Important note... antibacterial herbs often dont impact gut bacteria negatively.. as probiotic microbes are quite different from infectious, or viral microbes.. they live in different environments.. prefer different foods.. and can have different cell walls..and anything bitter will in general promote healthy flora of the gut, despite alkaloids, phenols or aromatics present.

Hi Yarrow, I was telling my Dad about making a tincture of Usnea and he told me a story of when he was working in the bush and saw the deer eating Usnea and he thought if it was good enough for the deer he could eat it too! He said he chewed a lot of it! My story is that my Usnea tincture is only 5 days old but I've have this nagging cough and phlegm and raw throat and tried it anyway and it eased symptoms right away. Thanks for what you do and all the work that goes into it. I can't stop telling everyone to watch your videos. Maybe that is why my throat is sore!?!

I love lichen. It was my favorite part in botany along with fungus and algae. We were taught a rhyme to remember that... Freddie fungus and Annie algae took a lichen to one another...to recall what it consisted of. 😊 thanks for sharing all your groovy knowledge in these wonderful vids! ⚡🌀🌿💞

Love your approach and spirit connection with this magical world of ours!! I was sorry to hear Stephen Buhner died recently but I know he had a good departure and was in ritual with loved ones at the end. I've always loved this lichen but only recently learned of it's medicinal properties. Been having a cold this week and went out in the yard today to find the wind had blown down some nice branches with enough usnea branches for me to make a tea using a technique from Stephen's book on herbal antibiotics. Dried the usnea gently in a warm oven cut and ground a couple of teaspoons worth of powder. Added a bit of alcohol to moisten that - left covered for 30 minutes - added 12 oz. of boiling water - steeped for 20 minutes. Taking 2 ozs. twice a day - already feeling the energy of this ancestral lichen and my symptoms are gone with just two doses - Magic!! Thanks for all of your teachings Yarrow! Much love, Magnus

Yarrow, I love your herb videos so much! Been watching for years… And I miss them! I know that something happened for you during Covid time, and your videos seemed to stop or at least slow way down. Please know that what you contribute to the world and the herbal community is so very valuable, and your beautiful perspective and energy combining practical, scientific knowledge with more esoteric, metaphysical, felt-sense experience is unique and needed! Thank you for your teaching offerings to us all 🙏🏽✨🌿.

This sounds a good one as a tea for lymph infection

Haha, yes I'm "lichen" it! Thanks for sharing!

There is a way to test Usnea to be sure it is the correct kind since there are many. Take an arm of the plant and stretch it slowly. As it stretches' there should be an elastic band within that will stretches before it breaks. This is the best and strongest kind. Ive used if for 20 years for many infections that would have landed me in the ER but this saved me this expense.

It can also be eaten once steamed down in to a mass. Apparently interior natives would harvest close to 60 lbs of usnea a year to steam and dry for winter foods!

the best videos on herbal knowledge for a budding herbalist like myself. thank you for your in depth talks about each herb and its blessings

been using for wound care for years, for large infected dirty wounds i take and stuff it wet or dry in and on the wound and its antimicrobial function works well. leave it there all day or till the next and when wound care/bandage change again the used usnea acts to debride the wound as you remove it helping the healing process : ) here we call it "mothers hair"

Thank you for sharing and taking me along in that magical forest …just found usnea on my property and am blessed it chose to live here…blessings wished…

Been sick (head cold) for a week..so I will be a good guinea pig for this :) Thank you for sharing your wisdom in such a light hearted fun way..when your sick everything can imitate you..but this was very uplifting ..thanks again :)

@DTA-me3kv

2 жыл бұрын

Did it help? I been using turkey tail mushroom tinture since November and been no colds or anything

@bearwill4737

Жыл бұрын

@@DTA-me3kv, Wild Black Walnut Hull tincture, a broad spectrum pathogen killer, anti-microbial, anti-viral & anti-bacterial. We all take it & puppies & ducks & chickens. No infections or sickness, saved all my birds from protozoa's, that killed many before I knew.

I can never learn enough from you.

Greeting from Oregon , you are the BEST teacher!!

I appreciate you taking the time to tell us about the elasticity of usnea. Now I can positively ID it here in the forests of the Puget Sound. Thank you !

