May 1, 2025 • 34 mins
HELLO, DANDELIONS! 🌼 | By Appalachian Forager | Facebook
I can get pretty feisty about dandelions not being a weed. Those sunny yellow flowers and jagged green leaves are a nutritional powerhouse, packed with vitamins, minerals, and incredible health benefits.Â
In this episode, we're diving into the fascinating world of dandelions, exploring their surprising uses, amazing health benefits, and how you can safely and sustainably forage them right in your own backyard!
They’re a great place to start with foraging as most everyone can easily identify them and the whole plant is useful. My son (currently 10yo) has been harvesting them to make tea for years and saute’ed us some up just the other day!Â
I can get pretty feisty about dandelions not being a weed. Those sunny yellow flowers and jagged green leaves are a nutritional powerhouse, packed with vitamins, minerals, and incredible health benefits.Â
In this episode, we're diving into the fascinating world of dandelions, exploring their surprising uses, amazing health benefits, and how you can safely and sustainably forage them right in your own backyard!
They’re a great place to start with foraging as most everyone can easily identify them and the whole plant is useful. My son (currently 10yo) has been harvesting them to make tea for years and saute’ed us some up just the other day!Â
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Yeah, So dandylions is something that I've always had a
spiritual connection with because, you know, it's one of the
first plants that were introduced to when we're interested in
the medicinal properties of weeds, and you know, thinking about, well.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
What is a weed?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
A weed is just.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
A plant that someone has decided it doesn't belong in
the garden. And I feel like that's like a whole
conspiracy and stuff. But I always felt like that as well.
I felt like a I felt like a dandylion. You know,
I was just trying to exist. I'm just trying to survive,
and people was just like pulling at me and wanting
(00:47):
me not.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
To be there.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
And so for years and years and years now, my
Facebook profile, my my personal Facebook profile, the header image
is a diagram of dandylions because I've always felt like
a weed myself.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Very ready. Yeah, my next tattoo that I get is
actually gonna be a dandylion, because yeah, because okay, first
of all, feeling like a weed, yes, but also how
stink and resilient dandylions are that will take in the
(01:32):
harshest conditions and they will just grow and thrive, and
it's like, bitch, you thought she was going to kill
me here I am so yes, Oh sorry Roe.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Oh no, no, you're fine.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
He I didn't mean to say. I didn't mean to cuss.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
No, it's fine.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I got I got fired up there for a minute.
I didn't you realize he's okay, don't worry about Okay. Yeah,
like I said, got fired up there per minute. But yeah,
So that's actually was what my next tattoo is going
to be as a dandylion because of all its resilient
(02:13):
qualities and property, like all of the things, like how
rude is it for us to call dandylions weeds when
they're edible and medicinal and have all of these wonderful
things that we can do with them. Yeah, like the
entire plant. This one is one of those plants where
the root is also edible and medicinal, so the planet
(02:39):
itself is all right. So if you are have active
gallstones or our own diretics, you want to be careful
about using dandylion because it's pretty potent. So it is
a strong diuretic, so it helps you shed water and
increases you're inflow and all of that stuff. So it's
(03:00):
really good for urinary stuff. It is also really good
for chapped skin, like chapped and irritated skin. So I
make a lot of salves with that, and I make
(03:22):
chapstick with it too, which chapstick is really just a
sab with extra bees wax to make it a little firmer.
It's all just a combination of infused oil and bees wax.
It's just saves are a little less bees wax because
you want it to be more appliable, and chapstick or
(03:45):
lip balm you want to have a little more bees
wax so that it's firm and kind of stays in
a little too porn for you to put on your lips.
So those are the two things like chapped chapped, chapped
skin and giuretic. But you can also like put it
in and use it for salad greens, and it's a
(04:06):
bitter herb. So it's good for digestion, which is that's
one of the things that drew me to dandylions. Also
is because you know, with my gut hilts, I've always
been looking for anything to improve digestion. So dandelion is
good for that too.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
So one of these days I'm going to talk you
into starting a whole like herbal business with salves and
tinctures and chapsticks.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
And lotions and all of the things.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
And we're going to dress up as like, like, well,
you can dress up however you are. Oh no, I
feel like I feel like you'd be interested. I want
to make it very medieval looking because you oh, her
phone died.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
That was what the oh no is.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I don't remember exactly where we were, but.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
We were talking about, uh, you talking me into making
my products, and we were going to dress up as something.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Oh, Renaissance theme, because you know, my whole thing is
well not my whole thing, but I'm you know, I
was a history major in college, and I've just always
been really interested in, uh, the way we used to
do things in a lot of ways was a lot
(05:34):
better than how we currently do things and how we
need to integrate the future with the past and move forward.
And it was so you're making noises, so yeah, Renaissance outfits,
Renaissance that would be and doing like vendor events.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
That would be so fun, and that that would be
It would be so much fun.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
We could do Renaissance fairs, we could travel around and
like we could take our camper and we could just
you know, we have h Blake just park us there
for a whole weekend.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yes, that would be awesome. That would be awesome. And
we can't just you know dust thou wants a seve
to cure then ailments.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
We can make a h all.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Like tiktoks and stuff in between, like we would totally
entertain ourselves.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
That would be.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Absolutely, Absolutely, it would be a lot of fun. Okay, So.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I can just go through what I have for dandelions
and then you can fill in the blanks or whatever whatever.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Yes, so for sure, the all of the uses, all
of the parts are useful.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
So it says young tender leaves are excellent in salads.
