I wish if there was a kind of international knowledge base for all indigenous people so that each tribe can contribute some knowledge. I'm a Berber from North Africa and I love watching these videos, even though I'm from a different culture, my people also lived in harmony with nature, and the elders in our villages also know about plants and herbs and traditional medicine, but all that knowledge is being lost. Very happy to see Navajo people preserving their heritage !
Im originally English now living in southern Portugal, amazing how much your people's ancestors contributed to not only the Portuguese culture but to the world in general after the Portuguese exported it globally, I try to learn what I can about the plant medicines here from the older natives, slowly perhaps the ancient wisdom and knowledge can be restored back to it's proper place in the hearts and minds of good people everywhere.
And of course, British gin which is a simplified version of some alcoholic drink from the Netherlands that they experienced while the British army was there.
Tibetans use the berries and wood, too. People all over the temperate latitudes learned to treasure the tree. When I was a kid, I heard that the berries were poisonous... but they said mushrooms were poisonous, too🤣. Later on, I got a better picture of the world
Thank you Hosteen Wally: the knowledge you share is priceless. The piñon and juniper give us food, medicine, firewood, wood for building and crafting. We live in abundance.
Big juniper trees are personally sacred to me because of the memories and connections with my granddad and the time we spent together while I was growing up in the basin & range country of western Utah. When possible I try to camp in the shelter of a large juniper
So this is Navajo blue bread recipe? So interesting, Muscogee Creek uses Purple hull peas to make blue bread, and they also make grape dumplings... This is actually really interesting. I wonder if in the past recipes were swapped or passed along to other tribes.
Im sure you're right. As the Peoples wandered, their stories would pass along the plant knowledge gathered all along the way. Basically, the bread stayed the same...but the ingredients changed as the environment did
I think we (Natives) should go back to our old way of cooking. The white man of cooking is not so good, too much sugar and preservatives. If there is a group out there, learning the old ways of cooking, let me in.
My Granny was very smart about herb and flowers, and had a huge Juniper tree in her backyard. She taught me many of the old ways to heal through nature. She also said back in the day they made bathtub Gin from Juniper. 🤮 I love hearing your teachings, it brings back my childhood. Ahéhee’ Grandfather Wally~🤗🤎🏹🪶
I am REALLLLY enjoying the botanical education in addition to the tradition teachings you all share…. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, and preserving these wonderful teachings, and practices. Continued blessed to you all!
Here is another use for juniper, though I don't recommend it. Copper Kettle by Albert Frank Beddoe Get you a copper kettle Get you a copper coil Cover with new-made corn mash and never more you'll toil You'll just lay there by the juniper While the moon is bright Watch them jugs a-fillin' In the pale moonlight Get you a fire of hickory Get you a fire of oak Don't use no green or rotten wood they'll find you by the smoke While you lay there by the juniper While the moon is bright Watch them jugs a-fillin' In the pale moonlight My grandpappy he made whiskey My daddy he made it too We ain't paid no whiskey tax since 1792 We just lay there by the juniper While the moon is bright Watch them jugs a-fillin' In the pale moonlight Get you a copper kettle Get you a copper coil Cover with new-made corn mash and never more you will toil You'll just lay there by the juniper While the moon is bright Watch them jugs a-fillin' In the pale moonlight
Thank you for your generosity, Wally. I love your videos! IMO, Juniper ash is necessary to make the maize digestible via nixtamalization. Nixtamalization is the process of adding an alkali solution (wood ash), to dried corn kernels in order to transform them into nixtamal, a product that is more workable, tasty, and nutritious than it would be otherwise. Nixtamalization makes the niacin nutritionally available and prevents the disease pellagra. When maize was cultivated worldwide, and eaten as a staple without nixtamalization, pellagra became much more common. As corn was developed and spread throughout the Americas, different native populations used variations of this process on their corn products. Whether from ash (potash, potassium hydroxide) or mineral lime (calcium hydroxide), nixtamalization is traceable through Aztec, Inca, Maya, and Native American populations. Your body uses niacin (vitamin B3) to convert food calories into energy. The niacin you eat is absorbed through your small intestine into your body tissues, where it’s converted to a coenzyme called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD). A coenzyme is an enzyme agent. It works together with enzymes to catalyze chemical reactions. More than 400 different enzymes in your body depend on coenzyme NAD to function. Coenzyme NAD helps transfer the potential energy in macronutrients - carbohydrates, proteins and fats - into the kind of energy your cells can use (adenosine triphosphate, or ATP). Your cells depend on it for energy to function, and body systems with higher energy requirements depend on it more. NAD is also involved in a variety of specific cellular functions, including DNA repair and cellular communication. Because NAD is so heavily involved in providing fuel to cells, the lack of it tends to show up first in the body systems with the highest energy requirements or cell turnover rates. That means your skin, the mucous lining of your gastrointestinal tract, and your brain. Classic pellagra shows up as a collection of symptoms that healthcare providers describe as the “3 Ds”: diarrhea, dermatitis, and dementia. Some add a fourth “D” to include death. Death can occur if pellagra is left untreated for several years. Diarrhea occurs when the mucous