Show 264: Viburnum

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

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Hey, y'all, welcome to this week's show. You have a
really interesting show. Today we're gonna talk about Viburnham, which
is one of the herbs that I would consider to
be absolutely essential. But first of all, I really have
been meaning to say, really for the past couple of months,
if you enjoy my shot, if you enjoy my podcast,

(01:51):
please share it with other people. Up until this year
it was growing like week to week, the numbers were
just growing. And this year it has been really not good.
And I'm still doing good quality content. If anything, it's
better than it ever has been, because you know, every
year I do this, I get better at it. But

(02:14):
the algorithm, however podcasts are promoted. A lot of it
has to do with Apple, a lot of it has
to do with Google, has really been diminishing my show. Facebook.
I mean, I know, because you know, Google of course
own's Facebook and all that. And I got back on

(02:37):
Facebook after they kicked me out off after you know,
when I made fun of doctor Fauci. They would not
let anybody see my podcast, and then they finally banned
me again. I'm no longer ever allowed to go back
on Facebook and I did nothing wrong. Who knows why.
I mean, it's just bizarre. Right, this year, I've actually

(02:58):
lost list I've lost subscribers. The I mean, you know,
I know sometimes say some controversial things, and you know, yeah,
I expect sometimes I'm going to lose a few subscribers
if they're more of a liberal mindset or whatever. But
now this year, instead of experiencing growth in the podcast

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or growth in the subject newsletter, I've lost And it's
been almost an entire year. And that's like, really likes
statistically impossible when you're doing the same thing week after
week and it's been growing by you know, several a
day since you started, and then suddenly you start losing.

(03:42):
Something's going on. Somebody's blocking me somewhere. I don't know why,
but apparently I have run a foul of the the
overlords of the Internet. So if you could share my
podcasts with your friends and family, really appreciate it. You know,

(04:03):
I don't make any money off the podcast. I know
that seems crazy that I would spend I do three
podcasts a week, right, so I'm spending at least two
sometimes three hours a week, plus the editing, plus the
uploading plus the distribution. It's actually almost like a at

(04:24):
least a part time job. I don't make anything off
of it, and maybe every now and then I make
like twenty bucks in a month, and depending on whatever
ads that the hosting company's running and how many people
listen to them and click through. I don't make anything
off of it. I do this absolutely for free. So

(04:47):
if you could share the podcast, it would really help
me out, because you know, I do have to pay
hosting for this podcast, and I can't lose money on it.
If I start losing money on it, I'm gonna have
to stop. And I'm getting pretty close to it. I'm
actually getting pret drawing close to it. But also it
helps me sell books, and the books are what put

(05:10):
the food on my table, and book sales have not
been great this year. I mean everything has just been
increasing month to month, week to week since I started
this five years ago, and this year has sucked. I
have no idea what's going on. Something actually began to

(05:30):
change about last August and a bad time for me.
I mean my dog had just died and everything, and
suddenly my podcast numbers started dropping by one hundred a
week and that's crazy. When that happens, you don't get
the advertisers. When you don't get the advertisers, you don't

(05:50):
get the money to pay for the podcast hosting something.
Somebody in one of the rulers the Internet, one of
our sociopathic overlords, as someone once said, is apparently sabotaging
my podcasts. And why would I say that? Well, you

(06:13):
could say, well, wait a minute, you know you've said
some things and maybe people don't like it. Well, yeah,
that's probably true. Actually, in the past, when I've said
controversial things, politically conservative or Christian things, it's increased numbers. Now. Also,
like you take BEFO, I went to the same time
last year. I could look back at old podcasts like

(06:34):
the first one, two, three, four, five to one hundred idea, right,
I mean I've done more than five hundred podcasts for
the show. I could look at old podcasts and see
how many people were coming to listen to the old
ones every week, and it was a lot, and it
was steady and it was increasing, and now it's like

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none all. The only reason that would be is is
that I'm being censored somewhere because those with someone's searches
for something, say on Google, for instance, or another search engine,
my podcast on a subject, a specific herb or maybe

(07:15):
you know, head colds or flu whatever should be showing
up in those search results. I'm not showing up in
the search results anymore. So I don't know if they're
trying to force me to pay money for advertising. That
happens sometimes, but for it to go on this long,
it's not a fluke. Someone is specifically suppressing me in

