Hunting Medicinal Mushrooms in the UK - Flu Prevention
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- If you're new to our channel, we are Matty & Lisa - TheWoodlandNomads.
We live full time in our van and travel the UK exploring beautiful locations, foraging and learning about the natural world.
Our van is in for repairs at the moment so we are going to spend the time exploring our local woods while we stay with family.
We fell very ill a couple weeks ago and realised that our immune systems could do with a boost, so we've decided to forage some natural medicine.
Come along with us in this video while we harvest two of UKs most medicinal wild mushrooms. We will teach you how identify them and how to make a tea. If you don't particularly like Turmeric, then we recommend that you use far less than a 1/2tsp. You can also add a splash of milk if that's your thing :)
If you stick around we will be showing you how to make a tincture in our next episode.
Stay Safe and Be Kind,
Matty & Lisa x
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REMEMBER - Never eat or consume a mushroom that you aren't 100% certain on.
This video is simply a guide, we recommend that you have a professional show you these mushrooms in person.
Feel free to message us if you have any questions :)
Stay Safe and Be Kind,
Matty & Lisa x
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Sorry to hear Lisa hasn't been well, really hope she's on the mend very soon 🤗. This vlog was 'TV ready' - so professional with very interesting subject matter, but much more than that - it was endearing and left your audience wanting to see more (great music segments as usual too 😊). Always look forward to your vlogs - especially at times when we're stuck indoors xx
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Thank you Janet, she is feeling a bit better today ☺
Awww thank you so much! That's super kind of you to say. We'll have to make sure and keep filming over winter so you have plenty to watch on rainy, cold days ♥
Belter loved it get well soon Lisa
Thanks mate ☺
Cheers my man 🍄🌟
You're very welcome! :)
Matty and Lisa,
Thank you for making an informing and inspiring video.
When in local woods and on the sap wood of seasoning green oak off-cuts down the bottom, damper end of our garden, I see lots of turkey tails in an astonishing variety of banding, colours etc.. I know exactly where to find birch polypores (also good kindling and for dressing small flesh wounds).
Considering the prodigious and widespread anecdotes and appreciation of the benefits of turkey tail in particular, it is logical to conclude that it has some potency; therefore I have a few questions before I make tea (using either mushroom):
1. Did you dry the mushrooms because you wanted to demonstrate the process or was it because it is necessary to make good tea?
2. If it is not necessary and good tea can be made with fresh mushrooms, how does one do that please?
3. Before drinking an appreciable quantity I would like some knowledge about how much mushroom (dry weight would be the most precise), with what volume of hot water etc.. And, it would be good to have a notional idea of, iff one can drink too much/too frequently, how much is too much or too frequent ?
4. Can you recommend any particular books about making and using tea, that go into more technical detail than there is time for in a short film already containing lots of info from yourselves?
Cheers, Adrian
You are clever buggers 😉 another great video so informative and inspiring, hope your OK Lisa 🤗 sending love and cwtches get well soon 💙✌️xx
Hehe we're slowly learning 😁 Thank you! She's feeling a bit better today ☺ lots of love to you both ♥
Great informative video 😁👍 hope Lisa feels better soon! ❤️
Thank you ☺ She is feeling a little better, out for a walk in the woods just now 😁
We've seen them around but never learned to identify them. Thanks for the knowledge. If we come across them again we will certainly try your recipes 😊
They're definitely worth learning ☺ Very special mushrooms indeed, good in soups and stews too 😁
@@TheWoodlandNomad we will definitely try them, when we find them😊
Good stuff guys. Better advice than the government is giving atm. ✌️😅
Thank you ☺ Haha indeed 😂
I really wish I could find some wild Reishi and chaga in the wild. I think Chaga grows in Georgia , but I’m not sure if Reishi even grows here
We've yet to find Reishi and it did take us a while to find Chaga. We've had the most success with Chaga in birch forests, the bigger the forest the more likely you'll find it ♥ good luck ☺
Awesome vid full of great info and even better advice ❤️
Thank you 😁 was a lovely day for a woodland walk too, if a little windy. The birch polypore can also be used in fire making, blade sharpening and even as a bushcraft plaster, it's amazing!
