Herbal Healing

Andrew Bentley, Clinical Herbalist. Http://kentuckyherbalist.com

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Appalachian culture is really, really old. I fixed up an ancient cliff fortress in the mountains, using traditional skills like pit firing clay, bark tanning deer hide, and spinning cordage from nettles. Check it out in this video, and share if you enjoy it.

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Pottery for the rockhouse

https://youtu.be/MojoNzA4maE

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I’m working on a long video/reality-tv style thing where i am using traditional skills (like bark tanning, spinning and weaving fibers, gathering clay and pit firing pottery, and such like) to renovate a millenia-old cliff dwelling in Appalachia.

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Free class on helping the respiratory system after smoke inhalation. This class will go beyond the basics and share some experience and evidence based strategies and formulations for using herbs to help people whose respiratory system has been damaged or stressed by smoke. Live on my youtube channel, this friday (Jan 17).

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Edible purslane and poisonous spurge

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Happy halloween.

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bell hooks would have been 70 today. We were friends and i miss her.

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Fly bones.

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Okay, so Dracula gives us the team of:

- Arthur “I don’t know what’s going on here, but I am finding qualified help immediately” Holmwood

- Quincy “does somebody need a hero? Point me at the problem” Morris

- Abraham “I have 9 PhDs and I’m not afraid to use them” Van Helsing

-John “Let’s focus, we need to get our paperwork in order before people start asking inconvenient questions” Seward

And every modern adaptation wants to make Count Dracula the sexy one??

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I feel like if the early movie adaptations had made dracula look like an old man with a big white mustache, that all the later adaptations would have gone differently.

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Andrew Bentley on Instagram: "Harvesting the cherry gum. It starts out sticky and stretchy, but becomes more brittle when dry. It’s helpful

Andrew Bentley shared a post on Instagram: "Harvesting the cherry gum. It starts out sticky and stretchy, but becomes more brittle when dry.

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Andrew Bentley on Instagram: "Wild cherry gum exudes from injuries in the bark of (usually) mature cherry trees. It’s mostly made of polysac

Andrew Bentley shared a post on Instagram: "Wild cherry gum exudes from injuries in the bark of (usually) mature cherry trees. It’s mostly m

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Ah yes, the real villain of Dracula: Lucy’s mother refusing to take her illness seriously.