that that causes the sting from stinging metal actually relieves ourthritis pain. It's the pain relieving kind of the thing. It's very similar to the venom found in beastings. I do not know of anyone who is allergic to beastings who's also allergic to netle stings, because the two are not exactly the same thing. They only share like one chemical in common. It's not that, oh there's being netal. But you know, obviously be careful, you know, whenever you try anything that's new. We see if I can log in here real quick, let's give it all. Let me in them maybe maybe maybe. Okay, Hey, I'm back. I am back, I mean back here, all right, So I'm back in the chat room. So I should be able to see you talking about me. Ah, of course you are all right out the shenanigans going on in the chat room, and of course I was. I was not able to see that. So anyway, all right, let's see metal. I'm not suggesting that you go whipping yourself with nettle stalks. However, metal t is a a great way to take in all of your all of those anti inflammatory properties of metal. It's actually an antihistamine, so it helps the joints. The other way that it helps the joints is that it's a diuretic and it can remove some of the excess fluids that a number of people, you know, if it's if you've got inflammation and whatnot, if your joints are inflamed, there's there may be some excess fluid around your joints. So metal helps to move that on out. So that would be the very very first thing that I would say. So I've got some herbs here that you've heard me talk about before, So I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time talking about them specifically, and I want to spend some time on a few others that I think might might be a little interesting to you. Another one that I've talked about before is cayenne. Cayenne is very warming. It's got cap stasin in there in cap stasin is in you know plenty of over the counter and topical remedies, so you know, it's either in some kind of annointment or a cream and you rub it onto the joints in question, and it helps to block the sensation of the pain between the joint and the brain so that you don't actually feel that, and it can It's also very warming, which can help help joints feel a little bit more less painful. If you have ever had arthritis and pain and been in the north in a very cold winter, you've probably thought about relocating to the south. So cayenne is one of those things that helps to warm people up. Dark and ginger, these are another couple of herbs that you can take that are highly anti inflammatory and warming, and you know you can make these into decoctions. There's a recipe out there for a golden milk made with turmeric, and ginger pastes and uh, usually with some kind of milk. It's usually coconut milk. You can put some honey in there if you'd like, trying not to go overboard on the sweeteners, but turmeric and ginger can be very powerful, powerful flavors, So a little honey in there goes a long way. Yeah, looking over in the uh in the chat room. Yeah, Omega three is That's what I was. That's partly what I was talking about up with the diet. The essential fatty acids, those omego threes, those are anti inflammatory, and we don't get enough in when we look at you know, why is arthritis so prevalent es? You know why is this happening? Well, you know this inflammatory arthritis. Well, when we look at our diets, tons of sugar, nowhere near enough fats, nowhere near enough gelatin. You know, I'm sorry, but you know you're going to find a lot more arthritis complaints among people who just don't consume enough of these essential faty acids and gelatin. So when we've got people preaching you know, plant based diets, vegan diets, you know you might be fine for a while over time, ten years, twenty years, getting into your aging years, you know that you may not appreciate the fact that you starved your body of these things over time. That's all I'm going to say about that. I know some people get very drop my phone there. Some people get very very uptight when they talk about diets. So even if you are thatgetarian, you know, I mean, you can, I would. There are some vegetarian sources of omega threes, and people will point to flax and all of that. The thing is is that your body has to convert those fats before they can use them as the essential fatty acids, so they're not a great source of them. But if you're a vegetarian and you also still eat eggs and some people who are petsicatarians who also still eat fish, you should be fine, you know, in in that. So if you're not, you know, I mean, because veet vegetarians and vegans are two very different things, and honestly, in a lot of cases, vegetarians may have a better diet depending on what else you're looking at. Like for instance, if your options are like meat from let's say, Burger King or McDonald's, you know, that's not the first of all, I'm not necessarily as short of the meat McDonald is entirely all meat. I think there's a lot of soy involved in that, and soy can be very inflammatory. So but anyway, I don't want to get too far back