30 years ago, I had knotweed growing in my backyard. My parents took a few sprouts to their own home in Northern Michigan, and unwittingly planted it along their fence as a privacy screen from their not so nice neighbors. I inherited the home, and moved there 13 years ago. I'm headed outside now, to harvest some fresh shoots and roots for tincture and dinner!
I just bought a home over the winter and as soon as spring hit, the entire yard sprouted, with what I later came to find out was Japanese knotweed. I of course panicked when i read of how damaging it is😟 Then here you go popping up in my feed telling me of all the benefits ☺️☺️ I have health issues that would absolutely benefit from the medicinal values of this plant 🪴 Thank you so much! Now all i need is a good step by step recipe 😝
I believe resveratrol really is a powerful anti-aging chemical. It is also in blueberries. My grandmother eats blueberries for breakfast every day and has for probably that past 50 years. She just celebrated her 103rd birthday.
@@Laura_B__ I'm pretty sure i've seen knotweed in the woods here . I would love to be able to eat this and make the tincture of it but i'm leery of resveratrol even though it's good for us ... regretfully i am prone to fibroids and hear reseverstrol really stimulates fibroid growth ...
Thanks for the video. To clarify, knotweed cannot break through concrete. It won't even break through landscaping fabric. It will however use any cracks in material to poke its shoots through
Great Video on Japanese Knotweed. I am using this plant after a bout of severe Lyme. Within one month along with two other plants, I'm feeling 80 percent better.
A word of caution, the root or pieces of root will grow wherever you drop them so it's best to take great care when harvesting the roots. Also, the root system promotes erosion so knotweed along a river bank will eventually wash downstream and continue to spread. Not discounting the medicinal value, just pointing out the plants ability to spread and wipe out native plants. Looking forward to harvesting some for food and tincture.
yes its true its able to clone itself. I cut some with the lawn mower and all the mulch of it grew into plants - hundreds of them. But kudos to the video - excellent
@@jeremymcadams7743 There are no sure methods of eradication other than excavating the entire area to a depth of 10ft and industrially sterilizing the soil. Even injecting the stalks with herbicides for several consecutive years often only puts the plant into dormancy, where it can stay for several decades. That's why it's so crucial not to aid in the spread of this species. Unless you live in it's native habitat it's best to get your resveratrol from other sources.
When I moved to my house in 2009 we had a virtual forest of knot weeds growing along the small river that runs through our property .The state,county ,and tribal governments offered to help get rid of them to restore the native species habitat and did some replanting of our property and had agreed to a ten year management of the property but after a couple of years they ran out of money and used up all their grants . When they came to get rid of the plants they sprayed which wasn't what we agreed to originally .They assured us they would be doing injections instead of spraying which killed off several other things such as our ,hemlocks, maples and alder trees and once the knot weed was gone we had tons of blackberry bushes to deal with because of the open areas left behind from killing off the knot weeds .Also we lost hundreds of thousands of honey bees who loved those flowers and would spend all day in those weeds . Considering the fact that we're losing honey bees ,I was hesitant to agree to removing the plants but they assured me that they would plant other flowering plants and trees to make up the difference ,but they didn't even do that . Now a few years later the plant is coming back and I'm not going to bother to tell them about it since they didn't honor their agreement and they destroyed several other trees along the way just to destroy one weed plant plus the loss of the honey bees which really sucked to see them missing from our property . I used to walk down to the river and walked right through thousands of bees but was never stung .It was an amazing experience and the sound of all those bees doing their thing was just super cool . My biggest concern is that when this knot weed dies off after summer it becomes very dry and dangerous .When you burn it it practically explodes . Prior to the spraying they did I would harvest all the dry canes and burn them to reduce the risk of spontaneous combustion . The sound is comparable to setting off several fire crackers and can make your ears ring . There's a lot of talk about river bank erosion but I noticed the opposite once they removed the plants that were holding up the loose sandy soil with this vast root system . Once those plants died back we lost several feet of river bank even though I planted several types of grasses to retain the soil once the poison was done doing its damage to the other plants . That's another thing .They told us that this spray was species specific which obviously it wasn't . We had several trees go down later on which caused other issues along the river such as adding to the extensive soil loss . Also the smell of this spray was awful .I had to keep my pets and my child away from the area for several weeks . One of the volunteers had this blue stuff all over her body and face. I asked her if she was concerned about it being safe and she said that they told her it was safe . I hope she doesn't get ill from being exposed to this stuff . That was the first and last time that I'll ever agree to doing something like that . Using goats are a better idea for getting rid of this invasive species . Definitely more environmentally friendly .
@RoyalSpin, Interesting tale in that the plant was first used to stop erosion esp. along rivers, and other waterways. I think it may make good flutes, 😁too. I’m really sorry about the loss of some of your land and plants as well as the bees. I wonder if those people even knew what they were doing who did the clean-up. Often they’re not told the whole truth, which is unconscionable. Ironic too that some of the “worst offenders” are the most beneficial for the human body.
Yeah, my bees love this plant.. I have gotten quite a bit of footage from it. It also taste tested as the BEST tasting honey in the state of Maine. I keep hearing different versions of this same story... "we'll eradicate this invasive species with chemicals"... followed by FAIL... and kill off many other species in the process. So frustrating! Also, "Oh yeah that chemical you're using is safe... it only kills everything else.. won't hurt you"... SURE. Glad you were able to learn from this plant! cheers! Video of bees in mine: th-cam.com/video/YWus4NHrPHY/w-d-xo.html
@@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork exactly. Anything that's killing everything else is clearly also killing those who are exposed to it as well. Interesting that they are so adamant on eradicating something so beneficial to our bodies. Would like to learn more about this plant. Thanks for sharing it!
@@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork sure is. Thanks for sharing this link with me. Now if I can muster the brain power to study it so I can go out and properly identify it, harvest it and consume it. The Lyme makes everything feel like such an unattainable feat.