lining of your intestines fails to replenish itself fast enough. Without this mucosa, the intestines can’t digest properly, and they can’t protect themselves from irritation and inflammation. Chronic inflammation affects the mucous lining along your entire gastrointestinal tract, from your mouth to bowels. This leads to gastrointestinal symptoms such as stomach pain and indigestion, as well as symptoms of oral mucositis, which include mouth sores and a red, swollen tongue. Pellagra also produces a distinctive type of dermatitis, particularly on sun-exposed areas of the body, such as the face, neck, arms, legs, hands and feet. Deprived of energy resources, the skin cells become more photosensitive. Dermatitis begins with rashes that resemble a sunburn, then progresses to rough, scaly, hyper-pigmented plaques. One telltale feature is a dark, hyper-pigmented collar around the neck. It’s called Casal’s collar, after the Spanish physician Don Gaspar Casal who first identified pellagra among the Spanish peasants in 1735. It is also the origin of the colloquialism known as "redneck". Pellagra is a systemic disease, affecting the body as a whole as cells are deprived of the energy they need to perform bodily functions. This will eventually affect the brain and nervous system. Early symptoms may be vague. They may include lethargy, apathy, and difficulty concentrating, or they may look more like anxiety or depression. Over time, symptoms progress to confusion and delusions. Severe cases may lead to permanent dementia, as well as neurological damage resulting in balance and coordination problems, muscle twitches and tremors. Historically, pellagra has occurred in poor populations throughout the world, including Europe, Africa, Asia and the Southern United States. It usually occurs in populations where the diet is very limited, especially where protein is scarce and corn is the staple food. Protein and the amino acids that come from protein are important for metabolizing niacin. And while many grains contain niacin, the niacin in corn is in a “bound” form that’s hard for our bodies to absorb. In Central and South America, the traditional method for making corn tortillas involves soaking the corn in limewater overnight. This process unbinds the niacin in the corn and makes it available to absorb. For this reason, pellagra has rarely been seen in these populations. This was not the case in the Southern United States in the early 1900s, however, when pellagra was so pervasive that the U.S. Congress asked the Surgeon General to investigate the disease. The Surgeon General appointed Joseph Goldberger, a medical officer in the US Public Health Service, to lead the investigation. Goldberger’s research led to the discovery that pellagra was caused by poor diet (published in 1923). The following decade, American biochemist Conrad A. Elevjhem discovered that the missing nutrient was niacin. By the mid-century, bread and cereal products in the United States were routinely fortified with niacin, a practice that continues today. Today, pellagra in the United States is rare, occurring in less than 1%, and is usually due to secondary causes, such as alcohol use. The same is true in other industrialized Western nations, many of which have adopted the practice of fortifying bread and cereal products. However, primary pellagra does still very much exist in less developed regions of the world, especially tribal populations where corn continues to be the staple. It’s most commonly found in India, China and sub-Saharan Africa today. Since pellagra is a deficiency of niacin (vitamin B3), it’s cured by replacing the missing nutrient. With niacin supplements, most people begin to improve right away. You may need additional treatment for symptoms such as skin sores and mouth sores. If your pellagra was caused by a pre-existing health condition, you’ll need treatment for that too. 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Juniper berries or extract of the plant has traditionally been used as diuretic, anti-arthritis, anti-diabetes, antiseptic as well as for the treatment of gastrointestinal and autoimmune disorders. The essential oil and extracts of juniper have been experimentally documented to have antioxidant, antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal activities. Recent studies have also found anti-inflammatory, cytotoxic, hypoglycemic and hypolipidemic effects of berries in experimental models. Further, the essential oil incorporation retarded lipid peroxidation in preserved meat due to its high antioxidant effect which not only improved meat product quality but also improved shelf life of the product. Thus natural antioxidant such as juniper can be used in place synthetic antioxidant for the preservation and improving self-life of meat products. New well designed clinical trials in human and animals using well-characterized J. communis extract or oil need to be conducted so that additional information is generated which can support the use of this natural product as a nutraceutical. Juniper Berry oil is considered one of the most effective essential oils for dealing with anxiety related to inner trauma, exerting a positive effect on the relaxation responses in the brain when it is inhaled. Gin is made from a fermentable grain, starch, or fruit; juniper berries; and other botanicals. To be classified as gin, the spirit must contain juniper and be at least 40% alcohol by volume. Gin is different from other liquors because of the use of botanicals in the distillation process.
Juniper berries are known in the culinary world as a flavoring. They are also known as medicine, but I do not know exactly how or where it is used or a specific application. Almost all modern medicine of the 20th century and before, came from the use of plants , fungus, or that one disease could stop another. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, and your voice and spirit. You sometimes have a very calming effect on me.❤
My Grandmother only had one kidney, when she became I'll, she went back to her village and was prescribed juniper berry tea! She never died of kidney failure! All of her children drank it, and grandchildren to this day!
