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Welcome to everyone who's tuning in live this evening, everyone in the chat room, and all those folks you're going to be listening to the download later. This is episode number ten, and tonight we are talking about honey and the medicinal properties of honey and how to incorporate honey into urbal remedies. It does so many wonderful things. It's so versatile, and you know this is this is really one of the great treasures that we have in intergal medicine. So for those listening live. If you have something that you want to share, if you get a nagging question, join us in the chat room or call into the show. The phone number to do though is six four six seven one six four zero zero eight. Please do take advantage of this being a live show and let's have some interaction either in the chat room or call in. I think it's really one of the great benefits of doing a live show. And uh, let's see on tonight's agenda. Well, I've got a couple of reminders here. 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So the few reminders that I have, Well, first of all, let me start off by just reminding people again that if you listen on blog talk radio, you need to visit us over at prepperbroadcasting dot com. Get used to signing in there to listen. That way, the transition will be nice and smooth, because the transition to a twenty four to seventh format is already underway. So please go over to prepper Broadcasting dot com and check out all of the Truly there's a very impressive array of preparedness podcasts and resources available there, and just start getting into the habit now of going there to listen to the show that because it's going to be coming off of the talk soon and you won't be able to find your new episodes there, So go over to prepper Broadcasting dot com and all of the archive shows are there, so that's where you want to be tuning in when you tune into the shows from now on. So among these new shows, one I want to point out is the medic Shock, which I co host with Chuck Hudson. Chuck is an electro physiology tech. He's worked as a paramedic, he's a former combat medic. He teaching the emergency Medicine Wilderness Survival firearm instruction. He's been you know, around the medical field since in nineteen eighty two, and he teaches many of his classes in the New Mexico and Arizona area. And you know, so we team up, and I think what's great about the show is that we bring both orthodox medicine and urbal medicine world together. Nothing's off the table. We draw from both of our toolkits to develop solutions and strategies for the healthcare preparedness. So I think that I think it's a nice balance between those two worlds. Also, next Saturday, I am offering an rbal Burncare webinar And I don't know if you could hear that there was a very lord vehicle we just drove by the house that I had to come through the microphone there than earlier there was this huge, wonderful motorcycle ride, a charity ride, very impressive going out on outside. But I'm positive that have been going on now then that would have come through the microphone too. But anyway, the Urbal Burncare webinar. This is going to be happening this coming Saturday at two pm, and it's going to last for an hour, and there's going to be a thirty minute question an answer session afterwards. And if you have any questions providing the material covered in class, you know that's the time to cover it. But I mean, if you don't think of something in those thirty minutes, you know, it's not like I'm going to be out of touch after that. You can always shoot me an email or something get in touch with me. I tend to be pretty accommodating and available for that sort of stuff. So don't feel like, oh, well, I didn't come up with the questions and then a thirty minutes twelve, you know, now I can't get my questions answered. No, I just just shoot me an email and you know, I'll see what I can do to help you out. So let me see where was it? Uh? This is something I want to point out though. I'm offering this particular class for probably a really ridiculously low cost this time around, because it's sort of a pilot program as I venture into the world of online classes, which's all sort of a new venture and you know, a new saying I'm testing out new uh new technologies here, and normally I teach in person. That's what I'm used to, and this is all you know. The whole technical aspect is a little new to me, but it's very exciting because it opens up so many opportunities to reach people that I would not have been able to reach otherwise. And so because there might be a flight learning curve in the actual mechanics of it, I decided to offer this very very first class at a very low cost, which is twenty bucks, which is probably even low for that because there's a lot of value in it. I've packed a ton of information into it. I've packed well, I've packed a lot into it. You'd be very surprised about how much more stuff you can get into this type of a format than I can in the same amount of time in a life class. But let's see, you're gonna be learning some very important stuff. This is you know, if you don't have anyone, if you don't have any medical care nearby, if you don't have any option for getting any kind of skilled care, and you have a burn, you can't just ignore it, you know, you have to deal with it. So rather than you know, leave something untreated, which could turn very serious very quickly. You