Terrific video about a wild plant food that I first learned about and ate back in college in the 1970s. I have eaten the stalks raw as a snack and boiled as a spring vegetable. Last year I made a Japanese Knotweed cake as well. In my day, the plant was known as Polygonum cuspidatum, the genus name denoting the multiple « knees » or joints on the stalks, characteristic of the buckwheat/knotweed family. Back in the early 70s, Lyme disease as such was not known, or at least not recognized, but I wonder if emergence of this disease and simultaneously the rapid spread of japanese knotweed worldwide is not somehow linked. That is to say, just as Lyme disease emerged on the east coast of the United States we were also being « invaded » by a « weed » that may contain Lyme disease´s best treatment or even its remedy. Perhaps this is idle speculation,, but I do not myself believe the co-incidence is insignificant. In any event, thank you for your enthusiasm for a much maligned plant. I love your impassioned ability to share information. Invaluable!
Confession: I don’t cook with recipes, I just use approximate amounts in the proper proportions. I have made dozens of cakes, all good, but all different. So take this recipe with the proverbial grain of salt and alter as you like. Knotweed purée is made as follows: take young stalks of spring knotweed, only when reddish and under 2 feet high in spring. The stalks snap easily so you won’t need scissors or shears. In the kitchen put two saucepans with 1C water in each to boil and peel leaves off each stalk and toss leaves in boiling water. Cut the stalks into smallish pieces and toss them into other pot. The leaves must be killed before they are discarded in garbage and any shreds of plant that won’t be used for cake disposed of the same way. Boil your cut-up stalks in about a cup of water until very mushy and bright spring green. Drain in a sieve to remove excess water, then pulse with blender or simply stir vigorously until the mush is as pulverized as possible. Measure out a cup of this purée to be used in the cake. See recipe below. KNOTWEED CAKE Dry ingredients 3 C flour, all-purpose or a mix of flours, but use at least 1 cup of white flour 1 1/4 C sugar, white or brown 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp baking powder 1C chopped nuts (I use pecans) Wet Ingredients 2 eggs (I used egg substitute) 1/3-1/2 C oil Approximately 1C knotweed purée 1 tsp vanilla Mix dry ingredients well with a fork in a large bowl, to ensure good blending. Add wet ingredients to bowl with the dry ingredients, using smaller amounts of each suggested liquid first and only adding up to the full amount if the mixture seems too dry. Should be a thick wet batter, not a dough. Spoon or scrape mixture into a well greased loaf pan. Bake at 350F for about 45 min to an hour, *but start checking for doneness after 45 minutes. An inserted toothpick should not come out wet with uncooked cake batter, but clean and nearly dry. My oven sometimes needs a bit longer than this, but it depends on how much liquid I’ve used in the cake.
We have tons of Knotweed growing around us. I’ve used it for helping my customers cure Lyme. When I tincture it I use the phases of the moon depending on what part of body I want to heal. I do this with all plants I tincture and have noticed it makes a difference. Bless your knowledge. 🙏
I was looking at resveratrol tablets and I kept seeing Japanese knotwood root included. I had no idea what it was, so nice to see this video. I knew about resveratrol because it's being studied for anti-aging.
Same hereQ! I was about to buy some and I was pissed at how damn expensive res era troll was. Instead found a public database where sightings of the plants are in the wild and there was a place 15 minute drive from me. I've now harvested it and plant to cultivate it for food.
holy crap, we've had that in my back yard for 30 years. it hasn't spread much in that time though. we've had a helpful plant this while time and didn't know it!
also, I was wondering if you could remake a video on Wild lettuce? more details, more about it, and maybe an in-depth process of how to tincture it? love n' light
I admire your knowledge. Plants are a blessing and everyone has a purpose for us. I am glad you explained about this one (I live in South Florida and never noticed around here, but will keep my eyes opened for it). Thanks.
you bring so much information about the plant to us for knowledge, thank you. I have this growing in my garden and will now harvest it. keep up the awesome work, you are a gift to the world.!!!!
I live on a river and literally only one small beach is left after Knott Weed has taken over. It can only be destroyed by digging them out and keeping them mowed down. Since there seems to be no way to curb its growth by seeming the root growth A significant work needs to be done to keep it contained.
This plant grows in my backyard. I make a "rhubarb" crisp with it in the spring. Yum. Now I may try a tincture. I have given roots to friends who have lyme and some find it helpful. Not all.
Thank you for your curiosity and understanding of plants. It amazes me how much plants are linked to our health.💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙
I have a stand of Japanese Knotweed however it blooms in September. It looks exactly like the ones in this video with this one exception. I'm in Ontario Canada
I'm in Ontario too, southern Ontario and I have some Knotweed growing next to my house. Fortunately, it has stayed small and not caused any trouble. I just pull it like any other weed.
Thank you Mr Yarrow for sharing this extremely vital knowlege to help people take more of their health into their own hands, by the grace of our benevolent Creator who put them here for us to stay healthy. Om Hari bol!!
I’m glad I stumbled across your video! I’ve recently taken up a hobby of learning about different types of plants. I stumbled across this plant while walking, but everything I’ve read or watched about it says to remove it immediately. I found some in my yard today near my garden and went into war mode😂. Something told me just to check one more time before I try to be eradicate it. Now I realize I have quite a bit more research to do before I go to battle haha. I think I’ll remove most and contain some for now until I can find out how to grow it in a more controlled setting.
They do not flower early in Spring. They're considered great for bees specifically because they flower in the late Summer, a time when not a lot of things are flowering.
