FREE Medicine is All Around!!! Foraging for Usnea
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- Опубліковано 6 гру 2018
- Sarah is foraging in the woods for medicine. A lichen called Usnea is used for various medicinal purposes and it grows all over the world. Sarah shows several examples as well as shows how to identify Usnea. Also, while foraging, she finds wild raspberry canes, hedge apples, and rose hips.
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Sarah, Osage orange, in central Mo. we call hedge. lots of it here and the best thing for fence post. The hedge apple is not poison as lots of people claim, Cows have been found dead but only because they chocked on them. In fact it is said to be a cure for cancer. I've eaten them and not dead yet, may be a good famine food, not terrible but not tasty either. Good to repel pest. The wood burns really hot and also works nice when made into lumber very hard too. Was planted extensively in hedge rows as fence and was propagated by soaking in water buckets till they fell apart then put the slurry in a small trench and hopefully it would germinate. The Indians used it to make really powerful bows and war clubs, I have made several bows and have killed a deer with one. I even made cordage out of very young bark of hedge saplings that was pretty strong but not strong enough for bow string. The saw dust can also be used to make a very yellow dye, I dyed a shirt once and went to a black powder shoot and everyone was calling me sunshine, lol .There are other uses but that enough for now.
God bless and praying for you all and that Kevin has a speedy recovery.
Here we call them hedge apples. ( I also live in Mo).
Thank you. Knowledge that has been experienced is the best kind. I will be writing this down for later reference.
I’m in central Texas and we have them everywhere. I heard pigs love them but haven’t tried it with mine yet.
Haha I've never heard that about curing cancer but i used to joke about it being a cure for cancer when we would talk about how useless they are. It's really interesting to hear all the uses you have found for the wood!
If anyone wants to try eating it please use common sense and start off with just a little, also may want to research more as I am not an expert on the matter. Bo-de-ark (I am a professional when it comes to butchering words) is the French name I believe.
When I was young my grandma had the hedge oranges (?) She would slice them about one half inch thick..put them on a cookie sheet ..and dry them in the oven set on a low heat. After time in the oven she would take them and lay them on a cooling rack. She would make a small hole in the middle..for strip of homespun fabric and we would hang them on her Christmas tree. I have many fond memories of going into their woods and hunting them with my grandma. She was always so excited to find perfectly round ones! Previous memories fill my soul! Thanks for reminding me of my memory! Xoxox fills my eyes with happy tears!
Sarah I really enjoy going on these walks with you and learning about foraging the only better thing than that is being there!
I also really enjoy the walks.
Sarah when I was younger we use to get skunks and snakes under the house alot . My mom use to throw the hedge apples under there because when they start to break down they emit a gas that people that can't really smell but the skunks and snakes really hate. They do work great for spiders to. Tell Kevin to get well soon.
cherokeesangel we used them to keep spiders away... also used them for targets in place of clay pigeons
People in Indiana definitely still collect hedge apples and throw them under the house 😄 neighbors have a tree and line em up along the road for the taking which is just nice. I love the country!!
Yes we do :)
What you mean they throw them under the house? Sorry not familiar with that terminology…😐 I’m being serious tho.
A way to distinguish Spanish moss from usnea is usnea has the white central and Spanish moss has black.
I believe it's also known as the Jack fruit. When ripe it has a deep yellow meat inside the fruit that is sweet to the taste.
@ Kristi Brock - No, its in the same family as jackfruit, but hedge apples are different. I don't think anyone or anything eat hedge apples. Which is peculiar for a fruit. But people eat jack fruit, yeah?
Osage Orange got it's name from the Osage Indians. They used the orange heart wood for the bows that they were famous for. Now, it is used more for walking sticks. I have one that has been handed down for at least 3 generations.
In this part of Texas, we call them Crab apples or Horse apples. We used to use them as baseballs. (They don't last long!) I never knew that they were good for anything else. The more that I watch your videos, the more I learn. Thanks!!!
I live south of Fort Worth and we call them horse apples too
I heard horse apples were a good flea repellent, never tried it though
Her heart is sweet. I love watching you all.
Loved the walk on your beautiful property. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
Love the foraging videos! Keep them coming!
I absolutely love the foraging videos. Thank you Sarah. Hope Kevin is getting some rest! God bless
I love when you walk in the woods and everything beautiful comes in to perspective. This is so comforting to me. It’s been many years since I’ve done this. I so love this! 💖
You are a breath of fresh air
We have tons of usnea here in Louisiana and where there is usnea, there is that same lichen. My grandmother has a bench outside that's on an old swing set, made of wood of course, the bench has taken the place of the swings that have since fallen off and broke. It is covered in usnea and lichen. I love sitting on it under the old oak tree. Thank you for this video Sarah. I never knew it had medicinal properties! Prayers going out to Kevin for a healthy recovery. Bless your family and well wishes to you all.
