I also have honeylocust trees (Gleditsia triacanthos), another garbage tree, for their horrible thorns and big brown flat pods full of seeds that ALL GROW. I don’t find the nutmeat to be bitter, but it has a definitely different flavor than mild English walnuts. The husk is relatively smooth until it rots with age and falls off the nut shell – and that SHELL is rough as any corncob and almost as hard as rock. I beg to differ with you on black walnuts being “spiny balls.” I live in a grove of them, and they are about as spiny as a tennis ball. Why do people still kill it instead of eat it? The flowers and roots are also edible and nutritious, from what I read. *Side note: I have learned dandelion greens have more iron than spinach. The internet has made this very much safer, but it is still better to learn first hand from someone experienced. There are safe ways to experiment with wild foods that I learned because I am so poor. She also makes it clear that you can do your own research, another thing I respect. Mary does not pretend to be a doctor or know-all, and if you ask about substitutes because of allergies or health issues, she will tell you what she knows and often includes those issues (without names) in future videos. I like her because she is a small channel and very quick to answer any questions, even if it’s to say “I don’t know”. There are a LOT of channels to find pro-biotic food recipes, including what Mary shows. Mary’s Nest is a YT channel that does not pretend to be other than a cooking channel, but she does put out there some recipes she has learned about (and she gives due credit) for health-boosting foods and drinks. Meaning, don’t boil them, just pour boiling water over them or you will destroy the vitamins. I have read that pine needles are a good survival food because of the vitamins, but I read about them as a tea to be used for vitamin C mostly. There are other, tastier ways to naturally boost your immune system. The bark can be used to make a medicinal tea. Unripe fruit can be crushed and soaked in alcohol to make a medicinal tincture. METHOD OF PREPARATION: Slashed to the cambium, sap will leak out and harden. Found from southern New England to Florida west to mid-nation. TIME OF YEAR: Flowers later spring, fruits in summer, persists in winter.ĮNVIRONMENT: Prefers deep, moist bottomland and full sun. Fruit, compound, round, 40 to 60 capsules, each with one or two seeds. Leaves have substantial amounts of tannin. dark green, glossy turning brilliant orange, red, and purple the autumn. Leaves alternating, usually have five (but sometimes three or seven) sharply pointed palmate lobes. IDENTIFICATION: Liquidambar styraciflua: A medium-sized to large tree, growing to 65-155 feet (20–35 m) with a trunk up to 6 feet (2 M) in diameter, can live to 400 years. Green Deane’s Itemized Plant Profile: Sweet Gum To read a scientific study on the medicinal side of the species go here. Two more tidbits: The sap is still used to add flavor to smoking tobacco and is also available at the pharmacy as an ingredient in the “compound tincture of benzoin.” Liquidambar styraciflua: Liquid Amber Gum Flowing. Ambar is Arabic for amber (the color of the dried sap.) Styrax is Dead Latin for gum, fluxus for flowing. (lick-wid-AM-bar sty-rass- ih-FLOO-uh.) Liquidus is Dead Latin for liquid. It usually involves soaking crushed green Sweet Gum fruits in alcohol to make a red tincture.īotanically the Sweet Gum is Liquidambar styraciflua. As I say that is all outside my pay grade. As for the preparation, dosage, and consult a doctor or herbalist. With some flus older folks have slower immune responses and may have partial immunity from previous infections. They have very strong and immediate immune systems that overwhelm the body while fighting the disease. In some flu infections it is your body’s response to the flu that kills you rather than the flu directly. The flu doesn’t reproduce which shortening the duration of the infection and thus shortening or lessening the symptoms, which in some cases of the flu is what is deadly. It is believed Shikimic acid can inhibit the protein. Now, how does shikimic acid work? To reproduce the virus needs to break out of the cells it is in. First, how do you tell infertile sweet gum seeds? Fertile seeds are black with wings on either side, infertile seeds are yellow and wingless.
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