4 Medicinal Plants that Are Incredibly Good for You
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- Опубліковано 22 бер 2016
- Did you know that 25% of all prescription drugs in the U.S. come from substances that are found only in plants? In this episode of SciShow, we take a look at four of these talented plants that are helping us to live healthy lives! Hosted by: Hank Green.
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"Plants have probably made you feel a whole lot better." I can confirm this statement.
Pass that blunt
Pass that opium
Kava and theanine.
pass the broccoli bro
Pass the Hawaiian woodrose
I mean plants have *definitely* saved my life from starvation, but I'm listening.
Uh, plants have saved all non-plant species on the earth from starving. If it were not for earth's plants, there would be no animal life on it.
@@dalerekus well duh
@@dalerekus you should thanks to the early photosynthetic oxygen producing bacteria first.
😆😆🤣🤣
Pretty sure trees helped teaching us how to read and write also 🤔😁
I'm a pharm tech and serve nursing homes and long term facilities. I'm actually watching this on break lol. I see most of these chemicals daily in so many of the meds I deal with. This was very interesting!
Kindly search Ayurveda - Knowlege of medicinal plants given by Hindu Sages
They have their issues, Indian health re diabetes is worst in the world and all anybody does do is fight about tumeric patents. Yes, its not the right constituent.@@samikshasharma1726
@@samikshasharma1726 ayurveda is psuedoscience . and ful of toxins
As someone that had malaria and survived I am extremely thankful for plants and modern day science.
Praise The Science.
I have malaria almost every month
I have malaria almost every month
The plant doesn't understand what you said, but feels flattered anyway.
+Banderi :)
Aloe, lavender,peppermint,etc
Do I hear some undertale referances
As long as it isn't feeling flattened.
@@b33lze6u6 =)*
No love for ipecac, willow, or aloe? Or chamomile, tea tree, tansy, garlic... Actually, I can see why they kept it at four. I can name a dozen more plants off the top of my head that are great for you.
Thanks, plants!
HeSheXie Yay somebody mentioned tansy!
Ipecac
Turmeric, oregano (great antibiotic without the nasty side effects), sarsaparilla, red clover... like you said list goes on and on.
Ginko........ and many others.
Poppy ...
i now grow periwinkles in my garden as an ode to vincristine saving my life. it’s amazing how plants have so many things in them. and it’s also a smaller amount compared to other chemos i’ve had, yet it is so potent and works so well. i’m very glad it’s getting recognition
How do you take it if you do indeed take it?
Hi , I have it in my garden but dunno how to use it. Can you help me please
@@ysha3186 QQ
@@cynthiakeller5954 we have these plants at our home. The way we use it for mosquito or other insect bites, just take some leaves and rub them over the mark. It sure does help with the itching.
@@baldeeptiwana Good to know. I love periwinkle bushes. We had a wild rabbit warren living in them. I guess none of the rabbits had cancer, lol!
Rosy periwinkle is my all time favorite flowering plant. I love the simple single petals of the flower. I love how it flowers all year round non stop. And the many colors! It's so easy to care and propagate.
Periwinkles are sturdy plants, stand upright hench i like it, they are showy colours
I use Wild lettuce (Lactuca virosa). I just started using it in the past 2 months for pain I was sceptical at first but it works for me. I was taking naproxen but it was giving me acid reflux tearing up my stomach. Glad I tried it works for my pain and my stomach is happier.
How do you use it
Very informative video! There are so many plants in the United States alone that we walk right by that have not had enough conclusive studies done on them to prove traditional uses. On the other hand there are plants like boneset, echinacea, dandelion, plantain, lobelia, maitake, and more that have amazing medicinal benefits. So you never know the plant in your yard or gardening pestering you could be a medicinal, or even edible plant!
I live in Brazil and the flower on 6:54 looks extremely identical to the ones that randomly grows naturally everywhere that has dirt and even through concrete. Just last month I cut off a bunch of them when I was cleaning out the sidewalk in front of my house along with several other weeds that were taking over.
WE locally have this wild plant called "Tawa-tawa"[Euphorbia hirta] that we use to treat people with who have Dengue. we just boil the fresh tawa tawa (Like tea) then make the patient drink it. It Helps a lot to make the patients platelet goes back to normal. Its a Traditional medicine use by locals. Doctors won't even allow patient to bring it to hospital. I'm glad that there are research going on to study this plant.