They're slightly bitter and peppery. It turns out that most
herbs are kind of peppery. But I don't know if
it has anything to do with I know, pepper, like
actual pepper helps the body absorb things. So I wonder
(07:32):
if that has anything to do with it. It could
absolutely not be connected at all, or it could.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yeah, I'm not either.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
And the funny thing is is like there it may
not be something that we know, just as humans or
I don't.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I don't know. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
We're just now grazing the surface of what I hope
is a very long journey of learning in.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
All of this.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yes, okay, so older so this what younger leaves are
best for, like salads, so eaten raw and now my
cat's being obnoxious. This isn't This is an entertaining episode,
very eventful episode so far. Yeah, older leaves can be
(08:25):
cooked like spinach or kill, salted or added to soups
and stews. They're highly nutritious, rich.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
In vitamins and minerals. But it doesn't tell me which ones.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Did you know that AI acts just like a person,
Like I'll give it the same prompt every single day,
and it'll enter it in a different way every single day.
It kind of drives me crazy because I want it
to give me a So I use.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It to do my.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Episode descriptions. So I don't use it for anything, Like
I'm not trying to like write articles or write books
and with AI and call it mine. I'm just trying
to get it to do all of the scrub work
that kind of takes a little bit of time that
I could hand off to a.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
A what do you call them?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Somebody who studied seeing somebody who studied what like studies
up underneath you like, go, I'm just trying to do
the intern work, the you know, the crap work that
nobody else wants to do, myself included. So but I'll
I use it for my episode descriptions, and which are
(09:45):
mostly SEO purposed anyway, most people care about the descriptions.
You know, how many podcast descriptions have you read before
you've listened.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
To the episode?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Almost none?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
You just you look at the title and if it
catches your attention, you hit play, let's try this out,
and you give them like three minutes and do they
catch my attention or do they not? And so it's
mostly for like SEO work anyway. Anyway, it'll give me
a different prompt every single day. So point being, you know,
we've sat here and we've done all five of these
(10:21):
episodes back to back, just kind of like bulking it
to knock it out. And so I've given it the
exact same prompt every time with a different plant, and
it's answered in a different way every time, which is bothersome,
but anyway, so it gave me. It told me it
was rich in vitamins and nutrients and minerals, but it
(10:44):
doesn't tell me which kind. But previously it has been
more specific.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yeah, I don't know what viottamins and minerals are it
is rich in either. I just know that it is
rich in them. Like some things, some things, I'm like,
I don't know exactly, but i know it's good for me,
so I'm gonna do it. So dandylion is one of
those things.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, I just asked for a breakdown. Okay, Wow, yeah, okay.
So it's got vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin K, vitamin E,
full eight.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Sounds like a Queen Herbie song.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yeah, calcium, potassium, iron, magnesium, fiber, and antioxidants.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
You know, we just redid our front garden and I
was very carefully pulling all of the dandelions out and
re like putting them in a pot, and uh, Blake
was just kind of hacking at everything, and I was like,
I was carefully pulling at this one dandylion and I
(12:00):
had to stop for a second because I don't remember why.
He was next to me and he was talking to
me and like he was like hand me this or something.
I don't know, so I was so I turned around
and I like, I grabbed it, and I turned back
around and he just hacks at this dandylion that I
was just pulling out, Like what did you do when
you saw me delicately pulling at this baby? At your monster?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
You monster. It's funny because you say that, And like
last summer or spring last year when it was warm
and things were growing. Anytime that I would see like
the dandylion seeds, you know where it comes up in
the big puffball. Anytime I would see those, I would
(12:48):
run over there and I would carefully, like so carefully,
pluck it and I would kept it in my hand
so the wind didn't get it, and I would walk
all the way to the guard and then I would
put it in like smear the seeds around everywhere in
my garden beds. And Justin was like, what.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Are you doing?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
And blasphemin dandy lines and he was like, those are weeds.
They're gonna take over your garden beds. And I was like,
let them. I want them. Uh huh do you not
know how good they are?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
In if you get into relationship psychology, they talk about
how couples have pretty much just the same three fights,
and uh, you have to figure out as a couple
what your three fights are. But once you know that
(13:48):
most couples only have the same three fights and you
identify yours, you start to recognize it and you start
to notice it, and then you can better work through
it and find solutions to those three fights. But one
of mine and Blake's three fights is about what is
a weed and what is not?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I will fight like I will. That's that's a hill
I'm dying on.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Is weeds.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Weeds. If they're natives, they're oh useful, they have a purpose.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I mean so I hate some of them too though
for sure. But yes, those.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Little things that have the bursts on them, Oh.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yeah, yeah, uh, prickly something and you know what, I
can find it, give me two minutes.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Not even I want to say they have like goat
in the name.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
I don't know that for sure though, my.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Mom Uh and uh next about once every three to
six months.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Oh wow, yeah, And uh.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
That's one of the things that we've texted about. So
I just have to figure out if it was in
SMS or if it was.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
It looks like it was not an SMS.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Let me check messenger, because she she acts. She asked
me just h Reese, Well, like a month and a
half ago what they were called. Because you can only
get rid of them a certain time of year, so
they start seeding, okay, burr weed.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Yeah, they like start seating in February or something. You
have to spray like a pre emergent or something.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yeah. That's so you can only get rid of them
if you spray them in in like February or March
when they're when they start producing.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Otherwise is they are like the spawn of the devil. Yes,
and they absolutely ruin anytime that I want to try
to do any ground in and I'm like, oh, the
grass feels so nice, the ground on my feet, And
then I am limping.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
To the dropway to try to dig all of those
little spurs out.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Of my feet.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, I got I got chills. That chill they started
at my feet and went all the way up to
my face when we started talking about them, because my
body knows they're Oh my gosh, terrible.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
The body keeps the score.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Oh, there's a book. There's a book, did you know.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Yes, that's why I'm saying that, like, so trauma past trauma,
the body keeps the score.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yes, my friend uh Lauren that I play pickleball with
has been so adamant that I read this book, so
I download. I bought it on Audible and I downloaded
it a couple of weeks ago, and I haven't been
able to find time to listen to it because me
and this guy over here have been We finished The Giver.
