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#015 - The HEALING Secrets of Indigenous Medicinal Plants 🌿✨ · Beyond Sovereignty

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Did you know that most contraceptive pills actually have an
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ingredient structure from kangaroo apple? What?! Everybody
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knows about tea tree because it's freaking amazing. Tea tree leaves are
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literally used not only for ceremony and to enhance our
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own spiritual growth and well-being, but also for its antimicrobial and
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anti-inflammatory properties by our Indigenous Australians. The
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Kwandong. They are what you need if you've got cancer. In
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order to use it, I would highly recommend putting into-
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instead of using normal pharmaceutical contraceptives, you
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should try this natural contraceptive that is really
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good for your body. Welcome Wisdom Keepers, Soul
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Tribe and New Earth Leaders to Soul Temple, your haven
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for self-discovery and growth. I'm Blythe Langford and
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I am your guide to finding yourself and your true, true,
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true, true, true purpose. Together, let's shift from
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feeling stuck and misaligned to living a life of purpose
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and prosperity. So
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do you get sick regularly? Do you get a flu every time the season changes?
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What common things pop up for you? Because I'd
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like you for a second to consider that the
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people that you get your information from and your medication and all
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of those things are potentially the ones that are keeping you
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sick. Is it health care or
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illness care? I don't know. Just something that I came to realise after
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I got cancer a few years ago and changed
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my diet and lifestyle and studied naturopathic nutrition and
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never got sick again. Never. Like, not once.
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So today's episode is going to be about exploring the world of medicinal
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plants, but not just any medicinal plants, medicinal
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plants that are indigenous to Australia. Because this
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is something that I'm really passionate about is bringing back as much native
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wisdom as possible and the more people that get it out there, the
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better. Because I'm here on a beautiful property and literally
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see these foods just going to waste and
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people walking past them and not knowing what they are. So I want to bring
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some awareness for you so that you can really tune into traditional
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wisdom and traditional medicines. Today we
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are going to uncover the profound secrets behind these natural
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remedies that have sustained people's health and well-being for generations.
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Like I'm talking the Indigenous have been around for 60,000 years
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minimum. So why wouldn't we
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get health care advice from them rather than pharmaceutical companies
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that have been around for a few hundred years? So Like
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I've mentioned before, I overcame cancer when
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I was 27 and I have become obsessed,
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literally obsessed with caring for my body,
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leading me to become a naturopathic nutritionist and among other many,
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many, probably 20 other healing modalities. Now, naturopathic
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nutrition is different to other modalities because we don't
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use supplements. We use diet and lifestyle. for
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healing. That's why I love exploring ancestral secrets
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that can literally empower you to enhance your health and well-being. And
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here are some of them for you to start to try and look out for. Kakadu
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plum. It's also known as Gabinj. I
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think I'm saying it right. I always think I'm saying it wrong. But
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I say Gabinj. I don't know. But it is literally
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Mother Earth's anti-ager. It's an antiseptic. It's
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an antioxidant. It's an anti-inflammatory. It is renowned for
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its exceptionally high levels of vitamin C. Like,
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I'm talking the highest vitamin C potentially on the planet. 50 times.
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And vitamin C is what cures cancer. Vitamin C
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has been known to cure cancer. Yes, trigger
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warning for saying cure, but vitamin C
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has helped millions, if not billions of
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people cure cancer, resolve their
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cancer. It's also fantastic for
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reducing fine lines and wrinkles. It's a skin brightener.
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People, like I know in Asia, it's huge for people for
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brightening their skin. This amazing staple in the indigenous diet
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in Australia literally is for that. Remember,
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all disease comes from inflammation and this one
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ingredient The Kakadu plum can literally reduce inflammation,
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and if there is no inflammation, then the disease can't follow. But
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it's an anti-ager. So what that means is it can reverse age
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you. And don't you want that? Of course, everybody
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wants that. Everybody wants to be able to reverse age. and
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this is what Gabinge does. If you want to know a little bit
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more in-depth about it, it's got these beautiful acids
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in it, right? Of gallic and e-alligallic, something
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like that, I can't say the words, acids, which
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are used to repair damaged skin and reduce collagen breakdown. So
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if we're reducing collagen breakdown, we're literally creating this defense
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force within us that literally plumps up the
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skin And that's legit what Botox and
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fillers are for. So if you can get that from a
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plum, rather than having to inject your
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third eye with Botox, oh my gosh, amazing. And
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it also reduces sun damage. So if you've got
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blemishes or you're prone to skin conditions like psoriasis and
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eczema as well, it is amazing for
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helping to heal that internally. The acids and
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the vitamin C within there are amazing. And there's also
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compounds in there that reduce skin's inflammatory response
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to ultraviolet light. So when the sun's coming down, it literally
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is like a sun cream, right? It literally creates like a
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sun cream barrier so that you don't have your skin burned. Because
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as people, we're not supposed to be burned from the sun. The sun is
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our fuel source. It's our life force. It's our energy, right?