will learn in this webinar how to address first, second and third degree burn, assess the extent of the burn, and how to respond appropriately. You will learn how to make verbal products that do four things. Promote cell proliferation, fight infection, provide pain release, and facilitate the healing of the tissues with minimal scarring. And you know, one of the way, one of the things that we're also going to be doing with them giving away a burn care kit. And this is the prototype kit that I created to go with this course. When I was putting together all of my all my final recipes to put together for this things are a little different when I teach in person, things to be a little bit more fluid, but in this in this kind of scenario, I kind of have to be a bit more precise. So I put together a kit based on this class, and I'm going I made several of these things, and this is the final the final kit that I came up with. So we don't have lots of fancy, fancy excuse me, fancy labeling or packaging, but this is you know, this is a very workable Herbal burntcare kit that if I were to package it up nicely or something, the retail value be at least twice the cost of the class. So you know, if you if you can make the state on this coming Saturday at two pm, I'd strongly recommend that you do so. Now if you can't make a state, I'm going to be offering this class, you know, hopefully every couple of months. I'm I'm going to be scheduling one for next month. Also, because I was sort of flooded with emails, I didn't realize when I scheduled the class that next weekend is a long weekend and people are going away, and I had a lot of inquiries about you know, when am I going to do it again? Well, instead of doing it in two months, I'll schedule another date next month to do it, because I know that there were there was a substantial number of people who did contact me and said, yeah, this next weekend is not going to work because we're going out of count So I will schedule one for next month. But it's not going to be at the twenty dollars. It's still going to be very affordable, but it's not going to be twenty dollars, but it might be in the thirty five ish range or so, I think that that's a fair somewhere in that ballpark would be a fair wait for this. So anyway it would be to it is to register from my book, from my webinar, and let me just say that something else about webinars too. Don't look at term turn you off, because I know that a lot of webinars are pretty much giant infomercials. If you've ever attended a lot, you know, any of these things where people say, oh, you know, there's just a free webinars, a free one. But there's a lot of free webinars that you know, people host and they they talk, you know, they promised to teach you something about you know, whatever their you know, whatever their product is supposed to you know, deal with, and you spend an hour waiting to hear any real information and then by the end of it you realize they're just trying to sell you a product. This is not what this is. This is a class, the product in the class. So the burnt Here Webinar again next Saturday, two o'clock. If you want to sign up for it, go to my website that is herbalprepper dot com and go to the courses available page and if you can read a little bit more about the courts, and there is a PayPal button down at the bottom. You do not have to have paypals to use that payment feature, but it's there at the very bottom of that and I have to point that out. And I'm so proud of myself that I figured out the technology to add a page on button. So these little things make me happy. Figuring these things out to make me very very happy, all right. So I have a giveaway up. If you've been following my Facebook page, you know that I've had a giveaway going on for two fluid ounces of Valarian roup tincture. And at the last I've checked, there's only a couple of people left. Because I was going to be giving this away when I reached six hundred likes, and I think there was only like maybe like five more likes to go. If you want to get in on that, go to my website because then you'll find a link directly to my Facebook page where I can search on Facebook and look for Herbal Prepper. Go there, like the page, share the photo of the Valarian root tincture on your Facebook wall, and you will be entered if you miss out on the Valerian route. I let me just tell you the next one that's going to be going right after that is for a bottle of cayenne tincture. So if you want to make sure that you get in on these chances to win some type of a nerbal product and go to my Facebook page and like it. And I think that this is a neat way to kind of promote the page without having to shell out a ton of money to Facebook, which doesn't necessarily give you a whole bunch of good leads for that. I really only want people on the pages that are actually interested in look, you know, learning about herbs for you know, emergency preparedness. So I'm trying to stay pretty engaged over there. So let's see, and the last announcement before we start talking about honey, I have been tossing around an idea in my head, oh maybe a couple of now and I decided to press ahead with it. I still have a few things to flesh out about this, but I'm going to be starting some type of a membership service and it's based upon a CFA or a community supported agriculture farm model. Only this wouldn't be a CSA because I don't have a farm yet. But we're talking about herbal