@@maryannemiholovich5877yes,I have heard that the essential from the juniper berries contains the frequency your body needs for the kidneys. The use will help heal kidney problems or prevent problems with your kidneys. Glad to hear about your grandmother using them and having success
I am so glad I saw this from you! I have four of these trees and had tea out of it! Sun brewed tea water! It was wonderful! The birds love to sing in them!!!!!
Thank you Warrior Producers! There were many juniper trees that grew around our place and my dog (a Blue Heeler) loved to eat every part of this tree - the berries, bark, even the roots. The wood smoke was like incense, very fragrant. Our cat would kneed the wood logs at the fire place and lay down on the logs and take a nap. During pollination the female and male trees let out so much pollen it looks like smoke in the morning sun. Thanks for the recipes both drink, bread, and cookies. byw A Hopi maiden is judged by how well she makes piki bread, and no other criteria is considered - the thinner the better. So thin you can see through it is very good. The juniper tree is truly one of God's gifts to humanity.
This is why I love your channel. Just weeks ago I was looking at a row of trees behind where I work. I noticed the leaves looked kind of like a cedar but not and there were thousands of these blue berries on them. I was asking all around to other people that were there, what is this, is it a type of cedar and no one knew. Why didn't I Google it, I don't really know, but I didn't...I think I was supposed to watch this at least that's my .02
Hello Wally, it's funny "First Nations" people use the Juniper berry for healing, us white folks make something to get Drunk with! Bahaha 😁 Great content, and thanks for keeping the traditional teaching alive.
I was reading from a Diné blog this process of adding the juniper ash actually unlocks the bioavailability within corn to be better absorbed by the body! It’s called Nixtamalization! A fascinating chemistry process!!
Great video about these beautiful trees. I lived near the reservation for 10 years . My place was up at 5,800 feet near Sunset Crater west of the little Colorado river I had some ancient juniper trees near my house . One had been hot by lightning and I made a sculpture of a bear out of it . The wood is so beautiful. I miss the land and the Dineh culture. Thanks sharing your knowledge!
when the juniper berries are really ripe you can chew them just enough to get the pulp off the seeds then spit the seeds out and they are very sweet tasting. they are more bitter before they fully ripen. These berries are one of my favorite wild edibles and one i learned very young. we also made tea from the berries as well.
One of my favorite woods to burn in the wood stove when I lived in NM along with piñon pine. Always remember the smell in the valley when it got cold. You are correct very high in vitamin C and the ash provided phosphorus as well. Thank you Wally for the old knowledge.
I just saw a video with David Attenboro (borough?) About a giant underground seed vault where they are trying to store as many types of seeds as possible, to insure biodiversity for future generations. That would be a good seed species to add, along with information about traditional uses. 😊 They were able to bring back some 2000 year old date seeds and produce trees bearing fruit.
This is both very interesting and helpful to me. I'd be interested in more plant videos. I live in an area with these types of plants and am interested in knowing how to use them. Great video!
I never knew about uses for juniper trees. They grew near my area in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. Phelan California. We would collect dead trees for firewood, beautiful smell.
This is so fascinating. I love learning from different cultures and realizing just how much I don't know. ❤ Thank you for sharing! I have really been enjoying this channel
@@wingedinfinity777 Only Small Quantities are Used in Order to Lower Risk. It’s a Harm Reduction Technique.. Like Homeopathy Uses Water Dilutions to Increase Potential. While the Actual Total Amount Remains Equal. Imagine Eating One Whole Lemon, Versus Making 5 Glasses of Lemon Water. One is Obviously Much Easier to Consume, and Also Way Less Likely to Cause Any Problems due to the High Acidity. Understand Quantity vs Quality!!! Qualities Are Not Measurable, and Quantities are Just Amounts. Numbers Are Just Make Believe Nonsense, There Is No Numbers in Nature, Only in the Minds of Men!! Example: Like a 5 Mile Walk has Many Variables, is it through the Park, or a Desert?? What About Eating 2000 Calories, It Could Be Raw Organic Super Healthy Foods, or it Could be Junk Processed Foods like Chips Cookies and Cereals, Not Equal. Smoking Tobacco is Allegedly Bad, Well Exactly What Tobacco? The Mega Huge Tobacco Corporations and Their Massive List of Poisonous Additives or The Local Amish Grown Organic Tobacco??
Were they Hispanic? My wife is from northern Mexico and there, atole is a white thick beverage, also made from white masa (corn flour) and sugar. Would love to try blue atole.
I recommend the blue corn meal. You can probably find it online. My family is descendants of Mexican settlers and Dine/Navajo in the southwest US before the US took over the land. Both sides of my family ate atole but on my mother's side they added salt instead of sugar.
Thank you for sharing your teaching with non natives like myself who find them fascinating and very helpful. I love nature and learning more about the wonders she holds . You are a blessing to me.
