Foraging - Lyme Disease and Japanese Knotweed

http://primitiveskills.com Mike DiMauro shares how he has treated and continues to address the prevention of Lyme Disease using Japanese Knotweed.

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• Japanese Knotweed
• Foraging
• Lyme Disease

[bmarley343]

what was that latin name??? japanese knotweed is polygonum cuspidatum

[primitiveskills]

@bmarley343 Fallopia japonica is synonomous with both Polygonum cuspidatum and Reynoutria japonica, the two older latin epitephs. The three labels describe the same plant. Not only is this highly invasive species indicted for Lyme, it tastes great, makes nice water containers, and fragile, but serviceable pan flutes.

[bluenail90]

There's more lymes disease cos the knotweed is taller undergrowth hence the ticks are higher and able to bite arms etc. Killing the deer off also makes the ticks bite white footed mice in winter and so carry it to humans. It's actually a white footed mouse disease. Or something like that ...check it out.

[primitiveskills]

@bluenail90 Deer Mice and white footed mice are primary hosts in the initial step of the two step parasitic cycle of the primary vector of Lyme Disease Ixodes scapularis, (commonly refered to as deer tick or black legged tick). Cervids, canines, and many other larger mammals (including us) are the primary hosts for the second step in their development. There is no evidence to suggest deer tick behaviora is influenced by the physical presence of Japanese Knotweed.

[thelastlivingsouls]

thank you very helpful :D

[kooodeal]

@TheOutdoorsman07 The root contains resveratrol,but has some compound that can cause diarrhea .

[bmarley343]

have you ever ground the root into powder for medicine? if so whats the most successful way you have found? thanks for the video.

[tinallee57]

Thank-you! I've been hearing and reading about using J. knotweed, but this is the first explanation of how to harvest and make my own tincture. It's late May already, but maybe the roots can still be harvested this late.

[TheOutdoorsman07]

i know the plant is edible. the stem and leaves of smaller plants. are thre any dangers of eating this?

[kfiresmith]

Mike:

Could you tell us the other 2 core herbals to treat lyme?

Thanks!

[feralmaine]

Nice music! I've heard it suggested that one should bring a hatchet to harvest these roots. I saw you with a shovel- did you use any other implements or did that cut it?

-K