#756 - Robert Dale Rogers - Moss Medicine: A Comprehensive Illustrated Guide to Bryophytes
The Grimerica Show
Darren Grimes
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
- Robert Rogers shares his journey from botanist to herbalist, exploring Indigenous wisdom.
- The differences between moss species and their traditional medicinal uses.
- How shape-shifting beliefs, like the doctrine of signatures, influenced herbal medicine.
- The overlooked medicinal potential of bryophytes and lichens.
- The growing market and scientific validation of medicinal mushrooms.
- Ethical wildcrafting tips for sustainable harvesting.
- The potential health benefits of store-bought and wild mushrooms.
- Insights into psychedelic mushrooms and their evolving legal landscape.
- The unique connection of mycelium networks and whether mosses exhibit similar interconnected structures.
- Practical advice for identifying, harvesting, and integrating wild plants into everyday life.
- The significance of maintaining a deep bond with nature for physical and spiritual health.
Transcript
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| 0:22.6 | And put on a didgeridoo and shamanic drumming track, shivers or vibrations and stuff like that. Grimerica. |
| 0:38.3 | Okay, guys, welcome back to the Grimeric show. |
| 0:59.3 | Coming at you this week with a little moss medicine with Robert. |
| 1:04.4 | Robert Dale Rogers coming on the show. |
| 1:06.2 | We do get into quite a bit of mushroom medicine as well. |
| 1:08.7 | So it's quite a bit of mushroom talk and moss talk. |
| 1:12.4 | And if you want to skip ahead to the talk, there's always a timestamp in the show |
| 1:17.6 | notes to do that. |
| 1:18.4 | If you want to skip our lazy ramblings, you can do so. |
| 1:23.6 | I've got everybody's favorite podcaster and his cat here. |
| 1:27.9 | The cat is very stoic today. |
| 1:29.2 | He's staring at the mushrooms on the screen on his website. |
| 1:34.0 | Really? |
| 1:34.7 | But he's been pawing at the screen. |
| 1:36.6 | It drives me nuts, man. |
| 1:37.7 | A couple of my cats like to paw at the screen. |
| 1:41.1 | Yeah, only one of my cats is allowed in the studio. |
| 1:43.9 | Yeah. Well, I'm trying to keep them out during shows now because they're just getting, they're getting too rambunctious. And I don't think it's fair to the guess sometimes if my cat's, like, staring at this camera. Especially not if it's the butthole. Yeah. Yeah, nobody wants to do that. |
| 2:01.7 | We were just talking about that. |
| 2:02.7 | My cats won't let me sleep in. It's just unbelievable. Like as soon as the, it's like as soon as the sun comes up, Zeus is like, okay, dad, time to get up. And then you know what? I get up and he's sleeping on my bureau. He just moves from there, like whatever to the bureau and he sleeps on there. |
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