(17:13):
Did you did you know it's a four part series?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
I did?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I have?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
I currently have the next part on hold in my
Libbia gathering blue. Yes, yes, we're almost done with book three.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Really, yes, we have been putting it away.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
It is so good, so good? What rod? I'm really
sad that it's ending. I know those are the when
you know that you get the good books. Is when
you're sad that they're ending, you're like, oh, can I
just go back and read it all over again.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I was so angry about how the first book ended.
We started the second book and we're like.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
What the hell is this?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
It's completely different?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Where it please?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Please please let it tie together? And towards the end
of it it kind of hinted that it might okay
together and then Book three is just it just hits
the ground running, tying everything together, sopka.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Keep going.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Okay, So when I get into book two, don't be discouraged.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Right right, But it's completely different. It's it's basically a
completely different book, but it's also really good in a
similar way. And then towards the end of the book
it starts hinting that it might tie things together, and
then Book three is like, yeah, we hear, we hear,
(18:45):
it's tied.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Everything's together.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Here's that guy, here's this guy.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
It's okay, do it. I can't wait. I'm so ready,
Like I'm I'm listening to a couple of other books.
I am like all over the place with books. But
I'm listening to a couple of other books and Audible
right now. But that is on my my wait list
for my Libby apps. Sorry, I'm since I'm in upstairs
(19:10):
now my dog and everybody is like trying to distract me.
Where were we going with.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
This part of the conversation?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Uh, the body keep score is where is? Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Yeah, yes, that is a good book. Though I do
recommend that if you have some time to spare to
read it, because it is good. I've read it twice.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I'm like that, so I have yet, I've started it.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I just haven't gotten too far with it.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I think the first time that I read it was
about the time that I found you, because that's what
got me into you know, like the trauma informed yoga
and stuff like that. And then I read it again
just like within the last six months. Also yeah cool
so but yes the spurs. How can we bring this
(20:05):
back to dandylions?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Well, I can bring this back to dandylions because I
you know, as you you know, with the body keeps
score and relating it back to me. And what I
do is all healing aspects and a lot of people
are trying to heal from trauma or whatever have you.
Healing comes in a lot of different forms, and I
the reason, one of the reasons that I am so
(20:32):
into herbs is because the earth provides all that we
need for things, and we really need to get more
back in touch, in tune with all of the medicinal
properties of all the plants that are available to us.
And the more that we learn about the plants in
our area, in our yard and start to learn how
(20:55):
to incorporate them and actually use them, and the more
we use them, the moor will cultivate them and take
care of them so they'll be more plentiful. And that's
going to help heal not only us, but our community,
our environment, and you know, spreading that knowledge for how
to do any of that, because none of us these
(21:18):
days start out knowing anything about any of this stuff.
You know, You're like, well, of course dried is more potent,
and I'm like, well, I didn't know that, Brandy. That
is it's not something that is just automatically knowledge that
people start out with, you know. And the more that
we get into touch with the plants, and not only
(21:41):
are we going to inadvertently heal things that we thought
were chronic thing conditions that we were going to have
to spend the rest of our lives with, but it
also heals parts of our soul. And are you know
it's grounding to get out there and touch grass and
(22:03):
it heals not only the body, but the mental and
the emotional and everything. So nature.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Yeah, and two like when you're dealing with herbs, to me,
I feel like this is why I love teas and
you know, sabs and all of this, Like, I love
all of it because you can really set a lot
of intention because you go in like say, I have
(22:36):
my herbal apothecary and I have a wall full of
jars of dried herbs, and like it's like making a potion,
and it's you know, you're setting an intention and you're
creating this spell.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Like Okay, how do I feel?
Speaker 3 (22:53):
What do I need?
Speaker 4 (22:55):
So I can choose each herb.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
With the intent that I want, you know, like dandelion,
I have, you know, chapped skin, so I can infuse
my intention and infuse the the benefits of that herb
into an owl. And like it's just the whole process,
(23:19):
Like it really helps go into a lot of the
intention in the ground, and then you add the medicinal
properties of the herb itself on top of it, and
it's just all beneficial.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I agree completely, you got to put the magic in it.
I was, oh, oh, I recorded a Virgo new Moon
episode earlier today. That's where that was. And this is
like the twenty ninth is when the new moon is.
So but I'm we're you know, we're going to go
(23:55):
camping this week. So I didn't want to have to
worry about it because I wasn't going to get to
it before then. But anyway, I was talking about putting
magic in things because it doesn't you know, people want
to get so hung up on well that's not factual,
that's we don't have any evidence to prove this or that,
(24:16):
or science savanna science, and it's like it doesn't matter.