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So we should, as beings of this earth,
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be able to stand under the sun and be okay with its ultraviolet light.
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So this ingredient will internally create the
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body necessary to stand in the sun for
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periods of time. So this, oh my gosh, next
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level, Kakadu plum, antiseptic as well. It's amazing for
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bites and sores. It was originally used for colds and
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flus and headaches. because it has 13 times more
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antioxidants than blueberries. And blueberries are known for the
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ones that go in and clear out all the free radicals in our body. But
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that's exactly what the kakadu plum can do. It's also
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super high in vitamin E. And this vitamin E is what improves
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your blood. It's amazing for hair
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growth. It's amazing to prevent hair loss.
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It rejuvenates the hair follicle and stops it being damaged,
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and it can really improve breakage. So if you're known for hair breakage
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or hair loss, fantastic ingredient. Now,
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I would love to share with you how to prepare this. Guess
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what? Yes, of course, eating raw is best because obviously
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I'm a raw vegan. I love everything raw. But if you can't get
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it raw, then powders obviously are going to be the next best thing.
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But with your powders, ask the company, ask
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the brand. If you're in a shop and you've got different brands there, ring them
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straight away and be like, hey, is your product dehydrated or is it heat treated?
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Because dehydrated is always going to be best because then it
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is more alive and active. And how can you
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use it? Pop it in your smoothie. Pop it in some warm water to
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soften it. Blend it up with some medjool dates or
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eat it just as it is. It depends on what your palate can handle. But
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for me, you could literally just put it in your food processor with some dates and
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then just pop them into little balls and that can create like little
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sweet bliss balls. Add some carob powder or if you like
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chocolate, add some cacao powder and then you've got chocolate balls. Chocolate
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balls. Everybody wants chocolate balls. It's so good. Yum. Yum.
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Now, the next one we want to talk about is tea tree. Everybody knows about tea tree
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because it's freaking amazing. But these tea tree
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leaves are literally used not only for ceremony and
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to enhance our own spiritual growth and well-being, but also for
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its antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties by
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our Indigenous Australians. Traditionally used
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as an oil because it is actually toxic
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to ingest. So we want to make sure that we're using it as a
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germ killer, an antiseptic that's like a herbal medicine. It's
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literally anything that we can use on the external part of our body. So
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it's great for acne. Really, really great
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for acne because it helps to reduce the bacterial and
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any fungal infections. So it's great for fungus. It's great for toenail fungus.
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It's great for cuts and mites. And it's also great for the
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base of the eyelids where potentially there is any
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infections that are coming in or for insect bites as well. And it's also really
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great if you mix this with citronella and
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water, you can use it, only a little bit of water, you can use it as a spray on
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you that's topical for an insect repellent. So it's absolutely
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amazing. Now, it's also amazing for
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your white blood cells and it helps your white blood
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cells fight off germs and other hidden invaders. So it
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is fantastic. It's
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also been used predominantly by Indigenous
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cultures for shelter and fiber and tools and food and
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making things like canoes. So with
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this understanding, it could be used for so many different things
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that we use, plastic or fiberglass or all
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of these things that don't break down really easily. It's really sustainable, eco-friendly,
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grows really well. So it's something that we could use and take a
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note out of the Indigenous book for this. A really great thing that
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you can use tea tree oil for is a mouthwash. It's amazing
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on gingivitis because gingivitis is an inflammatory response in
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the mouth. So what you can do to prepare your mouthwash is you get
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a really nice organic tea tree or you can get some organic
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tea tree leaves and then mix them with a cup of warm water, swish it
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through your mouth thoroughly for 30 seconds or so and then spit it out and then it can really
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help to aid bacteria of the mouth as well. And
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unlike other mouthwashes, it's not toxic. So it's literally
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so good, but you just got to make sure you don't swallow it. So make sure you rinse your mouth out
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with water afterwards because it can be toxic if it's ingested in
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the body, but in the mouth center itself is really well. Let's
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go to emu bush. It is one of the most important
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plants to the Australian native people in Central
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Australia. So it's been used in ceremonies, and
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what they would do is line the graves with it. It's been used
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in tanning water bags. It's also been used to place in
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the warriors' headbands before they do anything, and for initiations
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as well. It's a beautiful ceremonial plant. Now
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what they would do is they would crush the leaves, make an infusion with
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water, and when it was drunk, it would be really beautiful for colds
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and flus, and it would also be rubbed all over the body for sores or
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any achy parts. because of its anti-inflammatory and
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it's got this natural painkiller in it and it's cardiac
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properties. So it's next
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level for the lungs, right? And remember, your lungs are your life force,
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like literally your life force. Nothing else can exist without your lungs.