into this that we were talking about herbs at this point, but just because of the stuff that came up in the chat room, Yeah, it's diet is a huge I that's that's that's I think where you have to start when you want to start changing these inflammatory conditions. But that's not the only thing that will cause arthritis. I should just mention this too, in addition to you know, an inflammatory diet causing things. Just to be fair, you need, like with oxio arthritis, which is where the cartilage is breaking down, you know, you have to have a good balance between moving the joint. Moving the joint is going to help keep it lubricated and you need to do that and also giving it rest. So there's a balance that's going on there and you have to find that balance. So you can also use hot and cold so you know, moist heat, or you can ice it and alternate back and forth. You can use oh, let me see, well, there's any number of different anti inflammatories, you know, over the counter stuff you could stock up on. We're gonna talk about some herbal ones, but other things to keep in mind. You need to stay active, physically active. That's that actually does help produce overall inflammation in the body. So that comes back to inflammation. You need to maintain a healthy weight. If you are four hundred pounds and you have a bad knee, you need to address that. That is going to wear down on the joint, you know. And that's not a judgment on the person. That's just I mean, we're just looking at how much stress the knee can take. So so every I'm trying to think it's every twenty five pounds of weight that you lose, I think is equivalent to one hundred pounds of pressure. I think that's the statistic. Don't quote me on that, I think I need to. I think that's what it is, but I'd want to look that up. It's the more weight you take off, the actual pressure that you're putting on your joints is multiplied. It's not just okay, so if you're at three hundred pounds, there's three hundred pounds of pressure on your knees. It's actually much more than that. So any amount of weights that you lose, I think it is a wonderful ratio. Though I think it's for a pound that you lose, you lose four pounds of pressure on your joints or something to that effect. So you can also strengthen the muscles that surround the joint so that they support the joint. That's also going to help regular physical activity, which helps to reduce inflammation. And of course you can take the glucose to mean and Jordan supplements and so on, which you know, the glucosamine, you you get gelatine. So that's that's my that's that's my take on that. But I think it's probably more sustainable to rely on making bone books over a period of time, with or without the availability of a pharmacy than taking lots of supplements. Let's see here, so we talked about metal. I mentioned turmeric and ginger, and you can get turmeric that's powdered, you can take the capsules. I think it's far more potent to if you can get the fresh root, which thankfully, like I've got like one store nearby me that does sell the fresh rout and you and you can grow it. You have to grow it at home. Yeah, yeah, islander. I know people say that put the black pepper in there, and I do it too. I'm not positive it's entirely necessary, but I believe that when you add that a pinch of black pepper, it helped to uh turmeric ginger mix there. It seems to act as a synergist, and a synergis means it makes the whole end product work more efficiently. I think it does. I've heard some people debate that, but you know, it is what it is. I do. I use it when I when I make up turmeric remedies. Cayenne. I mentioned Cat's claw and Devil's claw, folk names and so on for these. I'm not gonna All I'm gonna say about these is that they're very effective. They work really well. They taste terrible, but they're not something that They're not something that grows here. I don't know of anybody that grows them locally to me, at least anyway. I mean, there may be some people do, but it's not something that's widely grown here in the US. I don't think that it's you know, I don't think that either of these are options you know that are rather sustainable if let's say, you know, if the medical system failed, you know, shipping probably has failed, and you're not going to be ordering these things from very far away, so they're expected. If you want them, go online, order them, put them in capsules, make pinctures out of them, whatever you need to do. That's great, But I don't think there's something that you're really going to be renewing in your in your gardens. So that's that's the drawback to that. So what I mentioned is horsetail, and it works really well with Solomon Field. These two herbs together I see, do a lot of good for arthritis symptoms and such. Herbalists can't say that we treat anything, so I gotta be u with that. But you know, because certain language is owned by the medical industry, and you know, then you can't make specific recommendations. However, I will say this, I know plenty of people that have been using follow and seel and