welcome back to our homestead welcome
back to our garden we're talking about
something very important today
especially in today's day and age and
that is healing and medicinal plants
let's get going
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now we have a lot of what i'm going to
talk about today planted in our garden
and we were very diligent to do that in
the few years that we've lived here
because i know how important they are
and that's because i know the value of
them and a lot of them do help our
family out with certain sicknesses and
some of these are even used by modern
pharmaceutical companies for modern
medicines a lot of people don't realize
that we did some research on the
university of rochester medical center
and it lists those healing herbs that
modern medicine uses and one you're
probably really familiar with we don't
have here on our homestead is eucalyptus
so let's go through what we have here in
our garden first and then at the end of
the video we're going to talk about one
really big one that i know almost all of
you have planted on your property or
have ready access to it's really
important to hear this one you're going
to be surprised now the first one we are
going to start with is rosemary and
rosemary is a powerful antioxidant it
contains oleanic acid which is a proven
antiviral this is a really great plant
to have not only if you're doing a lot
of cooking but the oils from it are
really powerful for healing and it just
smells amazing now something i didn't
mention before is most of these herbs
are perennials so it's plant once and
reaped the benefits for a long period of
time but you need to be careful because
things like this marjoram will take over
your garden you can see i started from a
plant this big just a few years ago and
it looks like a carpet in this garden
bed so be careful and plant them
strategically now let's talk about this
marjoram behind me it is a powerful
anti-inflammatory
it's also antimicrobial and a good
antioxidant as well and i personally
love marjoram to eat in my italian
cooking now make sure you stick around
on our channel because we are going to
talk about in the near future how to
make these herbs into tinctures which is
a great way to make an old-fashioned
type of medicine from these herbs and
other plants on your property now let's
talk about another important herb and
that is time now the time that i had
here in the garden didn't last more than
two years it was probably my fault or
where i planted it we have purchased a
brand new time and that's in the
greenhouse and we will be planting that
hopefully soon here in the garden so
time is in the mint family and it does a
lot of different things it's very
antibacterial which is awesome but
here's a cool thing it also lowers blood
pressure so that could be very helpful
for a lot of you so it's also a powerful
immune booster but even better it brings
respiratory relief so if you're very
congested you can make it into a tea to
gain a lot of relief from that
congestion also toward the end of the
video for my christian friends and
anybody else who's interested we are
going to talk about a list of healing
herbs and plants that are from the bible
so stay watching if you want to hear
about that so here's another one lemon
balm this has actually very powerful
antiviral properties now here's one that
probably everybody loves and it grows as
a volunteer in my garden and this is
basil now some basils are annuals and
some are perennials we've never had a
problem growing basil and it seems like
a perennial because it always comes up
every year and i don't know that if
that's because it's dropping seeds and
coming up as an annual or not but it's
hard actually to get rid of basil in
your garden but more importantly basil
contains epigenin and ursulic acid i
think i'm saying those right but both of
those are very very powerful antivirals
so i know a lot of these just sound like
common herbs you can find at the grocery
store which you can but don't discount
them because they are very very healthy
and nutritious in a lot of different
ways now make sure if there's just one
thing that you can plant in your garden
it's this garlic and that's because
garlic is one of the most potent
antivirals that's available that's out
there and it is amazing at lowering
blood pressure and a host of other
things it actually stimulates an immune
response in your cells so it is very
very very medicinal very healing and all
of us should have it in our diets and
not only that you can use it topically
to treat warts to treat other skin type
rashes and diseases and things like that
careful it's pretty powerful but it
absolutely works we use it here in our
house so right behind me is this little
plant that everybody thinks is a weed it
is not
the dandelion is a really really
powerful and useful plant and everybody
needs to keep them around on their
property let them grow wild wherever
they want because they are valuable the
properties in this little plant right
here will inhibit
viral replication
so if you're taking any part of this
plant and you're sick it's gonna help
stop whatever's happening in your body
and i know for a fact that it works
because my wife drinks dandelion root
tea made from these dandelions and it
has completely reversed her gallbladder
issues it helps with liver function it
helps with blood sugar management and it