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search engines. So how can we get around this? Well,
if you want me to keep doing the show, and
I hope you too, I hope you enjoy it and
value it. I put a heck of a lot into it,
actually share it. Know, one way we can get around
the search engines is for you to get one friend
or one family member or one stranger just to listen

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to my podcast. You know, that's huge, I mean that's
really huge. I mean it's it's not been good. I
have to say it's not been good, and you can
really help me. You don't have to buy a book,
you don't have to spend any money, just say hey,

(08:29):
you might want to listen to this. That would if
everyone who listens to this would actually do that I'd
be back where I was a year ago. That's how
bad it's gotten. I mean, I've lost serious numbers. And
it's not the subscribers. It's not the people who are

(08:52):
subscribed subscribers to the podcast, it's those that would find
it through search engines. And so the way we can
around that, if y'all would just please recommend my show,
you can, while you're at it, recommend my books, that
would be great. I could really use some more book sales.
When my show numbers go down, my book sales go down,

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and that's not good for anybody. So now let's get
into y Burnham now. And in the meantime, well, this
has been happening. My public profile has risen, My number
of followers on Twitter x has increased by like tenfold. Right,

(09:34):
I got a major publishing company working with me, I
got you know, major people citing my work and wanting
to interview me. And do I mean if it were
not for purposely suppressing my listenership, this year should have
been a banner year. I mean literally, twenty twenty five
should have been huge. I should have ten times as

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many listeners as I've got right now. This is it's
most obviously purposeful, and I don't know who's doing it
or how to stop them. I really don't. I've tried
paying for ads before. Really doesn't make a lot of
difference because so much of my work is well, it's
not flash, it's quality, it's substantive. I do long form

(10:21):
podcasts with a great deal of information that doesn't you know,
you can't just buy an AD and somebody click on it.
When they do that, they're going to listen to it
for like thirty seconds and they're like, Okay, I'm moving
on to you know, some funny meme or some cat
playing a piano or you know how it works. No,
I mean my listeners are actually sit down and listen
for thirty minutes to an hour. So I'm what was

(10:46):
happening is that new listeners and probably even current listeners
who aren't subscribed, are no longer able to find my
show unless they go in and actively serve for it.
And I even put it into a search engine and
use specific words like my name and the title of

(11:08):
the show, and it was not at the top. That's
kind of weird. I mean, if you look for the
Southern Appalachian Herb Podcast, it shouldn't show up on like
page five, right, So something's up. Something's going on. But anyway,
this is all I'm gonna say on that it helped
me out, if you can. Also, interestingly, about the time

(11:35):
I started dropping out of those search rankings and getting
fewer listeners, I started getting tons of email every day
from people saying, if you pay me this amount of money,
i'll promote your podcast. A little suspicious, I think so.
I think it's more than a little suspicious, But it's
also not a dang thing I can do about it.

(11:56):
It's keep doing a good job, say a prayer, and
hope for the best. Y'all can do a lot. Literally,
if you share this podcast with one person, that's actually
I mean, if five percent of my audience shared this
podcast with one person each, I'd be back on the

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plus side. That's how bad things have been. I mean,
it's been like losing listeners week to week, not getting subscribers,
everything just like going stale. I don't you know, it's
it's obviously quite purposeful, and I don't know who, how

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or why, but there's no doubt because I mean, I
do the same podcast today as I did on you know,
November twenty three, two years ago, and November twenty three,
two years ago, I'd get like, you know, fifty new
subscribers in a day, and now I get none and

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lose three. So something's going on, I mean something is
something's going on. So anyway, we're going to talk about viburnum,
and I told you this is one of the most
important verbs. It absolutely is. There are seven shrub form
viburnums that are native to my area. There are we
see forty one varieties with documented use in herbal medicine.

