Dr.
Richard Schulze tells of using old, brown, goopy
Black-Walnut hulls with nuts -- collected from under the snow, yet -- to make a tincture to heal an outbreak of ringworm at the local horse track. The infestation was so severe and widespread that some horses were needing euthanasia before
Dr. Schulze arrived on the scene.
As I recall, he claimed the tincture of the brown, goopy hulls contains a natural form of Iodine. I gave an
oz to a woman at work to try on her husband's toenail fungus. She said it worked great; and isn't this a fungus very difficult to get rid of using normal store-bought remedies from the drug store? Isn't Lamisil, one main such remedy, even said to be seriously poisonous, leading to liver damage and the "need" for a transplant?
Earlier this year I began developing what seemed to be athelete's foot, also caused by a fungus. I noticed it just when the first burning, itching, cracking feeling had begun, and the skin was only beginning to crack. Morning and evening for two days, I wet the affected areas with the dark brown tincture of
Black-Walnut . Use a fluffed-up Q-tip to avoid drips and be careful not to walk on any light colored carpet until it dries. By the third day the problem had subsided and vanished.
Making
Black-Walnut Tincture:
After first reading about this in
Hulda Clark 's books, I had to try it, knowing the location of many Black Walnut trees and never having any other use for them because shelling out the nuts requires more patience than the resulting reward IMHO.
Picked the nuts from the tree, in late summer / early fall, rather than picking them from the ground. Thus, the hulls were full green with no or only very tiny brown oxidized spots.
We bought a glass goldfish bowl, filled it with intact hulls (containing the nuts), and poured over 100 proof vodka to cover. I covered the bowl tightly with saran wrap after filling as much as possible to eliminate air space.
The fluid was soon the most brilliant and lovely Emerald Green. I know we didn't soak them for two weeks.
Bottling off (no pressing needed in this case): I found that the smaller the bottle, the better, because once you open that bottle and use some of the tincture, leaving an air space at the top, the remaining tincture will quickly lose its Emerald Green color through oxidation. Even a one ounce bottle is too big, if you want to keep that color.
Some have it that for parasites, the bright green tincture is best.
The darkened tincture works great as mentioned above, for fungus. It's also good for toothache, close friends who have used it inform me.
Personally, I would never struggle to separate the hull from the nut for tincturing; and you may notice that thus disturbing the hulls bruises them severely and causes them to oxidize and turn brown faster.
One more use. As Uny mentioned, this stuff will stain your skin brown for weeks. So if anybody cares to see what it's like to be a person of color, here's your chance without using the more poisonous chemical methods mentioned in the book, "Black Like Me." One dude I know actually got a job as a municipal employee that way. Yes, he was hired as a Fireman... for a couple weeks, at least :-) Black Walnut is probably useful for a disguise too, possibly needed in these days of the unconstitutional so-called Patriot Act :-)
If you really hanker to taste the nuts themselves, you need a gravel driveway. Dump the nuts in the driveway and run your pickup truck back and forth until the hulls separate from the nuts. Then you need a hammer, block, and no end of patience with the nut pick. I've never managed to accumulate more than about one teaspoon of the nut meat at one time.
And oh yeah... if the old, goopy Black Walnut Hulls really do contain a natural form of Iodine, wouldn't this be useful against radiation?
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