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So it is amazing for everything. Far out.
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It's literally a superfood, right? So washing, we
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use it for washing our saws, for using it for cuts and for gargling due
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to its antiseptic and antimicrobial properties. It's
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also really great with sleep. So if you're having sleeping
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issues, then please get some emu bush growing
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in your garden or on your balcony. It'll have a
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beautiful calming effect. So great for anxiety as well. It
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helps with the immune system to really strengthen the immune
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system and for overall health. Now,
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in order to use it, I would highly recommend putting
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into smoothies because yes, you can have this one raw or
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you can use it as a savory addition to a sauce. So you could literally
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have a smoothie that's pineapples, pears, I put
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some comfrey and then some emu bush. amazing with some water. So,
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so yummy. Or if you were making a sauce, like making a tomato
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sauce, you could literally use cherry tomatoes, tomatoes, some medjool
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dates, and then pop some of this in there as well with some Italian herbs
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and salt. So yummy. And then you've got literally a sauce that you can use
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for the week. Now, it can also be used in baked goods and
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jams and chutneys. But remember, whenever you heat treat anything,
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then it loses some of its nutritional value. That's why I'm a
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raw vegan. That's why I highly recommend it. And if you wanted to make a
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jam out of it, you don't need to boil it and put it with sugar. Literally,
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a jam could just be put into your food processor with
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some medjool dates and some lemon, and that's it. You've got a jam. So
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easy. Or if you want to make it a chutney, medjool dates, lemon, maybe put
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some curry powder and some salt. So yummy delicious
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and chilly it's the best or you can use the emu bush as
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a tea so put it the flowers or the leaves in some hot
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water for approximately 10 minutes and that'll create a beautiful infusion
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or poultice. Now a poultice is also something that can be put on
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the body externally that really helps to heal. So let's say you
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make your infusion and then you strain out the water and
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then you put it on the body wherever there is pain, inflammation or
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dis-ease and then you put some bandage around it and then leave it
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on there overnight and then replace it every day. It's a beautiful way
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for external healing. Now the kwandong.
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Now you might've seen these trees around. They're like these beautiful little
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purple berries, purpley blue berries, like a scarlet color. Now
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this Australian fruit, it's really high in vitamin E and
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vitamin E is that one that really protects our skin and stops with
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the wrinkles. It plumps up the skin. It's a fullness. It's like Botox and
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fillers all in one. It's amazing. And also really great at
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organ repair. It's got folate, which is fantastic for
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people that want to have babies. or that have children as
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well. But especially if you want to fall pregnant and you're struggling, then folate is
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amazing. And this ingredient, especially in its
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raw organic form, is amazing. And if you can't get it raw and organic, that's
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okay. Just get the powder. And then magnesium. Now,
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everybody's magnesium deficient. Every food is magnesium deficient, except
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for this guy. And magnesium is responsible for 480 enzyme
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reactions in our brain. Wow,
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that's a lot. When I first found this out like 12 years
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ago, maybe no, 15 years ago, I started having magnesium chloride
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every day so that I would have those enzyme reactions
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in my brain. Because can you imagine if you weren't having 450 enzyme
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reactions in your brain, then does that mean your brain's going into detrophy?
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I wondered that. I don't know. So I just started having way more magnesium. So
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this is one way that you can have way more magnesium. It's absolutely amazing.
