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Gabhán retweeted
How to make a band-aid in the woods from White Pine Bark!
This works best if you find a limb of eastern white pine, but pine resin also works well on it's own.
#foraging #bushcraft #survival
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Gabhán retweeted
Conservatives will fight to the death to preserve modern liberalism.
You might think I meant to say liberty.
No. I said liberalism.
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🐝 Bee propolis the hive’s sealant, antiseptic, and oldest first-aid kit..
Bees collect tree resins, mix them with wax, pollen, and enzymes, and use the result to plug gaps, sterilize the nest, and embalm anything they can’t drag out.
A classic example is a mummified mouse. If a mouse dies inside the hive, the colony coats it in propolis so it doesn’t rot and poison the brood.
Same logic the Egyptians later used on people.
What’s in it?
Roughly 50% resins, 30% wax, plus flavonoids and phenolics pinocembrin, galangin, chrysin, CAPE. Chemistry changes by region. Poplar Europe is not the same as Brazilian green or red.
History
Egyptians used bee products in wound care and mummification.
Greeks named it propolis, “defender of the city.”
Hippocrates used it for sores and ulcers. Pliny wrote that it draws stings, reduces swelling, and heals sores “when it appears hopeless.”
Roman soldiers carried it. Avicenna recommended it for eczema and rheumatism.
It appeared in the London Pharmacopoeia in the 1600s.
In the world wars it was used as field medicine and sometimes called “Russian penicillin.”
What studies actually support
Strongest evidence is topical.
Wound healing: a 2022 systematic review and meta-analysis found higher healing rates versus conventional comparators. It supports re-epithelialization and collagen.
Cold sores and genital herpes: meta-analyses of topical propolis, sometimes with honey, versus 5% acyclovir report faster healing, better day-7 closure, less pain, and similar side effects. Promising adjunct. Not a substitute for medical care in severe cases.
Mouth and throat: antibacterial and anti-inflammatory activity relevant to ulcers, gingivitis, sore throat, and caries.
Skin: minor burns, irritated or acne-prone skin, some viral lesions.
Internal “immune booster” and disease-prevention claims are weaker. Lab and animal data are rich. Large human trials are thinner.
How people use it
Raw propolis is a sticky lump. Almost nobody uses it raw.
Tincture (ethanol extract) most efficient. Drops in water or under the tongue. Dab on sores. Alcohol stings broken skin. Also used as a throat spray.
Oil extract gentler, less complete extraction. Good in creams and for people avoiding alcohol.
Balms and ointments oil or tincture plus beeswax. Lips, small cuts, dry patches, cold-sore balms. Greeks and Romans already put it in ointments and plasters.
Also capsules, lozenges, toothpaste, mouthwash.
Safety
Main risk is allergy bees, honey, pollen, balsam of Peru, poplar resins. Atopic people should patch-test. May slow clotting. Care with warfarin and before surgery.
Not established as safe in pregnancy. Natural is not the same as risk-free.
The bees figured out how to mummify a mouse so the hive stays clean.
Humans borrowed the resin.
Best as an adjunct for minor wounds, mouths, and cold sores.
Not a cure-all.
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Dark days indeed.. They're clamping down on dissenting voices. Can't have the truth being spoken during a war..
The authoritarian British Government is about to introduce an Orwellian "Ministry of Truth"
They will decide what you "need" to belive, hear, and repeat.
Free discussion, dissent, challenge and independent thinking will essentially be outlawed. Dark days ahead.
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Gabhán retweeted
Hen of the Woods (Grifola frondosa) is one of the most delicious mushrooms you can forage! They are also known as Maitake and they are a heavy, layered mushroom.
Hen of the Woods grow in the late summer and fall and you are mostly like to find them growing at the base of old growth oak trees. Maitake have a savor, umami flavor and a slight meaty texture. They are tasty in a wild variety of recipes and are my favorite edible mushroom.
They also can be dried and have a lot of health benefits. Hen of the Woods are high in vitamin D, support immune function, and balance blood sugar.
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The Bible is the word of God its historically accurate. Do yourself a favor and read it..
Deep in eastern Turkey, near the Iranian border, enormous stones stand as reminders of the story of Noah’s Ark.
Known as drogue stones, or anchor stones, these massive stones have large holes carved into their tops and distinctive cross-shaped markings across their surfaces.
According to the local tradition, these stones were used to anchor Noah’s Ark during the Flood, helping hold the enormous vessel steady through the waters.
Standing beside one of them makes the scale incredible to comprehend. These stones are massive.