@@TheWoodlandNomad woah!!! That's amazing! It's just like potato waffles! Versatile as hell!!! So cool!
@@mm_ldj Haha never used potato waffles in a first aid kit before but I'm sure they would have their place :p
@@TheWoodlandNomad 😂😂 emergency hangry supplement!!!
What an utterly fascinating video, thank you. I have always fancied the idea of foraging but could never imagine having the confidence. Would love to see you foraging edible plants and flowers?...unless you already have lol and I havent got that far. Only just subscribed but you guys are like a breath of fresh air! 🤗❤🙏
Thank you for subscribing Cheryl! And we're delighted you enjoyed our video :) You can find more about edible plants in our earlier videos, we make a wild salad in one of them, it's full of summery vibes as well so it's a good time of year to watch it and feel the warmth :) x
@@TheWoodlandNomad ah bril. I'll have a look 😁
Love this. We found Turkey Tail today. I actually came onto UA-cam to find out more about Reishi, because I think we found some, but this video came up, and I am glad it did because I enjoyed it. We found birch polypore yesterday so I will processing them both in my dehydrator tonight. I was intrigued though about tinctures, which is not something I have done before. Did you make that video? I have had a look but can't find it?
Yaaaay, well found! It's a staple in Chinese medicine and we think it should be in Western medicine cupboards too ☺
I'm sorry we didn't have Reishi in this video, we've never ever seen it in the wild and knew that setting out to find it would prove unfruitful. Such an incredibly powerful mushroom though 🍄 💪
We had full intentions on doing the tincture video but we ended up losing the first half of footage 😢 which meant we couldn't compile it together to share it. Really sorry about that! We will definitely make tincture again though so we'll be sure to share our process one day ♥ luckily UA-cam is a bounty of knowledge and I'm sure somoeone will have the video you seek. Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment. Happy hunting!
Hello matty, great video, we just collected some turkey tail, it seems a bit old, will it be any good do you know?
You can consume old turkey tail but I'd advise against it because there will likely be algae and all sorts of contaminants on them which could be hard to remove. What you've collected is likely last year's growth. Best keeping you eyes pealed for nice young fresh ones in the summer and autumn in my opinion ☺
Thanks, for getting back to me, I'll bin em 😎
Could you put the the powder into capsules with these two mushrooms or do you need to boil them first-dry-grind then capsule?
Thanks for the cool channel- enjoy ☮️
Hello Kev, you could indeed. I would certainly suggest drying and powdering as you'll likely reap more of the benefits as it'd break down in your gut better being smaller particles. Boiling isn't necessary but I know that some people will always boil foraged mushrooms to kill any contaminants that may be present.
If you're interested we found the elusive Chaga in the end, you can see it in this video ua-cam.com/video/3lavISoMFuM/v-deo.html ☺
@@TheWoodlandNomad wicked man!! Thanks so much- I seem to love mushrooms they are so bloody cool!!
Thanks for information. I’ll check the other video out now - amazing 🏆🙏
They're fascinating! It's incredible that new species are still being discovered each year too 😁
Hope you like it ☺
Where is the tincture video please
Afraid we ran into unforeseen circumstances and weren't able to film it. We used the mushrooms as teas instead.
We will however be making a video in the future as we have since found chaga mushroom too so looking forward to sharing that. Sorry for not having one to show you just yet. Thank you for watching ❤
What about reishi?
A very powerful mushroom indeed. We've never ever seen one though 😔 I don't know how common they are in the uk. Have you ever foraged them?
@@TheWoodlandNomad I've actually seen quite a few and Im very suprised that they are so prolific, I would like to try and clone them so i can have my own supply but I don't yet have agar. I hope you find them someday! :)
Aw wow! Lucky you!! You must live in an area they like ☺ Hope we stumble across them one day. Good luck cloning them lovely! ♥