In England, there seems to be some angry crusade against the plant and, whilst extremely invasive and damaging, we need to find a use for it and remove it with purpose. One of the greatest days of my life was being given a machete and hand flamer to annihilate a patch of knotweed, as a gardener. But I'd prefer to find a use for it and a less angry response
As soon as something is useful it has a value, the more value the more it will be harvested, so once people understand the usefulness of Japanese knotweed it might help to get the plant under control. What he did not mention is that harvesting the dry stems in the middle of winter gives you more than 10 tons of dry matter per hectare which could be shreddered and pressed to briquettes and is perfect for your wood stove. Once people start doing that you might have problems to find much any more.
Smartest thing to do instead of burning it is to sell it to people who would turn it into resveratrol tinctures ... I would sell it at a farmers market or something like that so the average person could have a chance of buying it in quantity and make their own tinctures as it is ridiculously expensive to buy .
Thank you so much for this video. I just discovered a massive patch, (think hundreds of plants) across the road from my home. Having been battling the effects of Lyme disease for 11-years now, I could not just gore the potential of what is literally in front of me. I'm still trying to figure out exactly how to formulate this into a tincture and am grateful you put me on the path. Thank you again!
@@Laura_B__ - it’s been a struggle Laura. You get to these points where you’re no longer sure what’s helping. I’m still using it, but honestly don’t know if it’s having any effect. Hope you’re healing up out there... 💚
@@Mark-et8vh I understand your struggle. Keep at it. I think most of the time, to heal chronic illness you have to be doing many good things for your body at the same time, and it's the combination of all these things that can pull you up out of the pit. And it can still take a long time. Don't give up on yourself. God bless.
I dug up these thing not thinking what they were. I planted flowers on top, they died. Kept getting these buds and a week later they’re back. Digging found a root that looked like Yuca so we thought it was… scanned the plant with an app and voila! Japanese knotweed it is… just great.
I live in the UK and it is illegal to sell it so is really hard to find because they try to eradicate it here. However, it can be grown responsibly if you grow it in pots and dry the roots before you discard it
Amazing !! I have these pesky plants in my yard I've been getting a control on them because they can get out of hand and kill off any other Native plants, they do make a great privacy fence though lol I try and keep them out of my wonderful Green lawn that I take care of and enjoy looking at lol so I just let them grow on the property line only Ive pretty much gone down a rabbit hole on this plant and its really amazing what this plant offers to us!! I love natural medicine ! I new the good lord put certain plants here for a reason. 🙏🏽🙏🏽 Thanks for sharing my friend! have a Rad day! 🤙🏽
Love all your presentations, you're a 'natural'. I've had this in 2 of my backyards in Australia, I'd like to know what the bulbous part is, its smallish and has lots of nobbles and hangs out on both the vine and in the soil. The flowers smell amazing!!
I built my vegetable garden in a grove of knot weed which I decided to manage way in the back of my yard.when it flowers,right around the same time all veggies blossoms are blooming the knot weed also blooms Thousands of local honey Bees come to that patch, to gather pollen.Of course, it was hard word to thin it out,however, I chop the dried stalks and use it for mulch to keep the ground moist and supple.I would be surprised if anyone else does it!It's my first year.Blessings!
keep bringing the amazing videos Yarrow ! I've learned so much from you and can't wait for more. I live fairly close to you in Kamloops, some of our plants here are very similar to what you have there. Can you do more stuff on mushrooms ......we have soooo many varieties here and I don't know what they all are.
They spray them with a more tenacious version of round up- weathermax- vantage xrt- it stays on through a rain unlike most roundup. I have repeatedly tried to get somewhere with the city in regard to not using it. The funny part is that our city, and the greater municipality, both claim they do not use this glyphosate toxic cocktail.
Thanks for watching and sharing your appreciation for our videos. Really makes it worth doing when we here that they are so impactful to people like yourself.
I'm so glad to finally find out what that strange "bamboo" is out in the patch of the backyard. I've read about Japanese knotweed but never saw it. I live in northern indiana where there shouldn't be bamboo growing so I couldn't figure out what that was.
I married a Canadian and now we are working Snowbirds in New Brunswick and Florida. We're both in The Florida Native Plant Society and would be in N.B. if they had one. Please, everyone, do research on how important native plants are. JKW is bad, bad, bad, bad!!! It's on the list of The World's 100 Worst Alien Invaders.
Yucca root is also a great source of resveratrol, plus it also contains beneficial yuccaols and saponins. Recent studies are pointing towards its use in easing joint and muscle pain. However, Native Americans have known about its healing qualities for hundreds of years and equestrian lovers have used it as a poultice on swollen leg joints of their horses for years too. A big bonus is that the yucca plant isn't an invasive species. It truly is a treasure from the desert. That's why all our products are made with it.
Oh yeah, love your channel! Big Tom Brown fan here and he is huge into getting to know the plant's person and that plants will tell you that they are good for if you know them well enough by touch taste smell and natural conditions and locations... I bet this plant is becoming so common due to the amounts of pesticides running through our water sources, and the need everyone will have due to alhzheimers, dementia, and others we can get from seemingly natural sources...
You are Awesome, thank you so much for that information it said that it such an invasive plant for all the benefits of has. I never knew it had so many benefits for health. Hope I can follow you I can probably learn a lot about plants and they’re wonderful nature
I've been waiting for another one of your videos. I really do enjoy learning from you oh wise herbal jedi. :) I look forward to more of these videos throughout the year.
I was cutting back bushes in My yard and found a few of these growing in My yard. It's growing extensively in My neighbors yard. I thought it was Bamboo until I touched it. Then I Google investigated it, most reports were it's invasive and so on. Then more research yielded it's edible and healthy for the body. My thing is to try eating it and getting over the fact I did not grow up with eating this.
Do you have videos on tincturing this root? We have so much of this where I am in NE Pa. And I have family that deals with Lymes. I'd love to try it as medicine for fighting inflammation that comes along with.
wow! now I know what is growing on my stream bank. I've been trying to get rid of it for three years. I think I'll keep some of it growing and harvesting.