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It's high in calcium. Oh my gosh, we all want stronger bones, don't we? Yes.
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Really high in calcium. This ingredient is
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super beneficial to everybody, no matter what
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diet you have. If you're vegetarian or vegan, it's
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also an amazing source of iron and zinc. Now,
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everybody needs zinc. That was the one thing that Q
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and COVID, right? So everybody needs more zinc
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in their body. The structure of antioxidants
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that really boost the immune system and reduce the inflammation and
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protect you against cancer and cardiovascular disease and
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Alzheimer's are next level from this food.
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Because these dark colored foods that we can have in
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their natural organic states far out. They just
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do these crazy things to the body. They literally just go
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away. They literally just find disease and
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just freaking eat it. They're literally like a cancer to
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cancer. They are like what you need if
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you've got cancer. literally having these
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things as much as possible really, really work well. And they're wild, they
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grow everywhere. You've probably seen them everywhere and not known how
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valuable they are as a resource to help
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with lung conditions and cardiovascular problems.
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So if you're prone to heart attacks, your genetics, you
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know I don't love genetics, but your genetics say that you've got heart attacks in
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your family, then this is something that you could include in
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your diet and it could literally help you prevent but
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not only prevent, but start to clear your arteries and start
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to strengthen your cardiovascular, start
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to allow you to be able to start running
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at a later age in your life, get healthier, do all the things that
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you want to do. Now, let's talk about preparation for
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this one, because like the other You can make a jam out of it,
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you guessed it, with a medjool date. So simple. Medjool
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dates, oh my gosh, they are amazing. Or with mulberries,
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dried white mulberries. That's really yummy. I love that. So you could literally
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chuck into your food processor some dried white mulberries. If you like
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cacao or I don't like caffeine, so I
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put in carob. So I put in my medjool dates or mulberries,
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some carob powder and these guys, and then just blend it all
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up for like 10 seconds and then I
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can make bliss balls out of it. Or if you put it into flat
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little like cookie sort of shapes, you can make cookies out of it as well
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if you want to bake and do that. But remember, you'll lose some of the amazingness in
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them, but you could put them in a dehydrator like I do. Or
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if you've got like a new fancy oven, like I do, then
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it will actually dehydrate for you as well. So as long as it's under 50 degrees,
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then it's dehydrated. So all of the life force and energy is still in
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there. Now with all the
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Australian indigenous plants, they can either go sweet
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or savory. So you could literally make a relish out of it
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as well or pickles or a sauerkraut out
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of it as well. So you could put it into a jar with some salt
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water, some delicious herbs and garlic and onion and chili,
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whatever you like, and maybe some traditional tomatoes
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as well. and pop them in there and that will be amazing as
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a relish or a sauerkraut or something like
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that. But of course you can make your jam out of it. You guessed it, with medjool dates
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and lemon, that's all it takes. It's amazing. Or add it to your smoothies,
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anything. And also it's really beautiful as
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a tea as well. Just a tea with some honey. Then what's also
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really great is the nuts. eat the nuts because they are really,
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really great for you. You can have them roasted or raw. You
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can also crush them all up. You can put them in a food processor or
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a blender with a bit of water. It is like epic hair conditioner,
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right? Like the nutritional content and the oiliness and the
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beauty of the nut can just be like so good as a hair deep
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treatment. So you get to use the whole thing. It's really, really beautiful. So
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do not forget that this is what we use for cardiovascular, for
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Alzheimer's, for inflammation, for cancer prevention, or
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for cancer healing. It's really, really great for
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that. Now the next one. This
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is fascinating. Kangaroo apples are
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nature's contraception. What? Contraception
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is natural? Did you know that most contraceptive pills actually have
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an ingredient structure from kangaroo apple? What?
