Show 243: Juniper

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The name down to the clan, the clan to the.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Hey, y'all, welcome to this week's show. What a week
it has been? What a week it has been. I
mean here I was last week warning you all about
war with Iran and potential terrorist attacks, and within a
few days everything's world peace. Well, you know, gotta finish

(01:51):
this crap in Ukraine and Russia, and you know it's
really bad. I mean, as you know, my best friend
is Ukrainian and probably no longer this So it's not
not as good a things as things could be, certainly,
but better than they were a week ago. They were

(02:11):
what three weeks ago when we thought we were going
to have war with between Pakistan and India, two countries
with nuclear weapons. I mean, it's you know, pretty big.
So well, what all has happened? Well, I can tell
you personally here in North Carolina, Senator Tom Tillis just
said he would not seek reelection. That is a very

(02:31):
good thing. He was probably the second worst in all
of the Senate in either party. The complete flaming jackass
stole his seat from Tom from John Rhodes. Took a
lot of money from people that I wouldn't take money from.

(02:52):
And don't think he should have either, and became a
senator and has been nothing but a sellout. He took
I guess what used to be Jesse Helms seat, and
I knew Senator Helms. He was a very good man.
I called Senator Helms and we could have a conversation,
Me and nobody, you know, teenage twenty year old something kid.

(03:14):
I called Center Helps. Hey, Centator Helms, what do you
think about you know this issue? How are you going
to vote on this bill? And the manned, the legendary
Senator Jesse Helms treated me with respect and kindness and
would talk to me for inordinate amounts of time. He
knew my grandfather, so I did have a family connection

(03:35):
and I did well. I did a little work with
him toward the end of his life. And what a good, solid,
genuinely nice, kind, good man, a true servant of the people.
I called Tom Tillis's office one time and said, you know,
there's a bill coming up of the Senate. I'd like,

(03:56):
as a voter, as a constituent, could you ask Senator
Tillis to vote against it? And the person started screaming
and cussing at me. Literally, I mean I've never encountered.
I've called I mean, I've spoken with people in all
levels of elected office. I've spoken with people in all
political parties. I have never experienced anything like that before.

(04:19):
And I mean to the point, to the point that
Tillos's chief of staff called me back to apologize because
somebody in their office was so rude to me. I mean, well,
that wouldn't have happened had I not called the the
I guess the district office and said, look, you got
to get rid of this person. This is unacceptable. No,

(04:42):
I got an apology, But that is the That was
Tom Tillis's attitude toward his constituents, and that was reflected
in his in his staff. And we got to say
in here North Carolina, don't let the door hit you
where the good Lord split you. I mean, don't let
the door hitch you and the ass on the way out,

(05:03):
and good riddance to pure rubbish. He was nothing more
than a bought and paid for with the Chinese. That's
what it comes down to. Tim Tillis's worst worst politician
in my lifetime from any of the five states I've

(05:24):
lived in, and especially so Pip Big Week right, another
big thing that happened this week.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Facebook kicked me off again. This time I've been permanently banned.
No idea why, I mean, I'm not kidding you. I
have no idea why. What I posted on my Facebook
was my podcasts and articles and interacted in a couple
of groups. Didn't have one friend one friend on Facebook

(05:52):
that we did interact with. And they sent me a
message last night saying I have violated their community standards. Well,
you may remember if you've listened to this show for
ey time over four years ago, almost five years ago now,
I was kicked off of Facebook. I was a very
what you might call an influencer on Facebook.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
I had a group called how to get out of
the rat Race and live on what is it? Live
on ten dollars a week? I think that's right. It's
a George Herder book. That title comes from an old
George Herder book, and it was all about, you know,
homesteading and self sufficiency and all that. And I think,

(06:36):
my word, what I have fifty thousand members and friends,
that I mean comes kind of a big deal on Facebook.
And I had the temerity to say that I thought
the wuhan the COVID virus came out of a lab
in Wuhun, China, and I was accused of being a racist.
I'm not sure what the racial aspect of that is.

(06:57):
China does happen to be a country in which Chinese
people live. If I had said it came out of
France when I've been racist against the people of France,
I don't know. It was just stupid. And yeah, I
was kicked out for five years. This January they let
me back in. I got like basically no engagement. Facebook

(07:19):
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to be. And last night they kicked me off. Now
why does that matter, Well, it matters because what engagement
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(07:41):
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(09:33):
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let's get into the herb for the week. You may

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notice them a little naisily. I don't know I've picked
up I don't know, I don't I can't tell if
this is an allergy. I'm out of town and maybe
just an allergy being a new environment. You know, I
broke a tooth a few weeks ago. It's been infected
off and on. I really could have something to do
with it, because it's kind of like aching in my

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jaw again. But I think the tooth has actually dyed,
so but I may have a little bit of infection
in the lymph nodes. But let's talk about a really
good herb that's actually really good for such conditions, and
if I can spot one down here, I may go
try to harm some. And it is juniper, not that