100's of videos saying how the Japanese knotweed is a menace and how it has to be nuked. Then,to see this genius ,such a difference in philosophy. Wish people can respect life and non life to live
I was given this years ago, except it has silver pink flowers, the prettiest of the everlastings along with lunaria. it is at the periphery of the parking lot and it only moves towards the alley.
Thanks for the info! I've had untreated lyme for 10 yrs until I was put on ABX 2 yrs ago. I also contracted cancer about 5 yrs after I got lyme. My current doctor doesn't want a combo w/ any herbs. I can't keep taking ABX, so this looks better for chronic (neuro) lyme. Thanks
I fight this cursed plant daily in my herb and vegetable garden. I'm going to reserve furious judgement until the end of this video. 🤔 I'm backed up to a railroad in Central Illinois. Not temperate area at all. Sever winters and hot summers. Ok. Finished the video. I don't think I'll change my mind much. I am trying to get my herb garden going good but this plant just wants to destroy all my efforts. I may try digging up some of the root, enough to last a good while then back to destroying it!!!
Great stuff. I’m in the infancy stage of knowledge and this is an encouraging and Really lovely presentation. I’m curious and that’s a good thing. Thank you.
I just read the comment about people looking for and using it more. Leading to less invasiveness. When you cut a small root of the Japanese Knotweed, within a day this plant send shoots and roots out in response. It responds in strength to an attack. Be mindful and have property permission before harvesting. Also, You never know if an owner has attempted to eliminate the “plant” using toxic chemicals. Consider also the environmental factors. Proximity to roads that may be treated with chemicals in the winter etc.. Curious and Cautious.
In the Pacific Northwest, there are four similar species of invasive knotweed Giant knotweed (Polygonum sachalinense) also known as elephant ear bamboo Japanese knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum) Himalayan knotweed (Persicaria wallichii) Bohemian knotweed (Polygonum x bohemicum) Do you know if all of these are edible and carry the same health benefits like resveratrol ?
Interesting to learn how beneficial this invasive species is. If anyone has any good trusted links for more details on this, I'd be so appreciative. Would like to learn how to identify it as well as how to harvest and then how to consume in a way that best retains it's nutritional value. Simple is best for me, as I have Chronic Lyme and little energy left for much of anything these days and struggle to learn new things now. Are there dangerous lookalikes? Gosh, I hope it grows around here! THANK YOU... you may have just saved my life, as I can not afford the treatment needed to combat this horrible disease, and my Dr just got in major trouble for healing someone using non conventional methods, so she can no longer treat me. ❤
We have loads of it. A neighbor called it mountain laurel. I have been trying to get rid of it except that the deer really like it. I just don't want it taking over my yard. I think I will try to dig some out and eat it. It does burn really well too. Maybe I will just cut it for kindling :-) after I make the tincture.
Resveratrol has not been shown to extend longevity except for one study which was never replicated. It DOES help with a number of health issues and does help with vitality to add life to years.. one thing strangely that does help with longevity is olive oil which was shown to extend the lives of mice by 17%!
Very informative I have a lot of this in my yard and would love to use it in a positive way, but I also would like to control it as well if that is possible .
30 years ago, I had knotweed growing in my backyard. My parents took a few sprouts to their own home in Northern Michigan, and unwittingly planted it along their fence as a privacy screen from their not so nice neighbors. I inherited the home, and moved there 13 years ago. I'm headed outside now, to harvest some fresh shoots and roots for tincture and dinner!
I just bought a home over the winter and as soon as spring hit, the entire yard sprouted, with what I later came to find out was Japanese knotweed. I of course panicked when i read of how damaging it is😟 Then here you go popping up in my feed telling me of all the benefits ☺️☺️ I have health issues that would absolutely benefit from the medicinal values of this plant 🪴 Thank you so much! Now all i need is a good step by step recipe 😝
I would like the recipes too
My great grandmother is close to 100 years old, and this is her favourite salade...
What is get favourite salad? What does she eat?
So cool
I believe resveratrol really is a powerful anti-aging chemical. It is also in blueberries. My grandmother eats blueberries for breakfast every day and has for probably that past 50 years. She just celebrated her 103rd birthday.
@@Laura_B__ wow , incredible ... how is her mind ... is it sharp ?
@@Laura_B__ I'm pretty sure i've seen knotweed in the woods here .
I would love to be able to eat this and make the tincture of it but i'm leery of resveratrol even though it's good for us ... regretfully i am prone to fibroids and hear reseverstrol really stimulates fibroid growth ...
Thanks for the video. To clarify, knotweed cannot break through concrete. It won't even break through landscaping fabric. It will however use any cracks in material to poke its shoots through
Great Video on Japanese Knotweed. I am using this plant after a bout of severe Lyme. Within one month along with two other plants, I'm feeling 80 percent better.
Bishop Scott Kershaw thanks for sharing g your experience. So happy to hear this my is helping you.
what form of it are you using? I was given a bag of the root powder but i dont know how to use it. I've been fighting Lyme for a LONG time. thanks.
How are you using it ?
Bishop Scott Kershaw what other plants were you taking? Also looking at taking this for Lyme. Thanks!
What other products?
A word of caution, the root or pieces of root will grow wherever you drop them so it's best to take great care when harvesting the roots. Also, the root system promotes erosion so knotweed along a river bank will eventually wash downstream and continue to spread. Not discounting the medicinal value, just pointing out the plants ability to spread and wipe out native plants. Looking forward to harvesting some for food and tincture.
yes its true its able to clone itself. I cut some with the lawn mower and all the mulch of it grew into plants - hundreds of them. But kudos to the video - excellent
So harvest with intent to eradicate?
@@jeremymcadams7743 There are no sure methods of eradication other than excavating the entire area to a depth of 10ft and industrially sterilizing the soil. Even injecting the stalks with herbicides for several consecutive years often only puts the plant into dormancy, where it can stay for several decades. That's why it's so crucial not to aid in the spread of this species. Unless you live in it's native habitat it's best to get your resveratrol from other sources.
