334: Healing Properties Of Medicinal Plants
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Jewelweed, which often grows near poison ivy, is able to extract the oils from poison ivy and help you heal. Elderberry supports the immune system. Goldenrod can reduce allergies and is good for the circulatory system.
Mark Merriwether Vorderbruggen is a forager, chemist, and expert on wild edible and medicinal plants, and the founder of Medicine Man Plant Co. Today, he introduces us to the healing benefits of plants that we may have overlooked—like the Prickly Pear, the milk thistle, mushrooms, and more. He shares his knowledge along with a profound respect for nature and ancient cultures who literally listened to the plants and learned what they could do.
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| 0:00.0 | If you track it back far enough and talk to different indigenous people that are still |
| 0:05.7 | around that have the old ways, weirdly enough, it seems to come back to the plants told |
| 0:12.9 | us. |
| 0:13.9 | The different cultures and different places around the world, they say the plants told |
| 0:18.2 | us somehow there was some connection. |
| 0:20.5 | Now as a PhD chemist, that sort of thought is kind of frightening to me because that implies |
| 0:28.4 | a whole extra side of things that I can't see, I can't measure but has a great deal of |
| 0:34.7 | impact on us, so that takes some mental gymnastics to grasp. |
| 0:44.8 | From the Weston A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions podcast for Wise |
| 0:49.3 | Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts. |
| 0:52.7 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve |
| 0:56.8 | optimal health. |
| 1:03.9 | Hey, howdy here. |
| 1:05.9 | Jewelweed, which often grows near poison ivy, is able to extract from your body the oils |
| 1:12.6 | from poison ivy and help you heal. |
| 1:14.9 | Who figured this out and how and what other plants right around us can help promote healing? |
| 1:21.8 | This is episode 334 and our guest today is Mark Meriweather, Forderbrookin. |
| 1:27.7 | Mark has an MS in medicinal chemistry and a PhD in physical organic chemistry. |
| 1:32.7 | He is a forager and an expert on wild, edible and medicinal plants and he is the founder |
| 1:38.4 | of Medicine Man Plant Co. |
| 1:40.6 | Today Mark reminds us of the healing benefits of many plants that we may have overlooked, |
| 1:45.6 | from the immune system supporting elderberry plant to the cancer protective properties of |
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