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I use mullein, comfry, and wild lettuce as needed. I quit doctors after they nearly killed me in 2018. I use all sorts of roots and herbs, drink spring water and eat mostly all foods with 3 or less ingredients. I get my flour from Heritage Virginia Mills out of Nicklesville VA. I praise God Almighty and thank him for showing me the truth!
My Nana mixed whiskey, honey and lemon to make a warm toddy when we had bad coughs. When my brothers reached ten or so they’d pretend to have coughing fits. Couldn’t fool our wonderful Grandmother though. :) She used sassafras root to make tea in the fall to “strengthen our blood” for the winter and harvested wild ginseng. She remembered a plant the girls and women would pick leaves from to chew for cramps and mood swings during “that time of the month”. When we got older we used to call her our pothead Nana. She tolerated it to a point. She was strong and true, loved us dearly but could be tough. She is the moral compass in our lives even now as we are in our 70’s. I feel for children I’ve taught whose families are ever changeable and who don’t have much time for them.
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller one more share and I promise I won’t bother you. I was 10 when the Birmingham March happened so my brothers were 14 and 16. The adults were watching the news after Sunday Dinner and getting all het up. Nana quietly gathered all the cousins together and told us to come outside with her. She had us sit down on the grass by the porch swing she was sitting on and said ” When God created the world what did God say at the end of each day? We answered: “It was good”. “And what did God say when he created man and woman equally? “ We answered the same. She pulled her tiny regal body up and said :”No! He said it was very good! And children God didn’t add any ‘except fors’ at the end of that sentence!” She was the anchor of our lives.99
My grandma who was born and raised in the mountain of WV started giving me that anytime I was sick from the time I was 3 years old on. She would give me beer sometimes as a baby to calm me down. She raised me on mostly all natural remedies.
Had a Native American patient in the late 70s who just declined rapidly after surgery. The family finally insisted he be allowed traditional spiritual and plant therapy in the hospital. He bounced back quickly and went on to live a long life.
Isn't it amazing how we've come full circle? I live in Colorado where there is a widely attended herbal school. I started transitioning to herbs 20 years ago. Now that I'm an old lady, I rely on natural remedies more than ever. Wish there were yarb women active in all communities. Wise women indeed
I live in Appalachia now but was born and raised in Indiana. My Grandparents used a lot of herbs and roots to heal and I paid attention. I have always leaned more towards natural remedies and have studied and used them all my life. I raised four children and have helped raise 14 grandchildren rarely requiring a doctor. Up here on the Plateau there are a few herbs missing but I'm working to establish them here on my homestead. I love hearing stories from the past. I think there is a strong connection between the S. Indiana Hill people and Appalachian folks with a lot of history in common. Most of my Great grandparents migrated North from Appalachia in the mid 1800's
Oh boy.. this is likely my favorite topic! My grandma in SE Kentucky was a midwife in the early 1900's... she never talked about it and I didn't know until I was grown and she was gone... I sure wish I could ask her questions 🙁 I've always been interested in Native ways and learned the hard way that doctors are just practicing (or pretending) that they know what they're doing 🙄 I've always heard that intent and gratitude was important when gathering herbs because it was a gift from the Great Spirit and it was important to help the medicine to work. Thanks JD... Have a wonderful weekend 😎👍
I come down from a line of Appalachian Yarbs and Power Doctors. I consider myself a doctor and a witch. They’re not mutually exclusive. That’s why the term “witch doctor” exists. I’m perfectly happy occupying that space in my society.
My Grandpa was a Herb healer. In the Spring he would worm all of us children. I hated it (and it took two adults to hold me while Grandpa forced it into my mouth and made me swallow it). We all lived and grew up. I bought a used copy of THE CHEROKEE HERBAL book at Goodwill Thursday. Grandpa died when I was in fifth grade. It would have been nice if I could have spent more time with him, I had more time with him than most of his other grandchildren. Grandpa was half Cherokee. My mother did not want me to learn from him.
@@143purple Grandpa would go to the homes of each of his grown children and force his grandchildren to swallow his home made herbal worm (internal parasites) killer. My father took it first then all four of us children (in my family). Mom always rejected it. This was done every Spring while my Grandpa was able to get around. Some of Grandpa's brothers would bring their grandchildren to Grandpa to be wormed. Children who have worms (parasites inside them) can't grow correctly and can die if left untreated.
Wonderful video,thankyou.They mocked Dr.Christopher and others,yet look at the wonderful healing they did and still use today.Nature provides for all our needs. I am also a folk healer from Scotland.
Thanks JD it was a nice story. My Grand mother was a midwife. And I still use home remedies when we get sick around here. We have to be on our death bed before we go to a doctor. I don’t trust them.