@@wms9371 lol just get pigs and they will eat all the roots garunteed. your methods are really bad
@@wms9371 Resveratrol costs too much. I don't want to make those greedy companies richer for what I've just found for free.
When I moved to my house in 2009 we had a virtual forest of knot weeds growing along the small river that runs through our property .The state,county ,and tribal governments offered to help get rid of them to restore the native species habitat and did some replanting of our property and had agreed to a ten year management of the property but after a couple of years they ran out of money and used up all their grants . When they came to get rid of the plants they sprayed which wasn't what we agreed to originally .They assured us they would be doing injections instead of spraying which killed off several other things such as our ,hemlocks, maples and alder trees and once the knot weed was gone we had tons of blackberry bushes to deal with because of the open areas left behind from killing off the knot weeds .Also we lost hundreds of thousands of honey bees who loved those flowers and would spend all day in those weeds . Considering the fact that we're losing honey bees ,I was hesitant to agree to removing the plants but they assured me that they would plant other flowering plants and trees to make up the difference ,but they didn't even do that .
Now a few years later the plant is coming back and I'm not going to bother to tell them about it since they didn't honor their agreement and they destroyed several other trees along the way just to destroy one weed plant plus the loss of the honey bees which really sucked to see them missing from our property . I used to walk down to the river and walked right through thousands of bees but was never stung .It was an amazing experience and the sound of all those bees doing their thing was just super cool .
My biggest concern is that when this knot weed dies off after summer it becomes very dry and dangerous .When you burn it it practically explodes . Prior to the spraying they did I would harvest all the dry canes and burn them to reduce the risk of spontaneous combustion . The sound is comparable to setting off several fire crackers and can make your ears ring .
There's a lot of talk about river bank erosion but I noticed the opposite once they removed the plants that were holding up the loose sandy soil with this vast root system .
Once those plants died back we lost several feet of river bank even though I planted several types of grasses to retain the soil once the poison was done doing its damage to the other plants .
That's another thing .They told us that this spray was species specific which obviously it wasn't . We had several trees go down later on which caused other issues along the river such as adding to the extensive soil loss . Also the smell of this spray was awful .I had to keep my pets and my child away from the area for several weeks . One of the volunteers had this blue stuff all over her body and face. I asked her if she was concerned about it being safe and she said that they told her it was safe . I hope she doesn't get ill from being exposed to this stuff . That was the first and last time that I'll ever agree to doing something like that . Using goats are a better idea for getting rid of this invasive species . Definitely more environmentally friendly .
@RoyalSpin, Interesting tale in that the plant was first used to stop erosion esp. along rivers, and other waterways. I think it may make good flutes, 😁too. I’m really sorry about the loss of some of your land and plants as well as the bees. I wonder if those people even knew what they were doing who did the clean-up. Often they’re not told the whole truth, which is unconscionable. Ironic too that some of the “worst offenders” are the most beneficial for the human body.
Yeah, my bees love this plant.. I have gotten quite a bit of footage from it. It also taste tested as the BEST tasting honey in the state of Maine. I keep hearing different versions of this same story... "we'll eradicate this invasive species with chemicals"... followed by FAIL... and kill off many other species in the process. So frustrating! Also, "Oh yeah that chemical you're using is safe... it only kills everything else.. won't hurt you"... SURE. Glad you were able to learn from this plant! cheers! Video of bees in mine: th-cam.com/video/YWus4NHrPHY/w-d-xo.html
@@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork exactly. Anything that's killing everything else is clearly also killing those who are exposed to it as well.
Interesting that they are so adamant on eradicating something so beneficial to our bodies.
Would like to learn more about this plant. Thanks for sharing it!
@@Bomber411 yep... it's like it's own disease in a way eh? lol cheers bomber!
@@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork sure is. Thanks for sharing this link with me. Now if I can muster the brain power to study it so I can go out and properly identify it, harvest it and consume it.
The Lyme makes everything feel like such an unattainable feat.
I don't know your parent's but I know you have made their souls happy.
Why do you use apostrophes in plural words? Get your shit together.
Terrific video about a wild plant food that I first learned about and ate back in college in the 1970s. I have eaten the stalks raw as a snack and boiled as a spring vegetable. Last year I made a Japanese Knotweed cake as well. In my day, the plant was known as Polygonum cuspidatum, the genus name denoting the multiple « knees » or joints on the stalks, characteristic of the buckwheat/knotweed family. Back in the early 70s, Lyme disease as such was not known, or at least not recognized, but I wonder if emergence of this disease and simultaneously the rapid spread of japanese knotweed worldwide is not somehow linked. That is to say, just as Lyme disease emerged on the east coast of the United States we were also being « invaded » by a « weed » that may contain Lyme disease´s best treatment or even its remedy. Perhaps this is idle speculation,, but I do not myself believe the co-incidence is insignificant. In any event, thank you for your enthusiasm for a much maligned plant. I love your impassioned ability to share information. Invaluable!
Thank you, earth mother.
How do you make a cake out of it ?
Can you maybe put the recipe here for everybody to see ?
I will write up the recipe and post it here.
Confession: I don’t cook with recipes, I just use approximate amounts in the proper proportions. I have made dozens of cakes, all good, but all different. So take this recipe with the proverbial grain of salt and alter as you like.
Knotweed purée is made as follows: take young stalks of spring knotweed, only when reddish and under 2 feet high in spring. The stalks snap easily so you won’t need scissors or shears.
In the kitchen put two saucepans with 1C water in each to boil and peel leaves off each stalk and toss leaves in boiling water. Cut the stalks into smallish pieces and toss them into other pot. The leaves must be killed before they are discarded in garbage and any shreds of plant that won’t be used for cake disposed of the same way.