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hard to find. In North Carolina, we have our native juniper.
That's the Virginia judi paris Virginiana, the Virginia juniper, which
is actually a true juniper, but it's usually called Eastern
red cedar. It's not a true cedar. It's a juniper,

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but anyway people call it cedar. We've got tons of
them that have been naturalized here. I mean, I wouldn't
even try to describe them all or give you the names.
We got people using in landscaping. A lot of times
it's like a low ground cover, but it's actually a
shrub and it can be a tree. In fact, a

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lot of the junipers, especially the Eastern red cedar so called,
is a tree and wonderful wood, very aromatic, that would
helps keep bugs and my side of your clothes. I mean,
you can line a drawer with it. It can be
used in cigar humidors. Very very nice wood. And it

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has cones. Now those cones look like berries. They're little
round balls, and they're blue and they get real dark blue,
like almost dark navy blue. When they're they're ripe, and
those cones are considered to be juniper berries, and my word,

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they've been used in herbal medicine from time immemorial. Galen
said that the juniper berry cleanses the liver and kidneys
and fins, thick viscous juices that means mucous, and for
this reason they are mixed in with many health medicines.
So yeah, that's Galen. I mean, that's that's what ancient

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Rome juniper has been used. I mean in Babylon, Syria, Samaria, Israel, Egypt,
as China certainly. Yeah, I mean as far back as
mankind goes, we've had an affinity for the for the
juniper tree. The wood is very pretty and that wonderful scent,

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and the berries so called the actually cones are really
good for health. Now, the only thing about it is
they can irritate the kidneys, so you can't have large
amounts of juniper berries or use them for an extended
period of time. What I normally do, I'll be out hiking,

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you know, I swap my dog every day he's gone.
But anyway, whenever I passed the tree and there were
juniper berries, I'd grab three afore and eat them. You know,
that's really the best way to use juniper in herbal medicine.
We always make teas and tinctures and decoctions and infused oils.

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Now you can do that. Sure, the best to enjoy
the best way to get the health benefits of juniper
and enjoy them, actually grab it. Just a handful and
eat them. I mean, and I don't mean a big handful.
I mean, like, you know, five or ten. Now, what's
more the enjoyable than eating a few juniper berries? Cooking
with a few Jennifer per beries. Juniper is so good,

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especially with fatty meats or anything with a slightly gamey taste.
Juniper's fantastic. I mean, jennifer berries have been included in
especially meat dishes, but also sour kraut, and maybe we'll
get into a little bit of that here in a minute,
But yeah, Jennifer's really excellent with sausage. I mean, it's

(15:40):
it's a very I guess I would considered like a
German flavor. Its something I grew up on and I
like it. What's even better than cooking with juniper, Infuse
it in some vodka and make gin, Yes, gin is
nothing more than vodka in which juniper berries have been
steeped for a couple of weeks. And yeah, you get

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the sweetness, you get that piny scent, you get that really,
so you're never you're never gonna buy a better gin
than you can make. Now. Of course, you can put
many other herbs and vegetables sent into two gin, so
long as your juniper berries are your base flavor. Cucu

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number is very common, rose petals are are fairly common.
You can put just about any botanical in a gin
and make a really, like I said, a much nicer
beverage than you're ever gonna buy in the store. And
you think about it, what's a decent quality gin that
comes to mind? Decent quality and I don't mean the cheap,

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you know, bottom shelf stuff. Golly, there's several actually many
of them are imports from England because it's the British
who invented gin. There's one on the tip of my
tongue and it's not coming to be right this minute,
but it's just it's a quite good gin that's a
decent price. And I mean, like, I don't know, twenty

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five bucks a bottle, So I mean it's it's a
little more pricey than you know, say a bottle of
vermouth from the grocery store, which is also a great
herbal option. But you know, you can make with cheap vodka,
vodka that's half the price, or a different liquor. You
can use brandy if you want to. It's not gonna

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taste like gin, but it'll smell like gin. And if
it's a clear brandy, it will pretty much be like
a sweet gin. Actually. But okay, so you can get
cheap vodka instead of a decent quality. You won't when
something's gonna, you know, give you a headache or something,
but a decent quality and you can go out and
for free pick a handful of juniper berries, toss it

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in there, and you're gonna have a craft gin, that's
what they call it. And you can add other things
to it as well, and it's going to be like
I mean, it would win an award, sat next to
probably the best bottle on the shelf, you know. And
you know, there are different ways of making gin. You
can just infuse it, which means put the herb in

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the bottle, let it sit for a week to a month,
and that's infused in distillery. What they usually do they
have a complex distillation system and there's this little compartment
in the well what we would call it the apple
atches be the neck of the steel, basically where the

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top of the vessel comes up, and there's a coil
of it used to be a coil of copper. Now
they usually use column steels, and oh, there's a word
fractional distillation. But anyway, in that system between the pot
where the liquid is being cooked essentially boiled to steam
off the alcohol, and the vessel that receives you have

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a various designs of what's basically a tube from one
to the other, and that the steam comes up and
it cools down, eventually turns back into liquid and it
drips out. That's all distillation is now. Fractional column distillation
is very scientific and it's collecting from different spaces in