products instead, so this would be like a community supported verbalism instead. Now, if you don't know what a CSA is, this is where a farm sells shares. They don't sell the produce or whatever they raise, or they sell a share and this is much like a corporation sell shares to its shareholders, and the farm gets paid up front for the season, and the risk for good or bad weather or pests is shared among all of the shareholders. And this helps keep small farms viable. And you know, most of the paperwork for them is like handled one time and then the rest of the season they just get to concern themselves with actually you know, you know, being a farmer and producing you know, their produce, and you'd get you know, the shareholders then get the absolute preshest, you know, most local food they can possibly get. And we've had a share in a CSA for about seven years in addition to what I grow in the backyard, and it's consistently produced, you know, far more food for our money than we could have ever grown ourselves or because our backyard is quite small, or that we could ever have gotten from a grocery store. And it's far better quality than we could have gotten from the grocery store. So as far as an investment, like one would buy a share in a corporation, as far as an investment, this has paid out far greater dividends to us. There was only one year due to some very unaccommodating weather where the share was noticeably smaller every single week than it was on other years, but even still it was pretty comparable to what we would have, you know, paid if we had gone to a grocery store to buy everything. But it is far better quality than we would have gotten then, So you know, it's been I think, a very good investment. I also like the food security in it because it's local, you know, it's community supported herbalism. It's a little bit different. I grow many of my herbs you know, here at home. I don't have a farm yet. That's something that I hope to get struck, well, not hope to, it's something I will get started once we transition here from Massachusetts up to Maine, because we do have land up there that would certainly accommodate that. And you know, while I don't, I can't grow everything here though, so I do sometimes wildcraft, which is when you when you go out into you know, wilder places out in nature and you find the plants growing naturally, and you have to be very respectful when you do that, because if you're not careful, you can you can take too much. You can you not leave enough for other people to other or bullets to come or you know, other people who are coming out to forage and collect, you know, from the plants. And you know, you also want to make sure that you leave enough for the plant to continue to survive. For instance, if I were to harvest all of the flowers off of my elderberry bushes, then I won't have any elder berries when you know, when the time comes for collecting those. So you want to make sure that you you know that you also don't wild harvest dangered plants. Golden seal is one of them that is as horribly over wildcrafted. And let me see what's another one, flipp re elm. That's another one that is is a bit endangered from people over harvesting that in the wild. And if you get you know, ingredients like that, I think it's probably at probably more ethical to just purchase them from someone who's like if you can, instead of getting them wild crafted. When when you buy herbs, if you didn't know, they will tell you know, they'll they'll tell you whether they're cultivated or whether they're wildcrafted. And if they are cultivated, especially like if you buy something like organic golden seal or organic or I say flipperym uh yes, flipp re owm barks, then not only is the the organic label can only be put something that is cultivated. So this is being managed. It's not being over harvested, it's being is being preserved along with being harvested. So you know, this is not just going into an open area and just taking all that you can. It's someone who's managing, managing their their crop of this. So there are certain things that in this community supported verbalism program that I would put together that I would choose not to go wildcraft. And if I can't grow them, either do the space or restrictions in my on my property now or because they simply don't grow where I live. I mean, I use a lot of coconut oil in their products. Yeah, I'm not growing any coconut trees there in massive chusetts. That's just not something that we that we would be very good at here. So there's some there'll be some blend of purchase products, but I try to stay only to the organic products because I don't want the I don't want the chemicals to get in there. But whenever I can, I use stuff that I've grown myself or stuff that I've wildcrafted myself. So what I was thinking of doing is putting all this together and creating like a monthly share which would go out to a membership based and there be several different levels of participations based on time and amounts, and there'd be a special members only newsletter that would match up with the items in there, going into quite a bit of detail of, you know, of what these things can do. And you know, I realized that a lot of people may want to learn about herbs, and you know, they really like the idea of being able to recreate their own remedies at home. But if if you're like most preppers, you've got this really long list of skills that you're learning, and if