horsetail together for a variety of bone and joint problems in cooling those diagnosed by physicians as our frightis, and they've seen great improvement not just in the overall level of pain, but their need for pain relievers and such. They've got better range of motion, they have less stiffness, and it's it's they take it more than an ongoing thing, and they seem it seems to help them. It seems to help their symptoms as well as let me see, well, I won't see regenerate anything because that's not exactly what I'm getting at. But the body seems to heal itself. And when these two orbs are taken so solow and seal, you're looking for the roots here, and I would suggest that you grow some if you have anything. Okay, let me back up. If you have arthritis, or if you have and an elderly family member, they probably have arthritis. If you plan on living into your older years, you may be faced with arthritis. You might want to grow some of this. And like I said, when it's combined with horsetail, which is a which is loaded with minerals horsetails, you can probably find horsetail growing wild nere you probably otherwise you know you can grow it, but you may be able to wildcraft that one. And if you can, that's great because wildcraft is as long as you know it's in a you know, you don't go through and take every plant in the area. You know, you have to leave some so that it regenerates itself so that it'll still be there next year in the year after that, and so that other people have enough to use. So it may be more than one trip out to the woods here if you're going to be responsible about it. Of course, not everybody's going to be responsible when it comes to things like wildcrafting, especially when medicine is you know, at a premium like this, so you know, if the medical system were to fail and oh you know, I know that some people are just going to go through areas and just take the places clean. And so this is why, even though the wildcraft and stuff may be more potent and whatnot, you might want to put this in your in your garden as well. At least then you know, I mean, it may not be is potent, but at least you got it, you know. Then of course, there's white willow bark, and not everybody's going to have a white willow around, and there's other willows that have the salasin in it, but there's a bunch of other trees and other plants that have salacin in it. Thalasin is the natural form of a chemical that is found in aspirin. So aspirin is a sety thalocylic acid, and that is a synthesized chemical that is found in a in a rather large amount in aspirin in plants such as white willow bark, birch and winter green and meadows sweet, and a number of other plants, a lot of trees as well. It's there's salacin and you ingest it and the body metabolizes it into salosphylic acid. When it's actually found, the salacin in these plants is actually much less than what you would find with salluscilic acid in an aspirin, and it's only when you isolate that salacin away from the plant that it becomes really irritating to the stomach. So when it's kept to the whole plant remedy, when it's the entire bark that you're using and not extracting a single chemical, it really doesn't impact the stomach lining the way it would if it had been extracted. Aspirin was actually made because once figured out how to isolate the thalacin from the willow bark, they you know, they purified it and they you know, they put it into you know, a powder, into a into a pill, and when people took this remedy, their stomach would bleed. And I said, well, yeah, I mean it's just this. It's not how you would get this naturally. It's not part of the synergy that it came from. It's not part of that whole plant remedy. It's not going to work exactly the same way it did when it was part of this chemical cocktail that was white willow bark. That is its own thing once it's part of that sort of cocktail, you know, this plant cocktail. And you know how it is if you're mixing drinks. You know, you you mix your drinks together, I mean on their own okay there, you know, they might be okay, but when you put them together, something very special happens. I don't know, not the only one that's that that things like that when they put their drinks together. Oh well, anyway, white lillo bark, meadow sweet two very common ways of getting something akin to aspirin, with a very long tradition for that. Obviously, you don't want to give anything that's like aspirin to a child that has signs of a virus. Because of the risk of rye syndrome. You don't want them to go into a coma. And let's see here, aren't Oh, I've got a few more to talk about arnica. I know I've spoken about before. If you find that buying arnica is a little expensive, because it is, it's ridiculously expensive. Unfortunately, odds are when you buy that ninety dollars a pound herb from somewhere, there's a good chance that it might be adulterated because arnica is precious because it has been over harvested. And usually we're talking about arnica montana. There is also a meadow arnica arnica shamanosis, if I recall