As an RN 4 40 yrs just recently retired, I really appreciate this story. Newer is not always better . I do believe in the natural healing. Yada ❤ Dont get me started with insurance companies and pharmaceutical lol cause Im with #Bernie on healthcare in America. Love this channel. ❤
Excellent channel ,the old people had cures for most things here in ireland also most of this knowledge seems now lost which is so sad , thank you for keeping these stories and legendary people alive ,you are so interesting thank you 🌟
Yesss!! I wish I had a book of those recipes. I've had great success with the few that I've tried. Nice job on this one, JD! Have a great memorial day everyone!
J. D. Great show as always. I can remember the times when I was a youngun the Kentucky folk that worked with my dad on the farm pointing out roots and herbs that had medicinal uses. Brought back a lot of great memories and wishes that I woulda listened more closely. Thanks
Hallelujah JD! This was the most informative video you’ve made for the common man/woman. You couldn’t have said it better! On my mountain there’s so many of these trees and plants. I’ve known for the longest time that the willow was where they invented aspirin, for example. But I have ginger and other roots. I want to learn everything that I can, because I’m tired of big pharma. The old timers were way smarter than a lot of these drug companies. We must return to nature. I’m trying my best. Thank you for this video. I must keep on with my research. We never know when shite’s gonna hit the fan! Have a great weekend.
JD, as a sane-level prepper, I've always loved any kind of bushcraft including medicines. One of my favorites is comfrey, also known as knitbone or boneset. You can feed a little to tired old horses to perk them up a bit, and it works for people too; also felt to combat cancer. Or use externally on sores and small wounds. Other wound remedies I don't see mentioned nearly often enough are chewed (or dampened and mashed with a mortar and pestle)organic tobacco or spider webs. Another thing that's good for wounds is a tree frog if you can find one. A few years ago science research accepted how the tree frog cure works; you lightly bind a fresh-caught tree frog belly down over your wound. As it wiggles to get away, thinking it's under attack, it releases a natural antibiotic to heal the wound. When froggy stops wiggling, that means he's out of juice so you have to let him loose and go get another frog & repeat the procedure. In an emergency when a family member's bleeding profusely and miles from a doctor, throwing flour on the wound will stop the bleeding for a good long time at least. One of my brothers, a pacifist, was an army medic in 'Nam and he learned more tricks of the bushcraft trade than you could imagine. Like how tampons for a nosebleed when the person's head is upright, or to plug a bullet hole with. Sanitary pads make great compresses. He taught me a lot; but there's one old book I really wish I could find again, called 'What to Do When Your Parents Aren't Home'. The best tip I remember from that was if a bug flies in your ear and decides to take up residence in your ear canal, just flush it out with tepid water. Fill up your ear, then turn your head down to drain the ear; repeat if needed. People have gone to emergency rooms for painful, expensive surgeries to retrieve ear bugs when there's a simple, quick solution right at home. I've taken care of so many of my medical needs right at home for most of my life, but I'm sure at 79 that I must've forgotten many. things. The best safety measure is to use good judgment and try to stay out of trouble in the first place. Same thing goes for general health - it's easier to keep yourself as healthy as possible than it is to fix something you let go wrong.
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller - Most often used as a poultice but also might as well chew and swallow too if you have enough. And although I know modern medicine blanches at the very thought, if you know help is too far away to know or reach you, let the dog lick your wound and/or pack it with mud. Whatever might be wrong with that will be easier to deal with than the consequences of not doing it. I once got a promotion at work bc the CEO threw a picnic and happened to be standing right next to me when he cut his hand badly while trying to slice open a watermelon. I immediately poured some of the coca cola on it, applied pressure etc. - and barked orders at everybody standing around with their jaw hanging open like I was a drill sergeant. Normally of course I wouldn't have spoken that way, but I'm not slow in an emergency, especially when somebody making 10 times my own salary stands around helpless as a newborn babe. That's not the time for gentle persuasion or mild suggestions. You don't need to think anyone but the CEO took kindly to my actions either. Apparently I was supposed to wait in silence while they debated whether to call 911 or not and let the CEO bleed out. That was their idea of protocol. At the end of the day, though, you might be surprised how much people will comply at first anyway when confronted with an emergency followed immediately by anyone with a command presence telling them what they'd better do and do it NOW! But I grew up in a military family and learned plenty from them. That's what we did at family reunions - played war games. It just surprises the hell outta civilians when a quiet, teeny little lady does that..
A well presented program & tells the story of my heritage. I've practiced since the 60s & grow more of my plants as age makes foraging more difficult now. But I must say when I hear Scotch-Irish I cringe. We are Scots-Irish.