We've found that mixing mullein and juniper berries into one tea has been a very nice way to relieve congestion. For some reason, add some juniper berries to the mullein tea makes it work better for us.
Recently discovered a Red Juniper bush in my yard ,the berries are sweet ,I never knew there were also Red,. They taste good . My Great aunts always rinsed their hair in Juniper steeped water
Good teaching educational traditional way of teaching culture nature of all these teaching Navajo dine Learning about a lot of herbs little bit of myself I learn some herb to heal learned from my grandma and grandpa just a little bit what I know just listening to you explaining that is really good and understanding nizhoneeh shi-cheii good teacher 🪶🪶🪶🪶
I would love to see more Natural plant uses, if this gentleman would be so kind to share, I would hate to see the knowledge lost and people seem to be gaining more of an interest in the remedies. Thank you for sharing
I love learning & remembering with the aid of this channel ❤ Love & blessings to all here at this amazing time from Amanda in Blackpool England UK 🩷💎⚖️🦄
Wow! It's interesting to me that somebody so far away knows these things! I grew up in Alabama. My daddy was a shiner. He made straight shine and Charlie Keg and all sorts of wine and homebrew but his gin was made with juniper berries. Almost like cedar but not the same. It wasn't for drinking on special occasions or just to wind down, it was like a cough and cold medicine in the winter time. Unlike other alcoholic drinks it makes you very sleepy but makes you cough up all the muck in your chest and throat. You're right too! You have to get into the fruit inside the berry
Thank you for all the sharing you do, and also, with mention of the deer. I'm curious if perhaps the Juniper berries have any effect on deer that are suffering from Chronic Wasting Disorder. Was the first thing that came into my mind, once deer was mentioned.
I wish if there was a kind of international knowledge base for all indigenous people so that each tribe can contribute some knowledge. I'm a Berber from North Africa and I love watching these videos, even though I'm from a different culture, my people also lived in harmony with nature, and the elders in our villages also know about plants and herbs and traditional medicine, but all that knowledge is being lost. Very happy to see Navajo people preserving their heritage !
🎉❤ great idea
Im originally English now living in southern Portugal, amazing how much your people's ancestors contributed to not only the Portuguese culture but to the world in general after the Portuguese exported it globally, I try to learn what I can about the plant medicines here from the older natives, slowly perhaps the ancient wisdom and knowledge can be restored back to it's proper place in the hearts and minds of good people everywhere.
That’s a great idea
Fantastic idea. Would be amazing to have this kind of knowledge from different places around the world
I think that too ❤
my dad was German and we always cooked sauerkraut with juniper berries. Cool t hear all the uses of this berry.
Interesting
German here, I can confirm. Juniper berries are quite traditional in Sauerkraut, as well as in seasonings for more intense kinds of meat
They're also used in the spice mix to marinate meat for sauerbraten.
And of course, British gin which is a simplified version of some alcoholic drink from the Netherlands that they experienced while the British army was there.
Tibetans use the berries and wood, too. People all over the temperate latitudes learned to treasure the tree. When I was a kid, I heard that the berries were poisonous... but they said mushrooms were poisonous, too🤣. Later on, I got a better picture of the world
The navajo traditions are a blessing to the world
He should be speaking in his language....not ours.
Thank you Hosteen Wally: the knowledge you share is priceless.
The piñon and juniper give us food, medicine, firewood, wood for building and crafting. We live in abundance.
Big juniper trees are personally sacred to me because of the memories and connections with my granddad and the time we spent together while I was growing up in the basin & range country of western Utah.
When possible I try to camp in the shelter of a large juniper
Wally, Iam so far from my ancestors knowing little more than what I've learned from you.
Thank you for all the knowledge you've shared.
Same 🎉🙏🏽🙏🏼🤲🏽🕊️😊
So this is Navajo blue bread recipe? So interesting, Muscogee Creek uses Purple hull peas to make blue bread, and they also make grape dumplings... This is actually really interesting. I wonder if in the past recipes were swapped or passed along to other tribes.
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I mean it's made in a very similar way, the burning of the hulls made to ash and mixed with the dough... Very similar
Im sure you're right. As the Peoples wandered, their stories would pass along the plant knowledge gathered all along the way.
Basically, the bread stayed the same...but the ingredients changed as the environment did
@@BrandonS-lk2qc Absolutely... I just find it fascinating, and wonder how old some of these recipes are.
I think we (Natives) should go back to our old way of cooking. The white man of cooking is not so good, too much sugar and preservatives. If there is a group out there, learning the old ways of cooking, let me in.
It's amazing to hear you mention the Hopi people,this is what America means to me she is alive and well amazing.
Thank you Grand Father for sharing your knowledge.
I want to learn so much about plants and herbs, I don't want to forget.
We have this tree in Iowa! Thanks Elder Chief for your wisdom and knowledge!
You have trees in Iowa?
@@Atkrdu We won’t if they continue to destroy them for crop lands.
