I do The Honorable Harvest method, native american heritage in my blood, one for me one for the critters and one to reproduce. I dig up what I need and propagate them in my yard. My grandma was a prospector for 20+ years out west and brought back lots of plants we don't have in Pa. I only take what I am gonna use. The white coats and the pharmacuticals they prescribed nearly ruined me. My ways have changed, not exactly entirely where I want to be, but off the pain pills, and a bunch of other money makers they throw at folks. Thanks for the video. Always, always we can learn from eachother new and valuable things like this. Going to get some plants tomorrow if the rain lets up, my house looks like an herbal storage barn this time of year. The goldenrod didn't do well this year, neither did the self heal, I hope the choke cherries will be ok and the salal berries. THANKS!

No shortage of that plant for sure. Always fun to get tangled up in those things. I've always heard the expression "grinning like a mule eatin' saw briars".

@SpiritoftheOutdoors

11 ай бұрын

Here they say grinning like a possum eatin sawbriars. But they will sure but a halt to your hunting and reroute you lol

You can find Greenbriar anywhere a bird stops to poop. 😊 When my husband and I are out digging up Greenbriar roots, just on our fence line, I'll take new tips off and eat them. They taste like fresh string beans. Husband thinks I'm crazy. Thanks for telling me about the medicines with it.

@SpiritoftheOutdoors

11 ай бұрын

I had no idea it was so medicinal.

I have Lyme disease. I’ve had it since childhood but it blew up in 2012 after I had Cameron. I took extreme amounts of antibiotics and all kinds of prescriptions and supplements as well as IV meds ordered by a PORT I had to get implanted in my chest and vein for the IV meds that were ordered by my Lyme disease doctor in Franklin Tennessee. I’m better now but now we’ve found out my nephew who is very young has Lyme and is suffering. Pray for him please and his parents. Lyme is so deadly and one of the most suffering diseases ever under recognized and misunderstood. Anyway this is Leslie McDonald again up in Florence Alabama! Thank you for sharing everything you share! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

@SpiritoftheOutdoors

10 ай бұрын

I will pray. Email me so i can get address for the seed.

You've got me looking around, Justin. A lot of those plants you mentioned I'm familiar with but hadn't thought much about them. The old mullen we used to have in abundance but is getting scarce. Saw the other day that the flowers mixed with sugar can be made into cough syrup. Recently located some may pop, wild potato, and some other stuff. Even the old dog weed is supposed to be good for insect stings. I've been living in an herb garden with all kinds of uses and didn't even know it. Thanks. According to the Cherokee the animals got mad at man because he was killing them. They couldn't make war so they decided in one of their councils to give him a disease or debilitating illness. Now the plants, who were friendly to man, overheard their council and they got together and agreed that for each illness the animals gave to man that they, the plants, would provide an aid or a cure and so it has been since. If you think about it that's how it works and with more and more people living in closer proximity to animals, especially bats, we are going to have more transfer of diseases. There are scientists now checking bat caves and other places for pathogens and trying to head off the next great contagion which is a certainty to come. The Native Americans were pretty sharp cookies and a lot of their ta l es and fables had a point.

@SpiritoftheOutdoors

11 ай бұрын

That story was in the book im reading “walk in my soul” by Lucia st clair Robson. They are working on finding a disease to give us in those caves. They just have to create an antidote for when they get nervous. To many people for them to feed on a one world system right now

If you contact a florist in your area, they might buy the vine. It is used in wedding decorations.

Hey Justin! Your expeditions to the Great Outdoors are reminders that we are constantly surrounded by God's love, beauty, & bounty!

@SpiritoftheOutdoors

11 ай бұрын

There is a lot of power he imparted into this world and we have yet to unlock a fraction of it. He gave us all we need but we have allowed society to blind us

I appreciate these videos so much. Thank you!

@SpiritoftheOutdoors

11 ай бұрын

Glad your enjoying them

Thanks for sharing.