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that tube essentially, and it's going to give you alcohols
at different levels of strength and purity. That's what's mainly
used these days. But whether it's a primitive you know,
like pot steel, or it's a column fractional distillation steel
or something in between, there's usually almost in unless you're

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just specifically distilling brandy or whiskey. There's a little chamber
that's a good way to look at, a little chamber
that is specifically for aromatic herbs or even some like
cucumber and such, and that's for making gin. So in
commercial gin making there is usually this like chamber that

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the steam is essentially going through the herbs. That's fine
if you want to do it that way. Medicinally speaking,
it's really better to do an infusion because the herbs
at that heat do give off different well essential oils,
and they're much stronger, and depending on what you're using,

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that could be a little dangerous. So I actually prefer
to make my own gin with just vodka and berries
that I've picked off the tree. And I mean I've
shared it with friends and some that actually work in
the liquor industry and they're like, this is fantastic. Where

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did you buy this. I'm like, dude, I didn't buy it.
You know, it costs me like five bucks for the vodka.
Everything else was free. Really, I mean wow, you know,
and they're like like blown away, and I'm like, well, well,
this is what we do. We're erblists and we get
to have a little fun sometimes, but Jenna's are really

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good for colds and flus and and it's a diuretic.
And yeah, I mean it's not just for sipping. But anyway,
let's go back to ancient Rome and Dias Cordy said
of juniper, some were bigger and some are smaller. It's true.
The the eastern virgin Virginia red cedar, if you want

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to call it that juniperis Virginiana juniperous. I think it
is actually how you're supposed to pronounce it. We're just
call it juniper for lack of a better trump. It's
a tree, right, It's a tree formed juniper. It's some
one of those low ground covers. It has very small berries.
These things are like bebies, you know, very They're tiny,

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and they're very flavorable, and that's really what I like
to use. The most other junipers have big, big cones,
I mean size of blueberries, and you're gonna get a
lot more out of that. But they tend not to
be as potent medicinally or as flavorful, so you know,
they're all good. Especially in a survival situation, Junipers can

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be one of the first things I look for. Like
I said, you can't eat a lot of them. But
they're so full of vitamin C and resins and calories,
calories from that dense resinus colony quality. A little, you know,
teaspoonful of them. It's like a superfood. So, I mean,
I don't turn up my nose at any at any juniper.

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But he said there were some even the size of
a hazel nut. That must be a Greek variety of juniper,
because I've never seen a juniper barrier cone the size
of a hazel nut. But my word, I'd like to
have some. Actually, he said that they're round, fragrant, sweet
and bitter, and they are. But they're sweet. They're bitter sweet,

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and I mean like chocolate, you know, you're pretty darn good,
or like blueberries really, but they have this piny quality.
I mean, you're not mistaken for a berry, actually, he said,
is mildly warming and astringent and good for the stomach,
good taken in drink for infirmities, for the chest, for coughs,
for gasiness, gaseousness, as he put it, for griping that's

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really stomach cramping, and the poisons of venomous creatures. And yes,
juniper does find its way into many ancient remedies for poisoning.
He said, it is diuretic, and it is juniper is
very diuretic, good for convulsions and hernias and those who
have congesture blocked wounds. I don't even know how that

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would happen. I probably don't want to know anyway. See
where were we It has sharp leaves. True, you know
this is prickly. It's it's like an evergreen coniferous. But
could those the needles essentially could be made into a
plaster or a poultice, and said also taken with a drink,

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you can make a tea out of it. Absolutely, the
needles make a very nice tea, actually very very high
vitamin C. But he really liked to infuse them in wine,
and he said in that form it was good for
those bitten by vipers. Wow. The bark burned and rubbed

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on with water removes leprosy. But this dust of the
wood kills Oh oh okay. Apparently you could poison yourself
by mixing the sawdust of juniper with water and drinking it.
I don't even know why you want to do that,
but it's probably not quite as toxic as he said.

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But hey, hey, I don't know. I don't have a
juniper with the cones or berries the size of hazel nuts.
Maybe that one is. Anyway, he talks about the oil
that could be made from it, and it has so
many uses, and that the Roman juniper was called a cypress,
and cypress is another that you know, cypress is a

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different tree, and if you ever see the two side
by side, you're not gonna mistake them. But to some extent,
the essential oil is a little interchangeable. Anyway. It was
often used as in ancient times, in well as a
disinfect it certainly to keep bugs and rode its out

(25:43):
of your clothes and such as that, but it was
also used for skin diseases very much. It has what's
my word, Well, it's antiseptic, but there's there's another word
I'm looking for. Anyway, use a lot for skin disorders,
and to some extent still is. You'll sometimes see the

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essential oil of cedar in or in one of the
close relatives and salves and such. So you might even
buy at the grocery store. It may be, you know,
in a lip balm or something. But in the ancient
world it was very, very very popular. Discordies who do
I just read Oh oh yeah, that was Discordies as well.

