Native American (Navajo) People Use This Plant For Many Different Things.
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There is a plant that our Navajo people use in many different ways.
A source of health, protection, food, shelter, cleansing…
Sometimes our people call it Cedar but the proper name would be Juniper. More robust than the common landscaping juniper bush.
The juniper tree is central to the traditional way of life.
There are two types… the Male and the Female.
Join Navajo Historian Wally Brown as he explains the Juniper tree and many of its different uses among our people.
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I wish if there was a kind of international knowledge base for all indigenous people so that each tribe can contribute some knowledge. I'm a Berber from North Africa and I love watching these videos, even though I'm from a different culture, my people also lived in harmony with nature, and the elders in our villages also know about plants and herbs and traditional medicine, but all that knowledge is being lost. Very happy to see Navajo people preserving their heritage !
🎉❤ great idea
Im originally English now living in southern Portugal, amazing how much your people's ancestors contributed to not only the Portuguese culture but to the world in general after the Portuguese exported it globally, I try to learn what I can about the plant medicines here from the older natives, slowly perhaps the ancient wisdom and knowledge can be restored back to it's proper place in the hearts and minds of good people everywhere.
That’s a great idea
Fantastic idea. Would be amazing to have this kind of knowledge from different places around the world
I think that too ❤
I am REALLLLY enjoying the botanical education in addition to the tradition teachings you all share….
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, and preserving these wonderful teachings, and practices.
Continued blessed to you all!
my dad was German and we always cooked sauerkraut with juniper berries. Cool t hear all the uses of this berry.
Interesting
German here, I can confirm. Juniper berries are quite traditional in Sauerkraut, as well as in seasonings for more intense kinds of meat
They're also used in the spice mix to marinate meat for sauerbraten.
And of course, British gin which is a simplified version of some alcoholic drink from the Netherlands that they experienced while the British army was there.
Yepp and dont forget the Bommerlunder Schnaps made from Wacholder ( german word for Juniper) and also you can add it to the smoking chips if you smoke trouts or meat
Big juniper trees are personally sacred to me because of the memories and connections with my granddad and the time we spent together while I was growing up in the basin & range country of western Utah.
When possible I try to camp in the shelter of a large juniper
Thank you Wally. I have learned so so many important lessons while watching your videos. I feel so blessed!🎉 I truly appreciate you.
I LOVE this tree. It is a gift, helping me regenerate my land, and rebuild my ecosystem
My father calls this plant Salvino. He claims it helps you fight cancer.
I could listen to this knowledge all day. Thanks for the wisdom 🙏 peace.
So this is Navajo blue bread recipe? So interesting, Muscogee Creek uses Purple hull peas to make blue bread, and they also make grape dumplings... This is actually really interesting. I wonder if in the past recipes were swapped or passed along to other tribes.
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I mean it's made in a very similar way, the burning of the hulls made to ash and mixed with the dough... Very similar
Im sure you're right. As the Peoples wandered, their stories would pass along the plant knowledge gathered all along the way.
Basically, the bread stayed the same...but the ingredients changed as the environment did
@@BrandonS-lk2qc Absolutely... I just find it fascinating, and wonder how old some of these recipes are.
I think we (Natives) should go back to our old way of cooking. The white man of cooking is not so good, too much sugar and preservatives. If there is a group out there, learning the old ways of cooking, let me in.
Thank you Grand Father for sharing your knowledge.
Hello Wally, it's funny "First Nations" people use the Juniper berry for healing, us white folks make something to get Drunk with! Bahaha 😁 Great content, and thanks for keeping the traditional teaching alive.
A little gin can help heal the Monday blues!
This is why I love your channel. Just weeks ago I was looking at a row of trees behind where I work. I noticed the leaves looked kind of like a cedar but not and there were thousands of these blue berries on them. I was asking all around to other people that were there, what is this, is it a type of cedar and no one knew. Why didn't I Google it, I don't really know, but I didn't...I think I was supposed to watch this at least that's my .02
Thank you for your generosity, Wally. I love your videos!
IMO, Juniper ash is necessary to make the maize digestible via nixtamalization. Nixtamalization is the process of adding an alkali solution (wood ash), to dried corn kernels in order to transform them into nixtamal, a product that is more workable, tasty, and nutritious than it would be otherwise.
Nixtamalization makes the niacin nutritionally available and prevents the disease pellagra. When maize was cultivated worldwide, and eaten as a staple without nixtamalization, pellagra became much more common.