You Filipino?
That's great. I think I'll plant one in my home . It'll be able to grow , I think . There isn't much difference in the climate of the Philippines right?
Similar procedure is done on Papaya leaves for platelets regeneration.
I seriously love that this channel lists the sources for your information.
No love for the willow tree? Its leaves and bark have been used for medicinal purposes since the earliest of times, mostly because aspirin is actually some pretty awesome stuff.
That's in another episode
Yes, Willow bark has a compound that is like aspirin in relieving pain
@@darrellcole6311 Is feverfew in that same anti-inflammatory/pain category?
True that.
photosinensis
I mean, the video is only about four plants, baby. LOL but I agree! I have hundreds of plants and herbs and fungus alphabetized and inventoried in my cupboard. It’s crazy because I am a phenomenal at helping to heal others… While I neglect the crap out of myself. Kind of sad
4 plants? That felt like 40.
But, that was Hank. I could listen to 400.
Fantastic videos your channel has! I've watched 6 so far, & still have a few more I intend to watch.
the rosy periwinkle can be also found in the philippines and the plants is also an attractive and fun plant because you can pick the flower out and sipn it like a propelor
My grandmother has a bunch of the Rosy Periwinkle in her garden in DR and as a kid I thought it was some useless flower but I didn't know it was so important to cancer research. Makes you think about how much plants help us
Listening to you is like standing in front of a sales representative.. explaining a promo of a certain product at a nearby shopping mall.. very informative anyway.👌👌👌👌👍👍Keep it up Sir!
Sir;
I was watching one of your videos and thought there's an item in the vein of medicinal plants you might want to investigate. I'd love to see what you come up with, and I'm sure other sufferers would too. Here's the story.
I was diagnosed with gout in the late 80's, while still on active duty. I was in my early 40's. I was given Indocin and took it, as needed, for occasional flairs until about 1.5 years ago; so 20 years or so. My current doctor recommended I take large doses of Naproxen instead of the Indocin. In short, he explained that Indocin was bad for me but the Naproxen wasn't quite as bad. That sure made me feel good. It did work, but I still had occasional flairs if I drank too much caffeine or ate too much fried food, the two things that caused me problems. I was having a flair, enough to cause a limp, about 4-5 times a year, and an occasional achy foot at least once a month. My uric acid was always a bit high.
During a flair, I happened to see an East Indian acquaintance at his place of business (Indian Market and Restaurant). He asked about my limp and I explained. He told me about his and his father's experience with chronic arthritis. His father, and he, used Methe (Fenugreek) seeds daily to control arthritis and said that the seeds were also effective to treat gout. I asked the obvious questions. I was somewhat familiar because my wife uses the seeds in Indian dishes. He said to eat a small amount (NFI) daily and I wouldn't have the problem. He told me to soak the seeds in water to soften them if I wished.
When I returned home, I looked them up on-line and asked about them in two health-food stores. The information was positive...”it couldn't hurt!”
For over a year I've taken a rounded 1/2 teaspoon of softened (soaked) Fenugreek seeds every day (pretty much) with other meds that old men take. I've had no real attacks of gout since. Seems like I may have had an ache or two right after I started, but nothing like I had before. I have a plastic container (sealed) of dried seeds right out of the package, and then I measure seeds into a small glass bowl to soak overnight. In the morning they go into a glass with the liquid. I put another 1/2 teaspoon into the small glass bowl with water to soak for a day. I drink the liquid and the seeds. No bad taste and my blood tests haven't changed and uric acid is in normal range.
If there's a side effect, I haven't found it.
I've passed this info to a number of gout sufferers. I don't know if the info is common knowledge, this side of India, that is, but I'm convinced! The seeds are cheap and available on-line and cheaper in Indian or Asian food stores. My doctor said he was going to research it, but never mentioned it again. I'd be interested to hear more in one of your videos.
Michael S. Dameron, USAF, Retired
Even Bible said it, to everything their is a season I have finally received my own healing at my dew time. Thank dr Ehis on UA-cam ua-cam.com/channels/hOn-tmIyQd8CHQGne9TbkA.html for providing an effective herbal supplement for the healing
Thank you for sharing!
periwinkle is a common plant in India. we call it "nithya kalyani"' meaning flower that blossoms everyday. we have rose and white varieties.