Boil your cut-up stalks in about a cup of water until very mushy and bright spring green. Drain in a sieve to remove excess water, then pulse with blender or simply stir vigorously until the mush is as pulverized as possible. Measure out a cup of this purée to be used in the cake. See recipe below.
KNOTWEED CAKE
Dry ingredients
3 C flour, all-purpose or a mix of flours, but use at least 1 cup of white flour
1 1/4 C sugar, white or brown
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1C chopped nuts (I use pecans)
Wet Ingredients
2 eggs (I used egg substitute)
1/3-1/2 C oil
Approximately 1C knotweed purée
1 tsp vanilla
Mix dry ingredients well with a fork in a large bowl, to ensure good blending.
Add wet ingredients to bowl with the dry ingredients, using smaller amounts of each suggested liquid first and only adding up to the full amount if the mixture seems too dry. Should be a thick wet batter, not a dough.
Spoon or scrape mixture into a well greased loaf pan.
Bake at 350F for about 45 min to an hour,
*but start checking for doneness after 45 minutes.
An inserted toothpick should not come out wet with uncooked cake batter, but clean and nearly dry. My oven sometimes needs a bit longer than this, but it depends on how much liquid I’ve used in the cake.
We have tons of Knotweed growing around us. I’ve used it for helping my customers cure Lyme. When I tincture it I use the phases of the moon depending on what part of body I want to heal. I do this with all plants I tincture and have noticed it makes a difference. Bless your knowledge. 🙏
...this sounds legit. *eyeroll*
I was looking at resveratrol tablets and I kept seeing Japanese knotwood root included. I had no idea what it was, so nice to see this video. I knew about resveratrol because it's being studied for anti-aging.
Same hereQ! I was about to buy some and I was pissed at how damn expensive res era troll was. Instead found a public database where sightings of the plants are in the wild and there was a place 15 minute drive from me. I've now harvested it and plant to cultivate it for food.
holy crap, we've had that in my back yard for 30 years. it hasn't spread much in that time though. we've had a helpful plant this while time and didn't know it!
Your "attack" (which is how the plant sees your harvesting of it) will result in rapid lateral growth.
I think the best thing I found was my chicken keep it pretty maintained especially when it first starts coming up they actually almost killed mine
@@suzannehyde3233 Wow! Love it that chickens help to control the growth of an invasive, yet beneficial plant!
also, I was wondering if you could remake a video on Wild lettuce? more details, more about it, and maybe an in-depth process of how to tincture it? love n' light
Wow, such an intriguing plant.
I admire your knowledge. Plants are a blessing and everyone has a purpose for us. I am glad you explained about this one (I live in South Florida and never noticed around here, but will keep my eyes opened for it). Thanks.
you bring so much information about the plant to us for knowledge, thank you. I have this growing in my garden and will now harvest it. keep up the awesome work, you are a gift to the world.!!!!
Stage 4 Lyme's here .it's knocked me off my feet over last 3 yrs I need to learn this plant
It's just "Lyme".
I live on a river and literally only one small beach is left after Knott Weed has taken over. It can only be destroyed by digging them out and keeping them mowed down. Since there seems to be no way to curb its growth by seeming the root growth A significant work needs to be done to keep it contained.
This plant grows in my backyard. I make a "rhubarb" crisp with it in the spring. Yum. Now I may try a tincture. I have given roots to friends who have lyme and some find it helpful. Not all.
Thank you for your curiosity and understanding of plants. It amazes me how much plants are linked to our health.💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙🥳🌹💙
I'd love to see your culinary efforts with this.
Just be sure the plant is not beeing treated with herbicides before eating it.
BEEing? 😂😂😂
I have a stand of Japanese Knotweed however it blooms in September. It looks exactly like the ones in this video with this one exception. I'm in Ontario Canada
I'm in Ontario too, southern Ontario and I have some Knotweed growing next to my house. Fortunately, it has stayed small and not caused any trouble. I just pull it like any other weed.
Thank you Mr Yarrow for sharing this extremely vital knowlege to help people take more of their health into their own hands, by the grace of our benevolent Creator who put them here for us to stay healthy. Om Hari bol!!
Really helpful and informative video. Just watched it in the woods while harvesting knotweed :) Many thanks!
I use it as a dye plant and dye wool and make hand woven shawls with it . I didn’t know it was useful and for Lyme disease . Thanks
I’m glad I stumbled across your video! I’ve recently taken up a hobby of learning about different types of plants. I stumbled across this plant while walking, but everything I’ve read or watched about it says to remove it immediately. I found some in my yard today near my garden and went into war mode😂. Something told me just to check one more time before I try to be eradicate it. Now I realize I have quite a bit more research to do before I go to battle haha. I think I’ll remove most and contain some for now until I can find out how to grow it in a more controlled setting.
They do not flower early in Spring. They're considered great for bees specifically because they flower in the late Summer, a time when not a lot of things are flowering.
Makes you wonder how reliable the rest of his information is.
They bloom in spring where I live, and early is relevant
In England, there seems to be some angry crusade against the plant and, whilst extremely invasive and damaging, we need to find a use for it and remove it with purpose.
One of the greatest days of my life was being given a machete and hand flamer to annihilate a patch of knotweed, as a gardener.
But I'd prefer to find a use for it and a less angry response
As soon as something is useful it has a value, the more value the more it will be harvested, so once people understand the usefulness of Japanese knotweed it might help to get the plant under control. What he did not mention is that harvesting the dry stems in the middle of winter gives you more than 10 tons of dry matter per hectare which could be shreddered and pressed to briquettes and is perfect for your wood stove. Once people start doing that you might have problems to find much any more.
Smartest thing to do instead of burning it is to sell it to people who would turn it into resveratrol tinctures ... I would sell it at a farmers market or something like that so the average person could have a chance of buying it in quantity and make their own tinctures as it is ridiculously expensive to buy .