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It's fascinating. I did not know this. Until
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I started looking into this, I was like, oh my gosh, this is amazing. Of course they would have a
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natural conception. This is what the traditional women, the
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Indigenous women of Australia would do. They would drink the
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unripe, boiled fruit and that would
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act as a contraceptive. Oh my gosh. Of course, intelligence
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everywhere, ancient wisdom and of course with nature. So
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as a result of doing this, the follicle development will
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be inhibited and ovulation should not occur. I
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say should not because you can't guarantee anything in life. If you're meant to have
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babies and you're like Mother Mary, then you never know. But
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this is what they actually use in all pills. Aside from
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its hormonal activity, solicidin from the kangaroo apple
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shows antifungal and anti-cancer behavior as
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well. So knowing this, it's
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a beautiful source and other alkaloids in the kangaroo apple
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have actually proven and been used for
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a very long time as traditional bush medicine, as well as
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in manufacturing products that can be converted into steroids and
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hormones such as progesterone. And progesterone is
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the active ingredient in contraceptive pills. We
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already have that in our backyards, guys. Oh my holy moly. We
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don't need to do all the things, right? So this medicine is
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great for also treating skin conditions, colds, coughs and
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flus. It's antimicrobial. again, anti-inflammatory qualities.
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And it's really amazing high in vitamin C and
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beta carotene, which is again, an antioxidant that
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is amazing at preventing disease, stroke, and cancer. If
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you are wanting to prepare this for yourself, you can use
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it to prepare as a poultice. So it can go on externally for
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swollen areas or any areas that you want to treat. So let's say you
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were wanting to treat a cancer, a cardiovascular disease, you could treat
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it externally and internally. So you could make a poultice and put it
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across the area, bandage it around every day or once
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a week, but then use it internally as well. So
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ripe kangaroo apple is not a contraceptive. It's
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only when it's a boiled, unripened fruit that it is
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a contraceptive, right? So when it's ripe, you
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can use it and you can just eat it raw. Or you can put it into any
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of your cookings. And you guessed it, you can put it into smoothies, you can make a jam out
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of it, like I've said with the other ones. You can even just get the little
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thing and open up a medjool date and stick it straight in and then eat
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it if you like things sweet. I love things sweet, so you might want things sweet. Or you can just
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eat it as is. or you can have it cooked, you can add it to any meal, like
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a little really sour tomato sort of
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flavor. Now the last one we have is Australian mint, native
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mint. It is absolutely amazing. So you can make a tea out
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of this one. And the most amazing thing is it's really great for the exophagus. So
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it really helps with soothing digestion. It's really amazing
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for headaches. It's next level and indigenous would use
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it for period pain. and for menstrual cramps, and
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really great to use as an oil. So you could use it as a vapor if you
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have congestion in the nose, in your head as well. It's really
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good calmative properties as well. So it's great for depression
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and anxiety to help neutralize sympathetic nervous
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system responses. And it's really great for heartburn. So you don't need
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to have all those antacids or anything like that. You could literally have
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a cup of this tea a few times a day and it will help to calm the tummy
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as well. And it also calms diarrhea. amazing.
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And like I said, you can just put it into a tea, make a tea out of it. You
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can have it as is or add a little bit of local honey as well. That
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will just add extra benefits too. And if you were to
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have it as a dried herb, you could use it as a mint alternative, but it's
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quite savory. So you could use it also as an oregano alternative.
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So you could use it in your Italian style As you can see, our
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country is next level, the most healing medicine
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on this planet. You don't need to go elsewhere. You just need to
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go into your own backyard. Literally Google what these things
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look like and go and find them. See where around you
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you can actually go and pick this. Or go and ask somebody
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that has a farm that you know. if they grow this on their property and they might
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be able to send it to you. Because these are things that can actually help
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you live longer, live healthier, live aligned with
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the earth and really respect the land that we live on and
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the Indigenous traditions that have gone on for eons of
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time. And personally, I just want to say a massive thanks
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and acknowledgement to all the natural and
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original custodians of this land, the ancestors past, present
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and those that are yet to come. for everything
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that you did get to experience and everything that you didn't get to experience. You
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are always part of this system and I honor you each and
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every single day with every part of my
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being in every prayer and every blessing that I always do.
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And I hope that you can connect to this acknowledgement as
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well for the Indigenous custodians of this land, for everything that
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they've been through, everything that they're yet to go through and grow
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through, and for all of us to realign with our
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deep respect for Indigenous ways. Please guys, let me know in
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the comments below if you have used any of these ingredients before
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for healing. What effects did you have? Or
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people you knew? people that you know. How have they used
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this? What effects have they used this for? And how has
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it helped them with their cancers, with their menstrual cramps? Whatever it is,
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please inspire others by putting it in the notes below so
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that we can all grow and learn from your experiences because we're
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all in this together. Thank you for joining me on
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