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This is a huge and incredibly useful family. The one
that is most often used is called geld or rose.
The reason it's most often used just because it grows
in England. It was used by a bunch of English
orbalists that wrote about it. It is particularly good for
menstrual cramping. But all your viburnums or halls as they're

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often called in the South Haws. Sometimes they're called cranberry's
up north, but not always the same plant, so we
have to differentiate. Often they're mistaken for hydrangea, also a
different plant with very different uses. You want to make
sure you get your identification down on this. But like

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Viburnum trilobum is American cranberry. That doesn't mean that if
you're in another region in another country and somebody calls
them to the cranberry, it's going to be a viburnum,
but in some cases it is. I mean viburnums are
often misidentified. If you're going to grow one, check your region.

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The guelder rose the most used one, also called cramp
bark because it helps with minstrel cramping and other spasmodic issues.
Does well in cool, damp climates. It grows in the
mountains of North Carolina where I live, and doesn't grow
anywhere else in North Carolina. It grows from where I
live north all the way up into Canada. Who are

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in Louisiana or Mississippi or something you're going to want
to look more like the black hall or the possum hall.
Also viburnums, So viburnums. I'm on the useful plants in
urbal medicine. Also, as I said, I'm one of the
most varied in appearance and growth habitat. They can be
bushes or trees. They can be cranberries or halls. They

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can be ornamental shrubs, or they can look like a hydrangea.
Miss Greeb wrote the golder rose viburnum called the cramp bark.
She says, this bark knows. Cramp bark is employed in
herbal medicine. It used to formally be including the United
States pharmacopeia she's writing in nineteen thirty one, but is
now omitted, though it has been introduced into the National

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formulatory in the form of fluid extract, compound tincture, and
compound elixture for use as a nerve, sedative and anti
spasmodic and asthma and hysteria. Now what does she mean
by hysteria, Well, let me get sip water and I'll
tell you. Hysteria originally referred to a swelling in the pleurroma.

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I believe it's called the tissue around the lungs. It
would cause shortness of breath. It's like plurosy, if you
want to think of it that way. It caused shortness
of breath, anxiety, rapid heart rate, fainting, swooning as they
used to call it. That was true hysteria sometime in

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the I don't even know it was after the Middle Ages,
but sometime around it, I guess what we'd call the
Renaissance era, which actually never happened. The Renaissance is a myth,
by the way, if you ever look at history, you'll
find out there was never a Renaissance. It was made up.
But around that period they began to call hysteria female

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complaints or female troubles, PMS, ability, you know, et cetera, cramping, discomfort,
So hysteria has become by at least by the eighteen hundreds,
hysteria was a term used almost specifically for women for

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any emotional or and most physical complaints related to menstrual disorders.
There were not a lot of remedies for this form
of so called hysteria, and so a lot of those
women in the eighteen hundreds nineteen hundreds were put in
mental institutions and given lobotomies or shock therapy. So now

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it has a really bad historical connotation. This rightly deserved
because before the so called Renaissance that never happened, herbalists
knew exactly what was going on, and they would use
herbs to help with menstrual cramping. They would use herbs
to help with pain, they would use herbs to help
with anxiety, they would use herbs to help with true hysteria,

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which would be an inflammation around the lungs, rapid heart rate,
shallow breathing, fainting. Herbalists were much better at treating what
came to be called hysteria by so called medical professionals,
doctors that went to universities and shun the use of
herbs in the nineteen hundreds, our so called allopathic or whatever. Alleopathic,

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I think that's the way you pronounce it. Medicine absolutely,
even to this day, what just last week or the
week before. Bobby Kennedy and that little guy that works
with him, I can never remember his name, real talkative,
real smart. Anyway, I can't remember his name. He comes
out and says, the medical industry, the medical profession in

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America has absolutely done more to betray and damage women
and hurt women's health than it has helped them. And
of course the left like, what, no, everybody has to
go to a doctor every day and take every pill imaginal.
You can't say that, but it's the truth. It's the truth.