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But he also gives a recipe in his book for
juniper wine, and I gotta try this. But I mean
everything he made was in such quantities. I mean, and
he said you could use cedar, juniper, cypress, bay, pine,
or fur. And as you know, I have made a
pine wine before. It's quite nice, actually very good for

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against viruses and even allergies. It's just really pretty good
if you don't mind drinking wine that tastes like pine salt.
And you know, that did kind of get to me
after a while, I have to admit. But anyway, he says,
separate the newly cut wood when it gives out fruit,
lay it in a bath in the sun or near

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the fire so that it may sweat, and then mix
one pound of this to four and a half liters
of wine. Mix it and leave it alone for two months.
Then put in another jar, and having play in place
in the sun for a while, put it in a
smaller into smaller jars, so you make an a big
batch and then you're breaking up into small jars. And

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he says, we must fill the jars of wines made
like this because if we do not, they grow sour,
so it have to be topped off. You can't leave
it exposed to air. Nevertheless, these medicinal wines are unfit
for the healthy. They are warming, urinary, and somewhat as stringent,
and that a bay is most warming. I'm sure it
would be bay is. All these are going to be diuretic.

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That's what he means is urinary. All these are warming,
They're gonna help with fever. And like again, I says, cedar, juniper, cypress,
bay pine, for all of them are also a little
bit toxic. And I would caution if you ever make
this wine, use them medicinally. And I'm talking like by
the tablespoonful to an ounce, you know, maybe two ounces

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at most to break a fever, to warm up on
a cold day. There's nothing wrong with that. Anything like
more than a glass is going to be really hard
on your kidneys, really not gonna be good. Anyway. He
said you could also make wine for the fruit of cedar,

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and that one mixed half a pound of bruised cedar
berries to four and a half liters of wine and
keeping in the sun for four days. I like that.
I did better. I'm gonna use it. Well, it's just
like making gin really, so you know, we don't have
to pu in the sun, but yeah, that would probably
be really good. He's also said you could use the
needles and infuse the wine the same way. And actually,

(28:58):
juniper beer has a long history of views. It was
once the most popular of all beers in like Scandinavian
countries where they didn't grow a lot of barley, they
would make almost a root beer out of spruce. And yeah,
some craft brewers still do that, and that's a really

(29:21):
healthy practice. And yeah, it has just long use. You
basically make a strong tea with some sugar, strain everything out,
put in a little yeast and let it ferment, and
then put in bottles and that carbonate. It's super easy,
super super easy, and that actually is extremely healthy, much

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better than anything you're gonna get from like you know,
a can or a bottle at the grocery store. Saying
Hildegard von Bingen wrote, the juniper is more hot than cold.
Take its fruit and cook it in water. Strain this
through a cloth to this ad honey and a bit
of vinegar and lick and a little bit of ginger
or a little less ginger is what she said. Then

(30:05):
less ginger than the licorice. Cook it again, place it
in a little bag, and make a spiced wine, great
combination of ginger, licorice juniper. Drink it often, she said,
whether fasting or having eaten. It diminishes and mitigates the
pain in the chest, lungs, or fever. Also take the
green twigs and cook them in water, or make a tea.

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In other words, make a sauna bath with the twigs
and water. Often bathe in it, for it diminishes bad
fevers in you. I mean, that's written in what ten eighty,
and it's still to this day. It's very very valid.
Gerard in fifteen hundred said that it was hot and dry,
and his system of medicine. He said, the fruit of

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the juniper doth cleanse the liver and kidneys, as Galen testifieth.
It also maketh thin and clammy, gross hue. It also
maketh thin, clammy and grows humors. Again, it's like thins mucous.
That's that's all it means. Using counter poisons and other medicines,
being overly larger, largely taken, though, it causeth gripings and

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gnawings of the stomach, and maketh the head hot. It
neither bindeth nor looseth the belly. It doth produce provoketh,
It doth provoketh urine. Wow. Um, you gotta wonder why
they taught that way. Diascordes, well, we were covered him.

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He just quotes him. Good for gripings and coughs and
windiness in those trouble with cramps. He said it most
it is most certain that the decocca of these berries
is singular good against old cough and against that which
children are now and then extremely troubled, called the chin cough.
You know what that is, chin cough is whooping cough.

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So yeah, he said it helped with whooping cough. Yeah, yeah,
it probably does. Actually, there's some antiviral properties that's also
very expectorant and good for the lungs, he said. Diverse
in Bohemia. In other words, some people in Germany do
take instead of other drink the water wherein those berries
have been steeped, and they live in wonderful good health.

(32:19):
Probably very true. We're going to get into German use
here in just a second. Father Nate loved juniper. It's
junifer is so associated with Father Nate and Father Kunzel. Anyway,
he says is good drunk against poisons and pestilence fevers,
and is not unpleasant in the drinking. Yeah. Oh, the

(32:41):
smoke of the leaves, this is interesting. This is an
old legend. I have not tried this. I would be
interested to see if it works. The smoke of the
leaves of junifers and needles driveth away, serpents and all
infections and corruptions of the air. It was used to
fumigate essentially when somebody had been sick, but drives serpents.
I would like to see if that actually does the trick.

