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Episode #117: Sina's Herbal First Aid Kit · Beyond Labels Premium

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  SPEAKER_00: Herbs and spices have actually been used by ancient cultures to heal the body, mind, and spirit for as long as we know, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it it harkens back to archaeologists say at least 60,000 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so as long as we have dated records, we know that they've been using herbs and spices in medicine.
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  SPEAKER_00: We know that the modern pharmaceutical industry, they recognize the power of herbals because 80% of the pharmaceuticals were developed from plants.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, 80% of them were developed from plants.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they know the power of herbal medicine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Currently, there is over a hundred thousand studies published in the scientific literature that actually demonstrates the ability of herbs and spices to combat both chronic diseases and acute illnesses.
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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome everyone to another episode of the Beyond Labels Podcast with yours truly, Joel Salatin, the farmer, and our favorite researcher, Dr.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cena McCullough.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today we're gonna uh dip into an interesting topic.
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  SPEAKER_01: A lot of people uh are ask about herbs and herb, you know, herbalism.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um, of course, Sina is a huge fan and and knows quite a bit of the science behind many of the herbs, but we don't hear in you know mainstream uh mainstream medical circles, we don't hear people extol the virtues of of herbs very much.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm gonna start with a with a personal story here.
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  SPEAKER_01: We uh uh back many, many years ago, I mean like like decades ago, um we had some friends that were at uh that had a uh motorboat on Smith Mountain Lake here in Virginia.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the kids were real little and they'd never been on a you know on a water boat, water skiing, or anything like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So uh we took a week, a long weekend and went down and of course, you know, um camped with them.
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  SPEAKER_01: They didn't have a house down here.
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  SPEAKER_01: We had a uh campground and uh common shower facilities and all that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh anyway, long story short, great weekend, came back from that and uh I got a planner's work in that from that uh from that common shower uh facility.
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  SPEAKER_01: At least that's the only thing I can figure.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um and so, you know, being a male and being stubborn, um, I didn't go to the doctor.
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  SPEAKER_01: I didn't, you know, this thing starts growing and growing and growing.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm here on the farm, I'm working, you know, I'm starting to limp, you know, this thing's getting as big as a golf ball almost, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm walking around um like I've only got one leg, and Teresa's complaining, you gotta go get this, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and we met right about that time a um a friend who was an herbalist.
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  SPEAKER_01: And she said, Um put put comfrey on it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, we had always grown comfrey here uh uh as a as a plant for rabbits and chickens and all sorts of things.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I went out to the Comfrey and I got a I got a nice big green leaf.
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  SPEAKER_01: I crumpled it up in my shoe, uh put my sock over it and uh crumpled up in my shoe and stepped on it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course, that you know, that squeezed it and and the juice came out in my foot.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um man, uh the second day I did that, my foot stung.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it stung like like you know, like you were putting uh whatever, you know, methylate on a on an open wound, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and I had this epiphany, wow, if it's stinging like that, it's probably doing some good, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I did it religiously and literally, literally, I'm not telling you, uh I mean, it it was like a miracle.
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  SPEAKER_01: In in in it wasn't overnight, but in it within 30 days, within 30 days, that entire it wasn't as big as a golf ball, but almost, it was huge, it was huge.
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  SPEAKER_01: That thing literally just fell out of my foot and new skin completely covered it and um and no problems, you know, ever since.
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  SPEAKER_01: But uh to that and I I've got I can share a couple other stories too, but you know, if you're listening to this and you're ah, you know, or you know, herbs, listen, listen, these herbs are they're powerful things.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and it's it's just um you know, we talk about uh uh societal uh bankruptcy and and and wealth and value.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let me tell you, one of the biggest bankruptcies in our culture is that we have marginalized herbs as a culture and um and are not uh appreciating or utilizing herbs in this kind of very practical way.