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Herbalists who were often you know, professional medical people or
folk herbalists who were often women because women were not
always you know, accepted into universities, so we actually had that,
you know, double path. You could be a kitchen herbalist
of folk erbalists like me actually, but that was more

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common among women. Or you could go to school and
be a doctor. You're still using medicinal herbs. Well, until
nineteen hundred, early nineteen hundreds, when they switched was entirely
to pharmaceuticals. Women didn't get a lot of help. I mean,
you could say, yeah, well, aspirin, okay, But we had

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aspron before them, we had willa bark, we had met
a suite. They came what was the first one of
the first big discoveries, tilt All. How great has that men?
Tilerh All causes liver damage and autism not a good thing.
A seed demnifhin is not a good thing. Beyond that,

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I mean, they finally came up with some hormone replacement therapy,
and doctors discouraged women from using it. Meanwhile, the most
natural thing in the world is for a woman to
breastfeed her child, and doctors went around pushing pills on
to stop lactation and tried to convince them to use
formula that does nothing. Because diabetes and heart disease modern

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medicine has not been good for women, but women are
the largest consumers of modern medicine. Men don't like god
to the doctor. If a doctor says I want to
see you every week on Wednesday morning at seven thirty am,
a woman's going to be there every week on Wednesday
morning at seven thirty am and think she's being deprived

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of something if somebody tells her, you know what, that
doctor really may not have your best interest in mine
or may be incompetent. I don't know why that's the
difference between men and women. It's a part of our DNA,
X and Y chromosomes. Men don't like going to doctors.
We don't like taking our clothes off. We don't like

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being poked and prodded, and we usually generally resent the
way that we're treated at doctors' offices. Women love going
to doctors in general. Give me every pharmaceutical you can
give me. I'll be here every single time you have
an appointment. I'll do whatever you tell me. I don't

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understand it. I don't understand it. But that's also the
reason most men tend to be Republican and most women
tend to be democrat. Women want to be taken care of.
And that's a natural instinct. Does a natural instinct? Absolutely,
Men don't want to be taken care of. We want
to be left the hell alone. If you have a testosterone,

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you want to be left the hell alone. If you're
a soy boy, maybe you don't. Okay, did I just
lose another one hundred subscribers? You know?

Speaker 1 (22:13):
Maybe?

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Frankly, I don't care. If that's the reason I use them,
I'll tell you the truth. And the truth is a
man who's a man wants to do just about anything
rather than go to a doctor. A man who has
higher estrogen, like a woman, wants to be told what
to do and where to go, and given this and

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given that, and believe that someone's taking care of them. Okay.
Break down of the modern family. Most people don't even
get married if they have a child. If they do,
they don't stay together very long. Women don't have husbands,
children don't have fathers. They're looking for somebody to take

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care of them. I got it. In the meantime, they say,
I'm strong, independent woman, I have a PhD. I make
all this money, and I can buy the best insurance
money can buy, and I'm going to use it or
go on food stamps and medicare and all that I
don't need a man, Okay, Well, trade in that husband,

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that father, whatever, for a doctor who makes a whole
lot of money putting you on medicine that makes you
not necessarily healthy. In fact, the leading cause of death
in America is the combination of medical malpractice, over prescription
and pure medical abuse. So you've actually traded in the

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person who is supposed to protect and provide for you
for someone who's there to take your money and kill you.
Not to say that doctors intentionally kill their patients, of
course they don't. That would be bad business. But when
they don't have an actual answer except to give you

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a bunch of medication that has contraindications and can cause toxicity,
you know that's the end result. You know what is
the end result of modern Western medicine. End up in
a nursing home for your last twenty years of your life,
being constantly watched over by doctors and nurses, and you know,

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bedridden and knocked out most of the time, hopefully not
being abused by the people that you're paying to take
care of you. That happens more often thil we wish
to admit. I could tell you many stories of but
of witness firsthand. Most people who go into modern medicine
are good and have wonderful intentions. But beginning of the

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nineteen twenties, they took the things out that could actually
help with what we might call hysteria and put in
a bunch of pharmaceuticals that do nothing. Because more problems,
put them on antidepressants. Well, after thirty years we find
out antidepressants don't actually work to stop depression. I mean,

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seventy percent of women in America are on some form
of psychoactive medication, usually for depression, anxiety, or what was
once called hysteria. The studies have come out over the
past five ten years showing they absolutely don't work. They

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have horrible side effects, including suicide and intrusive thoughts, and
know really bad stuff. But the doctors still hand them
out like candy and tell the women that if you
don't show up for this appointment, you're missing out. I've
got this great drug that can help you, but you
have to come in. You have to come in, you

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have to come in, And somehow the doctors and insurance
companies end up making millions the women not end up depressed, suicidal, anxious,
maybe develop a disease, shortened lifespan, and at the end
of the day, the best you can hope for is
to be alone and hopefully not mistreated in a nursing home.