As corn was developed and spread throughout the Americas, different native populations used variations of this process on their corn products. Whether from ash (potash, potassium hydroxide) or mineral lime (calcium hydroxide), nixtamalization is traceable through Aztec, Inca, Maya, and Native American populations.
Your body uses niacin (vitamin B3) to convert food calories into energy. The niacin you eat is absorbed through your small intestine into your body tissues, where it’s converted to a coenzyme called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD). A coenzyme is an enzyme agent. It works together with enzymes to catalyze chemical reactions. More than 400 different enzymes in your body depend on coenzyme NAD to function.
Coenzyme NAD helps transfer the potential energy in macronutrients - carbohydrates, proteins and fats - into the kind of energy your cells can use (adenosine triphosphate, or ATP). Your cells depend on it for energy to function, and body systems with higher energy requirements depend on it more. NAD is also involved in a variety of specific cellular functions, including DNA repair and cellular communication.
Because NAD is so heavily involved in providing fuel to cells, the lack of it tends to show up first in the body systems with the highest energy requirements or cell turnover rates. That means your skin, the mucous lining of your gastrointestinal tract, and your brain. Classic pellagra shows up as a collection of symptoms that healthcare providers describe as the “3 Ds”: diarrhea, dermatitis, and dementia. Some add a fourth “D” to include death. Death can occur if pellagra is left untreated for several years.
Diarrhea occurs when the mucous lining of your intestines fails to replenish itself fast enough. Without this mucosa, the intestines can’t digest properly, and they can’t protect themselves from irritation and inflammation. Chronic inflammation affects the mucous lining along your entire gastrointestinal tract, from your mouth to bowels. This leads to gastrointestinal symptoms such as stomach pain and indigestion, as well as symptoms of oral mucositis, which include mouth sores and a red, swollen tongue.
Pellagra also produces a distinctive type of dermatitis, particularly on sun-exposed areas of the body, such as the face, neck, arms, legs, hands and feet. Deprived of energy resources, the skin cells become more photosensitive. Dermatitis begins with rashes that resemble a sunburn, then progresses to rough, scaly, hyper-pigmented plaques. One telltale feature is a dark, hyper-pigmented collar around the neck. It’s called Casal’s collar, after the Spanish physician Don Gaspar Casal who first identified pellagra among the Spanish peasants in 1735. It is also the origin of the colloquialism known as "redneck".
Pellagra is a systemic disease, affecting the body as a whole as cells are deprived of the energy they need to perform bodily functions. This will eventually affect the brain and nervous system. Early symptoms may be vague. They may include lethargy, apathy, and difficulty concentrating, or they may look more like anxiety or depression. Over time, symptoms progress to confusion and delusions. Severe cases may lead to permanent dementia, as well as neurological damage resulting in balance and coordination problems, muscle twitches and tremors.
Historically, pellagra has occurred in poor populations throughout the world, including Europe, Africa, Asia and the Southern United States. It usually occurs in populations where the diet is very limited, especially where protein is scarce and corn is the staple food. Protein and the amino acids that come from protein are important for metabolizing niacin. And while many grains contain niacin, the niacin in corn is in a “bound” form that’s hard for our bodies to absorb.
In Central and South America, the traditional method for making corn tortillas involves soaking the corn in limewater overnight. This process unbinds the niacin in the corn and makes it available to absorb. For this reason, pellagra has rarely been seen in these populations. This was not the case in the Southern United States in the early 1900s, however, when pellagra was so pervasive that the U.S. Congress asked the Surgeon General to investigate the disease.
The Surgeon General appointed Joseph Goldberger, a medical officer in the US Public Health Service, to lead the investigation. Goldberger’s research led to the discovery that pellagra was caused by poor diet (published in 1923). The following decade, American biochemist Conrad A. Elevjhem discovered that the missing nutrient was niacin. By the mid-century, bread and cereal products in the United States were routinely fortified with niacin, a practice that continues today.
Today, pellagra in the United States is rare, occurring in less than 1%, and is usually due to secondary causes, such as alcohol use. The same is true in other industrialized Western nations, many of which have adopted the practice of fortifying bread and cereal products. However, primary pellagra does still very much exist in less developed regions of the world, especially tribal populations where corn continues to be the staple. It’s most commonly found in India, China and sub-Saharan Africa today.
Since pellagra is a deficiency of niacin (vitamin B3), it’s cured by replacing the missing nutrient. With niacin supplements, most people begin to improve right away. You may need additional treatment for symptoms such as skin sores and mouth sores. If your pellagra was caused by a pre-existing health condition, you’ll need treatment for that too.