you didn't grow up with all of this, you know, then as an as ault you're kind of I mean, I know, I'm not the only one out there that sort of feels like they are scrambling to learn tons of new skills, and you know, sometimes there are ones that you really want to learn how to do, and they keep getting put to the back burner because other things become more pressing. So I thought, well, maybe you know, I could just put together something already prepackaged. People could get accustomed to, you know, using them and get more familiar with verbal products and also to see, you know, the great variation of different types of usages and the remedies that are out there. So I thought that might be a nice bridge between someone who wants to learn about global remedies and how to make their own, how to grow their own medicines and how to make their own medicines, and actually doing it in that in between phase, because like I said, that list just keeps growing and growing and growing. And then there are some people who just would prefer to buy a product and you know, they get all the benefits of it, but they just really don't for whatever reason, are not interested in learning how to make it themselves. And that's fine, you know, I mean, there are some there's tasks that I have been meaning to get to with skills that I they're on my ever growing list that I want to get to that yeah, I haven't gotten there yet, And like making soap is one of them. It's on the list because I know it's something I need to know how to do. But I know a lot of soap makers. There's a lot of people who make their own homemade soap, and I have access to you know, several friends that do this professional and you know they market their their homemade dope and getting very high quality stilp is not difficult for me. So sometimes it's hard for me to justify taking the time away from something else to learn how to make stop. So it hasn't happened yet, and I'm sure that that's happening for some people with ourble remedies as well. So I'm thinking that this community supported bergalism model might work to help fill in that gap. So anyway, I just throw that out there, so be on the lookout for that. I'll probably be mentioning more of that in the coming week. So now getting onto honey, I am very fortunate in that my husband keeps theeves and about I want to say seven, Yeah, maybe eight years ago. No, seven, Well, it's been a while now. My husband was we were getting into need making, which is home growing, and we were making wine from honey and I came across an article on colony collapse disorder and I remember, you know, looking up at my husband and saying, oh, geez, we just started listing in this hobby. I hope that Honey's not going to become too expensive. This was, you know, where I was coming from at this point, and I hope Honey's not going to be too expensive. It, you know, we can't continue with it, and I don't know where He just looks up with me and said, you know what, I've always wanted to keep bees. And I'm thinking, are you out of your mind? I mean, you want to actively get involved with thousands of flying, singing insects. He's like yeah, I'm like, okay, all right, hood about for this. Let's try it. And I will tell you that this is I am someone who just had a lifelong phobia of flying stinging incense. I I this is, this is This was not an easy transition for me. This was not easy to get the guts up and go out there and participate in working on the hives with him. But I have to say from someone who was terrified so to the point of like hyperventilating, terrified of being around them, they they are. They're fascinating. And I'm so glad that, you know, my husband had this odd interest in in, you know, wanting to I certainly learned a lot about the bees themselves, and it's you know, definitely been a huge boon to my ergalism practice to have, you know, pretty much a never ending supply of honey. And I think that you know, the ability to produce honey if you're if you are preparing and your stockpiling, and you are increasing your independence, and I think that if you can keep these you should if you are not allergic, then I think it's a very valuable thing to do. I mean, just the barter value alone on the honey and the wax, well, I mean I could well I'm not going to talk about the wax today, but I'll I'll say about the wax is that I don't think I've ever smelled anything as as beautiful as as bees wax. It's just a it's when my husband starts putting frames together for the hive, I, you know, and he's in you know, there's one rum where he's putting to putting them together and there's all the wax foundation and he's putting the frames together. I have to go in there and just sort of sit there in the room and just take in that role. But it's just it's just deliciously sweet, and you know, the honey that comes from it is it really is a gift. I don't know of anything that is as good for a wounds or burns as honey. And I think that if we're looking at a future where you know, it was, if we can't rely on on the system that we have, they are well, we know they're vulnerable. And if we are you know, if we're aware that you know, civil unrest is something that is coming down the pipeline, if we're you know where there are going to be food shortages, and we're aware that you know, there are there are risks from MURSA out in the community. It's not just in hospitals anymore. This you know, community acquired MURSA and we know that there's