Excellent videos, graphics, writing and narration. I really enjoyed this one in particular.
Another interesting one to mention is Taxus brevifola, the Pacific yew. It is currently rated at "near threatened", because it has a relatively limited range (parts of California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia). But a substance extracted from samples of Pacific yew yielded the drug paclitaxel, which is used to treat certain forms of breast, ovarian, and lung cancer. Work with the chemical revealed a way to synthesize it from similar compounds found in other, more common yew species.
Periwinkle is pretty common in our backyards here in South India(Kerala). You could do a video on Ayurveda, I think it might be right up your alley!
Do you think he will even mention India 😅? Eurocentric thoughts still prevail.
It's common everywhere warm though, I swear they're by every building here in Florida. Too many places to mention, plus, nothing was mentioned related to Eurocentric-ness?@@geminianblue
@@ericac.4324 Yes you are right, medicinal plants are everywhere, just that some civilizations were advanced enough to research and use them for effective treatment. In this case my contention is that he chose to mention the Sumerians, who did 'a little', but 3000 years ago the ancient Indians developed a full scale treatment program - Ayurveda, that is still in practice and efficient for many medical conditions that (so called) modern medicine cant treat (myself can vouch on few of them). Eurocentrism is not only on medicine, but the idea that all great thoughts and inventions have come from Europe is still in the minds, sadly many in India are also still at GMT :)
Youyou Tu, the hardest person to sing happy birthday to.
+rzeka Indeed.
+rzeka Only Bono could pull it off.
Youyou Th or UA-cam
Actually her name is Tu Youyou, & that makes it a whole lot harder to sing the birthday song to her!
What about tetrahydrocannabinol? :'( Epileptic patients have a lot to be thankful for with the homeostatic regulation powers of the secondary compounds created by the many hybrids of Cannabis indica. Love you guys, great video!!!
After a 30 years of illness. I tried plant medicine.
Cannabis, CBD ,THC .
Kratom. 7 year better than 30 years of only pharmaceuticals. Only used Kratom a year to stop strong narcotics .
CBD daily 4 times.
I owe my life to it thank God DJT signed the executive order. Made it available at my local health food stores.
25 % reduction in drug abuse and a decrease in needs for pharmaceuticals.
The reason so many DO's were murdered.
Big pharmaceutical and the drug cartels loose money if drug use declines.
Talk about a spin.
All my life I was told weed bad.
Imagine your uncle who's retired cop offering to obtain it for my father who had MS .
We see their lies it's about control of the patents.
As a pharmacy student, in behalf of my fellow pharmacy students, I felt prideful knowing all of the information presented in this video, really!
Very informative ,thanks for this beautiful video . Script writeing was amazing and orator too. Everything was just amazing.
*Hank thinking to himself* at 5:05 Hank 1-"Hank no don't laugh" Hank 2-"But Professor Weed" Hank 1-"No Hank! No!" Hank 2-"Professor Weed lolz"
Neem
04:58 "Professor Weed" lol
Pr. Weed: «Take out your science book and go to page 420, hehehehe.»
+CrazyEddy I blazed through his classes. I got high scores.
Now, our lesson for today is about the theory of dankness and memes, turn to page 1337 and bring out your 360 noscop snipar
Marijuana can cause schizophrenia and hate to burst your bubble but it may be a herb but its a chemical in the herb that gets the affect, its safer to use hormones like melatonin for example
+cunning wolf actually there have been studies that show that marijuhana doesnt cause schizophrenia but makes it more likely to break out when you already are a potential psychotic so sorry to burst your bubble but the only bad thing that comes from the controlled use of cannabis sativa or indica comes from the smoke that is inhaled. It is only bad for the brain if very potent marijuhana is consumed multiple times a day and for the lungs when smoked.
eric kaulke still a chemical so I ain't trusting that shit id rather die then be poised, besides, if it makes you hungry, it has to be bad for you
Feverfew and ginseng are another two great plants to mention. Feverfew is good at regulating migraines and ginseng is shown to have some (tentative) abilities to fight radiation poisoning. I also can’t help but think that some herbs were more for nutrition support than as medicine, the nettle species don’t have any easily identified active component but have high amounts of calcium, iron, and magnesium along with other vitamins, so maybe herbs like it were really better for eating and prevention than actual medicine
White willow bark also.