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Juniper berries or extract of the plant has traditionally been used as diuretic, anti-arthritis, anti-diabetes, antiseptic as well as for the treatment of gastrointestinal and autoimmune disorders. The essential oil and extracts of juniper have been experimentally documented to have antioxidant, antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal activities.
Recent studies have also found anti-inflammatory, cytotoxic, hypoglycemic and hypolipidemic effects of berries in experimental models. Further, the essential oil incorporation retarded lipid peroxidation in preserved meat due to its high antioxidant effect which not only improved meat product quality but also improved shelf life of the product. Thus natural antioxidant such as juniper can be used in place synthetic antioxidant for the preservation and improving self-life of meat products.
New well designed clinical trials in human and animals using well-characterized J. communis extract or oil need to be conducted so that additional information is generated which can support the use of this natural product as a nutraceutical.
Juniper Berry oil is considered one of the most effective essential oils for dealing with anxiety related to inner trauma, exerting a positive effect on the relaxation responses in the brain when it is inhaled.
Gin is made from a fermentable grain, starch, or fruit; juniper berries; and other botanicals. To be classified as gin, the spirit must contain juniper and be at least 40% alcohol by volume. Gin is different from other liquors because of the use of botanicals in the distillation process.
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So interesting! Thank you!
You're certainly welcome, Gina@@ginalibrizzi5204 thank you for expressing your gratitude.🤲🏻
Wow! Great information!
Thank you for tour kind words@@jrae4348 🙏🏻
The navajo traditions are a blessing to the world
He should be speaking in his language....not ours.
Here is another use for juniper, though I don't recommend it.
Copper Kettle
by Albert Frank Beddoe
Get you a copper kettle
Get you a copper coil
Cover with new-made corn mash
and never more you'll toil
You'll just lay there by the juniper
While the moon is bright
Watch them jugs a-fillin'
In the pale moonlight
Get you a fire of hickory
Get you a fire of oak
Don't use no green or rotten wood
they'll find you by the smoke
While you lay there by the juniper
While the moon is bright
Watch them jugs a-fillin'
In the pale moonlight
My grandpappy he made whiskey
My daddy he made it too
We ain't paid no whiskey tax since 1792
We just lay there by the juniper
While the moon is bright
Watch them jugs a-fillin'
In the pale moonlight
Get you a copper kettle
Get you a copper coil
Cover with new-made corn mash
and never more you will toil
You'll just lay there by the juniper
While the moon is bright
Watch them jugs a-fillin'
In the pale moonlight
Bathtub gin! 🤮
I learned something new today thanks for sharing the knowledge about the blue bread and that female juniper trees have more berries than male trees.
I want to learn so much about plants and herbs, I don't want to forget.
We have this tree in Iowa! Thanks Elder Chief for your wisdom and knowledge!
You have trees in Iowa?
@@Atkrdu We won’t if they continue to destroy them for crop lands.
@@MossMusic777 Of course there are junipers in Iowa.🙄🤦♂️🤡🤷♂️
Great topic, I've never seen you smile so much.Fond memories...thank you.May everyone smile wistfully today
Thank you for sharing ✌️💞🤟
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Thank you for sharing this
Thank you for the knowledge that's been lost to many !❤
Thank you, brother! ✨️🤍🙏👣🌎
Thanks for sharing this information much appreciated
Using Juniper Bonsai Tree’s for Medicine = MICRO-DOSING! 🌱🌲
That's what I was thinking too.
What is micro dosing ?
@@wingedinfinity6715 Only Small Quantities are Used in Order to Lower Risk. It’s a Harm Reduction Technique..
Like Homeopathy Uses Water Dilutions to Increase Potential. While the Actual Total Amount Remains Equal. Imagine Eating One Whole Lemon, Versus Making 5 Glasses of Lemon Water. One is Obviously Much Easier to Consume, and Also Way Less Likely to Cause Any Problems due to the High Acidity.
Understand Quantity vs Quality!!!
Qualities Are Not Measurable, and Quantities are Just Amounts. Numbers Are Just Make Believe Nonsense, There Is No Numbers in Nature, Only in the Minds of Men!! Example: Like a 5 Mile Walk has Many Variables, is it through the Park, or a Desert?? What About Eating 2000 Calories, It Could Be Raw Organic Super Healthy Foods, or it Could be Junk Processed Foods like Chips Cookies and Cereals, Not Equal. Smoking Tobacco is Allegedly Bad, Well Exactly What Tobacco? The Mega Huge Tobacco Corporations and Their Massive List of Poisonous Additives or The Local Amish Grown Organic Tobacco??
@@wingedinfinity6715 The Opposite of OVER-DOSING!!