(33:05):
I don't know. He said it was good against all
contagious diseases. The juice of the leaves with wine drunk
against the bitings of the viper. The ashes of the
burnt bark being applied with water take it away scurf
and filled from the skin. That's actually soriasis. So I
haven't tried that either. I don't have czoriasis, But if
you have psoriasis, tell me does the do the ashes

(33:27):
of the burn bark mixed with water help with coriasis?
I would be very curious to know that the powder
of the wood being inwardly taken is pernicious and deadly.
So again he's saying the saltdust of juniper, if you
mix it with water and drink, it's going to kill you. Again.

(33:49):
Don't know why the heck you do that, but you
know anyway, human smoke of the gum is good. Good
for phlegmatic Again, that's like real heavy congestion. So it
was often used as an incense, the gum of the tree.
It killeth all manner of worms in the belly. It
stayeth the minsis. And that's interesting because many sources say

(34:11):
that it actually brings on menstruation. He says it stops
excessive men for bleeding, I don't know. Good for hemorrhoids,
good committed against the spinning of blood. That's one of
the reasons father Nape. Father Nape had tuberculosis, so it
was one of the herbs that he used to cure
himself of that. So yeah, it's good against the spinning
of the blood. It drieth hollow ultzers and filleth them

(34:34):
in with flesh being mixed with roses, it healeth chops
in the hand and feet. I don't know what chops are.
Let's assume cuts. I don't know. He said, there is
made of this combined with the oil of linseeed, mixed
together a varnish which is used to beautify pictures and tables. Wow, hey,

(34:58):
that's cool. I didn't know that. One hundred years later, Coalpepper,
writing a much more plain language, he says, the perries
are hot to the third degree, but dry in the first.
You don't need to know what that means. Nobody even
you know, nobody knew at the time. I mean, that's
one of those things herbis say that. It just means
it's a little more stringent and warming than something else. Okay,

(35:24):
that's it's archaic. But he says, good against the biding
of venomous beasts. They provide a great resistor of pestilence. Again,
drives off bugs and mice and all that provokes the
urine exceedingly and good for stranguary. That's, you know, water retention, essentially,

(35:45):
slower pain for urination, powerful remedy against dropsy. That's again
water retention, and a lie made from the ashes of
the wood made to a drink could cure dropsy. Now
we've just been warned against taking the sawdust. I don't
know about the ashes. Let's say, I'm not gonna recommend

(36:06):
that obviously, and you know it's a edema. Drops these edema,
so you also you have to say, what's causing this edema?
You know, is it a heart condition? If so, you're
not going to cure that through drinking the ashes of juniper.
But you may urinate a lot and it may help

(36:27):
resolve it for a time, but it is certainly not
going to cure it provokes the terms. Now you know
Galen just I mean not Galen, not Parkinson. Oh who
wileten do jar Gerrard Girard said that it would stop
minstrual bleeding. Now Colepepper says it will bring on minci's.

(36:48):
So again that there's a lot of conflicting information on that.
Let's see, strengthens the stamach exceedingly expels the wind. There
is scarcely a better remedy for wind than juniper. I
you know, it is good for gaseousness, if you want
to put it that way. Take you eat the berries

(37:09):
on an empty stomach is what he recommended. Admirably good
for the cough and shortness of breath and consumption, pains
of the belly, ruptures, cramps, and convulsions. They give safe
and speedy delivery to women, but children. They said that
juniper berries could help induce labor. I'm not going to
recommend that at all. Okay, I don't know if it works,

(37:32):
first of all, but I certainly don't know if it's safe.
Juniper's pretty strong stuff, it really is. The resins are
pretty strong stuff. He says that they strengthen the brain.
Is your brain weak? If so, get some juniper berries.
He said. They help the memory. I don't. Again, I
have no evidence of this, and I do eat them frequently.

(37:54):
But then again, I mean, I mean, obviously my memory
is pretty good, or I couldn't do the podcast just
you know, what do you call it? Extemporaneously? Just off
the top of my head, I probably couldn't think of
the word extemporaneously if I had a bad memory. They
fortify the sight by strengthening the optic nerves. No idea.
I mean, seriously, I wear glasses. I've not known them

(38:17):
to strengthen my sight, but you know who knows are
excellent good in all sorts of ag used as or fevers.
They help the gout in sciatica, and yep, they do.
It's a good cure for And now when he's talking
sciatica here, he's really talking more of a gout caused sciatica.
There's a blood cleansers. They used to say, it's a

(38:38):
lot of vitin c in there a lot of im
C and that's what really helps against the gout and
the inflammation such that they strengthen the limbs of the body.
The ashes of the wood is a speedy remedy for
such you have scurvy. Again, we're talking abouten sea essentially,
and I don't think the ashes would be the best
thing to use. I think the berries would be better,
and the needles after that, the berries stay all fluxes.