correctly, and you can plant that in a field and it doesn't have to be at a high elevation and so rare and whatnot, and they can be used interchangeably. So if you want arnica, and you have any kind of acreage whatsoever, and you're concerned about you know, you're concerned about arthritis, then you might want to pick up some seeds and get growing some meadow arnica and then from there you can make staves and motions and apply them to your joints. And oh, you're Highlandary. Look that dark chocolate is a great anti inflammatory. Oh, I think it's the amounts that I don't. I don't need it. And I'll tell you why I don't eat dark chocolate. It's because I have zero control. If I have one piece of it, I'm having the whole bar and I'm looking for a second. It's an addiction, and I freely admit that I have a problem with it, so I just don't have it. It is wonderful, though I don't need it right now. I'm sure, you know, I don't want to say. I'm sure that I'll have a slip up at some point in my life, but you know, you know, when there's that special occasion, you know, like a birthday kind of thing, I might put. I might use them, but other other than that, I keep it out of the house because I know myself that's just one of my weaknesses. There some other things that you may not have thought of, but are readily available in the US wild fast rilla which is Aralia new to call Us, and this has been used. You can make a nice strong infusion of this for healing of joint problems, the healing of bones, very similar to how Solomon steel and horsetail are employed when you're healing bones as well in joints, joint sandbones, like if you had a broken but for instance, if someone had a broken leg and they it was set properly, I would be putting. Probably poultices or compresses of oh maybe comfree and horsetail and Solomon steel, you know, topically on the outside, while I'd be giving. Them possibly a tincture of you know, Solomon steel and horsetail to take internally. And I mean, I'm okay with a little confree tee for something short term like a broken bone. The paralyzing and alkaloids don't bother. They don't me off for something short term like that. But you could certainly use confree topically to help with with arthritis as well, to help heal those joints so fast. Gorilla has found in a lot of wild places in the US. That would be something that you'd have access to. Plurisy roots. Most people think of this just for lung infections, for things like pneumonia, for things like whooping costs, plurisy root is really really helpful also for arthritis. Then there is pipsisola, which may not be familiar with, but in another plant, I strongly recommend that you read up on and get familiar familiar with and see to make sure that you can recognize it. And because this is something that is native to the US here and you should be able to find this. This also helps with arthritis pain. So there are others too. There are some upatoriums that will help with like bone spurs and also like with oh when there's there's been like a growth, do the rubbing of joints and arthritis. So there are a lot of rebel options. You're gonna have to play with them and see what works for you. But most of these here you could take in a number of different ways, both as as a tea very commonly, you could take some of these as tinctures if you wanted to. Some of them you could powder up and you could put in the capsule things that taste particularly unpleasant, like Devil's Claw, but are quite effective anyway. But you could also put like Devil's Claw and something like a save. You could like make an infused oil of it and then make a save. Make sure that you put like some vitamin E oil in there so that it doesn't go rantid or something like that. Vitaminy oil is only a preservative in the sense that it helps to prevent oil from going rants and it doesn't prevent like the growth of bacteria or anything like that. But anyway, there's lots of options, some that you can stock up on, some that you can grow, some that you can identify out in the wild. Oh so for the chat room, let me let me say that name against pips sicila, it's chimophilia umblatte. I hope I pronounced that second part of that scientific name correctly, or umbulate. Maybe maybe I'm making it too fancy, So chimophilia umbulate tips sicila. Definitely take a look at those because those are, you know, growing wild and you should be able to find them and their options for when everything is shut down and you need to restock and maybe you had to leave your homestead, you had to leave your bug out location. Someone got there before you and they wouldn't let you in, or maybe you know, a larger group came in and took it from you, and now you need to find something when you're out and about. So you need to be able to have your own stash. You need to be able to you know, grow things, you know, to keep it sustainable and need to be able to find things out in a while just in case, you know, all else sails. You have to have multiple layers of redundancy, you know. 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