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  SPEAKER_01: So um I I am not an herbalist, but I love herbalists, and I want friends who are herbalists.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so um so I'm thrilled that that Sina knows a lot more about this than I do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh there are wonderful books.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, Amy Fuel has wrote written a great one.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, there's plenty of material out here.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so uh we're gonna do a quick dive today into Cena's um uh kind of herbal um uh first aid kit that she keeps at her house so we can all learn from her not from her wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh thanks, Joel.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's an amazing story.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and actually, we're gonna get to get it to in a few minutes, but one of my favorite herbs in my first aid kit is a combination of herbs that includes comfrey.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I was really excited to hear that you used it as well and it was successful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so let me start out by saying uh I know a lot of people that kind of doubt the power of herbs.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not sure that I ever doubted the power of herbs, but I just didn't know anything about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, I was raised in a house where we just used Western medicine, um, even, you know, like neosporin, even.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so not only pharmaceuticals, but first our first aid kit was a modern first aid kit.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, it had um, you know, the the aspirin, then like I said, the neosporin, the sprays when you got burns, you know, totally uh modern medicine.
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  SPEAKER_00: What I've learned.
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  SPEAKER_01: I I actually the the gauze is probably a good thing to have at a first aid kit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh we're not we're we're not suggesting that you, you know, that you uh throw the baby out with the bathwater here.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, if you've got a cut, uh you probably need a bandage.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, bandaging material is things like that in a first aid kit is probably a good thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, bandaging material is great, but I would say opt for the organic gauze and the organic cotton balls, and there's like organic bandages.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um so, yes, keep the bandages.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we'll get into all this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, let me start by saying that herbs and spices have actually been used by ancient cultures to heal the body, mind, and spirit for as long as we know, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it it harkens back to archaeologists say at least 60,000 years.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so as long as we have dated records, um, we know that they've been using herbs um as as medicine, herbs and spices of medicine.
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  SPEAKER_00: We know that modern pharmaceuticals, the farm, the modern pharmaceutical industry, they recognize the power of herbals because um 80 percent of the pharmaceuticals were developed from plants.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, 80% of them were developed from plants.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they know the power of herbal medicine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Currently, there is over 100,000 studies published in the scientific literature that actually demonstrates the ability of herbs and spices to combat both chronic diseases and acute illnesses, right?
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_00: So over a hundred thousand studies.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, in other words, what I'm saying is modern science has actually verified that God's medicine really does work.
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  SPEAKER_00: And today I'm gonna give you some examples of how it works just as well as modern medicine, or in some cases, even better than modern medicine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so first question is why would you want an herbal first aid kit?
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, so sometimes people want to move toward herbal first aid kits because shortages in um in the pharmaceutical industry and you know, the medical industry.
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  SPEAKER_00: We already know that um Pfizer has said that there's an antibiotic shortage and there's probably more of an antibiotics, antibiotic shortage to come.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are a lot of herbs that you can use as antibiotics.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, sometimes people opt for herbals because they react negatively to the man-made medications.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I am one of those people that even when my parents gave me man-made medicines, I reacted negatively to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um sometimes people need to move away from them because there are, for instance, a lot of corn-derived medications.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of corn fillers in medications, and sometimes people have gluten sensitivity and they can't consume those.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then some people, like me, also just don't want to consume synthetics, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Modern first aid kits usually consist of medications that are made from synthetic chemicals that are produced in a lab.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, for instance, um, in aspirin, the active ingredient in aspirin um is actually derived from benthene, which is a petroleum byproduct.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, propylene glycol is also derived from petroleum, and it is widely used in medications like capsules, tablets, topicals, so like creams and gels.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, even vaseline is usually made from crude oil.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, modern medicines that are in first aid kits also typically have artificial colorings and flavors.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're commonly added to pain medications, uh, as well as cold and cough syrups.
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  SPEAKER_00: Aspartame can be added to you know combat the bitter taste of different medications.
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  SPEAKER_00: Antimicrobials like benzoate are also added to extend shelf lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then there's preservatives, fillers, and binders that are also like listed as inactive ingredients.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a lot of those, you might be surprised to learn, or maybe not, that they're derived often from genetically modified corn or soy.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's a lot of ingredients in there that I just don't care to consume.
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  SPEAKER_00: So instead, I create my own natural herbal first aid kit using God's medicine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, the first the first remedy that I want to share is actually called People's Paste.
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  SPEAKER_00: And just so you know, this um this herbal first aid kit that I'm sharing today was part of a six-part series that I wrote for um Epoch Time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we're gonna include in the show notes links to each of those articles.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you don't have to take notes while I'm talking.