Nettle has compounds in it's prickles that are known to stop pain if rubbed, or thrashed on the affected area.
If that sounds too painful it's a good sign pain levels are better than originally thought.
It's also a good immune booster
@@debramoss2267 it's got serotonin in the nettles for some reason cause pain in the skin cells
I have two large periwinkle plants at my home. I live in India and these plants are very common here. I never liked this plant because I like aromatic plants more but now I respect these two, way more than I did before. One of them is pink like the picture but the other one is white.
2:30 wow, this is the most difficult person to sing "happy birthday to you" to :D
omg
+HajoBenzin1 heard this before but still funny lol
happy birthday to you! happy birthday to you! happy birthday to youyou tu! happy birthday to you! funny
+HajoBenzin1 Actually, a video on YouYou Tu's UA-cam channel called "Happy Birthday to YouYou Tu, Love Bono, from U2" clearly shows evidence to the contrary.
Funiest thing is that "tu" means you in sapanish.
I have been a plant person for as long as I can remember of my 60 years...there are so many helpful plants but you can't just go about mixing concoctions of them haphazardly.For example, I personally would be in a terrible mess if we hadn't discovered salicylic acid that comes from the bark of a Willow tree species- better known as "aspirin"..essential for treating headaches etc.The is also one other common ground cover used in landscaping that is known as "cut wort" or "bindfinger" - a vining plant with round glossy leaves ("Vinca Major") that I have applied to minor cuts/ scrapes (by crushing the leaves) that acts as a cryptic to stop minor bleeding.
My husband has lymphoma. It has been getting worse over the years, (which is normal as unfortunately), but he recently (3 mos. ago), volunteered for a clinical trial involving a new compound of vinblastine. This drug has always been used in chemotherapy before and in combination with other drugs, but this study uses only the vinblastine in specific varying doses over time. He has imp;roved substantially over this time. Unfortunately, at age 82 and with COPD as well, the long-term outlook is not too good. However, it has increased his immune system remarkably so he gets less chest congestion and he can breathe easier all the time. He used to come up one flight of stairs and have to hold onto something while he wheezed for air. He can now walk around fine afterwards. So vinblastine, although prescribed for his lymphoma, is also helping to control his COPD and give him a much better quality of life. Thank you little plant.
Excellent presentation. Thanks for uploading.
...did anyone else observe their recent obsession with deadly nightshades?
yeah I did haha
ikr
I did
+Malte Wesemann I love how many things are named shit that in another world, would be the title of a metal album, Deadly Nightshade, Death Cap, Destroying Angel...
+Spook Bus exactly!
Excellent presentation. I will be definitely reviewing this several times to learn it all.
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The ancient Ayur Veda is called Mother of Medicine and was the first in the world to use plants only for medicinal purposes. It also covers life style, psychology and nutrition.
It means science of life.
The first use of plants for medicine comes from indigenous peoples.
@@SI-ln6tc everyone is indigenous when you are talking about something like this. There are no peoples anywhere who do not practice some form of medicine.
Neanderthals used plants as medicine. Even animals self medicate whith plants. Plant medicine is as old as life.
@@vanessagil3527
CORRECT.
Ayurveda is a systematic study of plants used in medicine & not some trial error method practiced accidentally by indegenous people.
VERY INSIGHTFUL! THANK YOU! GOD BLESS YOU!
I'm taking pharmacology in this semester (FYI I'm doing bachelors of Physiotherapy not Pharmacy) and scishow is making it so much fun to learn!
I always loved the Rosy Periwinkle plant because it's pretty, but now I love it even more. I'm gonna remember how useful it is that everytime I see one now.
I used to watch your videos during high school on the weather channel now it's 4 years later and i still get excited as much as i did back then when i watch now
Really enjoyed this video! God wasn't kidding when He said He had given us every seed bearing plant, herbs, and trees for our healing.
I love watching scishow after I try to watch PBS spacetime because it makes me feel like I can actually understand things.
It's always funny to see how far we've come. You hear, "a new treatment for cancer" and everyone assumes big pharmaceutical is out to try new ways to make money. Turns out a handful of scientists were trekking around in Madagascar picking flowers, trying to be super heros.
mmmm, Big pharm parm....