Thank you Sarah love learning about the wild medicinals and how to identify them, yes most definitely more videos on this topic😃👍🏽
Thank you Sarah, for opening our eyes and our minds to more of the wonderful things that God provides for us. God bless you and your family.
Very good information. Especially not over harvesting.
That was a nice walk in the woods. Thanks for taking us along!
Great on the Usnea. The way to identify it is perfect. Look for the white band inside the arm. This is the best and strongest kind. Ive used if for 20 years for many infections that would have landed me in the ER but this saved me this expense.
I love going for walks with you! Have a good day!
Loved this. I always love learning about the natural things we can look for in the woods or our own yards to use for healing or health. Thanks dear!
Wow, I've learned something very useful.
In WA, Usnea grows every where.
I had no idea that they were medicinal. I'm so grateful.
Thank you very much.
Wow ... I just love your videos! You are a natural teacher, Sarah!
Your a wonderful teacher to get the motivation and interest started. Best wishes for a speedy recovery for your other half.
Hey Sarah hope Kevin is feeling good today. I love your foraging videos and encouragement to explore seasonally. You are awesome!!
If you want direct information about herbs get older books, at least published before 2000. Medical association is now holding treatment monopoly and is going after everyone who "practices medicine without a license", so many publishers are afraid, and allow only vague mentions of healing actions. And that is even though books are for informational purposes only anyway. A few of my favorites:
The How To Herb Book: Let's Remedy The Situation by Velma J. Keith and Monteen Gordon (the most practical book I read so far with clear dosages and formulas, covers chicken pox, measles and similar diseases, that many books do not, older, out of print book, but not expensive.)
How To Be Your Own Herbal Pharmacist by Linda Page (formulas with several choices of herbs for each part of the formula, and explanations of why each part is in the particular formula)
Health from God's Garden: Herbal Remedies for Glowing Health and Well-Being by Maria Treben ( clear pictures of the herbs, simple remedies with directions how to use them and how much and for what type of ailment)
Thanks for the references. You are absolutely correct that medical associations are restricting competition. They have been doing that since the 1910s.
I really like the old fox fire book's
@@silverravensblackgarden yes ! Me Also I have a few of them
good day to you Kevin and Sarah !! thanks for sharing another awesome update and adventures on & off the homestead 👨🌾🎥👍✝
Your videos are like visiting with friends. I learn so much from you and Kevin, practical and life skills. Thank you.
Hedge Trees/bushes were put up in the midwestern states & used to stop the dust/dirt storms back in the day. I was born in Kansas & they surround many fields & along the dirt roads in that state.
SOOOOOOO interesting Sarah! I really like learning about holistic approaches to life and nature's wonders! He truly is wondrous in His creations.
I love your walks in the woods, i learn so much from you, thank you for sharing
Sarah, Thanks so much for all you do and share. Deep Respect and Gratitude especially Today that you take such care to share only accurate herbal information and that you always encourage people to do their own due diligence in educating themselves further!🤗💕
Thanku for taking me along with you in the woods n teaching me. God bless you
This video is so peaceful to watch. Gonna go see how many more adventure walks you have done.
..Wonderful wilderness teaching !...... My Mom used to feed the "Horse Apples" to her horses, down here in Oklahoma/Texas. I've "watched'em" chomp'away on fresh horse apples like "a treat"'!! when I was a kid. ( Seems like the horse apples down here were a bit larger, and "brighter florescent green" ..but otherwise exactly the same mottled surface of fleshy facets.) In Dallas there used to be horse apple trees that still grew in some residential neighborhood park areas, where they would start dropping their fruit around Halloween time and litter the sidewalks and nearby streets!,... but I haven't actually seen any in the last few years....... I know the kids would end up pelting each other with them, until everyone was pretty bruised and banged up!, so maybe some parents decided to have'em all cut down and removed. ( People are so stupid ) My Mom also found a giant wild persimmon tree in a field that the Water Department had kept back for development and expansion. Since the field was open to neighbors and residents and was near her home she could pick fresh ripe wild persimmons from the low hanging branches that were weighted almost to breaking! Ha! The ground was covered with over'ripe bird'pecked persimmons and the tree had to have been 30 or 40 feet tall! FILLED with drooping limbs! You can see the field (and probably "the tree"!) if you Google... Matilda Street Bridge, Dallas.....Thanks for the cool Nature Walk!!
Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed the walk with you.. Big hugs :") I keep you & your husband in our prayers for a speedy recovery..
Loved the walk and education 🤗
You and your family are wonderfully delightful. Thank you sooo much for your videos and energy!
Namaste
Dear Sarah, I love you voice on this video it’s nice soft and soothing, Such a huge improvement on your other videos thank you it makes the video’s so much much better.
You work very hard for your family. I appreciate that. Truly. Ch
Loved your video not only for learning about foraging but the goats in the background. Made me smile. I miss my goats.
I love your walks through the woods. It is really beautiful.
Thank you for taking the time to enlightening me
You have a nice simple, God-honoring presentation! When I lived in Colorado, I went to an herb school in Boulder where we learned about usnea. In the remotest high country, I used to find clumps of it up to 3 feet long! It is very stable dried and kept in jars. We tinctured it 1:5 fresh or dry in a 50% menstruum (extraction medium of 50% water, 50% ethanol). The Materia Medica of Michael Moore, the venerable herbalist of the Southwest school recommended tincture dosage of 30-60 drops up to 4X per day. The strong decoction (simmered tea) at 2-6 ounces to 3x per day.
For those who burn wood, hedge wood is highly prized for burning long and super hot. A true insider's secret! It is also a wood preferred for bow making in Native American culture.
Wishing Kevin a speeded recovery. I’m husband had surgery thanksgiving week and had to have a catheter over the holiday weekend. Also take care of yourself. You have a lot on your plate right now.
Up here in Maine we call Usnea "old man's beard"! Because when it get big and hangs from trees it looks like a thick gray beard. I never realized it was medicinal! When dried, we use it as a fire starter.
Not sure that's thesame thing.
Some get it Confused with the SPANISH
MOSS...that also hangs from trees.
They are Not the Same.
Thank you Sarah, can’t wait to check this out on my next walk.
I wish I could like this video more than once. I love your gentle style of teaching. I manage to do a little foraging on my 10000 square foot suburban lot. I find stinging nettle and wild black raspberries and rose hips. I'm sure I have more to find. I too bring a cute basket into the yard with me. Please continue to do these foraging videos. Your family is very lucky to have you.
Thank you for sharing have a huge tuft on a pecan tree about 80 years old as I observe from my kitchen window it’s breaking down a limb at a time yearly but still gives us pecans not many for a treat when we do find them that the squirrels haven’t beat us to…gifts are everywhere if we only take the time to explore and fill our souls…stay blessed Sarah
Thanks so much for the Peaceful walk in the woods.. Now I have to Go , Look for Usnea !!
and still praying for Kevin's speedy recovery im sure he is sore from his surgery bless his heart!
We have this all over our yard! I thought it looked really cool, so in the summer time, I harvested quite a bit, in an effort to see if I could get it to continue growing in a pot. And it actually all got accidentally thrown away. But this is so neat knowing that I have this resource right in my own backyard, that I never knew I had. 🏠🌾
Hey, that is really interesting. I'm going out into my woods cause I've seen that on branches. Thanks Sarah for the info, hope Kevin had a good night's rest and we are all praying for a speedy recovery. God bless
You really give a very comprehensive tour through the woods! The videos I have seen so far have been extremely informational and exciting to make people want to get out and BushCraft! Thank you.
Sarah knowledge is power. Thank you for sharing. Hope Kevin is feeling alittle better. That 3rd day can be a doozie.
Hi Sarah, thank you so much for this walk in the woods..something I quite enjoy and miss doing. So, for the hedge apples, I used them to keep unwanted little creepy crawlers from coming into my country home. Before I started to use them, we would always get many spiders in our farm house...I then decided to put them to the rest. From then on, we didn’t see a single spider, silver fish, earwig etc!! I mean NOT a one! I used plenty though, LOTS went around and under my house. I know they can be used for several more things as well, and I’ve heard of people actually eating them.
I love foraging for food and for the restful break it gives 💗
Great info and praying for Kevin to recover quickly!
I really enjoy going foraging with you. Awesome video. Lord bless you and speedy recovery for Kevin.
I swear, Sara, you are living my dream. Amazing kids, an amazing, loving, Godly husband, living off of the land. This is what I very literally dream of. Hopefully one day! Please keep posting these awesome, fun, and informational videos. 😊💕🏠🌾
Great information. Love walking in the woods and foraging Been thinking about making medicine there's a lot to learn. So interesting and intriguing. Thanks for sharing your information. Praying for you and Kevin
Thanks for taking us along in your walk in the woods. Would love to walk with you in person and learn more! Very informative.
