black walnut hulls

Just read this from a site (which does sell products..) . Anyway has any one heard of this for teeth...

Black Walnut is a rich source of the trace mineral chromium and is also high in iodine. Its inner bark, leaves, fruit and unripe husk are used in herbology. The tree grows widely in the western U.S. and Canada and is native to the hardwood forests of the Central Mississippi Valley and the Appalachian region of North America. It is a large tree and can sometimes reach a height of 100 feet and 4-5 feet in diameter. The earliest known reference to the walnut tells that Alexander the Great introduced it to Greece from the Middle East. In fact, in almost every part of the world, the walnut is part of local herbal nutrition.Herbalists have traditionally used the husks as a nutritional aid for the intestinal system. It has long been considered one of America's most valuable native cathartics. It is also called an astringent because it is rich in tannin, a toning substance. It's properties also make an excellent vermicide, sudorific, antiseptic, and

febrifuge.There are benefits from the rich supply of organic iodine and tannins which contain antiseptic properties. It also has oxygenting abilities that help to burn up excess toxins and fatty materials. It aids in regulating blood sugar levels, and has been used for herpes, impetigo, athlete's foot, ringworm and counteracts hemorrhoidal bleeding in the colon.One popular use of Black Walnut has been to restore tooth enamel. It contains natural fluoride (without the side effects of the chemical fluoride used in our water supplies), and will remove placque and restore tooth enamel if applied diectly to the teeth. It's excellent properties enable Black Walnut's to aid many body systems , such as:Weakened Immune SystemWeakened Skin SystemWeakened Intestinal SystemWeakened Glandular SystemIt has neither a strong taste or odor and is considered a mild enough herb to try for many disorders by

those who are afraid of stronger herbs. For this reason it is very well tolerated by children.Pet owners love to use Black Walnut as a natural worming option and it is also used in heartworm programs for a safer approach to killing them than the drugs. It can be used to keep teeth healthy also due to the properties mentioned above on removing plaque and restoring tooth enamel.

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Here is some info from the message archives.....(several different messages combined)

the "hulls". This is the outer covering of the shell and the nut which the shell and nut pop out of when they are ripe.

After the Black Walnuts fall to the ground, you can take the nut from the hull, eat it after you crack it open but save the hull. That's where all the goodies are. You can dry them or start making a tincture right away. When dry, they are quite hard but submit to a Vita-Mix quite readily and grind to a fine powder which you can then mix in a 100 proof Vodka mixture to get one awesome remedy. It's an incredible Vermifuge, loaded full of organic Iodine, and is great for skin conditions (eczema, impetigo, etc, etc.) The tincture can be applied externally and/or taken internally for best results.

It should be black or dark brown... We discussed this some time back ... here is the exerpt from that discussion.

The best is to harvest the hull in the fall after the nut has been ejected naturally, and the hull has started to turn black or is already black. Sometimes you have to pick 'em off the ground and take the nut out yourself, and this is OK as long as they are still hard. You then want to let the hull dry out naturally and it will turn darker as you do so. The reason for this is: The blacker the hull, the higher the Iodine content which is what you want. Green hulls when tinctured willwork to some degree, but nowhere near as awesome as when black. Black Walnut Hull Tincture should be black when you're done pressing it. Use 100 Proof Vodka as your extractor. You can grind the hull before you tincture, or during the entire mixing process. You can soak the hulls overnight in the blender with

the alcohol which softens them for the grinding/blending process.

Suzi

Melissa Gingell <melissa_e_gingell wrote:

Hi All!

I have seen many mention of black walnut hulls as something to add to some tonics in order to create a certain medicinal effect. I happen to have a black walnut tree in my back yard and I wanted to collect some of my own.

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