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Wouldn't we be better off if we went back to, Oh,
I don't know, get married, have a family, use home remedies,
live together to your eighties or nineties, husband and wife
on a family farm or a small home, Raise some
good kids that'll come in and check on you and

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provide for your needs when you get too old to
provide for yourself, someone who actually loves you and cares
for you. But the feminist ideal was to say, you
don't need children, you don't need a husband. You can
make plenty of money and pay people, pay doctors and

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insurance companies and etc. Etc. To take care of you.
What actually is the end result. You're essentially a prisoner
in an institution, hoping someone's not beating you or starving you.
Because once you reach a certain age and you've got

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nobody to care for you, nobody's going to know how
they mistreat you. Well, they they have access to all
your money, they can have you declare mentally incompetent. They
can have an attorney take away all of your rights,
give power attorney, power of attorney to someone in that facility.
They can take literally every dollar out of your bank account.

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They can starve you to death, they can beat you,
and nobody is going to care. Welcome to the America,
Welcome to the Democrat Party, Welcome to the year twenty
twenty five. If you do not have a family, and
if you do not go to a church regularly where

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you have people you know and who care for you, you
will end up a prisoner, abused, and essentially, you know,
a slave, a chicken in a cage. I mean, a

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less sci fi version of the Matrix. They don't have
to keep you in some cocoon with pumping fluids through you. No,
they just stick you back in a room somewhere and
ignore you. You can lie there in your own filth,
you can starve to death. If you complain, they'll come
in and beat you. And this really does happen. I've
seen it with my own eyes. I've had to go

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in and care for someone whose own family walked away
from them and left them, supposedly in the care of
a well rated nursing home, all expenses paid by a medicaid.
All they had to do was just three meals a day,

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changed the bedpan, a little clean up here and there.
That's all she needed. They didn't expect her to live
into her nineties when she came in there at I
think seventy eight, had a stroke and then spent the
next twenty years in a nursing home. Is that really

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the future you want? We used to live in the
world where people took care of their elders. I did,
took care of my grandparents, took care of my uncle
when he has a stroke. Left college, went in, did
the physical work necessary. Do you know what it's like
to you know, you're twenty years old, you're no longer

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can and work outside of the home to earn a
living date and you know you're waiting at night, you
hear someone, they get up, they think they can get
up and go to the bathroom. They fall. You have
to go up and pick them up physically, one hundred
and twenty one hundred and fifty pounds off the floor,
carry them around. It's not easy. I understand why people
don't want to do it. You know why you do

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it love. You actually care about that person. No one
paid to do that job is going to care about
that person. They care for you when you're an infant,
You care for them at the end. That's the way
it's supposed to work. It's not fun. Life is not

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supposed to be fun. But you better damn sure think
this through. If you think you're going to go into
a retirement home assisted living, and then from there to
a nursing home, and you think you're going to have
a good life because you've made millions of dollars or
hundreds of thousands of dollars and you're going to pay
for the best care. Once they get your money, you're

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nothing but a liability. I'm you better think this one's thrue.
There are so many people going down this road. There
are so many people going down this road. I know
right now. So I care about very deeply. Ex girlfriend

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of mine. She's a professional person. She's she makes more
money in a month than I'll play making ten years.
I mean, she's got the degrees, she's got the power position,
she's got everything. She also has some serious issues. She

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can't let anybody get close to her. She has abandonment issues.
We'll say, and her, she's not going to get married.
She's just not gonna happen. She expects to work till
she retires, and then you know, retirement, nursing home, well

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assisted living, the nursing home. You know how that works.
She's not a good life in store. And I can't
seem to get her to understand this. No family, no children,
She's never gonna have children. Very liberal democrat believes this

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is the feminist goal, right, be completely self sufficient. You
don't need a man, you don't need children. Okay, meanwhile,
she's like five two one hundred pounds wearing three sweaters. Anyway,

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I mean iked out for I'd have taken care of her.
I'd have made sure she had everything she needed. But
now she thinks she can buy it. What do you do?
So anyway, let's talk about by Burnham. Okay, we just