@nKw-qg5tt

3 жыл бұрын

Bellingham WA area my friend 👋

@antoniocamacho7843

2 жыл бұрын

LoL Tacoma Wa here 👀 .

@DTA-me3kv

2 жыл бұрын

Does it grow in West Virginia

@DystopianApocalypse

2 ай бұрын

Seattle here, it's EVERYWHERE.

Herbal Jedi we just love you! Jumping on your creations you guys share with us, it makes me to feel great, and it will make me to be able to nterbeing. Thank you for the love and chi!

This was fascinating.... I'm a fungi educational binge today.

I have always loved Usnea...although for many years, before I started learning about medicnal plants and herbal medicine, I had no clue how important it was. Thanks for sharing! :)

I've read that Usnea distinguishes between good and bad bacteria, leaving the gut balanced.

My girls love watching your channel Anna is 6 Augustela is 9.

FINALLY someone who understands the physical *and* metaphysical properties of this!!

You speak my language... Thank you! 😊🐾🌿🌲

HI Yarrow! I live in Mendocino County West Coast! Started collecting Usnea and fir Tips on my afternoon walks when Covid first reared it's head in the spring. Made tea, but did not know about breaking down the cell walls. Love having this new info to make the medicine more accessible. Love your work, love your attitude, love your knowledge. Thanks so much for your guidance.

I had to come back and watch this, I have an ample supply!

Isn't it strange? Looking at something all of this time and not knowing the value of it. Thank you, Yarrow.

your awesome my fellow plant medicine brother

I love usnea

Greetings from SO Oregon, thanks for things that help with congestion as we deal with the smoke from the many fires😇praying for those directly impacted by the fires🙏💞

So awesome! Thank you!

Thanks for the video!

I just collected usnea in the forest today....lots growing on the alders. I always understood that it was a great anti-viral. That's what I learned, anyway. I'm also drawn to using it with calendula and other soothing herbs infused into coconut oil for a facial moisturizer for over 50 skin.

Thank you Yarrow!

Thank you!

thank you !!

This was so helpful, thank you!! First video from you I’ve stumbled upon and I’m excited to check out more! 😻

Thanks Yarrow, your videos are always fun and informative!

love this video, always thought there was something special about old man's beard

Amazing. Thank you Yarrow Willard

Love the info, thanks for all the awesome work you put out!

Awesome. Such great trachings. Thank you!

Love everything about your posts Yarrow! Thank You so much!!

Usnea for the win! thanks for all the info

Hey Yarrow, thank you so much for sharing such valuable knowledge...been enjoying this channel :) cheers from Montréal!!!

Yarrow you are amazing brother! Keep educating the world!!

So grateful to find you and your instruction!

Love your videos! I was watching a somewhat crappy youtube video about usnea and I thought - I wonder if herbal jedi covers this? Sure enough, you delivered. So much great information! THANK YOU!

I love your videos! Thanks for sharing your knowledge of and love for the plant world.

Hi ya Yarrow! yep, I’m liken it! And I’m true happy that I found ur channel, u r sooo awesome! Thank u

Bless You ❤

Thank you for blessing me with such a wealth of information ! Blessed be !♡

Awesome vid 👌 the best channel on YT

@Herbal_Jedi

7 жыл бұрын

Thankyou for the blessings, and for checking out the videos.

LOVE your videos!!! Thanks for sharing your wisdom

Love your energy, Yarrow! Thanks for sharing so much with us. It's fascinating. I'm taking the herbal immersion course with Leslie in Bellingham this year and I hope to meet you!

Thanks again.

Thank you 🙏💚

Again. Thank you! You are so appreciated. Sending so much love. Your whimsical yet informative videos make my day.

Great stuff and info.

All the information you give us is amazing. Thank you very much.

Awesome tincture!

Thanks so much for this. So interesting!!

Good stuff to have right now

Thanks! God bless!

thank you so much! will be watching more programs. love your clear, fun, friendly way of teaching! been wanting to make usnea tincture now, thanks to you, i know i need 70% alcohol to do so properly.

Thank you for this video. In my first application of Usnea research, I cleaned up a downed cherry tree and saved a pillow case of usnea. The dried harvest was divided. I made a 100 proof extract in a pint size jar. The rest six months later went into a slow water extract(?)-in a gallon jar with distilled in a crock pot on low for 2 days. I wanted it to be shelf stable. I mix the 1 pint extract and two pints strained lichen porage . My challenge is 40 year old growth toe nail fungus. Wish me luck!