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  SPEAKER_00: All the recipes are in the articles, all the um scientific literature that I have referenced, it's all in the article.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the first one is people's paste.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love people's paste.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is actually um it's an herbal remedy that's been used by ancient cultures to stop bleeding, to disinfect wounds, to heal cuts and punctures.
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  SPEAKER_00: And actually, in an emergency situation, people's paste can be used instead of stitches.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, this is this is one of my coolest herb stories is that my one of my five dogs got into um a fight and his forearm, um, almost the entire arm was cut open, um, you know, like all along the forearm where the skin was hanging off the bone.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can like see the bone going into it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Luckily, it didn't cut through like an artery or a vein, but it cut all the way to the bone.
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  SPEAKER_00: The skin was just hanging down.
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  SPEAKER_00: And my husband was sure that I was gonna have to run that dog in and get the dog stitches.
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  SPEAKER_00: But instead, what I did was um I took people's paste.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you're watching the video, I'm trying to hold it up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's actually just a powder, it's like a golden color powder.
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  SPEAKER_00: And all I did was I took the powder and I packed it inside that cut, like just kept packing it and packing it until nothing was oozing out from it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, like basically until it was just all dry, I put a cone around the dog's neck so he didn't lick it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then throughout the day, every day for several days, I just came back and repacked the people's paste on it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So basically, just took the powder and put it on.
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  SPEAKER_01: Go ahead and did you wrap it?
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  SPEAKER_01: Did you wrap it so the so the skin would stay, you know, stay together?
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  SPEAKER_00: So originally when I first put it on, I did apply loose organic gauze around it.
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  SPEAKER_00: What happened was the wound kept oozing, and so it stuck to the gauze.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that next day I couldn't, I had to actually reopen the wound trying to get the gauze off.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, it was awful, my poor dog.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, anyhow, I I did not after that address it with gauze.
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  SPEAKER_00: I actually just kept packing on the paste throughout the day.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'd walk over there, and if I saw that it was wet at all from oozing, I would just put more paste on and I left it exposed to the air and then a cone on his head, so he couldn't lick it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I kid you not, Joel, in 30 days, the people's paste fell off.
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  SPEAKER_00: You couldn't tell at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was only like some hair was missing from that area where the skin was growing back together, and a little tiny red mark, which is now completely gone.
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  SPEAKER_00: But that happened in 30 days.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's the power of people's paste, is it actually healed from the inside out?
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  SPEAKER_00: It forms like a scab on top of that area.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, like an herbal scab, while your skin is doing its job trying to find it, uh form its own scab, it heals from the inside out.
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  SPEAKER_00: When it's ready to come off, like when the healing's done, it just falls right off, like a naturally made scab would do.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I'm telling you, 30 days, I didn't give him any antibiotics, nothing else, just using the people's paste, and it healed that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now he he goes on 45 minute walks every single day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like there's no residual you know issues whatsoever.
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  SPEAKER_01: So um, so so the so the people's paste works on canines too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, it works on dogs, it works on people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I've used it on a friend of mine who had whose stitches actually came out from the surgical procedure.
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  SPEAKER_00: We packed it in there and it worked wonderfully.
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  SPEAKER_00: No need for antibiotics or anything, it just healed where the stitches left off.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, yes, this is a fantastic um herbal remedy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'll tell you, people's paste is really just a combination of herbs, and there's a lot of different recipes for people's paste.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have my favorites, which includes golden seal, slippery elm bark, cum free, as you mentioned, and and myrrh.
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  SPEAKER_00: So those are my favorite for people's paste.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll give you um share a little bit of historical content because I found it interesting regarding slippery elm bark.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, slippery elm, um, it's actually a tree that's native to North America.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in traditional medicine, the inner bark was used to remedy wounds and also to remedy fever, cough, sore throat, digestive issues, hemorrhoids, and so forth.
