Common Plants: Usnea (Old Man's Beard)
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- Опубліковано 18 лип 2019
- Joel Graves from American Survival Co. and Chris Weatherman chat about Usnea or Old Man's Beard and how it might be vital as an edible in a survival situation.
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Good stuff!
This kind of video is awesome. Would love to see more
Thank you. Plant books are ALWAYS a gold mine of info!
Thanks for sharing. This great info to put way. Next time I am out in the woods will keep my eyes open..
Love these! Thank you for sharing!
Outstanding Intel. Love all your videos. Thank you from Utah
Great video fellas!
Terrific video
So good. Thank you🦋
Great video thanks 👍
Well this is interesting. I truly learned something here Men! I always think of chiggers (red bugs) that make you itch! I'll be checking this out for sure. Thumb's up video!~John
Very good information.
staph and strep are gram positive FYI
Gram positive is the word y’all were looking forward enjoy this show
Raw honey is good for wounds too.
Thank you for sharing' I us to work for a forest product place we did mushrooms saint johns wart and valerian root as well as other wild edibles and medicials as usnia' it had been so long ago I worked there that had forgotten about this medicinel
İ was looking for exactly this. İ just wanted to know how u use and which situations u can use. And thanks to. u guys İ learnt lots of things! İn the City İ study, There are lots of Usneas. But didnt know how to use it...
I've heard of this before. One thing I wanted to say, at least from what I was taught, is that if you put and leave lichen moss (old man's beard) in water, than the water can become poisonous or toxic. Do not drink it! That is what I was taught. Any additional input would be welcomed thank you.
hey jason, joel here from americansurvivalco. i would have to do more research for a definitive answer but i think i know where that sort of information may stem from. Bare with me here haha, so lichens in general are a carbohydrate goldmine. the problem is they come with a catch, they have an acid content to them. however, there are certainly straight up poisonous lichens . sunshine lichen and wolf lichen come to mind. they look nothing like unsnea thankfully. i have a horrible memory but lichens in general are something like 94 percent carbohydrates and 6 percent acid. lichens are a symbiotic relationship between fungus and algae, they use that acid to etch into things to grab hold. 6 percent is not much, but its potent enough to do work on granite tombstones! to me they are a true survival food. they taste like absolute crap/medicine....barely palatable. when i first started consuming them. reindeer lichen (cladonia) i was not briefed on proper preparation. i was fine for a few days but as i ate more and more it became an issue. not debilitating but massive heart burn and bad stomach ache. the best you can do in the bush is to boil in many changes of water. a labor intense task, but no more labor intensive then hot processing acorns. traditionally boiling in baking soda would be used to neutralize the acid. i have a hunch that in the bush you could possibly use some white wood ash initially then some changes of water but i didn't like cladonia enough to go through the trouble again. when i did eat it it was life changing in that situation though i could literally feel myself get the ability to think better as the carbs made it through my system haha. they have more carbs then potatoes! this is getting a bit long hopefully you read it but this is also another important point to bring up. the latin of species is important. when you say old mans beard it can mean several different plants depending on where you come from. im in florida that means spanish moss (tillandsia usneoides). up north when i hear old mans beard they are definitely talking about unsea as spanish moss does not grow up there. the latin helps minimize confusion (and also add to it because they are so damn hard to remember) many times the latin has little clues to identification though, but take that with a grain of salt because botanists make absolutely no damn sense sometimes and cant make up their minds.
........long story short the poison lichen water likely comes from the fact that acid is leaching into it. ive basically ate it straight for days (cladonia) and it eventually caught up to me but i think the actual medical research on usnea is too fascinating to regard it as a potential hazard. as far as medicine goes, it has water soluble compounds and compounds that are only extracted through enthanol as a substrate. the most potent tinctures have a mixture of both. i hope that helps...at the end of the day im just assuming on the matter, but from my experience. i learned of the acid part the hard way haha
@@joelgraves2319 I have seen that stuff grow and pit old tombstones from the 1800s. Very cool info thanks man
I was taught to use it in a tincture or tea for severe respiratory ailments.
Is there any books that you recommend? You guys are so awesome! I live in Tucson Arizona ... any recipes for Mesquite beans? We have a lot of Mesquite trees here I really want to get hooked up with some place, or some book, some kind of information to be able to know the native plants
I have a dead madone near my house on the Washington peninsula that has such large usnea growing on it, I once made cordage from a handful I pulled off on a walk.
Doesn't make the best cordage, btw.
I was taught by the Apsaalooke was to pack yarrow into wounds to stop bleeding. I never thought of doing that with usnea.
Him getting uncomfortable about menstrual cycles was hilarious. Has anyone tried growing this stuff? I'm trying to grow some I collected on a local hike.
Thank you for this video it was very informative. It's too bad that you would not be able to find it in Phoenix Arizona. Where can you find that?
Canada. Period.
Scotch moss is a lot bigger even up here in the Olympic Rainforest ...
Hmm in new zealand we have a pest plant, like a vine called old mans beard, this we just call moss.
I eat it as an antibiotic.
Thanks. I guess I gave up on trying to convince people that this lichen is different than Spanish ‘moss’.
i hear ya on that one. its too bad the latin names are a bunch of tongue twisters
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I just started a sweet gum medication
Guess I get to be first this morning😁
Something just popped up on my FB feed about this stuff, which brought me here. I take 100mg of doxycycline daily to keep rosacea under control. It's not working 100% and because I hate taking medications, I'm reluctant to increase the dose. Can this be used as a substitute? If so, how? I appreciate feedback. Thanks!
PS I'm in Maryland so I'd have to venture out and look for it.
Worst fear - no antibiotics! Thank you!
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