@DTA-me3kv

2 жыл бұрын

Good luck any results?

@yahushaismyshepherd1179

9 ай бұрын

How did the usnea work with the foot fungus?

@asqirl8425

9 ай бұрын

It is working, I changed the experiment however. uh oh. I added Thyme oil to the mix. I'm impatient. Forgive me. @@yahushaismyshepherd1179

Thank you.

Thanks you great stuff I'm likeing it.

Thank you for sharing

Thank you

your fantastic thanks x

I love watching every video. Thank you for your teachings. Love and Hugs from Maine.

@jenniferg6818

4 жыл бұрын

How sweet. I'm in Maine too.♥️

Great video! Thank you very much...

Thank you. Excellent video.

Great video and thank you.

@Herbal_Jedi

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

Thanks for a very informative video!

Your wonderful. Thank you

I always enjoy your education and fun way to present it!

@Herbal_Jedi

7 жыл бұрын

thanks, so happy to share about herbal medicine in this way, glad you appreciate it.

Terry Willard’s son, Herbal Jedi on the Shaolin-Ninja properties of Usnea: Love it!!

Thank you for always sharing your beautiful medicine 🙏🌿 your videos are amazing!

Amazing video!!!

You're Awesome...!

Thanks

You make a very informative and fun to watch video . I love making medicine with herbs also .

Loved this...I want to learn all I can about Natures remedies.

From SE Alaska. It is abundant here but your identification of the correct one is excellent along with the rest of your information on Usnea. Thank you :)

Hello, well that is great, just discovering your channel, a friendly hello from Ireland..slan...

Great video

Greetings from North Carolina. You are great at explaining these medicines

I just learned about your videos and couldn't be happier. thank you very much for helping us to live better lives through more natural means. we need more people like you. I was just introduced to Usnes and gifted some and cant wait to try out some recipes for tinctures. I think I will add it to birch polypore also . any videos on that one by chance. ? blessings. marilyn

Really enjoying all your videos - very informative - I'm learning a lot. I live in Southern BC near Kootenay Lake. I have started making some of my own tinctures and salves. It's nice to see the plants available in BC, how to identify them, and how to harvest. Many thanks.

Powerful medicine

Wow...that was great thanks mate....I need to learn more about the natural medicines here in Australia

Well done, enjoyed the info and the video :)

that hat is art

I am so happy I found this video, very informative! Now, I cant wait to watch the rest of your videos. The added tip on the author, Stephen Harrod Buhner, was much appreciated...I cant wait to read some of his work, he sounds interesting! Keep up the awesome work.

WHAT IS THE OTHER FUNGI/ LICHENS ON THE BRANCH ?? IS IT USEABLE ??THANK YOU FOR EDUCATING US ALL, I LOVE YOUR TUTORIALS !! THANK YOU YARROW.

Is there a video showing the tincture with alcohol? I make Usnea tea with Mullien, green tea and chamomile. I was coughing up nasty tasting crap and my throat was sore after hanging out with someone with a bacterial bronchial bronchitis, so I drank Usnea tea for 3 days and it went away. Also, my husband had what looked like cellulitis in his leg and that went away after 1 cup of Usnea tea for 3 days. This happened twice. But I want to make the double extraction tincture.

@genkiferal7178

Жыл бұрын

alcohol kills good bacteria in mouth, throat, and gut. use it with caution

Mr. Willard, I stumbled upon one of your videos and have spent the last week watching all of your videos, I have found them fun, informative and exceptionally done thank you. For a person to really be able to do a video as you have you really do have to be as one with nature and you do that and then some. I would like to talk to you some time, I think it would be a wonderful learning experience for me as well for you on some aspects. Do you have hidden videos on the many different types of ferns and the many uses of them?

Amazing Canada

Great video! You were recommend by Correne Omland of Spiraea Herbs in Ontario. I have oodles of Usnea on our property in 6+ acres. I live in the US in the Pacific Northwest. I am very interested in making tinctures & decoction as well as powders now that I understand the benefit for healing of wounds. Thank you 😊 - your video is fun and informative.