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  SPEAKER_00: But so Native Americans they would mix that inner bark from twigs and branches, they'd mix it with water, and they would create a sticky material, um, the basically the mucilage.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then they would apply that topically to treat inflammation or traumatic skin conditions, cuts and wounds.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in fact, during the American Revolution, surgeons would actually use slippery elm bark to heal gunshot wounds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, isn't that amazing?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, look at what we've um look at what we've lost.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, all this knowledge.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I mean, gosh, you could heal a gunshot wound.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, this is this is incredible, incredible stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, there is science has backed this up in 2019.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was a study that concluded that slippery elm bark was an effective antibacterial even against um Streptococcus, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Streptococcus, Streptococcus is a major bacterial um cause of um sore throat or of pharyngitis.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it it's effective, it's an effective antibacterial, it has antioxidant properties in it.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's it's amazing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, you're talking about Comphrey.
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  SPEAKER_00: One reason why I add Comfrey to my pupils' taste is because um there was a study in 2012 showing that Comfrey actually repaired damaged tissues in rats by depositing new collagen.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it actually helped new collagen to form.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and the the researchers concluded in that study quote, this work clearly demonstrates that comfrey leaves have a wound healing activity.
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  SPEAKER_00: So science is backing up all of these things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'll just give one more example.
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  SPEAKER_00: Myrrr is another compound in that I use in people's paste.
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  SPEAKER_00: Most people are probably familiar with myrrh because it was one of the three gifts that the wise men gave to Jesus at his birth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there was good reason for that, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Myrrh um contains anti-inflammatory properties.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's also an analgesic, so it can help reduce pain, helps reduce swelling.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, it has antibacterial effects against staph.
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  SPEAKER_00: So think about all the staph infections we talk about.
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  SPEAKER_00: MERR in a 1992 study, they concluded that it is an effective antimicrobial against staph.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's actually in 2015, researchers said that MER is a good candidate for the preparation of natural therapeutic agents for wound management, um, and that it's comparable with the standard antibiotics of cyproflaxin and greasyl of fulvin.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you those two um standard antibiotic antibiotics that are given, they have been associated with things like sudden kidney infection, joint and muscle pain, muscle weakness, fever, confusion, being tired.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, myrrh doesn't have any of those side effects.
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  SPEAKER_00: But as these studies have showed, it is just as effective as an antimicrobial and antifungal agent.
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  SPEAKER_00: So pretty powerful stuff, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that is.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, number two.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so that's people pay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, number two, I think most people have probably heard of.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is one of my top remedies in my medicine cabinet, especially my herbal first aid kit, and it is turmeric.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: We've heard of turmeric like curcumin, you know, putting it in food.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, curcumin is an anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antiviral, antibacterial, and antifungal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Turmeric's been used safely in foods and medicine for at least 5,000 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's actually, you know, a lot of us think of man-made drugs as being more effective than God's medicine.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is the reason why I hear people say all the time, well, we shifted from herbal medicines into modern pharmaceuticals and modern drugs because the herbal medicines aren't as effective.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's actually not true in many cases.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in 20, uh, in 2009, there was a study published that concluded that the tumor extract was just as effective and safe as ibuprofen for treating osteoarthritis.
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  SPEAKER_00: So uh, and that was backed by a study, a second study in 2014, that concluded that it's just as effective and it didn't have the side effects, including um the ibuprofen side effects would be abdominal pain and discomfort, and it didn't actually have those side effects.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_00: Also, it's superior to ibuprofen because if you've ever read the ingredient label, like most of us don't actually read the ingredient labels of you know the medicine medications that we take, but I encourage you to do it and don't skip at the bottom where it says inactive ingredients, okay?
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_00: And in an inactive ingredient for ibuprofen is often um polysorbate 80.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_00: It could also include polyethylene glycol, right?
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_00: Another petroleum-based compound, also titanium dioxide, iron oxide yellow, iron oxide red, cornstarch, and sometimes it even includes white ink, you know, for the little writing that they put on the pill.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you get all of those man-made ingredients alongside your ibuprofen, or you can just take organic turmeric, like a whole food turmeric supplement, and give all those man-made ingredients.
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  SPEAKER_00: And like I just said, it's just as effective.
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  SPEAKER_00: So turmeric can be used for many different remedies, which is or many different conditions, which is one benefit of having an herbal first aid kit, is that one herbal remedy has many applications for many illnesses.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so it's a it's a good return on your investment.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, for instance, turmeric has been shown through scientific studies to be useful for headache, reducing pain, reducing fever, reducing swelling as an insect repellent, um, a relief from itching, um, relief from digestive issues, um, also from gas if you're having chronic gas problems, um, faster healing of skin wounds, including cuts, scrapes, and bruises, and faster recoveries from coughs and sore throat, and also exercise induced muscle damage.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and So, one thing I like about turmeric as well is there's different ways you can take it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, there's turmeric capsules, and you you can buy an organic brand if you want, and or you can make your own.