You know. We being practical is good. Being practical is
very good. We should all be very practical. But also
we can be too practical and that take that's that
makes us. That makes life boring, and it makes life
(24:37):
dull and harder than it has to be. It doesn't
matter if it's true or not. It doesn't matter if
it's real or not. Is it fun?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Is it helpful? That's what's useful.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
So yeah, yeah, when you're making these salves and you're
heating up, you're melting the wax, you want to uh
stir it clockwise to invote things into it, and you
want to start counterclockwise to make it repel things.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Yes, yeah, okay, and the placebo effect. Really even if
that is all it is, like, so what does it
make you feel better?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Does it help?
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Like if it's beneficial to you, you know, that's really
the main thing. Because our brains and our bodies really
have the ability to do way more than we give
them credit for.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
So you know, sometimes if you just have a little
extra help and help in imagining what you can do yourself,
what your body can do itself, then you know that's
that's all you need.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
The placebo effect is powerful, super powerful. So if you
go into something believing that it'll work, it has a
higher percentage of actually working. To give to something believing
it's not going to work, then it has a higher
percentage of failure. That's just that's measurable. That's science for sure.
(26:10):
So like sure believe in dragons because it makes you
happier to do so.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Speaking of which, I have several books about herbal magic.
So I'm gonna pause this and go grab them because
I guarantee you dandelions are in there. Okay, So look
how many books I have on herbs and their medicinal
(26:39):
and magical properties. And what's sad, super sad, is that
I had several more that, like a da lended out
to people who were interested. They came to me and
they were interested, So I was like, oh, here, borrow
my books, and now they won't I won't answer my
(27:01):
text back and I'm like, hey, you know, I have
my books back and they're just ignoring me.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Let's so never mind. I'm really bummed.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
How can all of these books leave out dandylion. That's
like the number one right, And it just shows you
back to the conspiracy. Back to the conspiracy, there's for sure.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
And I'm l for sure.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
A conspiracy a government propaganda against dandylions because they don't
want us to be self sufficient and healthy for real.
So anyway, coming back to Gemini dire anti inflamerentatory digestive properties.
(28:04):
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up nutrients can be used to make yellow dye. Yeah,
(28:32):
I'm trying to do. Have I told you about my
garden co op? Yes, okay, you're inadvertently a member of that.
I don't know if you actually knew that or not.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
But I didn't.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
But I'm happy to be You're not somebody who like
shows up to do the actual work.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
But I do ask you.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Questions when I have questions, and then I'm supposed to
be what about that asparagus.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Yes, I've got to get out there. It is finally
just starting to pop up, so I can see where
it's at and then I will be digging some up
to bring to you.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
We have some that's popping up finally for you know,
because it takes like two years which from like planting
to establishment, and uh so we're super excited. We're like,
oh my gosh, look it's actually asparagus, Like this is
what it looks like from the grocery stores.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
It's so exciting, but it's it's really like sparingly could
you know, you get like one or two here and there,
and apparently you're not supposed to put You're not supposed
to plant asparagus with onions, and.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
That's exactly what I did, not.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Out of my ignorance.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
So I like a month ago dug up all the
onions that were in it and replanted them in their
own spot. But anyway, Yeah, super exciting stuff, plants, gardening.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
I hope we're gonna I hope to do a lot
more episode like this right here with you.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Yeah, it's been a lot of fun. Like I've thoroughly
enjoyed every single one of these good and there's lots
of herbs, so we still have lots more episodes if
that's what you want to do. That exactly, and that's
what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
We could just go on forever doing this, and so
not only herbs, but we could we could talk about
asparagus or scratch or tomatoes, and we could do all
of the things. We could probably make a whole podcast
in and of itself just about plants and gardening and stuff.
(30:39):
But you know, it's too much work to start a
whole new podcast, so we just do a spin off
series with this one. And because I mean like it's
all us anyway, and you know it all ties together
and YadA YadA stuff. Yeah, I could keep talking for hours,
(31:00):
could do.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
So let's see. We we covered how it's good for
it's a diuretic, it's good for sore muscles, it's good
for chesskin. You can make an infused vinegar and then
mix that infused vinegar with raw honey, so that's another
(31:23):
hilt tonic.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
And again that overlaps with what you said for another
one in a different episode. So yeah, again we're starting
and it seems like a lot, but basically you can
do the same things with all the herbs.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Yeah. So like if you don't have one herb growing
in your yard, you might have another one and you
can do the same thing. And it has a lot
of the overlapping properties. So you know, just because you
don't have cleavers in your yard doesn't mean that you
can't you don't have dandylion, and you can still benefit
(32:06):
a lot from that.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Yeah, because I mean, anything's better than the basic standard
American diet.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Definitely supplements.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Yes, let's see. Oh, you can infuse it, Infuse vinegar
with it and mix one cup of vinegar and a
cup of epsom salt into your bath water and use
it as a muscle, like a sore muscle.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Soak, God, I need that. Thank you for telling me
that you're welcome. I mean time with all the things
that I do.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Yeah, between pickleball and yoga and gardening and everything. Yeah,
I imagine you probably do have a lot of sore muscles. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Jiu jitsu, Do I tell you that I started those?
Speaker 3 (33:01):
You The last time that we really talked about jiu jitsu,
you were getting ready to start a new class.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
So because I'm an idiot, You're detective. I'm very etective. Yeah,
so all the things. But I don't have anything else
to say about Dandelion other than might have been my
favorite episode.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Just I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
I love tangents. I love tangents. Keep it keeps me entertained, So.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Yeah, definitely, Yeah, I don't think I have anything else.