Wow! This was an amazing story about what our older kinfolk knew and tried to help us with. I do believe with all my heart that everyone would be a lot healthier and happier ! I loved this JD….. as I finally start realizing that the 17 medications I take daily would be off the market! Blessings always my dear friend!
Thanks for your dedication and commitment bringing the appalcian culture and lifestyle past and present to us. Your footage knowledge effort and research is commendable. I live in southwest Washington but am determined to visit camp out in the smokies one day and maybe bag a pesky razorback hog. Good eating Thanks for your uploads
So good to hear your stories! Thank you for another great video. I love the photos you include. Especially seeing the older hard working people. Thank you JD. God bless you and keep you. Love from Canadice NY ❤
This video means a lot I supply yellow root to my local herb doc I have a few things put away as well I even have pipe just of flannel leaves or mullin as I call it
I have been given yellow root as a child many times as well as use touch me not .to stop insect bite from itching. Rag weed to keep bee stings from swelling but must be used quickly one or two minutes it is every where .
Nicely done JD. Ever done a story on edible weeds and such? I remember having dandelion jelly, sassafras leaves and tea, and various other greens (weeds) that mom would cook. Not to mention the wild berries and nuts. Have a great weekend!
I’ve done a couple of stories before talking about sassafras but nothing really as in-depth as this story. This was the first time I really dug again and read lots of research on the plants.
So many of these things are becoming a lost art. We truly do not value the lessons of the past. Someone once said: “The youth are on the path, but the elders know the way.”
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller You are very welcome! I have watched every video several times.....my favorite is the story of "Molly" I am always confused on which one was first, second and third.
Feeling ill I first turn to herbal treatment , when persistent I call my homeopath . I know more than average about herbs and their use , something I learned from my husband who's father adviced people on treatments . The farmaceutical industry is indeed powerful , in Belgium it's the 3d biggest employer doing research and making vaccines . It's good people go back to the roots and these companies get less power imo . The same goes for seeds which they make more and more hybride so they have to be bought over and over . An organization here wants to go against this by encouraging people to have their own seed bank and make swaps with other gardners . Great story , thanks .
Hi JD loved this story so very interesting fantastic would love to buy your book but as I’m in the UK it cost twice as much which is such a shame would love to read but I cannot see a way round it
Whiskey honey and lemon and a teaspoon of baking soda……….Served hot ……..Stir the soda in the glass and say drink it fast ………Lat down and Sweat in a blanket ……….
I don't think its a coincidence that NC's Research Triangle, and it's vast pharmaceutical industry, grew up on the ole Catawba Trail that met the old ways and new at the foothills of Appalachia here
my grandfather had prostate cancer, he refused treatment they told him he would only live couple yrs. he drank (every day) some kind of tea that he had learned of in eastern kentucky lived for over 15 years to 86, tried it 1 time it was nasty stuff lol
My granny GOD rest her soul Amen 🙏 always told me that when a black snake would fight and kill a poisonous snake the black snake would go find a certain weed and bite it if the poisonous snake bit the black snake. It knew what weed to hunt down and it killed the poison the snake injected in the black snake. I don’t know what the weed was though my granny passed away before she told me
Excellent video. I appreciate this channel. I would just like to mention that this particular presentation of the Cherokee people generalizes a discussion of the indigenous people of the Appalachian Mountains in a way which is not accurate. In my opinion, it would be more appropriate to refer to the people of the Algonquin Nation. While I understand that one video cannot include every detail, would like to explain that a discussion of indigenous people from "Alabama to Maine" is a discussion of the language/cultural group known as the Algonquin Nation. With reference to the place which we call the State of Maine, this includes the Penobscot and related tribes. The Potowatomi are an Algonquin people long established in Michigan but more an anciently in the Appalachian Mountain valleys. They, like the Algonquin Lakota, were forced to move to the Northern Plains. The tribes and clans which we know as the Leni Lanape, or Delaware, remained, but came to be controlled by leaders of the Iroquois 7 Tribe Nation. It is in my opinion a mistake in a discussion of the medicines of the indigenous people of the Appalachian Range to refer to these cultural practices as Cherokee. It would be more accurate to refer to Algonquin culture and medicine
@Great Story as usual Arnold Krochmal and 2 other Authors have written a book: "A Guide to MEDICINAL PLANTS of Appalachia" published by U.S.D.A. FOREST SERVICE RESEARCH PAPER NE-138 I969. 281 Pages I have also some books from German Yarb doctors: Hildegard von Bingen is pretty worthless. Sebastian Kneipp ist very informative. Maria Treben was great and wrote a book, also translated in english. "Health Through God’s Pharmacy Advice and Proven Cures With Medicinal Herbs". There is also very interesting books: "Horror's of Vacinations" and "Impf-Friedhof" I myself don't consult Pharma Whores for decades anymore. I was deadly sick in the age of 3, caused of Standart Vacinations. Since, for almost 70 years I was never sick again and in good health still. Greetings good ole Germany.