@@MossMusic777 Of course there are junipers in Iowa.🙄🤦♂️🤡🤷♂️
My Granny was very smart about herb and flowers, and had a huge Juniper tree in her backyard. She taught me many of the old ways to heal through nature. She also said back in the day they made bathtub Gin from Juniper. 🤮 I love hearing your teachings, it brings back my childhood. Ahéhee’ Grandfather Wally~🤗🤎🏹🪶
I learned something new today thanks for sharing the knowledge about the blue bread and that female juniper trees have more berries than male trees.
I am REALLLLY enjoying the botanical education in addition to the tradition teachings you all share….
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, and preserving these wonderful teachings, and practices.
Continued blessed to you all!
Just visited the Navajo nation. Very beautiful and humbling
Here is another use for juniper, though I don't recommend it.
Copper Kettle
by Albert Frank Beddoe
Get you a copper kettle
Get you a copper coil
Cover with new-made corn mash
and never more you'll toil
You'll just lay there by the juniper
While the moon is bright
Watch them jugs a-fillin'
In the pale moonlight
Get you a fire of hickory
Get you a fire of oak
Don't use no green or rotten wood
they'll find you by the smoke
While you lay there by the juniper
While the moon is bright
Watch them jugs a-fillin'
In the pale moonlight
My grandpappy he made whiskey
My daddy he made it too
We ain't paid no whiskey tax since 1792
We just lay there by the juniper
While the moon is bright
Watch them jugs a-fillin'
In the pale moonlight
Get you a copper kettle
Get you a copper coil
Cover with new-made corn mash
and never more you will toil
You'll just lay there by the juniper
While the moon is bright
Watch them jugs a-fillin'
In the pale moonlight
Bathtub gin! 🤮
Great topic, I've never seen you smile so much.Fond memories...thank you.May everyone smile wistfully today
Thank you for your generosity, Wally. I love your videos!
IMO, Juniper ash is necessary to make the maize digestible via nixtamalization. Nixtamalization is the process of adding an alkali solution (wood ash), to dried corn kernels in order to transform them into nixtamal, a product that is more workable, tasty, and nutritious than it would be otherwise.
Nixtamalization makes the niacin nutritionally available and prevents the disease pellagra. When maize was cultivated worldwide, and eaten as a staple without nixtamalization, pellagra became much more common.
As corn was developed and spread throughout the Americas, different native populations used variations of this process on their corn products. Whether from ash (potash, potassium hydroxide) or mineral lime (calcium hydroxide), nixtamalization is traceable through Aztec, Inca, Maya, and Native American populations.
Your body uses niacin (vitamin B3) to convert food calories into energy. The niacin you eat is absorbed through your small intestine into your body tissues, where it’s converted to a coenzyme called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD). A coenzyme is an enzyme agent. It works together with enzymes to catalyze chemical reactions. More than 400 different enzymes in your body depend on coenzyme NAD to function.
Coenzyme NAD helps transfer the potential energy in macronutrients - carbohydrates, proteins and fats - into the kind of energy your cells can use (adenosine triphosphate, or ATP). Your cells depend on it for energy to function, and body systems with higher energy requirements depend on it more. NAD is also involved in a variety of specific cellular functions, including DNA repair and cellular communication.
Because NAD is so heavily involved in providing fuel to cells, the lack of it tends to show up first in the body systems with the highest energy requirements or cell turnover rates. That means your skin, the mucous lining of your gastrointestinal tract, and your brain. Classic pellagra shows up as a collection of symptoms that healthcare providers describe as the “3 Ds”: diarrhea, dermatitis, and dementia. Some add a fourth “D” to include death. Death can occur if pellagra is left untreated for several years.
Diarrhea occurs when the mucous lining of your intestines fails to replenish itself fast enough. Without this mucosa, the intestines can’t digest properly, and they can’t protect themselves from irritation and inflammation. Chronic inflammation affects the mucous lining along your entire gastrointestinal tract, from your mouth to bowels. This leads to gastrointestinal symptoms such as stomach pain and indigestion, as well as symptoms of oral mucositis, which include mouth sores and a red, swollen tongue.
Pellagra also produces a distinctive type of dermatitis, particularly on sun-exposed areas of the body, such as the face, neck, arms, legs, hands and feet. Deprived of energy resources, the skin cells become more photosensitive. Dermatitis begins with rashes that resemble a sunburn, then progresses to rough, scaly, hyper-pigmented plaques. One telltale feature is a dark, hyper-pigmented collar around the neck. It’s called Casal’s collar, after the Spanish physician Don Gaspar Casal who first identified pellagra among the Spanish peasants in 1735. It is also the origin of the colloquialism known as "redneck".
Pellagra is a systemic disease, affecting the body as a whole as cells are deprived of the energy they need to perform bodily functions. This will eventually affect the brain and nervous system. Early symptoms may be vague. They may include lethargy, apathy, and difficulty concentrating, or they may look more like anxiety or depression. Over time, symptoms progress to confusion and delusions. Severe cases may lead to permanent dementia, as well as neurological damage resulting in balance and coordination problems, muscle twitches and tremors.