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  SPEAKER_00: But also, what I like is I make these turmeric tinctures, and this is very cost-effective.
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  SPEAKER_00: You just get the turmeric root yourself, like at a grocery store, make sure it's organic.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, you you put it in whatever kind of alcohol extract you want.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I use a sugar cane-based organic extract, so there's no grain derivatives in it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the tincture is fantastic, especially if you have somebody who can't swallow pills.
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  SPEAKER_00: So maybe a child or like an elderly individual, um, and you basically just stick it under the tongue and let it absorb and then swallow it, you know, after about 30 seconds or a minute.
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  SPEAKER_00: Before we move on, I do want to say you must always look at the at the back of each of my articles has um a list of contraindications.
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  SPEAKER_00: So each herbal medication or each herbal, sorry, each herbal remedy has its own contraindication.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that speaks volumes to the efficacy of herbs, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So for turmeric, for instance, if you're consuming blood thinners, you do not want to consume turmeric because turmeric is a potent blood thinner, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So again, this is showing how effective these medications are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, a real quick story on that one.
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  SPEAKER_00: I actually, um, my mother was on blood thinners, and we were giving her turmeric to help manage the inflammation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the doctors were not scaling back on her um her blood thinning medication.
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  unknown: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so she actually started to bleed from her eyes, like you know, from the little capillary in her eyes.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_00: So we were actually able to get her off all the blood thinning medication and just replace it with the turmeric until you know the body healed itself and then she didn't need any kind of help with thinning the blood.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_00: But that's another example of how powerful these medications are.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_00: But so always look for the contraindications to make sure it's okay for you to take those.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um, are you ready for the next one?
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yep, number three.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_01: Number three.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so let's let's go to um plantain.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_00: Plantain is one of my favorite herbs.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I have it here.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_00: If you're watching the video, it's like it's a salve.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of mine's gone.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_00: I use it every day.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I make this plantain salve and it works wonders.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um, my first experience with plantain was actually when my son was stung by um a wasp.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_00: And if you if you've ever been stung by wasps, you know how painful that is.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_00: So he he was basically inconsolable.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_00: He's just crying.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_00: He was very young at the time, just crying and um, and so I looked around the yard and I found some plantain.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_00: Now, this is not the banana-like fruit found in the grocery store, right?
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_00: We think of that with plantain, and you could fry up those banana plantains.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: This is not that type of um of plant.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_00: The plantain I'm talking about is a perennial herb.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_00: We often identify it as a weed growing in backyards and lawns and along driveways and whatnot.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but it's in almost every part of the world.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_00: And if you don't spray your yard, you probably will get some plantain growing in it.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_00: So when my son was sung by the wasp, I looked around the yard for plantain and found some.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_00: And I chewed it up in my mouth um to turn it into a poultice.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_00: And it was very, very bitter.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like I told my son later, this is how much I love you because I chewed that and didn't vomit.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like it was so bitter.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_00: But so, anyway, I chewed it up and I packed the poulti on where he was stung.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_00: I kid you not, Joel, in like 30 seconds, he stopped crying because it can actually pull out like venom and toxins from the body.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_00: It can even pull out when there's like a snake bite, uh, right, and there's venom, it can pull the toxins out of the body.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_00: He never had a problem then.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_00: The the swelling went down like almost instantaneously, and it was just healed.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_00: You know, by the end of the day, you couldn't even really tell.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_00: There was like a little tiny puncture mark, but the rest of it was just gone.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's it's incredible.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_00: If you are gonna do that, I recommend, if possible, chew it with your own saliva.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_00: So the body, you are your own pharmacy, and God designed us that way.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_00: So if you could chew it with your own saliva, your body is already making compounds in your saliva that can help to combat um the trauma from that wound.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_00: And so then you get it on the poultis and then you stick it on that wound, and it can be absorbed into the skin to have it a greater effect.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, uh plant we have a lot of plantain in our in our fields, um, in our pastures, and that the cows eat.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_01: And uh it's it's a it's a an incredible uh blood cleanser.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_01: Um and and detoxicant for anything.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_01: And so uh so that's part of that, you know, that diversified, that diversified pasture sward uh includes both wide leaf and narrow leaf uh plantain, and cows love it.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_01: Um I mean they just eat it, they they they they'll they'll go they'll seek it out actually, especially, especially in the spring after they've gone through the winter and their body's looking for you know for some cleansing.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it they they'll seek out the plantain in the spring.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_00: Isn't that remarkable?