you know, there is that we know that there are certain types of threats out there that would make haunting something that you know helps protect us. You know, certain types of injuries like burns and wounds and this. You know, these these skin infections. You know, this is very simple. Medicine is very powerful things. Honey is has been used for Honey has been used for wounds and burns as well as you know other applications. But those two specifically, I think are what's going to probably catch most preppers attention for thousands of years. I mean going back maybe as the earliest mentioned was on a Sumerian tablet, and so you know, it probably goes back before that. I don't think that you know, they discovered the healing properties of honey that day and then started choosing on a tablet. This was like four thousand years ago, so you know, we've been working with these for a long time. Honey has stood the test of time, as you know, for care and in wounds and in buns and what they what it does with wounds. When you pack a wound with honey, it prevents it prevents infection, It allows for healing from the inside out, and it helps it helps the tissues to heal in a in a much more natural way. It cuts down on the scarm and you know that that may be an issue for some people not an issue for others. But it's it's a humexant. It keeps things from drying out. It it's it does, it prevents, it prevents a deep wound from from turning into a bad day. And it's does the same thing for burns. It's amazing for burn and part of the reason why I think I started off this my online classes with the burnt here webinar burns. And I mean especially when it comes to sunburns. I mean, I know that people think of a sunburn, you know, you no big deal, the first degree burn. I've had some serious, serious burns from the sun. I have very very light skin, and I'm very photo sensitive and when I go out into the sun, I really have to be very careful and I can't be outside for very long without protection. And there was a time where I was I want to say about maybe eight Yeah, that's about that. That's about writing that ballpark. I went to the beach with some of my mother's cousins and they very different backgrounds. I'm adopted, they I'm their background is Portuguese and they were much darker than I am and they could stay the beach a lot longer than I could. They weren't really accustomed to how much protection I really needed, and I was severely burned. I mean severely like blistering burned. And you can get blistering burned from the sun. So when it comes to knowing remedies for what works for burns and what doesn't, trust me. This is my this is this is I know from personal experience how much they hurt and how much honey helps. If there's a remedy out there for a burn, I know what it is, and honey is just one of the best, and I really credit it for leaving me without tons of scarring from some of the buns that I've had. I think a lot of people are aware that honey is anti bacterial, and I know that someone's probably thinking this bacteria static. It's not antibacterial, it's bacteria static. And I think we're just sort of splitting the different I mean, it's a difference without a distinction really because ultimately, in the end, the bacteria is killed and that's what we're going for. So it is also anti allergenic, So if you've got seasonal allergies, it's another very common use that people you toney for. It is anti fungal, it's anti inflammatory, it's anti viral. It works very well as an expectorant. I've got more cock syrups and respiratory related syrups and you can shake a stick app. It does function as an immune stimulant, and it is a tonic, and a tonic means that it is supportive. It is it provides nutrition and support to the body. So it promotes feelings for wounds, moist wounds, pepticles, or bacterial gastroontitis. It is. It facilitates debreedment, which again for burnt care, this is something you know, this is a positive thing. If you have a severe burn and you know there's dead tissue, you need to know how to remove it, and. Honey it does help with that. I mean, if you don't remove that dead tissue, you're never going to be able to get that burn to heel. So you definitely want to have honey on hand for burncare. I'm going to tell you a little while how to not just have just the honey, but how to augment it for a really nice burn care remedy. You know, since I got the class on the mine anyway, and they as we'll share a little bit, a little bit of it with you guys here. It stimulates, it simulates skin and muscle regeneration, and it acts as a wound barrier, and it's hues and slain tissues. So it does also help because it's soothing some of the inflammation from a wound and from a burn. It does help with some of the pain management. And I mean you can put it directly on you know, a wound or a burn and then cover with a sterile bandage. You change the bandage a couple of times a day, but you you don't really need to wash out the honey. It's not I mean it's going to when you put it on the body, it is going to start to thin a little bit. It starts to it starts to get a little bit running, which is you know partly way has to put the bandages on. And it does rinse out very easily. But you know, it's it's not something that you have to worry too much about about going in and cleaning it all out every time you change a bandage. You don't have to sittle in there with that wound as much as you might if if you didn't