also helps clear up your bile the
beautiful thing is that you can eat the
flour you can eat the leaves and you can
eat the roots the only thing you really
don't eat on this plant is the stem the
flowers can make a beautiful sweet
dandelion jelly the roots we roast and
dry and roast and grind it up into a tea
or coffee and the leaves can be eaten
just like a salad although they're
pretty better whatever you do do not
kill these beautiful little plants
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now let's get back to the honey now a
very powerful family of medicinal plants
are called sambucos and this is a common
one everybody grows this is elderberry
we did an entire video on elderberry
including the healing properties of it
and how to plant it if you're interested
in that video click at the top of the
screen so sambucas especially elderberry
does a great job at suppressing viral
replication and it brings amazing relief
for upper respiratory problems so if
you've got a chest cold
this is one of the best things you can
take for it and it's also a powerful
antioxidant now let's go talk about
another one that's probably the most
popular for respiratory problems and
that is peppermint peppermint if you
didn't know contains menthol which
really helps clear up your sinuses
everybody takes it in some form and or
another but peppermint is the natural
source or one of the natural sources for
that and just like rosemary it contains
rosemarianic acid which has powerful
anti-inflammatory properties and is
antiviral that's a new mint that we
bought we've got some chocolate mint
here in the garden that one's a
peppermint and we've got that mint in
here with our medicinal flowers and one
of the most popular medicinal flowers is
echinacean you can find it in some
stores and it's called coneflower but
it's the same thing it's echinacean now
just like the dandelion you can use the
flowers and the leaves and the roots of
the echinacea or coneflower and it
contains what's called e purpurea which
is very very antiviral and immune
boosting so you always hear these
combinations of echinacea zinc and
vitamin c well there's your echinacea
and it's a really great thing to have in
your garden so before i dive into that
last really important one and the few
that i don't have in my garden we are
going to talk about the ones that are
contained in the bible now the ones that
i do have in my garden are the times
mints and onions and garlics leeks those
are all mentioned in the bible but some
of those that i don't have are coriander
or cilantro and i will be planning that
soon dill cumin hissop frankincense
mustards myrrh and sorrel now a lot of
those i can grow here on the property i
just haven't had the time to get them
all in yet okay let's talk about that
big one you are going to be surprised
here you go are you ready it's pine
needles it's an antioxidant it is
anti-mutagenic and it has very powerful
positive effects on tumors it cleans
free radicals out of your body and it is
extremely high in vitamin c
how high well actually
five times higher
than a lemon and it is very high in
vitamin a which is used in red blood
cell production just like minton
elderberry in time it is an expectorant
so it's very good at helping you with an
upper respiratory infection and clearing
that mucus out of your chest and at the
same time it helps soothe sore throats
now be careful when you're picking your
pine needles the best pine tree for this
is a white pine this one happens to be a
ponderosa pine which is really good you
can also use spruce but it's best to
stick with the long needle trees now i
want you to be very careful because you
do not want to do the same process or
take
the needles from a cypress or a u-tree
those can be toxic and the best way to
use this is actually fresh
crush it up break it up and put it in
some hot water make a tea out of it but
we will also be making a tincture with
this as well in the future now another
additional property besides serum in in
this is called chicamic acid that has
anti-microbial
anti-thrombotic and anticoagulant
properties so i dare say that this might
be the most powerful
medicine
on your property that you did not know
about now there are many many more that
we can talk about ginger ginseng fennel
a whole bunch of others some uh wild
ones that are out there this is what we
have on our property it's a pretty good
list to start with for anybody and if
you're starting with a pine tree and
some garlic you are in really good shape
we could also talk about cayenne pepper
which we have grown here in the past
these are just regular peppers and
cayenne pepper is amazing at helping to
stop heart attacks actually and
bringing blood to areas which need to be
healed and then other things like
broadly plantain which we actually just
found this year on our property that are
pain relievers and they work really well
i may make a part two to this video
because there are so many out there that
are very beneficial and helpful for
everybody but if i kept talking on this
video i get too many complaints if you
have any comments or questions leave
them for us in the comments section
below now go click on this video right
here which talks about our top six
survival crops to grow on your homestead
have a beautiful blessed day we'll see
you next time bye
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