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_00: Just the wisdom that animals still have, like they have that instinct.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, my dogs do the same thing.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_00: When they go out, they'll eat, they'll forage out there and just eat what they need, you know.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't I didn't know this until later in my healing journey.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_00: But we think that uh our ancient ancestors they didn't just use these herbal remedies for illnesses, they consumed herbs like on a on a daily basis when they could get them, you know, as like a preventative, you know, like they weren't just eating calories, they were using preventative medicine, like in a much more effective way than we do today.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_01: Well, and I mean the Jewish the Jewish Passover feast, part of the one of the courses is bitter herbs.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_00: Courses.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: That's amazing.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_00: That's amazing.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_00: See, there's so much we can learn from all of these, you know, different cultures and from the animals themselves, and just from observing them, you know.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_00: When my dogs go out and they start eating something, then I actually grab it, like forage it for myself and make it into things, even if it's just throwing the plantain on my salad or throwing the dandelion leaves on my salad, you know.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_00: But I figure, well, they know something, right?
• 28:59
  unknown: Right, right.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_01: Because they're they're not they're not what they're not watching TV.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_01: So they yeah.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_00: Or outsourcing their power to experts, right?
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_01: Right, right.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, how about number number four?
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_01: You ready for number four?
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, sure.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, and and there's some cool historical comments about plantain, but um, we'll move on to the next one, and you can read those in um in the articles again.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_00: I'll link to those.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, okay, so let's move on to another one of my favorites, frankincense.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, another one that most of us have probably heard of because it was also a gift given to Jesus.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_00: We call frankincense the king of essential oils.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's been it's highly revered in Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_00: It's been used since antiquity.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's in um modern science has actually confirmed that it has numerous healing properties.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_00: So, again, another example of as soon as you master one herb, you can apply it to many different condition conditions, including um, so here's a list from um modern science.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_00: It um it fights cancer, diabetes, arthritis, it's an anti-inflammatory, it reduces stress, it's an antidepressant, it um modulates the immune system, so basically helps rebalance it.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, an antimicrobial, antifungal, it's an analgesic, so it helps with pain.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_00: And it's a neuroprotectant and has memory enhancer abilities.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_00: So it's quite remarkable in the array of things that it can do.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's no wonder the wise man gave it to Jesus, right?
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so a couple of examples of how I use it.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_00: If I ever have um like sore muscles or joint pain, instead of reaching for like a bengay, aspirin, a leave, or a motorin, I reach for frankincense.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_00: It does reduce pain, it does reduce swelling.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's actually um has it doesn't have any of the synthetic ingredients that any of those other man-made um uh remedies contain.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um and it's it's so easy to use.
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_00: Like you can even just smell it.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you can use it for aromatherapy, you can apply it neat, which means you don't have to dilute it.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_00: So if you have a sore muscle, you can just apply it right on onto the muscle.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's it's it's fantastic.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, if you have scrapes or cuts, you can also use it to treat an effective wound because it has antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_00: So you can use it instead of neosporin, for instance.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you you can also use the plantain sap for that.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but it's it is a remarkable, remarkable uh herb.
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_00: You can even use it, and this is one of the recipes I have in here, you can use it as a mouthwash.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_00: There is actually a study reported uh reporting that frankincense contains compounds that can kill, quote, oral cavity pathogens, and that frankincense can be used as a mouthwash for preventing and treating oral infections.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_00: So it's it's remarkable what you can do with it.
• 32:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I would suggest in general, if you are sourcing these oils, always choose organic oils and always make sure that they've been tested for like heavy metals, for instance, um, because that is quite it's becoming quite common as we're finding adulterated essential oils.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so that's frankincense.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_00: Do we have time to do one more?