have. You know, if you have something else that you are treating it with. It is used in the prevention and treatment of any type of any type of skin womb. It doesn't have to even be a deep would I mean, I know I'm focusing on deep blondes here, but for any little thing, for any little cut, any of any little abrasion of scrape. And don't discount how in a s HTF situation that you know, a very little cut could turn very seriously, very quickly, depending on if you know bacteria got in there. You can certainly have I believe it's lumpyingitis that will track up the arm and you know, ultimately that's that's a very toxic situation. You don't want to you don't want to have. That you can also use and I've known people who've done this, and you know it's it works very well, Honey, can be used to help if you if you've got diabetes, if you have an like an ulcer on the foot, nothing's healing it, honey, Honey, I've seen it happen too many times to ignore. Honey, You'll do the trick. I you know, I mean, diabetes is very common. If you ask around. You probably know someone who's that diabetes if they've ever had a wound that does not heal honey. That's the thing. It does an excellent job with with with that type of ulceration. It does let me see or I've got a whole list of things here. It does help with radiation burns, it does help with I mean, it does help with let me see abscesses, and if you have any bacteria on the skin, not just MRSA, but if you've got any type of a boil. And I know that people don't like want a boil if I'm not just talking about regular acting, although this does help for that. If you ever want the least expensive and most effective facial ever, instead of going to a spa, you can just put the honey directly on your skin, tell your hair back and you know, just put that on and let it sit on the skin for about twenty minutes and it will begin to warm up and get a little bit more. It'll it'll a little lose some of its thickness, but you wipe it off with a hot cloth. And because it's not only is antibacterial, but so also a hum ex and it's a wonderful treatment for the skin. But not only that. If you have ever seen a boil get out of control and these things can grow huge, and you can there is some danger with that being a very severe infection. You do have to get in there and drain it, and you then end up with an open wound. Lots of infected puss comes out. This is a wonderful application for honey. Put that on there after you've cleared it. Put that on there to prevent infection. But not only is it preventing infection in case there's any bacteria is still under the skin. This is the perfect application for honey. Something that I want to mention though, is about the difference between when people talk about herbal honey. There's two different things they might be talking about. Like, for instance, I'll give an example of lavender honey. This may be the result of a beekeeper taking their hives over to a lavender farm or whatever farm, whether it's a blueberry farm or wherever these varietal honeys and they are they've placed their bees in the middle of you know, acres and acres and acres of a single monocrop, and this is the only forage that the bees are going to have. And you know, this is a pollen that they collect, and therefore a pollen from these plants gets into the honey and will impart certain medicinal properties into the honey. Another way to get that is to infuse the honey. And what you would do then is you would fill up a jar with whatever plant material. And one of the things that I like to do a lot is I like to get rose petals and I like to induce rose petals into my honey. And I fill up a jar and I cover it and I cover, I fill excuse me, I fill the jar with rose petals and then I fill that with honey, and I let that sit anywhere from two to six weeks. You have to kind of go in there and check it and see if it's to see if it's at a strength that you like, and you know, don't just write off, you know, rose petals as you know the romantic thing, or or it just smells nice rose. Actually is this This makes a lovely pain relieving honey. It really does. It. It's got several effects. I mean when I give it's a very it has a very calming effect when taken internally, and when my daughter who's very picky about eating just about anything, and now she's becoming picky even when it comes to you know, mom home remedies. Here when I can give her a teaspoon of some rose infused honey, and not only will it help her source throat, but her whole demeanor will start to change and she becomes a bit more respective. And it has because it has an impact upon you know, many different systems of the body, and it will it does help to calm me down and relax to you. And it's I think a wonderful addition to Let's say, if you were making a bird care or a wound care honey, and you wanted to make an infused honey specifically for those purpose, and you could then infuse that honey not only with both petals, but you could infuse it with Saint John's wart flowers and Saint John's wart in honey for wound and burn care. This is a this is a very powerful combination. Saint John's wart also helps to heal from the inside out, whereas let's say, comfrey, which you know is wonderful in like a sab for like a scrape or something something that's really superficial that you just want to get the skin to you know, get a layer over real quickly to prevent infection from that. Comfrey is wonderful for that, but you don't