I'm looking through my notes, and I think we covered
everything that I had written down, and then you covered
everything that you had and that uh Jim and I had,
So I think we got it.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Yeah, And we can always do another episode at a
later time if we think of things that we left out.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Yeah, okay, yes, all right, so all
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Right, hold on, hold on, all right, all right, so
we'll go okay, bye bye
Yeah, So dandylions is something that I've always had a
spiritual connection with because, you know, it's one of the
first plants that were introduced to when we're interested in
the medicinal properties of weeds, and you know, thinking about, well.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
What is a weed?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
A weed is just.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
A plant that someone has decided it doesn't belong in
the garden. And I feel like that's like a whole
conspiracy and stuff. But I always felt like that as well.
I felt like a I felt like a dandylion. You know,
I was just trying to exist. I'm just trying to survive,
and people was just like pulling at me and wanting
(00:47):
me not.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
To be there.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
And so for years and years and years now, my
Facebook profile, my my personal Facebook profile, the header image
is a diagram of dandylions because I've always felt like
a weed myself.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Very ready. Yeah, my next tattoo that I get is
actually gonna be a dandylion, because yeah, because okay, first
of all, feeling like a weed, yes, but also how
stink and resilient dandylions are that will take in the
(01:32):
harshest conditions and they will just grow and thrive, and
it's like, bitch, you thought she was going to kill
me here I am so yes, Oh sorry Roe.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Oh no, no, you're fine.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
He I didn't mean to say. I didn't mean to cuss.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
No, it's fine.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I got I got fired up there for a minute.
I didn't you realize he's okay, don't worry about Okay. Yeah,
like I said, got fired up there per minute. But yeah,
So that's actually was what my next tattoo is going
to be as a dandylion because of all its resilient
(02:13):
qualities and property, like all of the things, like how
rude is it for us to call dandylions weeds when
they're edible and medicinal and have all of these wonderful
things that we can do with them. Yeah, like the
entire plant. This one is one of those plants where
the root is also edible and medicinal, so the planet
(02:39):
itself is all right. So if you are have active
gallstones or our own diretics, you want to be careful
about using dandylion because it's pretty potent. So it is
a strong diuretic, so it helps you shed water and
increases you're inflow and all of that stuff. So it's
(03:00):
really good for urinary stuff. It is also really good
for chapped skin, like chapped and irritated skin. So I
make a lot of salves with that, and I make
(03:22):
chapstick with it too, which chapstick is really just a
sab with extra bees wax to make it a little firmer.
It's all just a combination of infused oil and bees wax.
It's just saves are a little less bees wax because
you want it to be more appliable, and chapstick or
(03:45):
lip balm you want to have a little more bees
wax so that it's firm and kind of stays in
a little too porn for you to put on your lips.
So those are the two things like chapped chapped, chapped
skin and giuretic. But you can also like put it
in and use it for salad greens, and it's a
(04:06):
bitter herb. So it's good for digestion, which is that's
one of the things that drew me to dandylions. Also
is because you know, with my gut hilts, I've always
been looking for anything to improve digestion. So dandelion is
good for that too.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
So one of these days I'm going to talk you
into starting a whole like herbal business with salves and
tinctures and chapsticks.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
And lotions and all of the things.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
And we're going to dress up as like, like, well,
you can dress up however you are. Oh no, I
feel like I feel like you'd be interested. I want
to make it very medieval looking because you oh, her
phone died.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
That was what the oh no is.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I don't remember exactly where we were, but.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
We were talking about, uh, you talking me into making
my products, and we were going to dress up as something.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Oh, Renaissance theme, because you know, my whole thing is
well not my whole thing, but I'm you know, I
was a history major in college, and I've just always
been really interested in, uh, the way we used to
do things in a lot of ways was a lot
(05:34):
better than how we currently do things and how we
need to integrate the future with the past and move forward.
And it was so you're making noises, so yeah, Renaissance outfits,
Renaissance that would be and doing like vendor events.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
That would be so fun, and that that would be
It would be so much fun.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
We could do Renaissance fairs, we could travel around and
like we could take our camper and we could just
you know, we have h Blake just park us there
for a whole weekend.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yes, that would be awesome. That would be awesome. And
we can't just you know dust thou wants a seve
to cure then ailments.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
We can make a h all.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Like tiktoks and stuff in between, like we would totally
entertain ourselves.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
That would be.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Absolutely, Absolutely, it would be a lot of fun. Okay, So.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I can just go through what I have for dandelions
and then you can fill in the blanks or whatever whatever.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Yes, so for sure, the all of the uses, all
of the parts are useful.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
So it says young tender leaves are excellent in salads.
They're slightly bitter and peppery. It turns out that most
herbs are kind of peppery. But I don't know if
it has anything to do with I know, pepper, like
actual pepper helps the body absorb things. So I wonder
(07:32):
if that has anything to do with it. It could
absolutely not be connected at all, or it could.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yeah, I'm not either.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
And the funny thing is is like there it may
not be something that we know, just as humans or
I don't.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I don't know. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
We're just now grazing the surface of what I hope
is a very long journey of learning in.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
All of this.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yes, okay, so older so this what younger leaves are
best for, like salads, so eaten raw and now my
cat's being obnoxious. This isn't This is an entertaining episode,
very eventful episode so far. Yeah, older leaves can be
(08:25):
cooked like spinach or kill, salted or added to soups
and stews. They're highly nutritious, rich.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
In vitamins and minerals. But it doesn't tell me which ones.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Did you know that AI acts just like a person,
Like I'll give it the same prompt every single day,
and it'll enter it in a different way every single day.
