I began studying herbals decades ago, and feel I still have a lot to learn. The SAD (Standard American Diet) continues to degrade because the food quality is failing us.
So, what's the answer? If our food doesn't provide what we need, yet we still need it!
Here is what I take every day:
Most are gap correcting supplements, but some are medicine. WE each have to figure out what we need, because the doctors aren't taught this! I make all the capsules here at home from bulk herbals, some are wild crafted already.
I'm moving towards growing all of this out on the homestead. I'm also learning how to take these meds as teas or by skin absorbtion with lotions or tinctures.
As medical access hcontinues to degrade, we need to become our own option for the treatment we need! To learn as much as possible, we need to stay in areas that are Not comfortable before the SHTF.
Can you pull a bad tooth? Can you stitch a wound? Appendectomy? Amputation? How far can you learn in time? Can you do what you learn how to do?
Herbals are a good starting point:
This is a good starter book I recommend. It is out of print, by easy to find online. I have no affiliation, I just like the book!
Here is where I buy a lot of bulk herbs, by the pound: www.our4corners.net ; again no affiliation here either.
When considering a new herbal, after much study; I buy a bottle at a health food store. This way I can make sure It works on me, and I'm not allergic to it before I bulk buy! It also gives me the normal dose for that specific herbal. I also refill the factory bottle with 'home made' capsules as it empties!
Bottom line, we have to become knowledgeable on our own physical and medical condition; and stop relying on outside help! Access to medical treatment, will become limited based upon political views. So we must prepare, or surrender our freedoms to those most politically offensive!
Also, for people to understand they should look at their LOCAL environment. Most countries will have some herbal medicine research - may, or may not be obvious, but most will. So, a generic book is a good start, but might be very much slanted towards the author's country.
I look around and see a ton of "weeds" that obviously love this tropical environment - some can be eaten, some make infusions, some are useless and some are poisonous!
So true, I recently found a weed in the nightshade family that is common here
But for every bad one, I find a bunch of good ones too. Planting good weeds is also a nice option, LOL.
I've purchased many weed seeds on ebay....
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lol. yeah, I recall, I helped you identify that one using a website.
I recently cooked roselle leaves - very strange flavour on its own - like spinach with a very large dose of lemon juice! Tastes totally different when mixed into a curry.
Sadly, the roselle is dying.
Looked it up, looks like root fungus - doesn't like this heavy clay soil.
might have to grow some in pots, but they are fast and huge!
Got mugged on two blogs on the identity of that one, ROFLOL. I appreciate the help, there were kids close to that plant; they pulled them out.
I like this one..lambs quarters yummy
I ate this a lot as a kid, because we were poor. Now I eat it because it has massive nutrition!
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Are some of those morninga? Someone told me that if you take bladder whack and sea moss you will have every nutrient the body needs.
Yes four of those are moringa, I need to make some ashweganda too; but time is hard to find! I have some sea weed and some bladder wrack, but I haven't used it yet. Every time I order, I try to buy another interesting herbal....
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I have an entire cupboard of superfood some of them are about three years out of date though now because I don’t eat enough of them.
Eat some, then get some more, LOL! Sounds like you are prepared, and ready for SHTF. Keep storing while we can....
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Yeah I got it years ago so wasn’t with that in mind but funnt cause I was organising the cupboard the other day and wondering if I could survive off my super foods in a crisis ha
They are always good to have! I hope you are buying in regular food too...just in case.
Keep on prepping!
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I'll look into it, thanks!
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Have you heard of NAC? I'm gonna see if I can find the book you recommended on Amazon, theres a lot of used books there for cheap.
NAC is interesting; https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/nac-benefits
Look at ashweganda and moringa, both are super foods that give a real boost!!
Look on eBay too, I always compare their prices. This is a good entry level book. Easy to use, and pretty comprehensive; but most importantly I haven't found any errors I'm it! Lots of herbal books contain errors, with some being significant.
The website listed also has uses for the herbs they sell, that is accurate. It's a good source for teas too!
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also ebooks - I must have about 2 Tbytes of books on HDs!
I can find most thing on either z-lib.org or torrents.
while both exist.
I have a heavy digital library myself, right now; I'm working to print them hard copy, just in case. If things crash hard, paper copies will be important! But there is a tablet, stored carefully; with the library loaded on it....
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Thank you I'll definitely check it out, I learned about Pine Needle tea not long ago from this article I archived:
https://ecency.com/covid-1984/@baah/graphene-oxide-democide-how-can-we-protect-ourselves-from-poisoning-and-5g-dr-scott-jensen-part-1
I think its mentioned in part 4, here's the archived article it links to:
https://ecency.com/covid-1984/@baah/is-pine-needle-tea-the-answer-to-covid-vaccine-sheddingtransmition-artloft-blog
I grabbed a book about Native American Herbal Remedies a few years ago, and another
If you understand that those in charge are Owned by Satan himself; this all makes sense! That's why I have avoided the vaccine, they want it, so it's Evil.
Books will be worth it's weight in Gold, when the SHTF; and the internet dies, books will be All the information we have! I have the left but not the right.
White pine close to the homestead:
Lots of vitamin C in white pine tea, it's good stuff!
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NAC is a great supplement, but especially for adult men.
I never watch ads on YouTube, but for some reason I watched an ad a few months ago and decided to look into it, seems very basic and definitely something worth supplementing! I was most convinced by the fact that at that time it wasn't available on Amazon, I ended up going to eBay and getting it from hitechpharma.com.
Agreed, it's very basic and safe, but also very beneficial... pretty easy decision. I take one on the afternoons I remember to do so. Which reminds me, I should take my memory supplement... :p (jk about that one)
Nice when YT tells you something useful for once...
Yeah, an ad at that! I think I was away from the screen, and it had a chance to play more than five seconds, some older gentleman was going on about it, talk about public service announcement!