Historically, pellagra has occurred in poor populations throughout the world, including Europe, Africa, Asia and the Southern United States. It usually occurs in populations where the diet is very limited, especially where protein is scarce and corn is the staple food. Protein and the amino acids that come from protein are important for metabolizing niacin. And while many grains contain niacin, the niacin in corn is in a “bound” form that’s hard for our bodies to absorb.
In Central and South America, the traditional method for making corn tortillas involves soaking the corn in limewater overnight. This process unbinds the niacin in the corn and makes it available to absorb. For this reason, pellagra has rarely been seen in these populations. This was not the case in the Southern United States in the early 1900s, however, when pellagra was so pervasive that the U.S. Congress asked the Surgeon General to investigate the disease.
The Surgeon General appointed Joseph Goldberger, a medical officer in the US Public Health Service, to lead the investigation. Goldberger’s research led to the discovery that pellagra was caused by poor diet (published in 1923). The following decade, American biochemist Conrad A. Elevjhem discovered that the missing nutrient was niacin. By the mid-century, bread and cereal products in the United States were routinely fortified with niacin, a practice that continues today.
Today, pellagra in the United States is rare, occurring in less than 1%, and is usually due to secondary causes, such as alcohol use. The same is true in other industrialized Western nations, many of which have adopted the practice of fortifying bread and cereal products. However, primary pellagra does still very much exist in less developed regions of the world, especially tribal populations where corn continues to be the staple. It’s most commonly found in India, China and sub-Saharan Africa today.
Since pellagra is a deficiency of niacin (vitamin B3), it’s cured by replacing the missing nutrient. With niacin supplements, most people begin to improve right away. You may need additional treatment for symptoms such as skin sores and mouth sores. If your pellagra was caused by a pre-existing health condition, you’ll need treatment for that too.
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Juniper berries or extract of the plant has traditionally been used as diuretic, anti-arthritis, anti-diabetes, antiseptic as well as for the treatment of gastrointestinal and autoimmune disorders. The essential oil and extracts of juniper have been experimentally documented to have antioxidant, antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal activities.
Recent studies have also found anti-inflammatory, cytotoxic, hypoglycemic and hypolipidemic effects of berries in experimental models. Further, the essential oil incorporation retarded lipid peroxidation in preserved meat due to its high antioxidant effect which not only improved meat product quality but also improved shelf life of the product. Thus natural antioxidant such as juniper can be used in place synthetic antioxidant for the preservation and improving self-life of meat products.
New well designed clinical trials in human and animals using well-characterized J. communis extract or oil need to be conducted so that additional information is generated which can support the use of this natural product as a nutraceutical.
Juniper Berry oil is considered one of the most effective essential oils for dealing with anxiety related to inner trauma, exerting a positive effect on the relaxation responses in the brain when it is inhaled.
Gin is made from a fermentable grain, starch, or fruit; juniper berries; and other botanicals. To be classified as gin, the spirit must contain juniper and be at least 40% alcohol by volume. Gin is different from other liquors because of the use of botanicals in the distillation process.
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So interesting! Thank you!
You're certainly welcome, Gina@@ginalibrizzi5204 thank you for expressing your gratitude.🤲🏻
Wow! Great information!
Thank you for tour kind words@@jrae4348 🙏🏻
Thank you Wally. I have learned so so many important lessons while watching your videos. I feel so blessed!🎉 I truly appreciate you.
Juniper berries are known in the culinary world as a flavoring. They are also known as medicine, but I do not know exactly how or where it is used or a specific application. Almost all modern medicine of the 20th century and before, came from the use of plants , fungus, or that one disease could stop another. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, and your voice and spirit. You sometimes have a very calming effect on me.❤
Liver healing
My Grandmother only had one kidney, when she became I'll, she went back to her village and was prescribed juniper berry tea! She never died of kidney failure! All of her children drank it, and grandchildren to this day!
@@maryannemiholovich5877yes,I have heard that the essential from the juniper berries contains the frequency your body needs for the kidneys. The use will help heal kidney problems or prevent problems with your kidneys. Glad to hear about your grandmother using them and having success
I am so glad I saw this from you! I have four of these trees and had tea out of it! Sun brewed tea water! It was wonderful! The birds love to sing in them!!!!!
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Thank you Warrior Producers! There were many juniper trees that grew around our place and my dog (a Blue Heeler) loved to eat every part of this tree - the berries, bark, even the roots. The wood smoke was like incense, very fragrant. Our cat would kneed the wood logs at the fire place and lay down on the logs and take a nap. During pollination the female and male trees let out so much pollen it looks like smoke in the morning sun. Thanks for the recipes both drink, bread, and cookies. byw A Hopi maiden is judged by how well she makes piki bread, and no other criteria is considered - the thinner the better. So thin you can see through it is very good. The juniper tree is truly one of God's gifts to humanity.