Great content - I’m confused by the ominous music though. Makes it seem unnecessarily scary which I think goes against the point of educating people on these topics.
Ditto. I was a nurse, but since 2020, don't trust the medical system, so I'm on a self taught journey of herbal medicine. Last year I had a sinus infection and cured it with oregano oil. I think I had a nondisplaced wrist fracture. My RN training did help me because I iced it, compressed it and elevated it initially and used a comfrey root poultice to help it heal. And this year, I used an usnea salve to treat a boil on my hisband.
I use mullein whenever I have a cold, to stop anything settling in my lungs. Grow it myself and am slowly converting “big pharma junkies” to its benefits 🤣 I have a book I bought a few years back called, The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies by Nicole Apelian, Ph.D & Claude Davis. Good book 😊
*I'm favoured only God knows how much I praise Him, $130k every 4weeks! I now have a good house and can now afford anything and also support my family❤️*
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I use mullein, comfry, and wild lettuce as needed. I quit doctors after they nearly killed me in 2018. I use all sorts of roots and herbs, drink spring water and eat mostly all foods with 3 or less ingredients. I get my flour from Heritage Virginia Mills out of Nicklesville VA. I praise God Almighty and thank him for showing me the truth!
Wow, that’s a healthy diet
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Yes just click on the picture next to their name i just subscribed 💜
Many feel the same way, especially since C19.
My Nana mixed whiskey, honey and lemon to make a warm toddy when we had bad coughs. When my brothers reached ten or so they’d pretend to have coughing fits. Couldn’t fool our wonderful Grandmother though. :) She used sassafras root to make tea in the fall to “strengthen our blood” for the winter and harvested wild ginseng. She remembered a plant the girls and women would pick leaves from to chew for cramps and mood swings during “that time of the month”. When we got older we used to call her our pothead Nana. She tolerated it to a point. She was strong and true, loved us dearly but could be tough. She is the moral compass in our lives even now as we are in our 70’s. I feel for children I’ve taught whose families are ever changeable and who don’t have much time for them.
I remember folks like her, thanks for sharing her story
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller one more share and I promise I won’t bother you. I was 10 when the Birmingham March happened so my brothers were 14 and 16. The adults were watching the news after Sunday Dinner and getting all het up. Nana quietly gathered all the cousins together and told us to come outside with her. She had us sit down on the grass by the porch swing she was sitting on and said ” When God created the world what did God say at the end of each day? We answered: “It was good”. “And what did God say when he created man and woman equally? “ We answered the same. She pulled her tiny regal body up and said :”No! He said it was very good! And children God didn’t add any ‘except fors’ at the end of that sentence!” She was the anchor of our lives.99
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My grandma who was born and raised in the mountain of WV started giving me that anytime I was sick from the time I was 3 years old on. She would give me beer sometimes as a baby to calm me down. She raised me on mostly all natural remedies.
Had a Native American patient in the late 70s who just declined rapidly after surgery. The family finally insisted he be allowed traditional spiritual and plant therapy in the hospital. He bounced back quickly and went on to live a long life.
Wow 😮
Fabulous, I'm so glad xx
Isn't it amazing how we've come full circle? I live in Colorado where there is a widely attended herbal school. I started transitioning to herbs 20 years ago. Now that I'm an old lady, I rely on natural remedies more than ever. Wish there were yarb women active in all communities. Wise women indeed
Exactly
I live in Appalachia now but was born and raised in Indiana. My Grandparents used a lot of herbs and roots to heal and I paid attention. I have always leaned more towards natural remedies and have studied and used them all my life. I raised four children and have helped raise 14 grandchildren rarely requiring a doctor. Up here on the Plateau there are a few herbs missing but I'm working to establish them here on my homestead. I love hearing stories from the past. I think there is a strong connection between the S. Indiana Hill people and Appalachian folks with a lot of history in common. Most of my Great grandparents migrated North from Appalachia in the mid 1800's
Thank you for sharing your story I enjoyed reading it
Thank you for sharing your story I enjoyed reading it
Oh boy.. this is likely my favorite topic!
My grandma in SE Kentucky was a midwife in the early 1900's... she never talked about it and I didn't know until I was grown and she was gone... I sure wish I could ask her questions 🙁
I've always been interested in Native ways and learned the hard way that doctors are just practicing (or pretending) that they know what they're doing 🙄
I've always heard that intent and gratitude was important when gathering herbs because it was a gift from the Great Spirit and it was important to help the medicine to work.