(39:02):
That's diarrhea essentially, helps with hemorrhoids or piles, kills, worms
and children. A lie made of the ash of the
wood and the body bathed with it cures itch, scabs
and leprosy. Again, we're basically talking xcellent ssoriasis. So, like,
you know, give that one a shot if you have
such an issue. I'd like to know how well it works,

(39:22):
because I do get a lot of questions from people
who have psoriasis and exciment. They're always, you know, looking
for a better cure than what the doctors can offer them.
And we have a lot of herbs that we use,
and a lot of the herbs are better, but I
have not tried juniper for that use. He says that
the berries are break the stone, so good for kidney stones.

(39:45):
Unary stones, procure the appetite, stimulate the appetite, and are
excellent for all palsies and falling sickness. So more than
like it was the diuretic effect, because a lot of
water retention can actually cause seizures. But I wouldn't think
it would again, know, let's just say that's probably the use.

(40:09):
I don't think it would help with epilepsy. I don't
think it would help with anything more serious than fever
and water retention. So now let's see where we go here.
Let's go to the Irish tradition. John Keyjo said the
berries provoke urine and cure old cow flashlen sancholic pains.
The gum of the tree expels worms from the body

(40:32):
and stops excessive minstrel flow. Junifer is also an excellent
herb to stimulate appetite and help the liver. It is
a natural bitter, and just chewing and eating a few
berries before a meal can be among the best helps
in digestion for elderly and chronically ill people. Care should
be taken not to over use them in large amount.
They can irritate the kidneys. Juniper is also good for

(40:54):
the immune system and cleaning the blood, and a good
spring tonic boy John keyhoknock down one of the park.
He got all in very short order too. Now, Father Nape,
as I said, is very much associated with juniper, and
he wrote in My water Cure, who does not know
the juniper barry Juniper, when used for fumigation, sends an

(41:14):
agreeable odor through the rooms and passages and improves the air.
I am no friend of the so called fumigation with
sugar and vinegar. I don't see how that would help anything.
And he's probably right, But burning juniper was used essentially
as an incense, and it has some antibacterial, really antiseptic property,
so it could be good too. It has some anti

(41:37):
viral in other words, not just fungui and such, but
anyway bacteria. Anyway, He says that there's a question of
disinfecting the room in which a patient is with an
infectious disease, or a corpse has been lying or a
time of infections illness. To purify the air by fumigation,
I always like juniper vapor. It thoroughly destroyed all fung

(42:00):
guy and whatever the voladile infection disease bringer may be called.
Juniper works with similar effect upon the interior of the
human organism, the very fumigate as it were, the stomach
and mouth and ward off all contagion. Now, you know,
we have a little bit more advanced science now, and
it doesn't get rid of everything, but it's certainly better

(42:22):
than nothing. Juniper really is pretty good. It's not a
you know, super disinfectant cureole. It's not going to like
get rid of antibiotic and resistant infection spreading throughout a hospital.
But it's you know, it's why we use pine salt.
There are anti septic properties to these coniferous trees. Those

(42:43):
who are nursing patients with serious illness as scarlet fever, smallpox,
typhe as, cholera, et cetera, and are exposed to the
pathogen should use juniper. In other words, he said, actually
says they should chew a few juniper berries six to
ten in a day to keep from catching whatever the
patient has. Yeah, and he said, he says they burn

(43:07):
up as it were, the harmful miasmums exhalations where these
seek to enter the mouth or nostril. Those who are
stuffering from weak's stomach may try the following little course
with juniper berries. And this is what he's known for.
This is father Name's juniper cure, and it's many people
still swear by it to this day. My friend in
Austria does this every year. I've done it myself. This

(43:29):
is really good. Okay. The first day they should begin
with four berries, So you take four berries on day one,
the second day five berries, and the third day six,
the fourth seven, and so increase by one berry every
day until the twelfth, on which they would take fifteen berries.
Then they may continue for five days longer, taking one

(43:51):
berry less. I know many whose stomach filled with gases,
and thereby weekend has been purified and strengthened by this
simple berry cure. Jerniper berries have been noted since olden
times as a remedy for stone and gravel and complaints
of the kidneys and liver. Also in all cases where
foul gases, foul watering, and slimy matter are to be

(44:11):
removed from the body. I hope you never have that
I haven't. I hope I never do. But if I do,
I'm going to give me some juniper berries. Not only
the berries, but also the young shoots of juniper are
made use of for tea in the first stages of
dropsy guinness like edema, also well water retention one way
or the other, and also as a purifying medicine. The
oil is best bought m chemist. We don't really use

(44:36):
the oil much anymore. But the tincture can be made
at home with wine, brandy or spirits. So you can
make a wine tea, you can make a vinegar. Teacher,
a tincture of infusion essentially of juniper if you want
to really very useful and easy to use, he said,
I would not praise the father or mother of a
family who were certainly very careful and diligent in preserving

(44:59):
their meat and vegeta with berries from the juniper bush.
And we're punctual, I would not know. And we're punctual
and careful and fumigating their dwelling, But who allow their
body the dwelling of their soul to lie in dirt
and dust. They ought to apply such a fumigator for
this much more important dwelling at least a few times