Thank you so much for this video. I just discovered a massive patch, (think hundreds of plants) across the road from my home. Having been battling the effects of Lyme disease for 11-years now, I could not just gore the potential of what is literally in front of me. I'm still trying to figure out exactly how to formulate this into a tincture and am grateful you put me on the path. Thank you again!
Mark, how are you doing now? Has the Knotweed tincture helped you heal your Lyme?
@@Laura_B__ - it’s been a struggle Laura. You get to these points where you’re no longer sure what’s helping. I’m still using it, but honestly don’t know if it’s having any effect. Hope you’re healing up out there... 💚
@@Mark-et8vh I understand your struggle. Keep at it. I think most of the time, to heal chronic illness you have to be doing many good things for your body at the same time, and it's the combination of all these things that can pull you up out of the pit. And it can still take a long time. Don't give up on yourself. God bless.
@@Laura_B__ - and you as well 💚
They love living in Southeast Alaska!
Take a 60 cc syringe and large bore 10 gauge needle. Inject Roundup directly into the base of the stalk.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
I dug up these thing not thinking what they were. I planted flowers on top, they died. Kept getting these buds and a week later they’re back. Digging found a root that looked like Yuca so we thought it was… scanned the plant with an app and voila! Japanese knotweed it is… just great.
Incredible information thanks
Reverse it all
I love it
I live in the UK and it is illegal to sell it so is really hard to find because they try to eradicate it here. However, it can be grown responsibly if you grow it in pots and dry the roots before you discard it
I need to look into lyme disease a bit more...and see a practitioner.
As always...very informative and entertaining. Thanks Yarrow!
Look into Osha root for lyme.
I have this in my back garden, there's loads. Thanks for the video. I will be trying it out.
As someone who has had this plant take over the creek I grew up in, I hate this plant.. but I will listen and maybe forgive it a bit..😊
Thank you very much for sharing this..extremely informative!
Amazing !! I have these pesky plants in my yard I've been getting a control on them because they can get out of hand and kill off any other Native plants, they do make a great privacy fence though lol I try and keep them out of my wonderful Green lawn that I take care of and enjoy looking at lol so I just let them grow on the property line only
Ive pretty much gone down a rabbit hole on this plant and its really amazing what this plant offers to us!! I love natural medicine ! I new the good lord put certain plants here for a reason. 🙏🏽🙏🏽 Thanks for sharing my friend! have a Rad day! 🤙🏽
Love all your presentations, you're a 'natural'. I've had this in 2 of my backyards in Australia, I'd like to know what the bulbous part is, its smallish and has lots of nobbles and hangs out on both the vine and in the soil. The flowers smell amazing!!
Great presentation. 💯✌
Thank you. I truly enjoy your videos .
Very informative as always Jedi! Thanks! Looking forward to all you have to share with us this Spring!! :)
I built my vegetable garden in a grove of knot weed which I decided to manage way in the back of my yard.when it flowers,right around the same time all veggies blossoms are blooming the knot weed also blooms Thousands of local honey Bees come to that patch, to gather pollen.Of course, it was hard word to thin it out,however, I chop the dried stalks and use it for mulch to keep the ground moist and supple.I would be surprised if anyone else does it!It's my first year.Blessings!
I take this regularly, as needed (not daily by any means) for Lyme symptoms
keep bringing the amazing videos Yarrow ! I've learned so much from you and can't wait for more. I live fairly close to you in Kamloops, some of our plants here are very similar to what you have there. Can you do more stuff on mushrooms ......we have soooo many varieties here and I don't know what they all are.
They spray them with a more tenacious version of round up- weathermax- vantage xrt- it stays on through a rain unlike most roundup.
I have repeatedly tried to get somewhere with the city in regard to not using it. The funny part is that our city, and the greater municipality, both claim they do not use this glyphosate toxic cocktail.
They also spray the Black berry bushes...Just think about what it is doing the bees.
This will change the world 🙏
Thank you very much, that is such an informative video! Love learning from you.
Johanna Elliott yes don't you just love his videos I always say that I'm going to watch for a minute or two and end up watching the whole thing
It can be hard to watch 10 minute+ videos. Glad you find them informative and entertaining enough to watch the whole thing.. Botanical Blessings,
Thanks for watching and sharing your appreciation for our videos. Really makes it worth doing when we here that they are so impactful to people like yourself.
Harmonic Arts Botanical Dispensary I could sit through three hour lectures from you. :)
Harmonic Arts Botanical Dispensary Yes you bet!
I'm so glad to finally find out what that strange "bamboo" is out in the patch of the backyard. I've read about Japanese knotweed but never saw it. I live in northern indiana where there shouldn't be bamboo growing so I couldn't figure out what that was.
Here in Texas there is actually bamboo patches, I wish I could find knotwood.
I married a Canadian and now we are working Snowbirds in New Brunswick and Florida. We're both in The Florida Native Plant Society and would be in N.B. if they had one. Please, everyone, do research on how important native plants are. JKW is bad, bad, bad, bad!!! It's on the list of The World's 100 Worst Alien Invaders.
Yucca root is also a great source of resveratrol, plus it also contains beneficial yuccaols and saponins. Recent studies are pointing towards its use in easing joint and muscle pain. However, Native Americans have known about its healing qualities for hundreds of years and equestrian lovers have used it as a poultice on swollen leg joints of their horses for years too. A big bonus is that the yucca plant isn't an invasive species. It truly is a treasure from the desert. That's why all our products are made with it.
Oh yeah, love your channel! Big Tom Brown fan here and he is huge into getting to know the plant's person and that plants will tell you that they are good for if you know them well enough by touch taste smell and natural conditions and locations...
I bet this plant is becoming so common due to the amounts of pesticides running through our water sources, and the need everyone will have due to alhzheimers, dementia, and others we can get from seemingly natural sources...
