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1. Capsaicin will also kill H. pylori. H. pylori is becoming resistant to clarithromycin and other meds used to treat it. H. pylori is found in soils. I used to get ulcers after working large outdoor expo/stage shows where everything is coated in dust, even the food! One meal daily with hot peppers during those times, and I’ve never had a recurrence of ulcers after working those shows.

   Also saw a report that the .gov is looking into Capsaicin for it’s anti-cancer, anti-oxidant, and weight loss properties.

2. Love reading about the simple things around us that we can use!
   Thank you for writing and looking forward to more of your writings.

3. Great topic and focus.

4. a)
   As I understand the suggestions, usnea have zero effect on the bacterial balance in our gut. This makes them a healthier path than the stuff the medical doctor gets paid to prescribe.

   b)
   Our family farm is in the damp southern Willamette Valley of Oregon, and respiratory illness is common. Everybody gets a low-grade lasting years or decades.

   How would I use usnea to help eliminate bronchitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis?
   My head under a towel over a steamer, inhaling the vapors?

   1. In his book Herbal Antibiotics, Stephen Buhner recommends taking the tincture, 1/2-1 teaspoon, three to six times per day. In clinical trials, Chinese researchers treated their tuberculosis patients for an average of 71 days, three times per day. While many herbs and their essential oils can be used through steam inhalation, usnea is not one of them. It needs to be taken internally–ingested–for lung problems. The tincture may be diluted in water (10 drops to 1 ounce of water) in a nasal spray bottle for nasal and sinus infections.

5. Any hard science behind these claims? Small pox was eradicated in 1977 so….Do you have any studies that support the claims?

   1. The first set of links below are for research articles on Usnea. The second set are for juniper. These are just a small sampling of numerous studies on both.

      As you noted, smallpox was eradicated; however, both the US and Russia have smallpox strains in their government research laboratories. Because it has been four decades since smallpox was eradicated in nature, there are no clinical studies on the efficacy of juniper in treating smallpox. We only know from historical record that Native Americans used juniper to treat smallpox. We also know that entire Native American tribes were wiped out due to smallpox. Was it because some of these tribes were unaware of juniper’s uses for smallpox? Or was it because they all got hit so quickly that there was no time to prepare the medicine?

      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19683421
      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22865029
      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17291738
      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5955472/
      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6388510/
      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6406502/
      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5739313/

      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4598063/
      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26747836
      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22063725
      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22860587
      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23154840
      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3175711/
      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18547046
      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26007187
      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22739414
      https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2211&cont

6. As someone who had to be treated with antibiotics for 4 different infections in the last year alone, I’m all ears. Fortunately a good friend sent me a huge bottle of Vitamin D, and explained how to use it. I also enjoy the chew able vitamin C with the tangy orange flavor that makes a nice treat, 500 mg through out the day, as I am yet hit with a possible virus. Apparently my immune system is weak. Living like a hermit might be the best prevention, but I’d rather fine natural means to deal with it. Perhaps you could write a book? Prevention may be natural medicine’s greatest role as they say ‘an once of prevention is worth a pound of cure’.

   Nature provided Big Pharma with the raw materials. I would stack that high and wide focusing my ‘band-aid’ budget as well as my ‘bullet’ budget, cause just like our beans, we will eventually run out. After this last year, ‘band-aids’ have taken on a whole new meaning. Without enough ‘band-aids, bullets and beans are worthless.

   1. Thank you for your kind comments. One of my sources, Stephen Buhner, author of Herbal Antibiotics and Herbal Antivirals, is an excellent reference. Both of those books focus on the strongest natural antibiotics and antivirals and provide details on making the medicine from them. I highly recommend both.

      Unfortunately, some of the plants he recommends are not native to much of the US or cannot be easily grown, especially in a collapsed society. (But the books are still very much worth obtaining if at all possible.) I have no doubt that our society will collapse and access to medicine, even if it is still effective, will become restricted or totally unavailable. So I focus on what it around me that can be used as medicine. I believe God has a purpose for all of His creations, and that purpose for some of these plants is as medicine. We just have to learn.

7. I checked all the links when I submitted my article to Survivalblog last month. Unfortunately, this link is no longer good. In fact, the entire website has disappeared.

   http://tipsdiscover.com/health/herbal-antibiotics-the-localized-non-systemics-usnea/

8. My adult son had a badly abcessed tooth. He spent the night at our place. I gave him usnea in a tenture . he took 3- 4 doses before going to bed. In the morning the swelling had gone doen by 2/3 s . it was amazing .

9. Thanks, Jen

   I’m going to get at least some of the recommended books, and I look forward to parts 2 and 3. I live close to the sand hills of Nieth Carolina, region 8.0. Very hot and humid.

10. Thank you so much for these three articles. I’ve purchased the books by Buhner that you recommended. I think the information you have shared is priceless.

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