@@AdamWeber11 Thanks for the reply. Was wondering if it meant something different than the obvious.
Juniper berries are known in the culinary world as a flavoring. They are also known as medicine, but I do not know exactly how or where it is used or a specific application. Almost all modern medicine of the 20th century and before, came from the use of plants , fungus, or that one disease could stop another. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, and your voice and spirit. You sometimes have a very calming effect on me.❤
Liver healing
My Grandmother only had one kidney, when she became I'll, she went back to her village and was prescribed juniper berry tea! She never died of kidney failure! All of her children drank it, and grandchildren to this day!
@@maryannemiholovich5877yes,I have heard that the essential from the juniper berries contains the frequency your body needs for the kidneys. The use will help heal kidney problems or prevent problems with your kidneys. Glad to hear about your grandmother using them and having success
Wally, Iam so far from my ancestors knowing little more than what I've learned from you.
Thank you for all the knowledge you've shared.
Same 🎉🙏🏽🙏🏼🤲🏽🕊️😊
Thank you for all the sharing you do, and also, with mention of the deer. I'm curious if perhaps the Juniper berries have any effect on deer that are suffering from Chronic Wasting Disorder. Was the first thing that came into my mind, once deer was mentioned.
Loved this information
The needles looked a little bit different than here.
In sweden, they also make Juniperdrink "Enbärsdricka".
Could buy it as cola in stores.
Greatest channel ever!!!! Thank you so much!!!!
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge
I am so glad I saw this from you! I have four of these trees and had tea out of it! Sun brewed tea water! It was wonderful! The birds love to sing in them!!!!!
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Great information. Interesting 🤠🦅🇺🇸 Thanks
Good teaching educational traditional way of teaching culture nature of all these teaching Navajo dine Learning about a lot of herbs little bit of myself I learn some herb to heal learned from my grandma and grandpa just a little bit what I know just listening to you explaining that is really good and understanding nizhoneeh shi-cheii good teacher 🪶🪶🪶🪶
I never knew about uses for juniper trees. They grew near my area in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. Phelan California. We would collect dead trees for firewood, beautiful smell.
Thank you Hosteen Wally: the knowledge you share is priceless.
The piñon and juniper give us food, medicine, firewood, wood for building and crafting. We live in abundance.
Your such a treasure Wally. Thank you.
@oldschool8292 ^*You’re, not Your ffs🤡🤡🤦♂️
Thank You, Wise Man much respect and always
Aheéhe’ Wally, these plant medicine teachings are my favorite, I’m amazed at such the richness that grows right along side of us in the world! 😊
I was reading from a Diné blog this process of adding the juniper ash actually unlocks the bioavailability within corn to be better absorbed by the body! It’s called Nixtamalization! A fascinating chemistry process!!
In the southwest US (New Mexico and Colorado) my grandmothers called the blue corn mush atole.
Were they Hispanic? My wife is from northern Mexico and there, atole is a white thick beverage, also made from white masa (corn flour) and sugar. Would love to try blue atole.
I recommend the blue corn meal. You can probably find it online. My family is descendants of Mexican settlers and Dine/Navajo in the southwest US before the US took over the land. Both sides of my family ate atole but on my mother's side they added salt instead of sugar.
@@MsLemon1971 I love blue corn atole, both salty or sweetened with honey with some dried blueberries and lavender. Yum!
@@ScottJB Atole is many different things, genius.🤦♂️
@@MsLemon1971 Atole is not made from corn meal, and you don’t eat atole- you drink it.🤦♂️🤡🙄🤷♂️
I appreciate these sharings. Thank you.
These teachings are precious gift and medicine to all.
That was very fascinating. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
HOPI PIKI BREAD. Thank you for the teachings, Grandfather Wally.
when the juniper berries are really ripe you can chew them just enough to get the pulp off the seeds then spit the seeds out and they are very sweet tasting. they are more bitter before they fully ripen. These berries are one of my favorite wild edibles and one i learned very young. we also made tea from the berries as well.
Again another great informing video. Gracias
Bitter
Philámayaye grandfather ❤
I thought juniper was a neurotoxin? Happy to be wrong .
Thanks for the teaching
Thank you, again very informative.
thank you Grandfather
Where does the juniper plant grow.... mostly.❤
Utah juniper (the species Wally is describing) at elevations from 3000- 7000 ft in the mountain west.
I love the smell of cedar trees. A huge red cedar grows in my yard. ✌️
Th3se trees are not large, we have them in kansas, different variety
@@MaryHernandez-lq8kq Not to mention these are juniper, not cedar.🙄🤡🤦♂️🤷♂️
Every time I try to use juniper berries, I end up with little bugs that look like tiny worms in the cup.. Are they normal, or are my trees infected?