(45:20):
a year. Okay, So juniper is very good for curing
meat as well. It's a nice preservative, and people were
using it almost like we would use pine sal today.
But he's saying if you neglect its use for your health,
he would not praise you. So you want father and
apes praise. Obviously, Brother Aloisious was his protocheck, and he

(45:41):
was more of a professional orblist. He wrote. The berries
and young twigs or used medically. The Berriedes princely have
diuretic Diaphoretic meats helps break a fever, warming and wind
breaking properties and promote digestion. They're especially good for gastric
weakness accompanied by wind accumulation, because etc. They are also

(46:02):
recommended as a protection from intermittent fever, rumy, rheumatism, galut pain.
The young twigs mixed with wood rough and wild strawberry
leaves make a delicious and healthy drink. I'm sure it
would be good, which can take the place of tea,
and it's certainly much healthier milk and sugar can be
added according to taste. One of the preparations is juniper oil. Again,
we're not gonna get into that because it can be

(46:24):
quite toxic. Any essential oil taken internally can be very dangerous.
But in small amounts it was used especially for rheumatism, gout,
syphilist chronic cough and congestion in the chest. Also good
for the kiddies and bladders and all that. But we're
just gonna stick with teas and tinctures because that's what

(46:45):
we do as home rpless. He says, three tablespoons of
berries ground into a powder and cooked with two tablespoons
of lard is an excellent, real needy for scurf and
children's scurf. It could be well, really, that was a
word that was used for eight thing from cradle cap
to sooriatic dandriff. So anyway, the head was bathed with

(47:06):
it and was also used as a remedy for plam
in the chests and coughs. Three tables from juniper berry
boiled in two cups of barley water reduced by half
was especially good for the cough. For the consul from
Switzerland said the juniper or rockholder, that's his old word

(47:28):
for it is a medicinal plant of the first rank.
Everything about it is medicinal. The wood, the needles of berries,
and bark. It has the power to warm up, relieve
internal cold, cleanse everything whatever It can reach the stomach, intestines,
the lungs, and blood, and is therefore and used in
almost all herbal mixtures except for hot diseases such as fever.

(47:49):
But then we just read that it could help break
a fever, so really it's darn useful for just about everything.
He talks about various kinds of juniper, and the oil
was really good for rheumatism, rubbed on as a liniment
or taking a bath, and really one of his favorite
ways to use it was to just take the bowels,
you know, the twigs, the needles, and put them in

(48:10):
a hot bath, and that would help with arthritis and
such and very skin conditions. He said. The green juniper
twig should be boiled for three hours and then added
to the warm water, and the patient should take this
warm water bath up to ten times a day. So wow,
that's a lot of bathing, I said. But this bath

(48:33):
is very sharp and aggressive, and it's advisable to mix
it with the fir tree or green pine tree decoction.
So you mix in juniper and pine meals and still
use modern times. I mean, you know, Jelana Whittim and
I wrote the English translation of Father Kunzel's book. Gelanta says,

(48:54):
whenever I see you junipers with berries when I walk
in the forest, I collect them black and dark blues
and chew them with walking. So do I really? I
think the best way she said, I love them. They
have a Swedish and aromatic taste. I know they will
strengthen my body and spirit. Absolutely. You know, I'm gonna
try to wrap this one up. I think we covered

(49:15):
most of the uses resources of Southern fields and forests.
Talked about using the oil for swellings and pains of joints.
Also its disinfectant for wounds, the berryes so used for dropsy,
and all that. We've covered most of that. Let's see kings.
American Dispensatory eighteen ninety eight says Oh quotes the doctor

(49:41):
saying he has cured several cases of well anyway good diuretic.
We don't also, but they would us it for gonrhea
as well. And again that said anti antiseptic, anti microbial property.
And well they even have a recipe for a palmade.

(50:03):
That's cool. You have Jersey, Old brother A remember when
he walked to the store looking for his pomade. This
was this place supposed to be a geographical abnormality. It's
exactly two days from everywhere else in the country. Man,
he was Everett. I do not like the actor, but

(50:24):
I love that character. I love that movie. I love
everything the Cohen Brothers did. My gosh, that that that
they did, some uh smart movies and even King of
the Hill. I love the Coen Brothers. But anyway, old
brother with art where art? I mean? The music's fantastic,
it's it's a classic anyway. But they have Howl's juniper
palmade made with an extract of juniper lard and oil.