Thanks JD... Have a wonderful weekend 😎👍
Thank you for sharing that Kathy ❤️
Thank you, JD, for sharing this interesting and informative video.
Many thanks for all the work you put into each video.
God 🙏 bless 🙏.
Thank you Nonnie ❤️
Great story. I always appreciate videos that highlight native contributions
Thank you, Michael. Hope you’re enjoying this memorial day weekend. Have a great day, brother.
I come down from a line of Appalachian Yarbs and Power Doctors. I consider myself a doctor and a witch. They’re not mutually exclusive. That’s why the term “witch doctor” exists. I’m perfectly happy occupying that space in my society.
thanks for sharing this
My Grandpa was a Herb healer. In the Spring he would worm all of us children. I hated it (and it took two adults to hold me while Grandpa forced it into my mouth and made me swallow it). We all lived and grew up. I bought a used copy of THE CHEROKEE HERBAL book at Goodwill Thursday. Grandpa died when I was in fifth grade. It would have been nice if I could have spent more time with him, I had more time with him than most of his other grandchildren. Grandpa was half Cherokee. My mother did not want me to learn from him.
Amazing!
What do u mean worm all of us? More info please
@@143purple parasite treatment
@@143purple Grandpa would go to the homes of each of his grown children and force his grandchildren to swallow his home made herbal worm (internal parasites) killer. My father took it first then all four of us children (in my family). Mom always rejected it. This was done every Spring while my Grandpa was able to get around. Some of Grandpa's brothers would bring their grandchildren to Grandpa to be wormed. Children who have worms (parasites inside them) can't grow correctly and can die if left untreated.
Thank you for honoring the grannys and Cherokee in this story ❤
Thank you!
Wonderful video,thankyou.They mocked Dr.Christopher and others,yet look at the wonderful healing they did and still use today.Nature provides for all our needs. I am also a folk healer from Scotland.
thank you!
Thanks JD it was a nice story. My Grand mother was a midwife. And I still use home remedies when we get sick around here. We have to be on our death bed before we go to a doctor. I don’t trust them.
Thank you Carol ❤️
As an RN 4 40 yrs just recently retired, I really appreciate this story. Newer is not always better . I do believe in the natural healing. Yada ❤ Dont get me started with insurance companies and pharmaceutical lol cause Im with #Bernie on healthcare in America. Love this channel. ❤
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The only thing becoming a nurse got me was a distrust of doctors and belief in herbal medicine.
I’ve been wanting to learn more about natural remedies, this just makes me more interested!
Thank you ❤
Thank you ❤️
Excellent channel ,the old people had cures for most things here in ireland also most of this knowledge seems now lost which is so sad , thank you for keeping these stories and legendary people alive ,you are so interesting thank you 🌟
Thank you so much, and thank you for sharing that about Ireland ❤️
Yesss!! I wish I had a book of those recipes. I've had great success with the few that I've tried. Nice job on this one, JD!
Have a great memorial day everyone!
Thank you Emily! Happy Memorial Day
J. D. Great show as always. I can remember the times when I was a youngun the Kentucky folk that worked with my dad on the farm pointing out roots and herbs that had medicinal uses. Brought back a lot of great memories and wishes that I woulda listened more closely. Thanks
Thank you brother! Blessings from East Tennessee
Hallelujah JD! This was the most informative video you’ve made for the common man/woman. You couldn’t have said it better! On my mountain there’s so many of these trees and plants. I’ve known for the longest time that the willow was where they invented aspirin, for example. But I have ginger and other roots. I want to learn everything that I can, because I’m tired of big pharma. The old timers were way smarter than a lot of these drug companies. We must return to nature. I’m trying my best. Thank you for this video. I must keep on with my research. We never know when shite’s gonna hit the fan!
Have a great weekend.
Thank you Denise ❤️ have a blessed weekend
I'm in Appalachia now and I'm collecting up nature's gifts to put in my apothecary.
Amazing
JD, as a sane-level prepper, I've always loved any kind of bushcraft including medicines. One of my favorites is comfrey, also known as knitbone or boneset. You can feed a little to tired old horses to perk them up a bit, and it works for people too; also felt to combat cancer. Or use externally on sores and small wounds.