It kind of drives me crazy because I want it
to give me a So I use.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It to do my.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Episode descriptions. So I don't use it for anything, Like
I'm not trying to like write articles or write books
and with AI and call it mine. I'm just trying
to get it to do all of the scrub work
that kind of takes a little bit of time that
I could hand off to a.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
A what do you call them?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Somebody who studied seeing somebody who studied what like studies
up underneath you like, go, I'm just trying to do
the intern work, the you know, the crap work that
nobody else wants to do, myself included. So but I'll
I use it for my episode descriptions, and which are
(09:45):
mostly SEO purposed anyway, most people care about the descriptions.
You know, how many podcast descriptions have you read before
you've listened.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
To the episode?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Almost none?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
You just you look at the title and if it
catches your attention, you hit play, let's try this out,
and you give them like three minutes and do they
catch my attention or do they not? And so it's
mostly for like SEO work anyway. Anyway, it'll give me
a different prompt every single day. So point being, you know,
we've sat here and we've done all five of these
(10:21):
episodes back to back, just kind of like bulking it
to knock it out. And so I've given it the
exact same prompt every time with a different plant, and
it's answered in a different way every time, which is bothersome,
but anyway, so it gave me. It told me it
was rich in vitamins and nutrients and minerals, but it
(10:44):
doesn't tell me which kind. But previously it has been
more specific.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yeah, I don't know what viottamins and minerals are it
is rich in either. I just know that it is
rich in them. Like some things, some things, I'm like,
I don't know exactly, but i know it's good for me,
so I'm gonna do it. So dandylion is one of
those things.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, I just asked for a breakdown. Okay, Wow, yeah, okay.
So it's got vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin K, vitamin E,
full eight.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Sounds like a Queen Herbie song.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yeah, calcium, potassium, iron, magnesium, fiber, and antioxidants.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
You know, we just redid our front garden and I
was very carefully pulling all of the dandelions out and
re like putting them in a pot, and uh, Blake
was just kind of hacking at everything, and I was like,
I was carefully pulling at this one dandylion and I
(12:00):
had to stop for a second because I don't remember why.
He was next to me and he was talking to
me and like he was like hand me this or something.
I don't know, so I was so I turned around
and I like, I grabbed it, and I turned back
around and he just hacks at this dandylion that I
was just pulling out, Like what did you do when
you saw me delicately pulling at this baby? At your monster?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
You monster. It's funny because you say that, And like
last summer or spring last year when it was warm
and things were growing. Anytime that I would see like
the dandylion seeds, you know where it comes up in
the big puffball. Anytime I would see those, I would
(12:48):
run over there and I would carefully, like so carefully,
pluck it and I would kept it in my hand
so the wind didn't get it, and I would walk
all the way to the guard and then I would
put it in like smear the seeds around everywhere in
my garden beds. And Justin was like, what.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Are you doing?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
And blasphemin dandy lines and he was like, those are weeds.
They're gonna take over your garden beds. And I was like,
let them. I want them. Uh huh do you not
know how good they are?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
In if you get into relationship psychology, they talk about
how couples have pretty much just the same three fights,
and uh, you have to figure out as a couple
what your three fights are. But once you know that
(13:48):
most couples only have the same three fights and you
identify yours, you start to recognize it and you start
to notice it, and then you can better work through
it and find solutions to those three fights. But one
of mine and Blake's three fights is about what is
a weed and what is not?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I will fight like I will. That's that's a hill
I'm dying on.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Is weeds.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Weeds. If they're natives, they're oh useful, they have a purpose.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I mean so I hate some of them too though
for sure. But yes, those.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Little things that have the bursts on them, Oh.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yeah, yeah, uh, prickly something and you know what, I
can find it, give me two minutes.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Not even I want to say they have like goat
in the name.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
I don't know that for sure though, my.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Mom Uh and uh next about once every three to
six months.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Oh wow, yeah, And uh.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
That's one of the things that we've texted about. So
I just have to figure out if it was in
SMS or if it was.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
It looks like it was not an SMS.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Let me check messenger, because she she acts. She asked
me just h Reese, Well, like a month and a
half ago what they were called. Because you can only
get rid of them a certain time of year, so
they start seeding, okay, burr weed.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Yeah, they like start seating in February or something. You
have to spray like a pre emergent or something.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yeah. That's so you can only get rid of them
if you spray them in in like February or March
when they're when they start producing.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Otherwise is they are like the spawn of the devil. Yes,
and they absolutely ruin anytime that I want to try
to do any ground in and I'm like, oh, the
grass feels so nice, the ground on my feet, And
then I am limping.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
To the dropway to try to dig all of those
little spurs out.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Of my feet.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, I got I got chills. That chill they started
at my feet and went all the way up to
my face when we started talking about them, because my
body knows they're Oh my gosh, terrible.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
The body keeps the score.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Oh, there's a book. There's a book, did you know.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Yes, that's why I'm saying that, like, so trauma past trauma,
the body keeps the score.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yes, my friend uh Lauren that I play pickleball with
has been so adamant that I read this book, so
I download. I bought it on Audible and I downloaded
it a couple of weeks ago, and I haven't been
able to find time to listen to it because me
and this guy over here have been We finished The Giver.