want to use it on any kind of deep wound because it's probably going to heal on the outside first and you can have an infection inside well. Saint John's Wart's the opposite. It starts in the inside and it works its way out, just like honey does. But Saint John'swart also helps to heal the nerves and prevents nerves dam. It prevents nerve dam nerves. I don't like you say that nerve damage. It helps to heal any kind of injury to the nerve. If you've had a burn that's severe enough and you you know these third degree burns, but they get down to the actual nerves and you know, you'll find burn victims that they don't feel any of the pain. Well, it's because we've burnt the nerves. This is a wonderful application for Saint John's Wart to get in there and help to heal some of that nerve damage. So as they do begin to heal, that that sensation of feeling is going to come back and it's not going to be all that pleasant. But I think Saint John's ward in there is a really nice addition to honey. And when you do this, you have to use fresh Saint John's Wart flowers. This is this is not an application where you can use dried there there's actually very few applications for dried Saint John's Wart. It's really got to be fresh and if you're not growing it yourself, then you're probably not going to be able to make this. And they're very, very pretty flowers, and you know it's they have I'm probably going to do a whole show on you know what I think next week I'm gonna. Do a whole show on Saint John's work because I. Don't want to take up any more time now. Because it's such a wonderful and valuable medicinal plant that covers so many many applications. I want you to know a little bit more about it, but at least for our purposes right now, it's excellent to add into a honey. If you wanted to infuse a honey for deep boomed care or burn care. Let me see, there are several different ways that you can incorporate honey into into your herbal products. Here I'm just looking at I know here where I didn't put that down there? Well, all right. Some of them are syrups, which I think a lot of people are familiar with. But basically what you do is you take whatever herbs that you are. There's two ways that you can do syrups. But the one way that you can take all the different herbs that you want to get their properties into the syrup and you can put that on the stove and you can make a decoction. That's where you evaporate the liquid down to half of its volume. And I prefer to do a double decoction where you take that or introduced down the half and you I reduce it down to half again because for me it becomes too it's too much liquid in the syrup. I mean, it's technically a syrup, but it's not thick. It's not for me. A syrup has to have a little bit of body to it. That's that's what I expect in a syrup. So I do a double decoction and I take that liquid and I put it in my honey, and what I do is I get it off the stove. If I strain out everything and I wait before I add the honey for the temperature to come down. And I think this is where some people might you know, might not think about it, but you want your honey to be law. The stuff that at the grocery store that's not raw honey, And I don't know why they pasteurize it. It doesn't make it any safer. It doesn't eliminate the risk of botulism, because that's you know, it's there is a risk of botulism for children under one year old. They haven't developed their digestice system enough. But it's really any law food, you know, you shouldn't be giving to children without washing off, and you can't really wash off honey, so it's it's not to be used with children under one year. I've seen some people give a two year warning on that. I'm going to tell you right now that's only because they're trying to be super cautious and cover there. But legally it has really nothing to do with science. It's one year and younger. But I have seen that out there, and I've seen no evidence to suggest that that a two year old. You know, you have to be two years old before you can have honey, it's one year, but the raw honey is where all the magic is. Once you pasteurize it, you basically now have its dead product. And there are there are more end time in honey than I think probably any other food that I can think of, and we haven't even studied most of them. I mean, it's largely than unstudied. We have no clue what these things do. But when you hear people talk about, oh, well, you know I got rid of my seasonal allergies because of this, Well, that's also a very interesting thing. There's something very interesting that happens when you take the pollen from a plant and it's then goes through the process that the bees put it through to make honey. And when you take that honey that was made from and this is a trick. This is why sometimes it doesn't work and people say, oh, that doesn't work. Well, it's because when you take honey for analogy, you need to get honey that was made from the pollen that is the offending allergen. And this is why it can be very difficult to do with spring allergies unless you happen to know a beekeeper that doesn't mind pulling honey specifically for you to get that for your allergies at the time that you're experiencing them, because if you're experiencing them, the bees are collecting the pollen from that, which is why local honey is always the best for that kind of thing. Beyond the allergy thing, it doesn't necessarily need to be local, but it absolutely needs to be raw. And