Other wound remedies I don't see mentioned nearly often enough are chewed (or dampened and mashed with a mortar and pestle)organic tobacco or spider webs. Another thing that's good for wounds is a tree frog if you can find one. A few years ago science research accepted how the tree frog cure works; you lightly bind a fresh-caught tree frog belly down over your wound. As it wiggles to get away, thinking it's under attack, it releases a natural antibiotic to heal the wound. When froggy stops wiggling, that means he's out of juice so you have to let him loose and go get another frog & repeat the procedure. In an emergency when a family member's bleeding profusely and miles from a doctor, throwing flour on the wound will stop the bleeding for a good long time at least. One of my brothers, a pacifist, was an army medic in 'Nam and he learned more tricks of the bushcraft trade than you could imagine. Like how tampons for a nosebleed when the person's head is upright, or to plug a bullet hole with. Sanitary pads make great compresses. He taught me a lot; but there's one old book I really wish I could find again, called 'What to Do When Your Parents Aren't Home'. The best tip I remember from that was if a bug flies in your ear and decides to take up residence in your ear canal, just flush it out with tepid water. Fill up your ear, then turn your head down to drain the ear; repeat if needed. People have gone to emergency rooms for painful, expensive surgeries to retrieve ear bugs when there's a simple, quick solution right at home. I've taken care of so many of my medical needs right at home for most of my life, but I'm sure at 79 that I must've forgotten many. things. The best safety measure is to use good judgment and try to stay out of trouble in the first place. Same thing goes for general health - it's easier to keep yourself as healthy as possible than it is to fix something you let go wrong.
Thanks for sharing this, I never heard of chewed spiderwebs!
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller - Most often used as a poultice but also might as well chew and swallow too if you have enough. And although I know modern medicine blanches at the very thought, if you know help is too far away to know or reach you, let the dog lick your wound and/or pack it with mud. Whatever might be wrong with that will be easier to deal with than the consequences of not doing it.
I once got a promotion at work bc the CEO threw a picnic and happened to be standing right next to me when he cut his hand badly while trying to slice open a watermelon. I immediately poured some of the coca cola on it, applied pressure etc. - and barked orders at everybody standing around with their jaw hanging open like I was a drill sergeant. Normally of course I wouldn't have spoken that way, but I'm not slow in an emergency, especially when somebody making 10 times my own salary stands around helpless as a newborn babe. That's not the time for gentle persuasion or mild suggestions.
You don't need to think anyone but the CEO took kindly to my actions either. Apparently I was supposed to wait in silence while they debated whether to call 911 or not and let the CEO bleed out. That was their idea of protocol.
At the end of the day, though, you might be surprised how much people will comply at first anyway when confronted with an emergency followed immediately by anyone with a command presence telling them what they'd better do and do it NOW! But I grew up in a military family and learned plenty from them. That's what we did at family reunions - played war games. It just surprises the hell outta civilians when a quiet, teeny little lady does that..
Excellent and as you stated it is about time. ❤🙏👏🍁
Thank you Marion for watching all the way to the end ❤️
Excellent episode, JD. Thanks for all the hours of research to preserve history. Much respect, lotsa love & big ole hugs😂❤
Thank you Diane 💜
They were very resourceful back then and still today but less and less as the old leave us , great story
Thanks Alan
Thank you sir for this very true story. God bless you and your whole family 🙏🙏🙏
Have a blessed day
It really is about time!!!!!!❤
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A well presented program & tells the story of my heritage. I've practiced since the 60s & grow more of my plants as age makes foraging more difficult now. But I must say when I hear Scotch-Irish I cringe. We are Scots-Irish.
Thank you 😊
Wow! This was an amazing story about what our older kinfolk knew and tried to help us with. I do believe with all my heart that everyone would be a lot healthier and happier ! I loved this JD….. as I finally start realizing that the 17 medications I take daily would be off the market!
Blessings always my dear friend!
Thank you Betty ❤️ god bless you
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller You’re welcome JD! Hope you are doing well. ❤️😊🙏
Thanks for your dedication and commitment bringing the appalcian culture and lifestyle past and present to us. Your footage knowledge effort and research is commendable. I live in southwest Washington but am determined to visit camp out in the smokies one day and maybe bag a pesky razorback hog. Good eating
Thanks for your uploads
Thank you brother, God Bless
This was excellent. I grew up with some of these very things being used for health. Thank you and God bless you and yours.
Thank you Nora!
Great story , very interesting and helpful!! Thank you J.D
Thank you this is something that needs to be talked about more, especially in the day and age that we live in
Awesome story of history. Thank you ❤
Thank you Angela ❤️
Hi JD you are so right, it's about time. Modern medicine seems to be all about profit.
Great story. I really liked it
Thank you Janet! Have a blessed day
Love this story ❤️ Thank you
Thank you so much!