(17:13):
Did you did you know it's a four part series?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
I did?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I have?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
I currently have the next part on hold in my
Libbia gathering blue. Yes, yes, we're almost done with book three.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Really, yes, we have been putting it away.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
It is so good, so good? What rod? I'm really
sad that it's ending. I know those are the when
you know that you get the good books. Is when
you're sad that they're ending, you're like, oh, can I
just go back and read it all over again.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I was so angry about how the first book ended.
We started the second book and we're like.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
What the hell is this?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
It's completely different?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Where it please?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Please please let it tie together? And towards the end
of it it kind of hinted that it might okay
together and then Book three is just it just hits
the ground running, tying everything together, sopka.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Keep going.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Okay, So when I get into book two, don't be discouraged.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Right right, But it's completely different. It's it's basically a
completely different book, but it's also really good in a
similar way. And then towards the end of the book
it starts hinting that it might tie things together, and
then Book three is like, yeah, we hear, we hear,
(18:45):
it's tied.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Everything's together.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Here's that guy, here's this guy.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
It's okay, do it. I can't wait. I'm so ready,
Like I'm I'm listening to a couple of other books.
I am like all over the place with books. But
I'm listening to a couple of other books and Audible
right now. But that is on my my wait list
for my Libby apps. Sorry, I'm since I'm in upstairs
(19:10):
now my dog and everybody is like trying to distract me.
Where were we going with.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
This part of the conversation?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Uh, the body keep score is where is? Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Yeah, yes, that is a good book. Though I do
recommend that if you have some time to spare to
read it, because it is good. I've read it twice.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I'm like that, so I have yet, I've started it.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I just haven't gotten too far with it.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I think the first time that I read it was
about the time that I found you, because that's what
got me into you know, like the trauma informed yoga
and stuff like that. And then I read it again
just like within the last six months. Also yeah cool
so but yes the spurs. How can we bring this
(20:05):
back to dandylions?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Well, I can bring this back to dandylions because I
you know, as you you know, with the body keeps
score and relating it back to me. And what I
do is all healing aspects and a lot of people
are trying to heal from trauma or whatever have you.
Healing comes in a lot of different forms, and I
the reason, one of the reasons that I am so
(20:32):
into herbs is because the earth provides all that we
need for things, and we really need to get more
back in touch, in tune with all of the medicinal
properties of all the plants that are available to us.
And the more that we learn about the plants in
our area, in our yard and start to learn how
(20:55):
to incorporate them and actually use them, and the more
we use them, the moor will cultivate them and take
care of them so they'll be more plentiful. And that's
going to help heal not only us, but our community,
our environment, and you know, spreading that knowledge for how
to do any of that, because none of us these
(21:18):
days start out knowing anything about any of this stuff.
You know, You're like, well, of course dried is more potent,
and I'm like, well, I didn't know that, Brandy. That
is it's not something that is just automatically knowledge that
people start out with, you know. And the more that
we get into touch with the plants, and not only
(21:41):
are we going to inadvertently heal things that we thought
were chronic thing conditions that we were going to have
to spend the rest of our lives with, but it
also heals parts of our soul. And are you know
it's grounding to get out there and touch grass and
(22:03):
it heals not only the body, but the mental and
the emotional and everything. So nature.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Yeah, and two like when you're dealing with herbs, to me,
I feel like this is why I love teas and
you know, sabs and all of this, Like, I love
all of it because you can really set a lot
of intention because you go in like say, I have
(22:36):
my herbal apothecary and I have a wall full of
jars of dried herbs, and like it's like making a potion,
and it's you know, you're setting an intention and you're
creating this spell.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Like Okay, how do I feel?
Speaker 3 (22:53):
What do I need?
Speaker 4 (22:55):
So I can choose each herb.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
With the intent that I want, you know, like dandelion,
I have, you know, chapped skin, so I can infuse
my intention and infuse the the benefits of that herb
into an owl. And like it's just the whole process,
(23:19):
Like it really helps go into a lot of the
intention in the ground, and then you add the medicinal
properties of the herb itself on top of it, and
it's just all beneficial.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I agree completely, you got to put the magic in it.
I was, oh, oh, I recorded a Virgo new Moon
episode earlier today. That's where that was. And this is
like the twenty ninth is when the new moon is.
So but I'm we're you know, we're going to go
(23:55):
camping this week. So I didn't want to have to
worry about it because I wasn't going to get to
it before then. But anyway, I was talking about putting
magic in things because it doesn't you know, people want
to get so hung up on well that's not factual,
that's we don't have any evidence to prove this or that,
(24:16):
or science savanna science, and it's like it doesn't matter.
You know. We being practical is good. Being practical is
very good. We should all be very practical. But also
we can be too practical and that take that's that
makes us. That makes life boring, and it makes life
(24:37):
dull and harder than it has to be. It doesn't
matter if it's true or not. It doesn't matter if
it's real or not. Is it fun?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Is it helpful? That's what's useful.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
So yeah, yeah, when you're making these salves and you're
heating up, you're melting the wax, you want to uh
stir it clockwise to invote things into it, and you
want to start counterclockwise to make it repel things.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Yes, yeah, okay, and the placebo effect. Really even if
that is all it is, like, so what does it
make you feel better?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Does it help?