you don't want to be getting honey from China. You can look up online all about that. I'm not going to take up a whole lot of time here, but in a nutshell, the honey from China, it's not even honey. It's so disgusting it's and not all of that. If they filter out all of the pollen, it's technically no longer honey. But just just google that and you will never want to buy honey from a grocery store ever. Again. Oh fun fact about buying honey at a grocery store. If this might be something that you don't know. When I was looking up the labeling laws for what we had to have on our honey bottles when my husband was going to farmers' markets and we were selling honey, a little fun fact. If you have a food ingredient acould. If you have a food item that is a single ingredient item such as eggs or milk or honey, that doesn't really have a list of ingredients that goes with it. If it is an industry standard practice, that was a thing industry standard practice to add something to this same ingredient item doesn't have to be on the label. I blew my mind away when I'm like, what do you mean? It doesn't have to be in the label. If it's in the food, it's got to be on the label. No, it doesn't have to be on the label. If it's only a single ingredient item and the entire industry does it, you don't have to put it on the label. So, for instance, of the dairy industry, they can add powdered milk to their skim milk to turn it a better color and to give it a better mouthfeel, but they don't ever have to tell you that there's powdered milk in it. With honey, what is it's happening is people well resellers. A lot of the big major honey distributors in the less they will buy honey, but they will cut it down with other sweeteners so like corncer a, hy purpose cornser and ruling those what else, But they will cut it because those other sweeteners you can get for pennies per pounds, whereas honey is several dollars per pounds. So it's it's much to their advantage to be able to stretch their honey supply. So please seek out your local county bee keeping association. Every single county in the US has one, and contact done that. They should all have a website and just you know, send an email and ask if any of their members happened to sell locally. Or you can go to something like local harvest dot com and look for a local beekeeper that k or even better yet, you can you know, you can contact your beekeeping association and take a class on beekeeping and you can keep your own bees. And another fun story about bees and maybe you know some preppers might appreciate this for home security. One of the old time beekeepers nearby here, he was telling us a story about how he and his life were going away on vacation. There has been a rash of bird worries in his in his area, which is very unusual for his area. But it was going and they were very nervous about leaving to go on vacation. So what he did was he moved hives underneath, he shoot his windows and on his porch in the back and then on the front. And there were like about four or five houses all around him that were hit, but his house was was left alone. And I have to wonder if you know all those you know stinging these had you know something has something to do with that. So anyway, I always found that story entertaining. All the things that you can do with honey, however you can make. You can make them called. Oh my gosh, I'm already this far into the show here, did not realize how late this was. Oh Eluxtuaries are a pace that you can make by putting powdered herbs into the honey. There's really no measurements for this. You just kind of start working at it. You can all makes past fields if you don't put too much honey into the mix, which is basically powdered herbs with a little bit of honey to moisten this or any liquid actually, but you can I like doing it with honey and you can roll it up. Let me see, you can add honey to an herbal vinegar that you've made, and I usually do a fifty to fifty mix of that and that gives that gives something cold and ox female. And then you can also you can make elixirs from from your honey, where you instead of making a tincture with vodka, you can make it with brandy. It's a little less on the alcohol, but then you mix that also with honey, and you know, if you if you need to take a remedy that way, it's a very pleasant way to take a remedy, especially with like elderberries. Think that one is a very lovely one here. And I could talk about honey forever, and apparently I have, so we are really just about out of time, and I'm just gonna mention next week again. I'm gonna I'm gonna talk a little bit more about honey next week because I didn't get to all of what I wanted to talk about this week. But I'm also gonna talk about Saint John's wart next week. I really think that you need to know more about that plant. It's a wonderful plant to work with, and you really have to have it fresh. That's that's very important. So God, So I'm gonna be talking about next week and as I wrap up the show here, the statements made here have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. These statements are not intended to diagnose, treat, or cure or prevent any disease. Just notice is required by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. And if you like, go too far in connectedly by following me on Facebook, Twitter, or by subscribing to my blog, my YouTube channel, finally on Pinterest. 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