Thanks, JD🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Th m you brother
So good to hear your stories! Thank you for another great video. I love the photos you include. Especially seeing the older hard working people. Thank you JD. God bless you and keep you. Love from Canadice NY ❤
Thank you Canadice ❤️
J D , You are probably the best storyteller I've ever heard!!!! Great video!!!
Thank you ❤️ I pride myself on historical factual stories that nobody else tells.
This video means a lot I supply yellow root to my local herb doc I have a few things put away as well I even have pipe just of flannel leaves or mullin as I call it
That’s awesome
I have been given yellow root as a child many times as well as use touch me not .to stop insect bite from itching. Rag weed to keep bee stings from swelling but must be used quickly one or two minutes it is every where .
I love this. I've been making teas, and other mediums for years. I've helped many people with my recipes. Thanks for sharing! ✌️❤️
Thank you Tracy
Thank you JD for the great info appreciate it may GOD'S BLESSING BE WITH YOU
Thank you brother, have a blessed day
Thank you jd awesome to learn this❤
My pleasure!!
I grew up in SE Oklahoma and I remember my Granny talking about yarb drs. She probably was one, she’d been a midwife early on.
Wow, thanks for sharing this
Thank you for the amazing information. I really enjoy and learn from your videos. Stay safe
Thank you Sarah ❤️
Nicely done JD. Ever done a story on edible weeds and such? I remember having dandelion jelly, sassafras leaves and tea, and various other greens (weeds) that mom would cook. Not to mention the wild berries and nuts. Have a great weekend!
I’ve done a couple of stories before talking about sassafras but nothing really as in-depth as this story. This was the first time I really dug again and read lots of research on the plants.
That was a very informative video. Thank you for sharing this knowledge with us.
Glad it was helpful!
So many of these things are becoming a lost art. We truly do not value the lessons of the past. Someone once said: “The youth are on the path, but the elders know the way.”
I love that quote
Thank you so much , that was such an informative and interesting story …
Thank you 😊
Thanks again JD....
Old F-4 II Shoe🇺🇸
Thank you Steve!
I truly enjoy your story's JD. I'm thinking about ordering up some books.
Thank you brother ❤️
Loved this video! Very interesting......awesome story of herbs that can heal.
Thank you ❤️
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller You are very welcome! I have watched every video several times.....my favorite is the story of "Molly" I am always confused on which one was first, second and third.
A wonderful and eye opening story. ❤
Thank you ❤️
Thanks for sharing
Thank you ❤️
Very interesting story! I'm intrigued!
Thank you !
Wonderful video! Very needed today!
Thank you 😊
Wonderful story JD.
Thank you Sharon ❤️
Good stuff J.D.
Thank you ❤️
I really enjoyed this documentary!😊
Thank you 😊
Happy Saturday!
Morning Robbie. 👋
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller hope you are having a great day!
God bless everyone of them❤
Amen
Good morning JD
Morning!
Sure is about time!
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Feeling ill I first turn to herbal treatment , when persistent I call my homeopath . I know more than average about herbs and their use , something I learned from my husband who's father adviced people on treatments . The farmaceutical industry is indeed powerful , in Belgium it's the 3d biggest employer doing research and making vaccines . It's good people go back to the roots and these companies get less power imo . The same goes for seeds which they make more and more hybride so they have to be bought over and over . An organization here wants to go against this by encouraging people to have their own seed bank and make swaps with other gardners . Great story , thanks .
Thank you so much!
Hi JD loved this story so very interesting fantastic would love to buy your book but as I’m in the UK it cost twice as much which is such a shame would love to read but I cannot see a way round it
It will be on audiobook next year
My hubby from the Ozarks taught me plant medicine his full blooded Cherokee grandmother
Oh wow!
Whiskey honey and lemon and a teaspoon of baking soda……….Served hot ……..Stir the soda in the glass and say drink it fast ………Lat down and Sweat in a blanket ……….
that's the cure for a fever right there
❤❤❤ True
Morning sir
Morning 👋
Amen!🙏
Thank you
This is cool.
Just before you said those last three words I said them to myself.lol
Thank you ❤️
I don't think its a coincidence that NC's Research Triangle, and it's vast pharmaceutical industry, grew up on the ole Catawba Trail that met the old ways and new at the foothills of Appalachia here
thanks for sharing this
My great great grandmother was full blooded Cherokee Indian.
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My mom's great grandma was a full blooded Cherokee Indian
wow, strong bloodlines
Someone should put out a recipe book...JD
Great idea
100% believable.
Thank you Sir
my grandfather had prostate cancer, he refused treatment they told him he would only live couple yrs. he drank (every day) some kind of tea that he had learned of in eastern kentucky lived for over 15 years to 86, tried it 1 time it was nasty stuff lol
Wow 😮
Do a vid on the muludgeons
Coming up!
