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Gypo Logger

Gypo Logger

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Ive taken to partaking to the vast array of wild herbs I've discovered in the woods.
Most of the herbage isn't ripe yet, but compulsively Ive been chewing spruce sap.
My teeth are quite white now and it cures cancer and you will never get scurvy.
What useful herb have you peeps found in the bush?
John
 
image.jpg The black currants are almost ripe and it hurts me when I dump a tree on them, but there are lots left to make wine out of. I also browse on willow shrubs as the leaves and bark are a natural pain killer.
The one I'm looking for is rhodiola, it makes you feel like a viking and gives you incredible stamina and endurance with no side effects.
Look at the wild chamomile I have growing right outside my front door.
 
I worked typical suburbs with an old Italian chap he'd bring 2 bread rolls to work and would fill them with all sort of food foraged from street parks and some homes gardens,, be it mushrooms beans avocado fennel herbs fruit etc etc i cant recall all but reminded of his shout,,, Mr D stop the truck,, he jump out and grab something return muttering joy words with a smile on his dial
 
Hemlock new growth in early spring is supposed to be packed with vitamin c. Sourwood leaves are a diaretic that also keep you from getting dehydrated. Birch twigs and bark will freshen your breath. Especially yellow birch. Jewel weed helps prevent and releave poison ivy. There are a few where I live.
 
Joe46 said:
They say it will give you a whole new outlook on life, Bob:dancing:
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So I've heard. Nah, I went through that stage of my personal development in the 60s. Nowadays if I want to get dizzy and disoriented I just get out of my recliner too fast...does it every time.
 
I can't remember ,but all around my creek i have devils club stuff ,is there a use for that ?,i forget now .
 
Yes, The Tlinget " and probably other tribes" use devils club for all kinds of stuff. We have lots and lots of devils club up here along the coast. Ive known Tlingets that have used it to cure cancer. . I think some of the properties in it work very well. But I also think that alot of their malady's are brought on be . Too much processed white flour, too much alchol and too much white sugar !! along with a far to sedentary life style. . So when they go on a month long fast and drink devils club tea . It really scrubs out their body and it can recover. . Being an ( ancestral) remidy , gives some of them more impetis to stick with it. . One outfit in Hoonah makes a hand cream from it that works very good .
 
My grandma knew all kinds of herbal remedies, unfortunately, the recipes are all gone since she died. When I was small, mom and I would go into the woods in the spring and pick all kinds of wild greens and she had a name for them all. One I remember my grandma talked about was Privy Bush and she claimed it was a cure for childhood ailments. Anyone here know what Privy Bush is or what it looks like?
 
I got one for you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantago_major
I am a beekeeper and was reading recently about plantain as a treatment for bee stings. I seldom wear a vale and never gloves so it is not unusual to get a sting but most I scrape off and they don't amount to much. The other day I was taking off honey and when picking up a hive body I pinched a bee and she started stinging me on the meaty part of my thumb. I couldn't set it down and I squeezed her good so she really pumped a lot of poison into my thumb.
I happened to notice a plantain growing at my feet and I thought why not. I plucked a leaf and scrunched it up until some juice was flowing and rubbed it on the sting area. Almost immediately the pain subsided and my thumb never did swell.
There it is for what its worth.
 
Lots to talk herbal about. Plantain is the mother of all plants. I'm looking for some wild rhodiola. I believe the vikings when they said that you will live to be 200 if you take it. It makes me feel like 25 again, well... almost!
John
 

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