in this episode i'm going to be talking about some native edibles that are
nutritional for animals and uh also a great medicinal it's comfrey stay tuned
so
hello folks welcome back to pine meadows hobby farm i'm your host jerry hansen out here in
the greenhouse because i got some comfrey seed and i wanted to start the seed and grill my own
comfrey right here on the homestead what i did was i took the seed and i put them on a moist
paper towel and i locked the paper towel away in this ziploc bag and then i placed the ziploc
bag in this little container with my other seeds i'm sprouting and starting and just kept them
right here on the worm bin and it kept them in the dark but warm now the seeds did sprout in about
six days it came out and i found my sprouted seeds these seeds packets for the comfrey
i ordered from amazon it came with about 50 seeds and approximately half of them
sprouted so i took the sprouts and i carefully placed them in this bucket right here
and put a little bit of soil on each one and water them in and you can see i have a little sprout
there so i've got all of these comfrey sprouts coming up now what i'm doing with comfrey is uh
i'm going to try something different with animal feed for my livestock i'm going to try to grow
all the feed for them right here on the homestead that way i don't have the out of pocket expenses
of buying it down at the local feed stores because it's getting expensive and plus i'm moving away
from gmo altogether the alfalfa i'm buying and the corn and the feed i'm buying well that's all gmo
i have a problem with that fitting it to my animals so i'm gonna have a change of
feed for them coming up and we'll talk about that in another show when it comes to comfrey
it you can propagate it yourself you could take splits and you can also let it go to seed take the
seeds and start more plants yourself i've got i'm going to be planting comfrey throughout my farm
because it's not only good it's high in protein and it's a good leafy vegetable that you can feed
to your like my goats and my rabbits will eat it so that will really help with their nutrition
also it's an excellent medicinal i went on the web uh the international web page and found that
utah the university in utah they did a study on these elements and they primarily have a
anti-inflammatory property to it you just you apply it topically make up make a solve out of it
and what i did is i bought this uh comfrey ointment to spread on whatever inflammations
i might have and it's an anti-inflammatory now there's something interesting i discovered i
literally stumbled across a few years back let me say that i'm not giving medical advice and if you
guys get sick go talk to your doctor and get a diagnosis and then discuss with your doctor your
choice of treatment that's all i'm going to say about that that's the disclaimer for this because
this story is a very interesting story i have uh some family history and memoirs that i've been
reading from that stories that family my ancestors have written like grandparents great grandparents
and in this one story mom some of my family come from prescott washington and it was in this
town is where this story took place my relative had gone into a doctor is uh oh i think the 1920s
and the doctor's office happened to be a house and the waiting room was the living room and
there was an off room where it was an examination room and oftentimes they'd leave the door open
while they're just visiting with a patient and everybody could hear their business because it was
years before hippa so hang with me and follow me this is about comfrey and two other ingredients
well this gentleman who my ancestor had seen walk through town came in with a great big giant
lump on his neck he walked into the doctor's office to get examined and the doctor told him put
three of these ingredients on it make up a paste out of these three ingredients and then place it
on there and hold it in with a a handkerchief so he saw the gentleman walking around town with his
handkerchief for the next several weeks and then one time and then soon he found the guy without
the handkerchief on and the lump was very slight pretty soon the lump was totally gone what that
doctor had asked him to put on and make a solve out of it was of course a poultice of comfrey
mixed with yarrow all herbs that grow naturally in the environment and some slippery elm bark he
mixed i don't know what the ratios were between the three i have no idea but this is the story
that i'm telling you and this is what i read so the three i checked all three of these ingredients
and every one has certain layers and levels of an anti property to them not sure what the thing was
on the gentleman's throat i can only speculate and assume but that's not what this is about
this is about using native herbs for medicine that our ancestors have used
for aeons i mean we're here today because our ancestors use these now
another story developed about a year after i had learned a story from my ancestor
one of my co-workers walked up to me and knowing she was knowing i was a religious person she asked
me if i would pray for her brother who had throat cancer or cancer they said it was cancer up in
here someplace anyway he was going to see his oncologist to get arrangements for surgery now
this was only about four years ago that this story happened it took place in kansas where the brother
lived and of course his sister was my co-worker where i'm working anyway they uh i told her
oh oh oh i just read the story about these three ingredients i just told her what they were i
didn't know how to mix it up or anything you know of that nature i just told her what to do
with the three mix them together make a poultice she called her brother told her brother right away
and he immediately went down and bought the ingredients and started putting the poultice
on i don't know what he used as the ratios but came time for his appointment his pre-surgery
appointment with his oncologist and the oncologist looked at it did the examination and
discovered the guy no longer needed surgery because whatever he was doing was working
and the oncologist asked the gentleman the patient by the way what is it you're doing and the patient
said i'm just applying slippery elm comfrey and yarrow on a poultice and his oncologist said
oh yeah i forgot about that his oncologist was a native american so whatever that was on his throat
that he had to have some kind of a surgery i don't know what it was because i didn't ask
him and it was like oh three months later after uh he had healed and gotten better he came and
visited his sister and he came up to the hospital where we were working and she introduced me to him
he gave me the biggest tightest hug i've ever gotten from anybody i was just like wow uh this
stuff works um it's topical it's not or you don't take it internally it's just that ointment you
just spread on your skin and that's all it is so get you some comfrey ointment grow your own
comfrey make your own comfy ointment get you some slippery elm bark and get you some yarrow euro
grows naturally all over the place especially in our regions slippery elm bark not sure i
have to do some research to see if i have natural slippery elm bark that i can go and harvest myself
again if you have any medical problems go see your doctor get examined get a diagnosis and then you
can discuss with your doctor uh your treatment uh and it's your choice for your treatment but
yeah since i'm allergic to a lot of medicines i have to do things as natural as possible well i'm
your host jerry hansen with sam squatch here host of pine meadows hobby farm or a frugal homestead
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