And just beyond them, Mount Ararat rises over the landscape, the mountains where Scripture tells us the Ark came to rest.
This is eastern Turkey: a landscape filled with ancient traditions, extraordinary monuments, and connections to one of the most famous stories in history.
And when you stand here in person, the story comes to life.
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🐝 🍯 Another beautiful place where some of our delicious honey comes from.. #RawHoney #ChemicalFree #NativeIrish
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LillyPut raw native Irish honey and propolis oil, straight from chemical-free hives.
This is the real thing: unheated, unblended honey from the native Irish black bee (Apis mellifera mellifera), spun and jarred on the land. No shortcuts, nothing added, nothing taken away. Darker heather and local blossom honeys that Irish lab work has shown can hold their own against the expensive imports rich in phenolics, enzymes, and the antimicrobial activity that processing destroys.
Pair it with his Irish bee propolis oil (and the new balm: raw propolis, Irish rapeseed oil, a touch of beeswax).
Bees use propolis to seal and defend the hive. People have used it for centuries for the same reasons — antimicrobial, antioxidant, soothing for skin, throat, and everyday resilience.
€10 a jar of honey, four 12oz jars for €50 including postage. Propolis products similarly straightforward. Every order supports conservation of an endangered native bee on chemical-free hives.
Taste the land. Support the bees that still work it.🍯🇮🇪🐝
Link propolis balm..
buymeacoffee.com/OffgridIrel…
Link Raw honey..
buymeacoffee.com/OffgridIrel…
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Step into the hive room two living colonies hum beneath a massage bed while you meditate & relax.
Their resonance fills the timber space, a therapy session tuned by nature itself. 🐝
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‼️ WATCH: Shop assistant stops alleged shoplifters in Kelly's Toy Store Tullamore.
Disgraceful behaviour brings shame on decent travellers.
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Brilliant! Delighted it arrived in good shape!
I'm doing my best to pack all orders with plenty of cushioning to keep them protected..
🐝 🍯
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🐝 Irish native bees. Chemical-free hives.
Inspection and repair of the colonies we manage including hives that were built wrong.
#IrishNativeBees
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Jacob says the English are a mongrel people (where have we heard that before?), then wants the same mongrels in NATO kit fighting Russia.
Funny that. The propaganda’s all White faces, the history lesson’s “you were never a people.”
They need your blood, they just won’t admit it’s yours.
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Used to be Ireland was so backwards people used indoor toilets. Then we got enriched and they started using your granny’s garden. Progress.
Back in the old "backwards" Ireland you would never see people taking a shit in public but that all changed once we became "enriched".
#HowIrelandWorks
#IrelandisFull
#Unvetted
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🍯🐝 Irish scientists put Irish raw honey under the microscope and the results should make every household think twice before paying a fortune for imported Manuka.
Teams from DCU, Trinity College Dublin and later TUS tested native Irish honeys from real beekeepers heather, ivy, oilseed rape and multifloral blossom honeys.
They measured total phenolic content (the compounds linked to antioxidant power) and ran antibacterial tests against common pathogens including E. coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Irish heather honey consistently came out on top.
Its phenolic content matched or beat Manuka in the original 131-sample study (heather 68 mg GAE/100g vs Manuka 62).
Later work on confirmed monofloral samples pushed some Irish heather even higher (over 100 mg GAE/100g).
Ivy honey is darker but lower in phenolics than heather still useful, especially against certain bacteria.
Oilseed rape honey was the weakest of the Irish types tested.
Follow up lab work went further. Irish heather and ivy honeys inhibited bacteria at concentrations comparable to Manuka in several assays, reduced biofilms, and heather even showed synergy with an antibiotic against MRSA.
Antioxidant activity was confirmed. Researchers flagged both varieties as promising for wound care and as everyday functional foods.
Implications for health and healing.
Raw, unheated Irish honey keeps the enzymes, phenolics and natural antimicrobial activity that processing destroys. Darker heather honey in particular looks like a homegrown option for supporting the body’s own antioxidant defences, helping with minor wounds, sore throats and coughs the old fashioned way
Adding a nutrient-dense sweetener instead of refined sugar.
It is not a miracle cure and it is not medical-grade honey for serious wounds. But it is real food from our own landscape, made by the native Irish black bee (Apis mellifera mellifera) that is uniquely adapted to our climate.
Buy raw, local, single-origin or small-batch Irish honey from beekeepers who keep native stock.
Look for heather when you can get it.
Support the people keeping the bees alive and the land they forage on.
We don’t need to import “superfood” honey.
Ours already holds its own. 🇮🇪
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