Catharanthus is used for cancer treatment, since at least centuries ago. Since 1960, vinca alkaloids are in use for cancer, in all the world.
I live in Brazil.
ua-cam.com/video/YPIjGM9NLDE/v-deo.html
Dalton Agrônomo uh
They are out to make money 🙄
It's very interesting to see seven years later how much serious research on cannabis has moved forward.
DUDE!!!! Cannabis has some great properties! I've had epilepsy for 60 years, with violent severe seizures that broke bones (most recently, my skull and jaw), caused gashes that required stitches, and countless concussions. That was just the physical effect. Mentally, it would take me anywhere from 4 days to 3 weeks to recover, but I was having seizures at a rate of 2 or 3 per week, so I was rarely recovered before the next one hit. Two and a half years ago a friend recommended medical cannabis, and I tried it. I chose edibles, because the effects last longer. In 2 1/2 years, I've had 2 seizures, both so mild that I was recovered literally within minutes. If I hadn't had witnesses to both of them, I would never have known I had them.
But after 60 years of seizures, other things developed, and I had also inherited bipilar disorder from my father. I had spent 62 years in a state of deep, crippling depression. My mother said I was a depressed kindergartener. For the last 2 1/2 years it's not just relieved: it's 100% GONE!
I was born with a malformed vertabrae in my lower back, and I've been on opioids for most of the last 40 years. When I started cannabis, I reduced my dosages of opioids by 2/3rds, and with the help of cannabis, I'm able to skip the opioids for 2 days every 2 weeks to ensure that I'm not addicted. 40 years, with no addiction!
Of course, all those concussions have resulted in frequent, severe migraines. The medication I take for that used to last 1 month. Now it lasts 3.
Being bipolar has it's anxiety and panic attack issues, as well as social anxiety. I've even gone to the emergency room thinking I was having a heart attack, when it was a panic attack. Meeting new people often triggered severe attacks. Now I look forward to getting out and meeting new people.
AG Jeff Sessions is dead wrong about "good people don't smoke marijuana"; some really GREAT people do! And he's dead wrong about it not having any medical value; it's medicine that has given me back my life at the age of 62, and I can't help but wonder what my life would've been like if I'd been allowed to have it when the seizures started....
While travelling through Zimbabwe and Botswana (both still active with malaria), my grandmother made us drink tonic water the entire trip, which she said repels mosquitos; I'm not sure about the validity of that statement now, but I did report having far fewer mosquito bites, and the product we drank had quinine in it, so now I know my grandma wasn't just crazy.
It has hydroxychloroquine I believe.
That's why it's a tonic.
6:56 The Rosy Periwinkle. Periwinkle was my favorite Crayola crayon as a child...interesting how a long-ago memory can "pop into your mind"...makes me wonder how it's all stored in there..
Great info....thank you for the knowledge 😉
1: matcha plant
2: stevia plant
3: grean tea
4: weed
Stevie = game changer re calories.
Green tea?
@@nickb322 matcha is the most potent green tea
Coochie Foochie what does green tea do?
Moringa
Speaking of noxious weeds, I treated Lyme disease with Japanese knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum), as have a bunch of friends of mine. Extremely underrated herbal remedy.
I thought I heard a chuckle or two when he said professor weed
really love this presentation.. can you do one on plants for eye problems please/ i have neem in my patio and use it for all infections. also make oregano oil as antibiotic and antifungal. so many gifts from nature.
Great topic. I'd love to see more about medicinal plants being studied.
I am glad for the focus of these plants can be helpful, dosage is important. I have never tasted the berries from Deadly Nightshade, but they look NOTHING like blueberries, except being spherical. I suspect they are bitter. I have a lot of them come up in my yard.😊
"Give that plant that pat on the leaf" Ahh just love you and your buddy from N'SYNC :)
Atropine can also be used as drops to dry up secretions! My baby was on atropine drops for a while due to high aspiration risk
I am a plant and flower lover and attracted to your Vlog (uploaded 7 years ago!!) when I looked at your Thumbnail with Rosy Periwinkle flower.
I am from Pakistan and the weather in the central country is hot and dry. The Southern part is mostly humid especially in the port city of Karachi, the biggest city of Pakistan. Rosy Periwinkle is called 'Sada Bahar' in local Urdu language which means everlasting spring because these flowers bloom all the year round. The fragrance of these flowers is not sweet but close to typical 'botanical fragrance'. There are three color variations, most common is white and lilac, bright and dark pink is not so common but mostly I saw the flower size is slightly smaller as compared to white and lilac.