(50:49):
And it was not only used to style your hair,
but what's useful for all forms of eczema, any kind
of itching, flamed vesicles, et cetera, scaly skin, even sore nipples.
And it was a pomade, so it was your it
was your your hair treatment. Let me see if there's

(51:11):
anything I haven't called Rodale or book says stimulating for
the appetite, good for digestion, helpfulm coughs, eliminate mucus, et cetera,
et cetera. Oh, good for bites of poisonous insects, snake bites,
dog bites, and stings. It has that's stringent quality. It's soothing.
Good for arthritis, bruises, ults and wounds, junipropouluses and rubs

(51:36):
for that. Yeah, a handful of the needles and the
bath water good for sword and aching muscles. Absolutely, says
American Indians would tie bundles of the boughs to sore limbs.
That would probably work. Probably not the best way of
using it. I think a bath would work better than
walking around with a stick tied to your arm. But eh,
you know, you do what you have. Tail gives uh

(52:00):
Sacred and Healing Herbal Beers. That's a really interesting book. Yeah,
much better. I was hesitant to buy this is one
of Buner's books, and all his stuff's good. I was
hesitant to buy it because I thought that's kind of
a ridiculous title, Sacred beer. But you know, he's got

(52:20):
some really good herbal info in there, no doubt about it.
And he gives a good juniper ale recipe. He says
Given the many benefits from the herb as a preservative,
as a medicine, especially on nutrition and digestive help, as
a potentially useful herb for the treatment of colds and flus,
it sees an excellent herb to use in ills and beers.
I already told you how to do it. He just

(52:42):
make a sweet tea and firm in it and it's
quite tasty, quite quite tasty, really good, especially in the
winter because it does have that well I told you
culpepper talking about it's hot in the third degree, it's warming.
It really does have that quality. And Peterson Field guy
says the mere can onions use the fruit for colds, worms, rheumatisms,

(53:03):
coughs to induce sweating, chewed the fruit for canker sores,
leaf smoke or steam inhaled for colds, bronchitis, purification, and rheumatism,
and said to contain the anti tumor compound. Let's see
if I can pronounce this potto philo, Yeah, potto philo toxin.
I think it's right. Also in may apple, and much

(53:27):
easier to take than may apple. Let's see botany in
a day. Well, let's see if juniper it also talks
about cedar. It talks about Cyprus, It talks about arbor vede,
arbra vide anyway, he said, but specifically of red cedar.
Jennifer Berries can be eaten raw or used in tea.

(53:48):
Bitterberries are made and green and ginep yep. Juniper berries
contain volatile oils and resins and are eaten as a
carminative to expel gas, and distilled oil is rubbed on
painful joints. Additionally, jennifer berries are diuretic and may irritate
the kidneys with prolonged use. They are not recommended for
pregnant women. Let's make that clear. Do you think it kills?

(54:09):
Worms should not be taken while pregnant. Boiled tea of
the fruits is used for the treatment for cough. You
may be able to decrease the risk of catching a
virus by keeping jennifer berries in the mouth while around
others who are infected. So it still even in modern
use that's sold, you know, father naps and advice. Juniper
needles can be added to a bathwater for rheumatism. Oh,

(54:34):
we'll wrap it up here with physicians desk reference verbal medicine.
The doctor's book then weighs seven pounds is huge. Juniper
has been primarily noted for its anti inflammatory, diuretic, and
dyspeptic effects. Because of its ability to inhibit cycle oxygen ase,
it is useful in inflammatory conditions such as arthritis. Jennifer

(54:57):
is used to treat chronic urinary, bladder and kidney infection infections,
as well as herpes and flu uh. The diuretic effect
is probably primarily due to the volatile oil turpene four.
In addition, the drug works to lower blood pressure and
may regulate hyperglycemia, that's high blood sugar. In animal experience,

(55:20):
a hypertensive and anti anti exheudative anti XU dative effect
was proved, and vitro an anti viral effect was also demonstrated.
So juniper pretty ubiquitous. You're going to spot it just
about everywhere. One of our most useful medicinal herbs, without

(55:44):
a doubt, and one of the You're not gonna find
many herbalists who are making juniper preparations, which is insane.
I mean, really, every single herbalist should be making juniper
tinctures and and and have dried juniper around for ten
and all that and baths, and very few even know

(56:04):
about its properties. That's really why the first book I
guess what was my first herb book, Well, it was
that collaboration which I wanted to do herbs and weeds
and father Coonsel. But the first one I run on
my own was Medicinal trees. And most herbalists just don't
recognize the medicinal power of common trees. They think of

(56:27):
herbs as little green plants. Well, herbs can also be
great big trees, and there are some of our strongest,
most effective and easy to easiest to access herbs, medicinal herbs.
I mean, you've got trees in your backyard, every single
one of those trees unless it's poisonous, and even some

(56:48):
of those have a medicinal use. And I mean, you know,
I don't know. I just don't know why people overlook
the herbal use of trees. I mean, if there's so many,
I mean, if you've got diarrhea, oak bark is gonna help,
probably quicker than anything. I mean, you don't even need

(57:10):
to bother with something else if you're bleeding pine pitch. Yeah,
but anyway, yeah, Cedar Jennifer, Actually that's what I meant
to say, Jennifer is really one of our best herbs,
and it needs to be on your shelf if you
don't have it in your yard. If you have it

(57:30):
in your yard, eat the berries and have enjoy them
because they are real nice. And I'm telling you, next
time you have something meat, this little gamy or fatty
fatty piece of pork, you know, maybe a deer roast, whatever,
you got a few Jennifer berries in there. Man, that's good.
Jennifer berries in your sour kraut with sausages just fantastic, fantastic.

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