I picked up one of those Osage oranges once on a walk and brought it home and planted the seeds. They sprouted quickly with a very high germination rate. Since I had no where to plant an Osage orange tree I didn’t grow them out, but was very surprised and impressed by their vigor. Might be worth while going forward to grow some out for posts or bows. I’ve heard that the tendency is for the grain to grow very straight and one of the reasons they are good for bows
Hello from TN! Yes, horse Apple here too! It grows, eventually, into a large tree. Was at one time used as a living fence. Very thorny! I'll come back later, I have a doctor's appointment! Bee blessed Danny and Rita in TN on Rooster Ridge
So fun and exciting to see the creations immediately surrounding where we live! :)
Thank you for sharing this. God bless you and your family
Beautiful walk way.........Love and loving it
Didn’t think I would enjoy this video but watched it anyway and I’m so glad I did. Please video the tincture process for us. 💕💕
The stretch of the plant was very cool. Great video
my first visit--loved it, & learned so much! Thank you!
Best topic ever!
Good information. I have lots of Usnea and thought it was moss. I love learning news things. Thank you for sharing.
I love watching your videos!
I love this post! Great job! ❤️ You are a great teacher! ❤️
Very informative. Can you do a video of making a tincture or salve with it?
Nice walk, talk, & share!
I wish everyone was as nice as you!!!
Interesting video. I know how you love the woods. Thanks for sharing.
Hedge apples are awesome spider repellers! I used to use them in my basement, garage, and pantry, when I lived in the Midwest. They really work!
My grandson and I picked tons of Usnea from my yard today. (Large butter bowl full) We had lots of rain last night and found it everywhere. :) Northeast Mississippi here. :) I'm just learning about such things and love watching you guys!
Good morning and praying Kevin heals quickly.
Very fascinating information on the usnea! Didn’t want to end our trek through the woods! Hope we can do it again soon! Love y’alls videos... so informative! Thank you!
You did a good job explaining this.
Looks very much like a coral. It's very pretty.
Very intriguing to say the least. I recently watched a few UA-cam videos on the osage orange. The most common use I am aware of is the wood itself. From what I understand it is very good for bow making.
Thought she had lichen on her neck, then realized it was her scarf.
My grandmother used to put hedge apples in the attic to repel silverfish.
Went walking today and found my first Usnia.... I knew what to look for after I seen this video. I'm in Virginia and really never thought I would have it here thank you for giving me the information.....
Great Video Also! Always Learn So Much From You!! Praying For Fast Recovery For Kevin! Love
Your a great teacher honest
Love your walks through the woods!!
Very cool video. Brings back many memories of my child hood. I can live off the land, my grandfather was native American. He taught me many things.
Good morning thanks for a great video have a blessed day
Bois D'Arc trees is what we call the horse apple trees. The wood is very hard when dried. It is very bug resistant, as in termites or others.
Thank you for sharing. I love learning
I love your foraging videos.
Thanks for sharing all the great fun and tons of info and Tips on foraging and the Oceana and all of it uses, thanks and have a great and blessed day :-)
In Alabama they are called horse apples
D Dana here in Texas as well
Here in Arkansas as well.
Yep, that's what we call'em in West Tennessee
D Dana can you eat them? What they taste like?
Barbara Anderson don’t know if you can eat them. Was told to throw some under house crawl space to deter snakes from entering.
Thanks Sarah for taking us out into your woods, I really enjoy learning about medicinal plants. I live in San Antonio, TX and most of the land is fenced in and no woods in this part of Texas. I was born and raised here and if there are any I have missed them. Usnea is new to me but that it has power over bacteria is great. Like you said if we ever get in a situation where the antibiotics we have don't work, which is already starting to happen, or if something happens where we don't have access to any it could come in handy. I, myself, have never seen the big yellow hedge apples. They are unusual though! We have little plants that grow on trees like the usnea but I have always just been told it's mistletoe. I don't know if that's right or not. I do have black berries that grow on a vine on our fence but it was there when we bought the house and my husband seems to have it out for anything that grows on our fences and kills it all. They actually tasted pretty good and the birds loved them. God bless and he's blessed you with room to explore and hopefully find even more interesting surprises.
I have never seen a hedge apple before - that is so cool!
thanx so much, Sarah, for sharing your walk in the woods. every time you post one, it just makes my desire to move back to MO that much more intense. however, I have seen usnea on my place in NC, also. will have to do some foraging of my own when next I am there. wishing Kevin a speedier than normal recovery time !