The berries are very different from juniper and cedar.
I just saw a video with David Attenboro (borough?) About a giant underground seed vault where they are trying to store as many types of seeds as possible, to insure biodiversity for future generations. That would be a good seed species to add, along with information about traditional uses. 😊
They were able to bring back some 2000 year old date seeds and produce trees bearing fruit.
My Granny was very smart about herb and flowers, and had a huge Juniper tree in her backyard. She taught me many of the old ways to heal through nature. She also said back in the day they made bathtub Gin from Juniper. 🤮 I love hearing your teachings, it brings back my childhood. Ahéhee’ Grandfather Wally~🤗🤎🏹🪶
Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you very much.
Great explanation teacher! All the good to you all. I cut the males up high so the mustangs can take refuge year around. I've witnessed the young deep under the branches as the mares surrounded the remaining space with their backs out to shield the wind.. white man also makes Gin out of the berries
Just visited the Navajo nation. Very beautiful and humbling
I have those i was wondering what i could do with them
Thank you Wally and everyone else who makes these
It's amazing to hear you mention the Hopi people,this is what America means to me she is alive and well amazing.
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Pine needles
Interesting. Do you use the Juniper to smudge with? I heard it was also used for smudging😊🌲
I thought candles were made from the berries waxy. Or from the needles
This berry is used to make gin.
This might be what helped during pandemics. The anti inflammatory effects. Or even just alcohol? It’s so interesting and amazing the knowledge our ancestor had long before research and modern medicine.
@@moontrack4625 theres alcohol that serves as medicine if made with the right ingridients. and then theres alcohol that is just poison for the system when made with regular ingridients.
@@originsdecoded3508 Alcohol is poison regardless, genius.🤦♂️🤦♂️🤡
@@spanqueluv9er then why make tinctures from medical plants with alcohol for the purpose of internal consumption?
I'm not talking about getting drunk, but medicating with medically infused alcohol tinctures.
1 shot of tequila eradicates bacterias, parasites, and viruses in your blood stream or stomach. nano particles, and helps thin blood flow.
1 glass of the right wine is a high antioxidant, super antiflammatory, and even helps protect liver ( ironically )
1 small cup of sake a day reduces lactic acid build, reduces neural brain waste, and also fights of viruses, bacterias, parasites
@@spanqueluv9er remember in nature, poison can be turned into remedies, and remedies can be turned into poison.
Vitamin c. Taste butter. You can Billikens. Ceded. Foliage
Good knowledge elder thanks
👍🙏>>>💚~~~ Thank You
This is both very interesting and helpful to me. I'd be interested in more plant videos. I live in an area with these types of plants and am interested in knowing how to use them. Great video!
Thank you for sharing your teaching with non natives like myself who find them fascinating and very helpful. I love nature and learning more about the wonders she holds . You are a blessing to me.
Awesome, again!!!!! 😃🙂 thank you grandfather wally!!!! And any and all who make these beautiful videos!!!!!!!!
I would love to see more Natural plant uses, if this gentleman would be so kind to share, I would hate to see the knowledge lost and people seem to be gaining more of an interest in the remedies. Thank you for sharing
Butter taste
We have juniper bushes around my bank down the street.
I love the scent of juniper bushes.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us. You are a blessing
Thank you for your beautiful wisdom. 💜
There are So many of these are falling on my patio from my neighbor's tree.
Thank you Wally , as always Agape, appreciation and affection 🙏❤️🖖! Glad that your part of me and that I'm part of you .
Excellent teacher teaching. Thank you.
Thank you Mr. Brown AND Shane...
Love Juniper!😊❤
Beautiful finish on the cradle board.
Grand father, good afternoon
I like you videos , and I listen
Thank you
GOD BLESS YOU AND FAMILY
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Thanks!
What kind of tree or bush was used in Navajo house holds for incense, just burn it on a stove in an old coffee can, I really miss that smell, it was like pine needles. I am of Danish decent but I grew up around the Navajo people, love and respect and the fondest memories.
Wonderful video! Thank you.
Thank you Wally for sharing all your knowledge and wisdom.
Good video Thanks Juniper is Strong stuff. I like the name Juniper.
Many blessings The IndigoTribe and thank God for our Planet 💜🙏🏽🌟
Thank you with respect gratitudes sharing sacred wisdom...🙏🌲
This is amazing! We have so many of these trees near my house 😄
I miss the Navajo intro speech.
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