A former friend of mine used one of these as a ciggy. He said it actually tasted good.
Great content!
You are Awesome, thank you so much for that information it said that it such an invasive plant for all the benefits of has. I never knew it had so many benefits for health. Hope I can follow you I can probably learn a lot about plants and they’re wonderful nature
Fascinating ! Our property is over run with Knotweed. I am going to dig up some roots and make a tincture
great video 👍
My mom has lyme disease and my research pointed me to japanese knotweed and cat's claw to help her heal
I've been waiting for another one of your videos. I really do enjoy learning from you oh wise herbal jedi. :) I look forward to more of these videos throughout the year.
I was cutting back bushes in My yard and found a few of these growing in My yard. It's growing extensively in My neighbors yard. I thought it was Bamboo until I touched it. Then I Google investigated it, most reports were it's invasive and so on.
Then more research yielded it's edible and healthy for the body. My thing is to try eating it and getting over the fact I did not grow up with eating this.
Excellent video. Thank you.
Appreciate your show. Now current health crisis need more self reliance..
Do you have videos on tincturing this root? We have so much of this where I am in NE Pa. And I have family that deals with Lymes. I'd love to try it as medicine for fighting inflammation that comes along with.
I trying it now for the infection babesia coinfections one of many with the lyme
wow! now I know what is growing on my stream bank. I've been trying to get rid of it for three years. I think I'll keep some of it growing and harvesting.
Ridiculous !! You;ll have ten x that much in a few years
I've been seeing this stuff in New Jersey for years. Glad to know it has a use.
100's of videos saying how the Japanese knotweed is a menace and how it has to be nuked. Then,to see this genius ,such a difference in philosophy. Wish people can respect life and non life to live
Thank you, great job!!
People , you should not "start "any invasive plants, or allow friends to. Some are impossible to get rid of. (Like nandina.)
I was given this years ago, except it has silver pink flowers, the prettiest of the everlastings along with lunaria. it is at the periphery of the parking lot and it only moves towards the alley.
Awesome, you always have such interesting information 😁
Thanks for the info! I've had untreated lyme for 10 yrs until I was put on ABX 2 yrs ago. I also contracted cancer about 5 yrs after I got lyme. My current doctor doesn't want a combo w/ any herbs. I can't keep taking ABX, so this looks better for chronic (neuro) lyme. Thanks
Excellent video!
I love this video, we have some growing down the street here in Montana. Can't wait to start harvesting it.
Thank you for sharing. all this info.
Excellent info on the donkey weed!!! Thanks, I've been thinking about this plant quite a bit lately. I'll have to look into pickling it.
Yeah dude! Good video, I just harvested some roots of JKW this evening.
Who would have thought that pesky knotweed is actually so helpful to our health!
I just dug some root. ready to make a tincture since my dog got bit by a tick. it's call tiger stick in Chinese is has been used in TCM for long time
I fight this cursed plant daily in my herb and vegetable garden. I'm going to reserve furious judgement until the end of this video. 🤔 I'm backed up to a railroad in Central Illinois. Not temperate area at all. Sever winters and hot summers.
Ok. Finished the video. I don't think I'll change my mind much. I am trying to get my herb garden going good but this plant just wants to destroy all my efforts. I may try digging up some of the root, enough to last a good while then back to destroying it!!!
Really good info and make it exciting. Really enjoy vids! Thanks.
Great stuff. I’m in the infancy stage of knowledge and this is an encouraging and Really lovely presentation. I’m curious and that’s a good thing. Thank you.
I just read the comment about people looking for and using it more. Leading to less invasiveness.
When you cut a small root of the Japanese Knotweed, within a day this plant send shoots and roots out in response. It responds in strength to an attack.
Be mindful and have property permission before harvesting. Also, You never know if an owner has attempted to eliminate the “plant” using toxic chemicals. Consider also the environmental factors. Proximity to roads that may be treated with chemicals in the winter etc.. Curious and Cautious.
Thank you.
Love it! Thank you!
In the Pacific Northwest, there are four similar species of invasive knotweed
Giant knotweed (Polygonum sachalinense) also known as elephant ear bamboo
Japanese knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum)
Himalayan knotweed (Persicaria wallichii)
Bohemian knotweed (Polygonum x bohemicum)
Do you know if all of these are edible and carry the same health benefits like resveratrol ?
Great information will try to do some tincture as you described.
Interesting to learn how beneficial this invasive species is. If anyone has any good trusted links for more details on this, I'd be so appreciative.
Would like to learn how to identify it as well as how to harvest and then how to consume in a way that best retains it's nutritional value. Simple is best for me, as I have Chronic Lyme and little energy left for much of anything these days and struggle to learn new things now.
Are there dangerous lookalikes?
Gosh, I hope it grows around here!
THANK YOU... you may have just saved my life, as I can not afford the treatment needed to combat this horrible disease, and my Dr just got in major trouble for healing someone using non conventional methods, so she can no longer treat me. ❤
How are u feeling today? Did u try knotweed?
Brilliant. 🥰
We have loads of it. A neighbor called it mountain laurel. I have been trying to get rid of it except that the deer really like it. I just don't want it taking over my yard. I think I will try to dig some out and eat it. It does burn really well too. Maybe I will just cut it for kindling :-) after I make the tincture.
Resveratrol has not been shown to extend longevity except for one study which was never replicated. It DOES help with a number of health issues and does help with vitality to add life to years.. one thing strangely that does help with longevity is olive oil which was shown to extend the lives of mice by 17%!
Very informative I have a lot of this in my yard and would love to use it in a positive way, but I also would like to control it as well if that is possible .
thumbnail had me thinking it was crabmeat
You can actually eat these raw. It tastes great, tart and juicy.
Where’d you get that hat? Love it!
If you compost them will they spread through the compost?
Great video
Wow amazing info.
Very good for skin
Make soap with the knotweed