The Indo-Pak Sub Continent is the home of herbal medicines. I would like to mention here that a combination of different dried herbs and barries is used to cure flu and cough. The method is very simple, one packet is boiled in almost 4 cups of water on medium low flame, till the water reduces to 3 cups and one cup can be consumed 3 times a day. This is so effective that it builds up the immune system in the body against flu and cough in the coming seasons. A couple of reputable herbal companies are marketing these dried herbs called 'Joshanda' in local language. I am 72 now and using this since my childhood.
:O I have a rosy periwinkle in a flower pot. I didn't even imagined it was good against cancer!
Same, and we have lots of those in our backyard, and very common here in our country.
Humm I'm going to look into this flower. I need to see how it looks like.
I just googled it they look like impatiens is it the same plant if so is it just the flower used.? For a tea?
This has inspired my to make my own pharmacy in my backyard garden. :)
Not the best idea. Many times based on how they grow plants may have different concentrations and it makes getting dosing right incredibly hard. There are good reasons we switched to labs and actual pharmacies. Looking into the history of willow bark and aspirin is a pretty readily available example. Always be careful as many things are safe only to a point or when done correctly. Even if it doesn't kill there can be some pretty nasty side effects.
As a pharmacy student who had a subject on pharmacognosy, trust me, there are SO MUCH more medicinal plants out there - and we study and research the different therapeutic effects we want investigate on of a suspected medicinal plant.
Informative videos THANK YOU
Oh my God! We have that Rosy Periwinkle on our backyard and fyi it's not only found in Madagascar but it can also be found in the Philippines. I just learned its name from your video, I didn't know about its health benefits, thanks for the very informative and educational videos 😊
In Brazil too, in every corner. I don’t know if it originally came from Madagascar though
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I believe that I've seen the Rosy Periwinkle here in SE Louisiana where I live.
Excellent content. Thank-you
Thanks for sharing this video
tfw you get a half of a nobel prize
I assume he shared it with others on the same projects
Cate and their name is youyou tu
I get half and youyou get half, tu.. 😑
@@huntour You- You, too.
"Tu" in spanish is a word for "you"
Plants/Trees/Oceans, they all provide oxygen and other benefits to life and the humans show their appreciation by destroying them. Go humans!
Mr. Spanky I'm from Tehran, farthest thing from a Hippie. If you don't know where Tehran is, get a map and work your way forward.
+Al H. Do you know what a hippie is?...
FUCKING NORMIES. GET THE FUCK OUT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE No I've never heard of the 70s.
not all the same
@@humble5277 You shut up dude
Very informative. Thanks
Rosy periwinkle is also common around Lake Victoria. We used to collect its seeds in the 80s and sell to some organisation and we wondered why they were interested. Now, i know why. There are many plants undiscovered by the pharma. Tanks a lot for the eye-opening talk.
There's periwinkles literally in front of my house. And i didn't knew about its effects.
i have one in my backyard
Periwinkle derivative is used for treatment of certain cancer
Madagascar periwinkle
Hei SciShow! I was wondering if u could make a video about ocean acidification? And what global consequences this may lead to? :) It is hard to find information that is 100 % true about this topic :(
Great video, thank you!
When have Periwinkle here in Zambia. I remember Mum using its roots for her toothache when i was growing up. She would boil the roots then when the water cools down, she would gurgle the water and keep for few minutes in the mouth then spit and the pain would go. Thanks for sharing the other benefits of the plant..
You missed willow bark tea AKA aspirin
+Oliver McDonald Salacylic acid is found in willow bark. Bayer learned to acetilyze this producing acetyl salacylic acid AKA Aspirin
The fact that there are so many comments about cannabis should be enough of an explanation as to why it's not on the list.
I have a feeling they didn't want to talk about that one... for the obvious reasons of why there are so many stoners in the comment section lmao
+Dannei Kay that and it isn't hyper useful like these ones
+Cosmoclaste Research into cannabis is still extremely polarised, and in my experience, people in favour of legalisation have a strong confirmation bias and will only cite papers that deem it completely harmless no matter the amount or method you use while in reality, there's just as many reports saying the opposite or being at least a lot more restricted in calling cannabis a miracle cure.