Chaney root mon❤

Sounds like it might help me for several things. I have tendonitis / or bursitis issues. My right foot is swollen and tender and red . My hand and elbow was bad day or so ago. It flairs up every so often . Can be real tough to work through. I started taking tumeric every day about a year ago and it helps me a lot .

@SpiritoftheOutdoors

11 ай бұрын

Im gonna give it a try. Im not sure the best way to use it yet and the root seems hard now after it dried

@nancyfahey7518

11 ай бұрын

Sounds like you may have a food allergy. Try an elimination diet. I found I was allergic to corn and all corn products. No more pain equals no more doctors.

Very interesting ive dug up alot of those knarley roots before cleaning up at the farm but never knew it was medicinal. Thanks for the information

Thank you Justin

@SpiritoftheOutdoors

11 ай бұрын

Your welcome 😁

Looks like a great plant for a lot of uses I have arthritis real bad and my Dr has me on several meds for it. I'm gona see about using it for that. They also make tobacco pipes from the large roots of it like you found. Thanks for sharing all these videos on plants and they're uses its really interesting to me.

@SpiritoftheOutdoors

11 ай бұрын

I’ve discovered it gets hard when dried. I may should have chopped it up right then

BTW I live up north near pittsburgh pennsylvania. A northerner learns a lot from a southerner and verse visa.

@SpiritoftheOutdoors

11 ай бұрын

Yes the day you think you cant learn from others is a sad day. I learn a lot in the comments of my videos

Apreciate you

@SpiritoftheOutdoors

11 ай бұрын

Hey I appreciate yall to. This would be useless without yall

What dose the root smell like ,, I thought sassafras was sasprila ,

@SpiritoftheOutdoors

11 ай бұрын

That threw me too. I think it may be 2 different spellings and i may have it misspelled. Sassafras is use to make rood beer and called that too. Look up sarsaparilla on google its pretty interesting

@barbararaizen2997

8 ай бұрын

Just did a Wild herb class. Sasparilla and Sassafras have the same chemical component that smells like root beer. Greenbrier is different from what I understand.

Have you heard of any natural herbs that would help with swollen prostate symptoms. I've heard of Saw Palmetto, but i dont have much of that in NW La. . If you know of anything, please let me know!

@SpiritoftheOutdoors

11 ай бұрын

Mike reed told about one the other day i think it was stinging nettle i can’t remember

@edwinrance2760

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, i think i heard of that before, ill have to research it and see if i can find some.@@SpiritoftheOutdoors

You can also eat the tender ends of the shoots.

@SpiritoftheOutdoors

Ай бұрын

Yes you can , they are very good one of my favorites actually

We call those "Wait a minutes".

@SpiritoftheOutdoors

11 ай бұрын

And they will for a fact make you wait a min lol

@williamboyd776

11 ай бұрын

Lol Yeah, wait a minute, I don't think you wanna grab that

I do know certain briar roots are or were used to make pipe bowls .

@charliedee476

11 ай бұрын

I call these saw briers..i also heard they made good pipe bowl cause they so hard

I try dig one but it not easy as I thought

Justin, you ever run across possum grapes while you're foraging?

@SpiritoftheOutdoors

11 ай бұрын

I dont but i think mike in Oklahoma sees them a good bit. He sends me clips of something that runs on the ground. We have lots of wild grapes we call muscadine here

Who will buy the roots?

@SpiritoftheOutdoors

3 ай бұрын

No idea but i use them in tincture

If you dry that root it will turn to stone. No kidding.

@SpiritoftheOutdoors

11 ай бұрын

I do agree with you. Im still figuring this one out

@SpiritoftheOutdoors

11 ай бұрын

I do agree with you. Im still figuring this one out

@butchbartholomew6630

11 ай бұрын

Been trying to eliminate that stuff for years, I think that one might be better dug in the fall, and I may have to try it. THANKS

@SpiritoftheOutdoors

11 ай бұрын

@@butchbartholomew6630 most all roots are better dug in the fall and good luck getting rid of it. I decided since i gotta live with it i might as well find a use for it lol

@maybaby001

4 ай бұрын

​@SpiritoftheOutdoors did you end up drying it? I just dug one up.