Echoes of the Early Irish Herbal Tradition in Offaly and Laois

[@zeddez1005]

Amazing. While at the university, I attempted to encourage them to allow me to pursue a postdoc in ancient Europe, particularly Ireland, herbology and traditional medicine. Unfortunately the chair was the lead professor of the Pharmaceutical department and voted against this addition to knowledge and the universities commitment to ignore European history prior to the industrial revolution and all things synthetic.

[@johnrochford4031]

Thank you. Very interesting

[@GardensforLife]

He is such a wealth of knowledge! Thanks!

[@niamhhopkins6368]

This was truly truly wonderful. The only idea I'd like to add is in reference to the ending. The remedies of the fields might perhaps have only been afforded by hire to the elite of society; very many of them were known to the poor also, however, and cost only the effort of plucking and grinding -- a stark contrast to the industrially produced versions available in the chemist today.

[@saracosta620]

This was fascinating! I wish we could hear more about the ancient herbal knowledge in Ireland. I also had no idea that oak galls weren't a thing until so recently. Now I'm off to investigate whether the wasp was a native in Portugal and, if not, when it was introduced. Thank you for all your work! Oh, and I loved the ending.

[@Sarah-hm2pe]

Wow - thank you so much for the thorough work put into filming this! Historical educational material like this is incredibly valuable. 🙏 GRMA 💚

[@TheEarthyBookWorm]

Wonderful! Thank you for sharing

[@davomccranko]

Thanks you for sharing. Very interesting historically and culturally

[@mountainwaysireland4207]

Hi John, I've been following you for a long time and love the way you explain things. I think this video is a lovely piece of work. There are many modern herbalists working in Ireland today which could have been mentioned but equally you showed that many pharmaceutical drugs have their origins in the biodiverse fields and woods that are forever dwindling. Go raibh maith agat.

[@thealchemistdaughter3405]

That was just wonderful, thank you so much.. So much knowledge and understanding so precious..

[@outoforbit00]

Your channel came up randomly. So I clicked on. Interesting that the medical school was beside a monastry. Indeed it takes very clear perception to treat a patient with herbal remedies. I would imagine these practitioners were also Godly. No doubt some monks were also medicine men. I have subscribed.

[@ShineMedia1]

Saved in my playlist to watch later, thank you !

[@AyeofRa]

Absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much for this presentation.

[@MrKFNeverGiveUp]

Wonderful. 😉👍☘🍀

[@nawhedawhe6905]

. . Really enjoyed this video. . The close ups and slow panning of the texts is fanrastic. I'll have to check out mire of your stuff. . Thanks. .

[@LiamRedmill]

Thanks for sharing

[@pkpjjoyce6168]

Who knows what 'old medical' knowledge could produce 🙏🧐. Bogbean was a long known remedy to treat depression.....32 ☘️🇮🇪

[@MasterJaggins]

Good Content

[@lizad5772]

Super, thanks for uploading ! Have you found anything from aghmacart in cullohill, Laois? I know there was a manuscript found but I've been trying for years to read it. Can't access it.

[@genevievedolan1288]

What are other names for the cuckoo pint? (i think that is what you were saying) It would be great to see more images and other names of some of the plants that are included in these old texts, the Irish and the English names 😊

[@michaelroche6181]

Gheaghair was an Old or Middle Irish name. This is unrelated in meaning to the modern Bod Gadhair named from the resemblence of the purple spadix to a canine appendage.

[@MariaPalmer-xo8eb]

Arum lily ?

[@michaelroche6181]

@@MariaPalmer-xo8eb Its in the Arum family but not the one we know as Lily.

[@DanusIrishHerbGarden]

Very interesting. Shame you had to spoil things by promoting pharmaceutical medicines as being superior to Herbal Medicine. Allopathic medicine, along with modern food is responsible for many diseases attributed to lifestyle and that is why the long consultation examining the physical body, mindset, lifestyle, diet etc is so necessarry and much superior to a 5 min gp visit..

[@MariaPalmer-xo8eb]

And an acknowledgement to the wise women that went before and did most of the early legwork would have been good also

[@DanusIrishHerbGarden]

@@MariaPalmer-xo8eb hear hear!

[@fradrake11]

go raibh maith agat 👍

[@zeddez1005]

If the Irish don't know the famine was purposeful, nothing about it was by chance. Further, the potato famine originated on the continent found its way to Ireland then the British brought their military to the shores of Ireland taking all of their food and selling to the European market to the detriment of the Irish.

[@basketballfan5763]

Great vid but theres no climate change per se. Check out Ivor Cummins on this topic.

[@jamesdolan3046]

The data which you're alluding to is as accurate as measuring temperatures based on the number of times someone exclaimed 'jaysus it's feckin cold out' and contrasting that with the number of similar exclamations over a long period of time. Surely you can imagine why that can't be considered reliable

[@DanusIrishHerbGarden]

​@@jamesdolan3046how ridiculous. Look into how temperatures are measured and you will understand that that "science" is even less reliable 😅

[@Irishherbs]

Climate does change naturally, it's nothing got to do with manmade carbon emissions/Like msm are trying to elude to. (There is recorded evidence of farming in Greenland in the past.)