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_01: We do, yes.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, yay.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so um, I'm gonna skip over peppermint.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um that one you can you can find in the the series that we're gonna post.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna skip over it to go to one that Joel is also very familiar with, and that is my aloe vera plant.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I cannot go, I can't live without my aloe plant.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_00: Did you know when we moved um from Virginia to Georgia?
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we had to pay for our own move.
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_00: So we donated lots of stuff.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_00: And I have this huge aloe plant.
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_00: It takes up like an entire car seat.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_00: And Donnie was like, we're gonna have to leave that thing here.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, Are you kidding me?
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_00: I've had that thing for 10 years, like it's my buddy.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_00: And so I refused.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_00: I donated other stuff and it got its own car seat on the truck over here.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_00: That's how much I love my aloe, right?
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_00: So aloe is amazing.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, in Mesopotamia, there's actually clay tablets dating back to 1750 BCE that revealed that aloe vera was used as medicine way back then.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_00: The Egyptians actually referred to aloe as the quote, plant of immortality, right?
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_00: The the Egyptian queens, Nephratiti and Cleopatra, they used it as part of their daily routine, uh, like they did a daily umbuter routine.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_00: The Greeks hailed aloe as a the universal panshea.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_00: They said that it could be treat uh used as a treatment for wounds, infections, chapping, hair loss, and even hemorrhoids.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it was later used to treat wounds of soldiers.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um, Alexander the Great and Christopher Columbus used it to treat the wounds of soldiers.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and today there's so many scientific studies out there showing that it can help with um getting rid of tumors, reducing inflammation, it has an anti-aging effect, um, an antiseptic effect, anti-diabetic effect, and the list goes on and on and on.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's used not only for sunburns, but for thermal burns.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_00: So the American Academy of Dermatology, they stated that the standard treatment for a first degree burned is to apply petroleum jelly and then cover it with a sterile bandage.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_00: But aloe is actually a better choice, we're finding out, and science has demonstrated this.
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_00: Aloe actually contains um glucomanin and gibberellin.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_00: Say that one three times, right?
• 35:09
  SPEAKER_00: And so it actually um increases the production of collagen, right?
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_00: It does that by stimulating the activity and proliferation of fibroblast um growth receptors.
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it accelerated wound healing, it increased it actually improves the strength of the scar tissue and the collagen composition.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_00: And actually in 1995, there was a study comparing aloe vera and Vaseline, and the researchers concluded that aloe um the treated the lesions um faster, so they healed faster than the Vaseline gauze area.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_00: So they healed the wounds in less than 12 days, and the Vaseline took 18 days.
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_00: They they said that it stimulated rapid growth that was not seen in the Vaseline Gauss-treated area.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, and then there's there's more studies in the article I go on to explain, but isn't it just remarkable?
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's like most of us don't even know that these things exist.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we just we just go to the drugstore and get what's there because that's what people do.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_00: And and I'm not judging, I did the same thing for a long time.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_00: That's all I knew.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_00: But what I'm saying is this is one reason why I I love having this podcast with you, is because we have an opportunity to possibly expose people to something that they wouldn't get someplace else, you know, as long as we're not censored on this on this issue.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and and and this stuff, uh all these things that you've said, you can make it yourself or you can purchase, you can purchase these.
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_01: They're certainly uh available to purchase, come to your doorstep.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_01: And I I think that the takeaway from this, um, for me, Cena, we're we're out of time, but the takeaway for me is uh to actually uh intentionally design these things for yourself rather than just assuming that Walgreens or or CBS you know has has the latest greatest.
• 36:58
  SPEAKER_01: Actually, the latest greatest is back to yesterday.
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_01: And uh and some of that is the latest greatest.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
• 37:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I mean you summed it up very well.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_00: I would say take it step by step, right?
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_00: Take one herbal at a time, because like I said, one herbal has many applications.
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_00: So when you learn one, you're gonna be able to heal many different ailments.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_00: So take a step by step.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_00: And for me, I just trust God's medicine more than I do man's medicine.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_00: And for me, it's as simple as that.
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_01: Well, that's fair enough, and probably the best word to end on.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_01: So thank you all for joining us on another Beyond Labels podcast, and we look forward to visiting with you again next week.