Apocalyptic Apothecary

by Ron Foster

  This particular proprietary blend of Heal All is very unique and quite special in having that high dose concentration of natural flavonoids and other useful antiseptic and antiviral healing biochemicals in it because, as you step the formula down even further and add another two ounces of water to it and dilute it, we go from 60 ppm to 30 ppm Colloidal Silver and end up still with a 2.5 X concentration of Heal All/ Self Heal herb extract for a total of 6 ounces or we now have three 2 oz. bottles of liquid colloidal silver and herb extract.

  Step on it the third time to dilute it, this is our suggested final time, by adding two more ounces of water to it and we get 15 ppm colloidal silver and a 1.25 X concentration of Heal All, we still end up with a fantastic useful tonic and soothing healing potion that everyone will swear by, knowing that what remains is more powerful than most commercially sold (Prunella Vulgaris) Heal All tinctures ounce per ounce that vary from 1:3 to 1:5 herbal potency to begin with. Now those lower levels of potency are somewhat standardized amounts for everyday use amongst most herbalists in their preparations, you just take more of their product more frequently. Sounds like big Pharma almost? Humm. Country folks usually make their homemade tinctures from fresh wildcrafted herbs and use the tried and true traditional folklore remedy making and measuring way of estimating, by gathering the fresh herbs and eying a one to one (1:1) ratio of solvent to cut herb in a jar and then letting it sit in a dark place for weeks. Kings Mountain is much more scientific than that but you get the point. You need to store such plant medicines before they are needed and you need to know what your concentrations are.

  Even if you want to break down the remaining formula one more time because of need or greed, it would still do you a lot of healthful benefit and even more so than most in most big label Self Heal herb tinctures commonly sold in usable content concentration as well as you will still have the advantage of 7 ppm of beneficial high quality colloidal silver nano sized particle bioavailability in our product to help heal a wound. I have seen in my research a lot of the so called heavily marketed 10 ppm dietary supplements lab testing out at 3-5 ppm or manufacturers just putting 5 ppm in many of the offerings of so-called scrape and scratch silver creams and such. For more info on the facts and myths regarding the colloidal silver industry and herbal background, please see our website: Kingsmountainherbals.webs.com

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  A POTION AND A NOTION

  Sanicula comes from sanus, Latin for "healthy", reflecting its use in traditional remedies

  Sanicle was supposed in the middle ages to mean "curative," whatever its origin: thus, Qui a la Bugle, et la Sanicle fait aux chirurgiens la nicle "He who uses Sanicle and Bugle need have no dealings with the doctor." Lyte and other herbalists say concerning the Sanicle: "It makes whole and sound all wounds and hurts, both inward and outward."

  "Celui qui Sanicle a De plaie affaire il n'a."

  "Who the Sanicle hath at the surgeon may laugh."

  This is one of the herbs known to be a cure-all, because it possesses powerful cleansing and healing virtues both internally and externally. Sanicle has been said to seek out and find whatever health issue that needs correcting and works on healing that area first.

  So many things we confront daily like the food we eat, the air we breathe, and prescription drugs — can make those toxins accumulate, overwhelming your body’s defenses. Although its mechanism is not thoroughly understood, sanicle herb is known to be detoxifying and can help protect the healthy cells in the liver from free radical damage or inflammation caused by toxins. While this herb has no adverse side effects, it can loosen stools slightly as it increases bile flow.

  Sanicle was also used as a remedy for snakebite. One of its common names is black snakeroot.

  The Sanicle is popularly employed in Germany and France as a remedy for profuse bleeding from the lungs, bowels, womb, and urinary organs; also for the staying of dysenteric diarrhea. The fresh juice of the herb may be given in tablespoonful doses.

  Anti-hemorrhagic benefits of sanicle herb can prevent and stop excessive internal bleeding. It can be used to treat hemorrhages inside the stomach or intestines, coughing up of blood, and nosebleeds. Sanicle herb benefits is said to cure hemorrhoids, heal ulcers, lessen menstrual bleedings and cure fevers and chorea. Sanicle herb is also highly useful for cleansing the organs.

  The American herbal practitioner, Jethro Kloss, in his monumental work, Back To Eden, aptly describes Sanicle in this manner: This is one of the herbs that could be called a cure-all because it possesses powerful cleansing and healing virtues both internally and externally.

  Sanicle’s great strength includes its uncanny ability to seek out and find anything which needs correcting and works on that area first that needs it most. It also deserves distinction as a thinking herb. In other words, if you’ve got it, Sanicle will find it and fix it, whether it is in the reproductive organs, brain, nervous system, lungs, throat, urinary system or elsewhere. Sanicle is a bulldozer and builder. There may be temporary discomfort when Sanicle contacts an unwanted obstruction, but it is your reassurance that Sanicle has scored a direct hit.

  I can attest to that statement, it’s like a sudden bump saying “I am here!” and then dissipating quickly.