They're not talking about recreational drugs.
They're talking medicinal/preventing u from dying.
If they made a list including drugs that reduced suffering/enhanced fun...... then marijuana would lose to morphine/opium.
Yeah cannabis may be nice to reduce anxiety(if low thc).
Morphine actually reduced extreme pain and suffering, like that of people who had to get their legs amputated while awake(probably most amputees had it done conscious).
The difference opium made is someone suffering while healing, and someone having to be tied up for weeks because they won't stop trying to kill them selves from the pain.
I have some periwinkle at my backyard. Stunned to know its uses
Great video.
Metformin causes a mal-absorption of B vitamins in the smaller intestine which can cause neuropathy so requires vitamin B supplementation
Yes plants do understand, so they will love a pat on the leaf or a kind word 😊👍
As do we all...
I saw the plant at the end and screamed "The land before time!!!!!"
Oh, thank you for the information on metformin!
The rosy periwinkle grows in Jamaica as well ... grows in my yard time to time
Hey!
I have this Rosy periwinkle on my backyard!
Used to exist lots of bushes with this flower around my street before "progress" took over
Leaves of periwinkle infused like tea and drink it to combat diabetis.
Periwrikle
Papaya leaves treat dengue fever. That’s all I know.
I actually drank a liquid with papaya leaves when i was in hospital diagnosed with dengue fever. I felt better the next day. Then after that I got discharged.
The seeds, are good for deworming & further, the fruit is helpful to digestion
Yes, have friends who caught dengue during the first lockdown (pest control was shut down in our country, leading to less spraying/stagnant water treatment and a huge explosion in the mosquito population.) All who took a preparation of fresh papaya leave juice got better faster than those who didn’t and this was clearly evidenced by their red blood cell counts, when they went in for daily blood tests. Some were on the verge of hospitalization, before starting on the papaya leaf juice.
SUPER EXCELLENT PRESENTATION
Also the Rosy periwinkle I often see these plants growing on the streets here in the philipines they often grow on small gaps on walls or in the sidestreets even in the grassfield and even some of the plant lovers in here also kept this beautiful plant bcause the flower or bloom really fast so i commented cause wow i didn't know this plant has medicinal properties.
6:57 Rosy Periwinkle - we had this in our house.....in bengali it's called 'Nayantara'
oh that's a beautiful name . I've heard people calling it 'sadabahaar' in hindi . Amazing flowers , they seem very resilient . They'll grow everywhere , and anywhere , I've seen them shooting between cracks in concrete and on walls .
This came on my suggestions to watch, and it was a bit painful to see Hank talk about the periwinkle knowing that he has cancer now.
May he have a speedy recovery! 🙏🏾
glad some had the same thought. kinda came full circle but if anyone could beat it it’d be hank
This episode is Gold!
This is so cool! Thanks
*pats plant on the leaf* good job :')
thank you great information
I was extracting some Vindieseltine from a flower just the other day.
Wonder why you didn't mention the willow tree, the source of salicylic acid, or Aspirin by its brand name. Maybe you did so already in a video before, but I miss a link.
+Eisi Kater Its a shame they kept the list to 4 plants. Foxglove and digitalis deserves a mention.
Nathan Young Digitalis anyhow! I agree. Here in Germany we call them "Maiglöckchen", the little May bells, and as the month of May happens to be around soon, there will be millions of them again. They look so white, cute, and innocent, and yet are one of the most poisonous plants on the planet.
And yet, millions of people with a chronic heart disease have had a better life and have been rescued by taking small doses of digitalis.
btw, folklore has it that we don't call them May bells because their blossoms are bell-shaped, but because you hear the bells of heaven ringing when you eat them.
+Eisi Kater Maybe because the heavens are calling them.
Ok, so I'm a bit late, but... Aspirin is not salicylic acid, is acetyl-salicylic acid. That acetate group makes it far more stable, meaning the active compound doesn't degrade while in a bottle somewhere as quickly.
@@alicianoriegavelasco6114 Yes and that's partly how they could patent it.
OK that's kind of crazy. I just finished putting in a refill of my metformin prescription online (video in the background) as the segment on metformin started. Weird...
This was a great episode....
Wow..... Nice explanation👍👌sir
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