Episode 154 – Herbs and wild edible plants for survival health.

By on August 31st, 2011

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This is an interview with Wade from Louisiana who is a regular listener and has an excellent background and training on the use of herbs for natural health and healing. He joined me for a brief interview while I was on the road. We discussed using herbs for food, nutrition, healing and for teaching survival to young people. This is TSS Survival Tip #2 of this week.

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4 Responses to “Episode 154 – Herbs and wild edible plants for survival health.”

  1. WadeNLA says:
    September 29, 2011 at 6:09 pm

    Sorry that last link should be…
    http://theconsciouslife.com/9-natural-anti-inflammatory-herbs.htm

  2. WadeNLA says:
    September 29, 2011 at 6:07 pm

    I am going to try to cite sources a little bit more to help people out.

    I still can not post to the forum but I hope this gets to you mosierm:
    In regards to treating basil for arthritis

    this will give you a good general idea what a humectrant is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humectant

    This will give you some good info on why injesting basil is a good idea.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1216278/How-eating-fresh-basil-help-banish-arthritic-aches-pains.html

    if basil is not working… try other herbs listed here.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1216278/How-eating-fresh-basil-help-banish-arthritic-aches-pains.html

    Good luck and get back to me and let me know how your doing.

  3. WadeNLA says:
    September 29, 2011 at 5:53 pm

    Sierra Dave
    Yes I do know about duckweed and it really awsome stuff. The only drawback I see is that it needs a lot of water and it water might be in short supply in a situation…but for people that have there own pool or can rig up a rain water run off (what I understand of it it it can actually filter the water too as its growing) it would be an “extra” savy type of thing to grow!

  4. Sierra Dave says:
    September 2, 2011 at 5:26 pm

    Enjoyable and educational interview. But as you are aware The Internet did not serve you well that day.

    Please check into Duckweed. Supposedly has almost as much protein as Soy. People are making shakes out of it and eating it raw. Not sure about its overall nutritional vale, as in can you live off it, but it has tremendous value. AND you can feed it to poultry and some fish.

    Catch you next time!