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Thank you very much. Have a great day.
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Thank you ❤️
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thank you!
Appalachia!
Yes sir
My granny GOD rest her soul Amen 🙏 always told me that when a black snake would fight and kill a poisonous snake the black snake would go find a certain weed and bite it if the poisonous snake bit the black snake. It knew what weed to hunt down and it killed the poison the snake injected in the black snake. I don’t know what the weed was though my granny passed away before she told me
The old-timers had lots of knowledge
Excellent video. I appreciate this channel. I would just like to mention that this particular presentation of the Cherokee people generalizes a discussion of the indigenous people of the Appalachian Mountains in a way which is not accurate. In my opinion, it would be more appropriate to refer to the people of the Algonquin Nation. While I understand that one video cannot include every detail, would like to explain that a discussion of indigenous people from "Alabama to Maine" is a discussion of the language/cultural group known as the Algonquin Nation. With reference to the place which we call the State of Maine, this includes the Penobscot and related tribes. The Potowatomi are an Algonquin people long established in Michigan but more an anciently in the Appalachian Mountain valleys. They, like the Algonquin Lakota, were forced to move to the Northern Plains. The tribes and clans which we know as the Leni Lanape, or Delaware, remained, but came to be controlled by leaders of the Iroquois 7 Tribe Nation. It is in my opinion a mistake in a discussion of the medicines of the indigenous people of the Appalachian Range to refer to these cultural practices as Cherokee. It would be more accurate to refer to Algonquin culture and medicine
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, I appreciate them
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Thank you Ruth ❤️
God put everything we need in the ground
amen
Check out catfish man of the woods my family knew him and believed in him
@Great Story as usual
Arnold Krochmal and 2 other Authors have written a book:
"A Guide to
MEDICINAL PLANTS of Appalachia" published by U.S.D.A. FOREST SERVICE RESEARCH PAPER NE-138
I969. 281 Pages
I have also some books from German Yarb doctors:
Hildegard von Bingen is pretty worthless.
Sebastian Kneipp ist very informative.
Maria Treben was great and wrote a book, also translated in english.
"Health Through God’s Pharmacy Advice and Proven Cures With Medicinal Herbs".
There is also very interesting books:
"Horror's of Vacinations"
and
"Impf-Friedhof"
I myself don't consult Pharma Whores for decades anymore.
I was deadly sick in the age of 3, caused of Standart Vacinations.
Since, for almost 70 years I was never sick again and in good health still.
Greetings good ole Germany.
Thanks for sharing these resources
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller
There are more books:
Google: "Ethel Douglas Hume" there are 2 Books about Pasteur, this Bastard.
Great content - I’m confused by the ominous music though. Makes it seem unnecessarily scary which I think goes against the point of educating people on these topics.
Thanks for that input and feedback
4:47, that is a strange looking viking ship. Leif Erikson landed on the shores of our United States 1000 years before any Europeans did.
I no longer go to doctors, I Dr. myself with things in my yard and I’ve never been healthier
Wow 😮
Ditto. I was a nurse, but since 2020, don't trust the medical system, so I'm on a self taught journey of herbal medicine. Last year I had a sinus infection and cured it with oregano oil. I think I had a nondisplaced wrist fracture. My RN training did help me because I iced it, compressed it and elevated it initially and used a comfrey root poultice to help it heal. And this year, I used an usnea salve to treat a boil on my hisband.
I sure hate that all that knowledge was lost over the years.
Me too
4th largest rain forest?
Yes
love your stories but Appalachia did not have grizzly bears and mule deer.
I like to include video I film from all over the world, thanks for the feedback
I use mullein whenever I have a cold, to stop anything settling in my lungs. Grow it myself and am slowly converting “big pharma junkies” to its benefits 🤣
I have a book I bought a few years back called, The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies by
Nicole Apelian, Ph.D
& Claude Davis.
Good book 😊
Great tip!
*I'm favoured only God knows how much I praise Him, $130k every 4weeks! I now have a good house and can now afford anything and also support my family❤️*
Wow that's huge, how do you make that much monthly?
I'm 37 and have been looking for ways to be successful, please how??
Can I also do it??? My life is facing lots of challenge lately.
Thanks to my co-worker (Alex) who suggested Mrs Maria (Angelina)Alexander
She is a licensed broker in the states🇺🇸
Oh Maria I have heard about her too, I am happy she is getting the recognition she deserves she is really amazing.
Thanks, Rockefellers!! NOT!!!
Exactly very well said
I’d trust a yarb doctor over a modern doctor for the majority of illnesses. I’d prefer a modern hospital if I’d been in an accident tho!
Amen