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Like if it's beneficial to you, you know, that's really
the main thing. Because our brains and our bodies really
have the ability to do way more than we give
them credit for.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
So you know, sometimes if you just have a little
extra help and help in imagining what you can do yourself,
what your body can do itself, then you know that's
that's all you need.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
The placebo effect is powerful, super powerful. So if you
go into something believing that it'll work, it has a
higher percentage of actually working. To give to something believing
it's not going to work, then it has a higher
percentage of failure. That's just that's measurable. That's science for sure.
(26:10):
So like sure believe in dragons because it makes you
happier to do so.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Speaking of which, I have several books about herbal magic.
So I'm gonna pause this and go grab them because
I guarantee you dandelions are in there. Okay, So look
how many books I have on herbs and their medicinal
(26:39):
and magical properties. And what's sad, super sad, is that
I had several more that, like a da lended out
to people who were interested. They came to me and
they were interested, So I was like, oh, here, borrow
my books, and now they won't I won't answer my
(27:01):
text back and I'm like, hey, you know, I have
my books back and they're just ignoring me.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Let's so never mind. I'm really bummed.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
How can all of these books leave out dandylion. That's
like the number one right, And it just shows you
back to the conspiracy. Back to the conspiracy, there's for sure.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
And I'm l for sure.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
A conspiracy a government propaganda against dandylions because they don't
want us to be self sufficient and healthy for real.
So anyway, coming back to Gemini dire anti inflamerentatory digestive properties.
(28:04):
You covered the liver and the gall bladder. Health supports
kidney function and regulates blood sugar levels. High antioxidants. Their
long tap route helps to aerate the soul and bring
up nutrients can be used to make yellow dye. Yeah,
(28:32):
I'm trying to do. Have I told you about my
garden co op? Yes, okay, you're inadvertently a member of that.
I don't know if you actually knew that or not.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
But I didn't.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
But I'm happy to be You're not somebody who like
shows up to do the actual work.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
But I do ask you.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Questions when I have questions, and then I'm supposed to
be what about that asparagus.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Yes, I've got to get out there. It is finally
just starting to pop up, so I can see where
it's at and then I will be digging some up
to bring to you.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
We have some that's popping up finally for you know,
because it takes like two years which from like planting
to establishment, and uh so we're super excited. We're like,
oh my gosh, look it's actually asparagus, Like this is
what it looks like from the grocery stores.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
It's so exciting, but it's it's really like sparingly could
you know, you get like one or two here and there,
and apparently you're not supposed to put You're not supposed
to plant asparagus with onions, and.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
That's exactly what I did, not.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Out of my ignorance.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
So I like a month ago dug up all the
onions that were in it and replanted them in their
own spot. But anyway, Yeah, super exciting stuff, plants, gardening.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
I hope we're gonna I hope to do a lot
more episode like this right here with you.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Yeah, it's been a lot of fun. Like I've thoroughly
enjoyed every single one of these good and there's lots
of herbs, so we still have lots more episodes if
that's what you want to do. That exactly, and that's
what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
We could just go on forever doing this, and so
not only herbs, but we could we could talk about
asparagus or scratch or tomatoes, and we could do all
of the things. We could probably make a whole podcast
in and of itself just about plants and gardening and stuff.
(30:39):
But you know, it's too much work to start a
whole new podcast, so we just do a spin off
series with this one. And because I mean like it's
all us anyway, and you know it all ties together
and YadA YadA stuff. Yeah, I could keep talking for hours,
(31:00):
could do.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
So let's see. We we covered how it's good for
it's a diuretic, it's good for sore muscles, it's good
for chesskin. You can make an infused vinegar and then
mix that infused vinegar with raw honey, so that's another
(31:23):
hilt tonic.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
And again that overlaps with what you said for another
one in a different episode. So yeah, again we're starting
and it seems like a lot, but basically you can
do the same things with all the herbs.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Yeah. So like if you don't have one herb growing
in your yard, you might have another one and you
can do the same thing. And it has a lot
of the overlapping properties. So you know, just because you
don't have cleavers in your yard doesn't mean that you
can't you don't have dandylion, and you can still benefit
(32:06):
a lot from that.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Yeah, because I mean, anything's better than the basic standard
American diet.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Definitely supplements.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Yes, let's see. Oh, you can infuse it, Infuse vinegar
with it and mix one cup of vinegar and a
cup of epsom salt into your bath water and use
it as a muscle, like a sore muscle.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Soak, God, I need that. Thank you for telling me
that you're welcome. I mean time with all the things
that I do.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Yeah, between pickleball and yoga and gardening and everything. Yeah,
I imagine you probably do have a lot of sore muscles. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Jiu jitsu, Do I tell you that I started those?
Speaker 3 (33:01):
You The last time that we really talked about jiu jitsu,
you were getting ready to start a new class.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
So because I'm an idiot, You're detective. I'm very etective. Yeah,
so all the things. But I don't have anything else
to say about Dandelion other than might have been my
favorite episode.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Just I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
I love tangents. I love tangents. Keep it keeps me entertained, So.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Yeah, definitely, Yeah, I don't think I have anything else.
I'm looking through my notes, and I think we covered
everything that I had written down, and then you covered
everything that you had and that uh Jim and I had,
So I think we got it.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Yeah, And we can always do another episode at a
later time if we think of things that we left out.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Yeah, okay, yes, all right, so all
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Right, hold on, hold on, all right, all right, so
we'll go okay, bye bye
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