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went through Miss greeb. We got hysteria. Of course, so
she says it is a nerve sedative. An anti spasmodic
usually uses decoction in England. So a strong tea essentially
made from the bark good for cramps and spasms of
all kinds, also palpitations, heart disease and rheumatism. Yeah, she

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doesn't say much more after that. It said that the
bark is bitter. By the way, the haws are a
nice sweet fruit. Cranberries of course have a bitterness, but
the bark is bitter, so it can also be used
as a digestive tonic and for the liver. So in Poland,
Sophie Hederick Snab tells us that the berries were used
more and it would be made to a jam to

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soothe cough and flim headaches, fevers, and for typhus. It's interesting.
Usually we use the bark, but yeah, I'm Poland. The
berries Apparently resources of southern fields and forests got into
all the haws, and they list so many halls. That's
h a w if you've ever heard of it's not hawthorn, okay,

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but I guess the plant was mistaken for that. So
you have black hall, red hall, possum hall. It's a
good fruit. You can make jam out of it. It's nice.
Little little sour, yeah, definitely little sour. The author of
this book mentions the doctor Farres of Mississippi. He said

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he regards as a nervine anti spasmodic as stringent diary catonic.
Now this is not the guilder of Roads. This is
not the official viburnum. These are the wild ones that
grow throughout the South. Same properties nervine, anti spasmodic, is stringent, diuretic,
and tonic. And he claims that in the nervous disorders
of pregnancy and uterine diseases, is a valuable remedy agent.

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In other words, well, he actually says it is particularly
valuable in preventing abortion and miscarriage, whether habitual or otherwise.
So at this point in time, abortion was illegal in
the United States, and sometimes doctors would actually keep by
Burnham on hand if someone had taken something to induce

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some miscarriage, give it to them to stop it. Okay,
I don't recommend any herbs or in pregnancy. You know
that if you listen to this show, Gosh, you know that.
I say it just over and over and over. I'm
not an expert. If you want to take herbs are
in pregnancy, you need to consult an expert and do
your own research. This viburnum, because it prevents spasms and cramping,

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was the primary herb used to prevent miscarriage premature contractions
for hundreds of years. I do not know of any contraindication,
any documented case in which it caused any harm, but
I'm still not going to recommend it. Now if if

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you've had a miscarriage before, if you're prone to miscarriage,
I hate to say it that way. It's a horrible thing.
I have several friends who have carried some babies to
term and lost others, and they never get over it.
You may want to look into it to stop premature contractions.

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I would highly recommend consulting a midwife who has who
is knowledgeable in herbal medicine. If you cannot find one,
look for book books written by women for women on
this subject. It has been used plenty. Probably is fairly safe,
but I'm not gonna recommend it because that's not my

(37:12):
area of expertise anyway. Moving on to Kings of American dispensatory,
and they use viburnum opulus, which is high bush cranberry.
Now that's where I say that not all viburnums or cranberries,
and not all cranberries are viburnums, but high bush cranberry is.

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And they said it is powerful anti spasmodic. High bush
cranberry is essentially the American version of gilder Rose by
the way powerful anti spasmodic, and in consequence of this property,
it is more generally among American practitioners by the name
cramp bark. It is very effective in relaxing cramps and

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spasms of all kinds such as asthma, hysteria, cramps of
the limbs or other parts, and females, especially in pregnancy,
and is said to be highly beneficial when those were
subject to convulsions during pregnancy or at the time of partruation,
preventing the attack entirely if used in the last two
months of gestation. That is actually a medical text for

(38:14):
nineteen ninety eight. I still say do your own research.
Consult at expert says like viburt prunifolium, it is a
remedy for the prevention of abortion and to prepare the
way for the process of burt par parturition means having
a baby. It allays uterine irritation and tendency to terminate

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in hysteria, while in the neurologic and spasmatic form of dysminerrhea.
It is a favorable remedy with many physicians. It has
been used as spasmodic contractions of the bladder, and spasmodic stricture.
They were using a tincture twenty drops of a specific
probably a percolation tincture. Actually said this is closely resembles