I could listen to this knowledge all day. Thanks for the wisdom 🙏 peace.
These teachings are precious gift and medicine to all.
Your such a treasure Wally. Thank you.
@oldschool8292 ^*You’re, not Your ffs🤡🤡🤦♂️
Thank you for the knowledge that's been lost to many !❤
Thank you for sharing ✌️💞🤟
This is why I love your channel. Just weeks ago I was looking at a row of trees behind where I work. I noticed the leaves looked kind of like a cedar but not and there were thousands of these blue berries on them. I was asking all around to other people that were there, what is this, is it a type of cedar and no one knew. Why didn't I Google it, I don't really know, but I didn't...I think I was supposed to watch this at least that's my .02
Hello Wally, it's funny "First Nations" people use the Juniper berry for healing, us white folks make something to get Drunk with! Bahaha 😁 Great content, and thanks for keeping the traditional teaching alive.
A little gin can help heal the Monday blues!
HOPI PIKI BREAD. Thank you for the teachings, Grandfather Wally.
Aheéhe’ Wally, these plant medicine teachings are my favorite, I’m amazed at such the richness that grows right along side of us in the world! 😊
I was reading from a Diné blog this process of adding the juniper ash actually unlocks the bioavailability within corn to be better absorbed by the body! It’s called Nixtamalization! A fascinating chemistry process!!
Thanks for sharing this information much appreciated
Great video about these beautiful trees. I lived near the reservation for 10 years . My place was up at 5,800 feet near Sunset Crater west of the little Colorado river I had some ancient juniper trees near my house . One had been hot by lightning and I made a sculpture of a bear out of it . The wood is so beautiful. I miss the land and the Dineh culture. Thanks sharing your knowledge!
Loved this information
Beautiful finish on the cradle board.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge
when the juniper berries are really ripe you can chew them just enough to get the pulp off the seeds then spit the seeds out and they are very sweet tasting. they are more bitter before they fully ripen. These berries are one of my favorite wild edibles and one i learned very young. we also made tea from the berries as well.
Thank you Mr. Brown AND Shane...
One of my favorite woods to burn in the wood stove when I lived in NM along with piñon pine. Always remember the smell in the valley when it got cold. You are correct very high in vitamin C and the ash provided phosphorus as well. Thank you Wally for the old knowledge.
We have juniper bushes around my bank down the street.
I love the scent of juniper bushes.
I just saw a video with David Attenboro (borough?) About a giant underground seed vault where they are trying to store as many types of seeds as possible, to insure biodiversity for future generations. That would be a good seed species to add, along with information about traditional uses. 😊
They were able to bring back some 2000 year old date seeds and produce trees bearing fruit.
Thank You, Wise Man much respect and always
Thank you Wally and everyone else who makes these
This is both very interesting and helpful to me. I'd be interested in more plant videos. I live in an area with these types of plants and am interested in knowing how to use them. Great video!
Thank you, brother! ✨️🤍🙏👣🌎
I love to see him smile .grandmas cooking does that in all cultures
Thank you Wally , as always Agape, appreciation and affection 🙏❤️🖖! Glad that your part of me and that I'm part of you .
Greatest channel ever!!!! Thank you so much!!!!
Thanks!
Thank you for your beautiful wisdom. 💜
The needles looked a little bit different than here.
In sweden, they also make Juniperdrink "Enbärsdricka".
Could buy it as cola in stores.
I never knew about uses for juniper trees. They grew near my area in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. Phelan California. We would collect dead trees for firewood, beautiful smell.
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Thank you for sharing this
I love the smell of cedar trees. A huge red cedar grows in my yard. ✌️
Th3se trees are not large, we have them in kansas, different variety
@@MaryHernandez-lq8kq Not to mention these are juniper, not cedar.🙄🤡🤦♂️🤷♂️
This is so fascinating. I love learning from different cultures and realizing just how much I don't know. ❤ Thank you for sharing! I have really been enjoying this channel
Using Juniper Bonsai Tree’s for Medicine = MICRO-DOSING! 🌱🌲
That's what I was thinking too.
What is micro dosing ?
@@wingedinfinity777 Only Small Quantities are Used in Order to Lower Risk. It’s a Harm Reduction Technique..
Like Homeopathy Uses Water Dilutions to Increase Potential. While the Actual Total Amount Remains Equal. Imagine Eating One Whole Lemon, Versus Making 5 Glasses of Lemon Water. One is Obviously Much Easier to Consume, and Also Way Less Likely to Cause Any Problems due to the High Acidity.
Understand Quantity vs Quality!!!