  The bottom line is sanicle herb benefits include amazing healing properties. While it’s main and most confirmed benefit is the treatment of lung disorders such as cough and bronchitis the ‘self-heal’ herb has been also been proclaimed for its anti-viral, anti-oxidant and anti-fungal properties.

  Woods Walker is the powerful, but less interacting formula if you are taking other formulas of Kings Mountain Herbal offerings. The FDA severely limits what you can say on the label so this one had to have even its uses for cuts and bruises cut from the originally conceived label. That’s where customer knowledge comes in to choose for themselves based on personal knowledge of herbal properties and preparedness. It took many years of practical and academic study of herbs and natural healing to conceptualize and produce this formula. The formula was originally created as an off the grid answer to the “What If’s?” and dangers of long-term disasters and general camping and hiking maladies that could occur and needed to be addressed and considered. High among those possible “Gotcha” scary outcomes and weird pathological fungus or insect borne diseases you could get from tromping the woods was the fact that snakebite was the most least prepared for. Now I can’t tell you something cures or helps with something, I am not a doctor and on top of that extremely limited by the FDA to just quote enough herbalism to let you decide for yourself if you need or want to take something but ask yourself this, what is it they tell you to do in case of envenomization? That can change emergency snake bite care all the time and after studying what they have been saying in one form or another for over 50 years, I can tell you they go A-Z about not doing what they used to recommend and end up with expensive antivenom. The bill for just that can be astounding: wasn’t long ago a camper got charged $149,000 just for the course of anti-venom serum!

  I still feel obliged to say the best tools to keep on hand for a snake bite are the ones that take you to a hospital as quickly as possible: a cell phone, a good friend, and a set of car keys to a gassed-up car.

  Now having got that intro out of the way, what do you have on hand personally to take care of first response to try to better your odds and recovery times should such a dire calamity happen? For most, the answer is little or nothing and freaking out about that fact is only going to make things worse and pump more poison through you if you can’t be a little calm about it. Have some kind of antibacterial around please, even if you’re going to the hospital, to dump on the wound. Keep time on your side when it comes to preventable or inevitable infections and nip it in the bud quick as you can and knock out as many germs as you can after safely retreating from whatever slithering or poisonous bug bite nemesis that got you.

  Now there is barely anything useful that you can glean studying what our historic record tells us a
bout what our indigenous or otherwise ancestors did for treating snake bites without a lot of digging, searching and sifting through a lot of bad advice. You can find the Cherokee song the medicine man sang telling the victim that it wasn’t anything but a frog that bit them and not to worry along with a line or two about the snake wasn’t that mad at you and didn’t pump much poison in you etc. but not the formulation of roots and herbs used for the injury. The main point of the song seems to be to calm the patient down, which is a very good thing!

  You can find many references of how throughout history, insect-borne diseases have decimated armies and ended campaigns. The Civil War was no exception. The War claimed the lives of nearly 620,000 soldiers (Brooks 1966). Of the dead, approximately three out of five Union soldiers, and possibly two out of three Confederates, succumbed to disease (Brooks 1966). Many of these disease-related fatalities involved insects. Considering the prevalence of filth, lack of understanding disease etiology, and the state of medicine, it is surprising that we didn’t see more soldiers perish. But these wartime statistics also raise some interesting questions to be considered when structuring our woodsman or bugged out preppers herbal Woods Walker formulation.

  Looking back in time, there is little to doubt or imagine that fly problems were important factors in the prevalence of dysentery and diarrhea in both Union and Confederate armies. However, the record showing an absence or low incidence of other insect-borne diseases, such as louse-borne and flea-borne typhus, plague, or yellow fever, is interesting. Under epidemic conditions, louse-borne typhus may reach fatality rates of nearly 100%. During severe epidemics in World War I, Russia lost 2--3 million of its people (Harwood and James 1979). However, during the American Civil War, Official Records list only 850 Union deaths to "typhus" (Brooks 1966). Evidently, the pathogen was not present in the American population to reach epidemic proportions, although conditions seemed ideal for the disease. This also may have been true for plague. Rats and fleas occurred at various times throughout the war. This was especially true during the siege of Vicksburg, MS, and in the trenches around Petersburg, VA. However, ranks were not decimated by plague.

  We preppers know more than a thing or two about reading headlines and getting prepped. The Guardian published an article in July 2019

  Drug-resistant malaria parasites 'spreading aggressively' across south-east Asia

  Up to 80% of the most common carriers of the disease are immune to the most common treatments, researchers find.

  In twin studies published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, they revealed that in parts of Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia up to 80% of the most common malaria parasites were now resistant to the two most common antimalarial drugs.

  Now ostensibly most would say: that’s scary, I am not worried, it’s over there, etc., but we have stuff called West Nile virus over here and many other mosquito-borne diseases.