(39:01):
set at the Black Holl, so they use Black Call
as well. There's some interesting formulas including skunk cabbage and
such which can be a little dangerous. Some need to
skip over that, but for specific indications and uses for cramps,
uterine pain, spasmodic action, pain of the thighs, and back
bearing down that's another thing that happens during pregnancy, expulsive pains,

(39:23):
neuralgic and spasmodic dysmin area, and as an anti abortive.
Then they give a big description of the Black Hall,
including that it's bitter, slightly arithmatic, good for digestion, good
as a gargle and a wash for ulcers and sores,
a stringent, good for diarrhea, and everything they said about

(39:44):
the other one. They also thought that black Hole was
good for sterility. Interestingly enough, don't know if that's true
or not, but for specific indications there they said irtabiliate ability,
threatened abortion, uterine colic has been a rhea deficient mensis,

(40:08):
severe lumbar and bearing down pains, cramp like expulsive mental pain,
intermittent painful contraction of the pelvic tissue after pains and
false pains of pregnancy, and obstinate hiccup. Yes, these spasms
that are called hiccups can also be helped, especially with
the black Hall, but probably with many members of the

(40:30):
Viburnham family. Medicinal plants of Southern Appalachians speak specifically of
the black hall because that's the one we have most
Here says that black hall was an ingredient and foremast
for women's monthly troubles and was used to leave menstrual cramps,
prevent miscarriage, and as a labor tyme during the last
few weeks of pregnancy. It was an ingredient in the
best selling herbal remedy of all time, Lydia Pink Comes

(40:51):
vegetable compound for females, and yes, that used to be
advertised in every magazine. It was huge. Black hall was
also used to relieve irvist and stomach cramps and ticks
or spasms. Now let me get one more sip of
water and we'll get into plants for a future because
they include a couple from my region. Arrow wood at

(41:14):
the coction of the twigs has been taken by hmm
oh by women. I couldn't remind writing to prevent conception.
I thought, what is that word wamp them? No, it's women. Yeah,
I have horrible writing to prevent conception. A poultus of
the plant has been applied to swollen legs of a
woman after she has given birth. Both of the above

(41:35):
uses are for the subspecies by Burnham Dentum Licuti l
U c I d U M listened them there we go.
But for hobbleberry, which is really common in my area,
they said that leaves are analgic, analgesic. They have been

(41:57):
mashed and applied to the head as a poultice to
ease my grains. At acoction of the roost has been
used as a blood medicine, and a coction has been
used as an aid to fertility by women. Interesting, very interesting.
Physicians ask reference for herbal medicines just lists of black Hall,
interestingly not the gelder rose, which is far more commonly used.

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Says the drug has spasmolytic and to date undefined effects
on the uterus. Black Hall has been used for complaints
of dysmin area. No health hazards or side effects are
known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages.
So these are great plants. I would highly encourage you

(42:42):
to find one that grows in your region, do some
research on it, look it up. The gelder rose is
like the official viburnum, but Blackhaw if you're in the
south excellent, like runner up to it, high Bush Cranberry
if you're in the north. If you happen to be
in area where Guilder rose doesn't do well, it's very

(43:02):
closely related. Possum Hall is when we did not even
discuss resources of Southern fields and forest list, Possum Hall
is basically interchangeable with black Hall. Red Hall also falls
into their big family. Lots of usage. You're going to
be able to find one that grows in your area,
and it's definitely one of those herbs to have on hand.

(43:25):
I mean, I went to confession yesterday and the line
was like out of the door. Everybody wants to go
to confession before they travel for the holidays. Understandable. Well,
I forgot that next week is Thanksgiving. You know, when
you don't have much family, you don't really think about
holidays a whole lot. You try not to anyway, and

(43:46):
I ended up standing on a hard floor for almost
two hours waiting to get in there. And I woke
up this morning with terrible, terrible cramps in my calves.
I had a liniment use have a wonderful limit and
make kind of hopsput and arracles. That was good. Also
have some hemp oil. You know, I was good. But

(44:08):
you know what if I had had some vine Burnham tincture,
I would have worked faster and better just a few
I think Kings of American Dispensatory said twenty drops of tincture,
so that's a teaspoon essentially, A teaspoonful of tincture would
have taken care of that boom right away. I would
have had a much nicer morning. Anyway, y'all have a

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