Qualities Are Not Measurable, and Quantities are Just Amounts. Numbers Are Just Make Believe Nonsense, There Is No Numbers in Nature, Only in the Minds of Men!! Example: Like a 5 Mile Walk has Many Variables, is it through the Park, or a Desert?? What About Eating 2000 Calories, It Could Be Raw Organic Super Healthy Foods, or it Could be Junk Processed Foods like Chips Cookies and Cereals, Not Equal. Smoking Tobacco is Allegedly Bad, Well Exactly What Tobacco? The Mega Huge Tobacco Corporations and Their Massive List of Poisonous Additives or The Local Amish Grown Organic Tobacco??
@@wingedinfinity777 The Opposite of OVER-DOSING!!
@@AdamWeber11 Thanks for the reply. Was wondering if it meant something different than the obvious.
That was very fascinating. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for the teaching
Excellent teacher teaching. Thank you.
I appreciate these sharings. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us. You are a blessing
Again another great informing video. Gracias
Thank you so much for another wonderful lesson. Blessings to you all 🌿🪶
In the southwest US (New Mexico and Colorado) my grandmothers called the blue corn mush atole.
Were they Hispanic? My wife is from northern Mexico and there, atole is a white thick beverage, also made from white masa (corn flour) and sugar. Would love to try blue atole.
I recommend the blue corn meal. You can probably find it online. My family is descendants of Mexican settlers and Dine/Navajo in the southwest US before the US took over the land. Both sides of my family ate atole but on my mother's side they added salt instead of sugar.
@@MsLemon1971 I love blue corn atole, both salty or sweetened with honey with some dried blueberries and lavender. Yum!
@@ScottJB Atole is many different things, genius.🤦♂️
@@MsLemon1971 Atole is not made from corn meal, and you don’t eat atole- you drink it.🤦♂️🤡🙄🤷♂️
Thank you for sharing your teaching with non natives like myself who find them fascinating and very helpful. I love nature and learning more about the wonders she holds . You are a blessing to me.
I love this !I can't get enough !
thank you Grandfather
Many blessings The IndigoTribe and thank God for our Planet 💜🙏🏽🌟
Thank you Wally for sharing all your knowledge and wisdom.
Beautiful! We call them Eastern Red Cedar. Such a bountiful tree!
MORE VIDEOS ABOUT PLANTS PLEASE! ❤🪴🍀🌳🌲
These are important teachings. Thank you.
This is amazing! We have so many of these trees near my house 😄
I miss the Navajo intro speech.
Thank you with respect gratitudes sharing sacred wisdom...🙏🌲
Junipers are also one of the most sought after, beloved and expensive trees in the art of bonsai.
Thanks for sharing.
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Great information. Interesting 🤠🦅🇺🇸 Thanks
We've found that mixing mullein and juniper berries into one tea has been a very nice way to relieve congestion. For some reason, add some juniper berries to the mullein tea makes it work better for us.
Recently discovered a Red Juniper bush in my yard ,the berries are sweet ,I never knew there were also Red,. They taste good . My Great aunts always rinsed their hair in Juniper steeped water
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you very much.
Good teaching educational traditional way of teaching culture nature of all these teaching Navajo dine Learning about a lot of herbs little bit of myself I learn some herb to heal learned from my grandma and grandpa just a little bit what I know just listening to you explaining that is really good and understanding nizhoneeh shi-cheii good teacher 🪶🪶🪶🪶
Such a Spiritually wise tree. Thank you for sharing its wisdom.
I would love to see more Natural plant uses, if this gentleman would be so kind to share, I would hate to see the knowledge lost and people seem to be gaining more of an interest in the remedies. Thank you for sharing
Awesome, again!!!!! 😃🙂 thank you grandfather wally!!!! And any and all who make these beautiful videos!!!!!!!!
I love learning & remembering with the aid of this channel ❤
Love & blessings to all here at this amazing time from Amanda in Blackpool England UK 🩷💎⚖️🦄
Wow! It's interesting to me that somebody so far away knows these things! I grew up in Alabama. My daddy was a shiner. He made straight shine and Charlie Keg and all sorts of wine and homebrew but his gin was made with juniper berries. Almost like cedar but not the same. It wasn't for drinking on special occasions or just to wind down, it was like a cough and cold medicine in the winter time. Unlike other alcoholic drinks it makes you very sleepy but makes you cough up all the muck in your chest and throat.
You're right too! You have to get into the fruit inside the berry
Thank you for sharing, so important!!!!❤
Thank you, again very informative.
Gratitude 💕✨
Thank you for all the sharing you do, and also, with mention of the deer. I'm curious if perhaps the Juniper berries have any effect on deer that are suffering from Chronic Wasting Disorder. Was the first thing that came into my mind, once deer was mentioned.
Love Juniper!😊❤
Good video Thanks Juniper is Strong stuff. I like the name Juniper.
My father calls this plant Salvino. He claims it helps you fight cancer.
Educating all of mankind! The ancient wisdom will help all of mankind to take care of themselves! Love, Light, and Harmony ❤
😊 thx for sharing a little better about the tree
Thank you for sharing 🙏🙏
This lost knowledge is so interesting. Thank you for your presentation.
Wonderful video! Thank you.
Good knowledge elder thanks