  Mosquito-borne diseases are diseases that can be spread through the bite of mosquitoes. These diseases may be caused by a virus, also known as arboviruses, or can be caused by parasites.

  Mosquito-borne diseases found in southern states include West Nile virus disease, Eastern equine encephalitis, and St. Louis encephalitis. Many other mosquito-borne diseases are found in different parts of the world and can be brought back to the U.S. if infected people or animals are bitten by mosquitoes while in a state. Some examples of these diseases include chikungunya fever, dengue fever, malaria, yellow fever, and Rift Valley fever.

  Thus, a generalized feeling of uneasiness pervades. There is a sense that something is not right in America. It is hard to say exactly what’s coming. It is even harder to prepare for this murky future of possible pandemics and a lack of medical care.

  Now when gardening we always start the season mentally reviewing the preps needed like insecticides, cures for common plant diseases we might expect, fungicides etc. I don’t know why but most preppers stop at basic first aid kits thinking accidental knife cuts and maybe gunshot wound immediate treatment and don’t go much further. They haven’t looked at the herbs good for internal bleeding or most likely how to treat say, a common disease like tularemia (Rabbit Fever) from a diseased animal should they catch it hunting for their dinner. While we are on the subject, if you are gardening or camping, you’re going to get mosquito bit and you need to store and prep bug repellants for you and the outdoors as well as normal insecticides for your home, that part most everyone thinks about. Anyone storing anything remotely antimalarial? You have seen some of the historic record that says yes indeed, malaria exists in the U.S., always has and is not confined to the new weird drug resistant types coming from Africa and Asia etc., so considering the odds of getting bit grid down by a mosquito, tick, flea etc. carrying some kind of sickness and dining on other sick humans and spreading infections are pretty high.

  In our story, Zack and Ann prepped for such an event. This was also partially why they wanted to keep their distance from other groups and try to observe their health before interacting. A bunch of sick people with low sanitation standards is bad enough, attracting and concentrating more mosquitos to one area that may accelerate the spread of viruses or parasites is another.

  Now you can concentrate and store a whole bunch of medicines if you have a mind to for the day shit hits the fan but keep in mind the expense, expiration dates etc. and it’s going to be hard without some training or a good amount of research to guess a diagnoses and hope something specific does its job.

  Or you can broad spectrum concentrate a mixture if you are sure nothing counteracts with each other which is difficult to do with pharmaceuticals but not so much if you are well versed in herbalism. Many herbs can be synergetic with others or be used to strengthen or enhance others while still being powerful enough to stand on its own or normally added to a blend to target something specifically.

  Licorice is one such common herb which has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for centuries. More than 20 triterpenoids and nearly 300 flavonoids have been isolated from licorice. Recent studies have shown that these metabolites possess many pharmacological activities, such as antiviral, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, antitumor and other activities.

  It has many anti-viral capabilities that have been studied in medical labs as to how it accomplishes its tasks such as Flu viruses. Licorice is a helpful adjunct for many people that battle chronic illnesses such as Lyme disease, chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, because of its immune-modulating and anti-inflammatory effects.

  Licorice has a long history of human use, cherished by many cultures such as the ancient Egyptians, Chinese, Hindus, Greeks, Babylonians, Romans, and Indians. Often regarded as a "cure-all" herb, these ancient civilizations used Licorice Root as an aphrodisiac, to satisfy hunger and thirst, promote a respiratory health, as well as to provide digestive support. Licorice root is native to southern Europe and parts of Asia, and is one of the most important and widely used herbs in the world. The Chinese especially, consider it to be an herb that is key to health and it is found in more Chinese medicinal combinations than any other herb.

  Licorice is taken by mouth for various digestive system complaints including stomach ulcers, heartburn, colic, and ongoing inflammation of the lining of the stomach (chronic gastritis).

  Some people take licorice by mouth for sore throat, bronchitis, cough, and infections caused by bacteria or viruses.

  Licorice is also taken by mouth for Addison's disease, a type of diabetes caused by a hormone deficiency (diabetes insipidus), menopausal symptoms, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), liver disorders, malaria, tuberculosis, high potassium levels in the blood, food poisoning, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), a condition in which there is too much muscle tone (hypertonia), abscesses, recovery after surgery, rash and high cholesterol.

  Licorice can be overdone and I suggest you study its warnings and research the web for its other benefits. Most of the warnings are for very high usage and some say you should limit the te
rm. That’s why it was left out of Woods Walker but small short-term uses are very beneficial.

  For use against Candida, licorice is packed with about 25 different chemicals that are known antifungals.

  Cardiovascular Disease Studies and High Cholesterol

  There has been research that shows that licorice root may control the cholesterol ranges by enhancing the body’s flow of bile. There is also research to indicate that bile acids account for elimination of excessive cholesterol in your body. Also, the antioxidant action of licorice root may enhance capillary health and hinder the growth of arterial plaque.