Day 9: Using sage brush…
Sagebrush: For anyone that has spent any time out west they know the entire country is covered with sagebrush. What they don't know is how to use it and what it is good for. Many people when they go into the backcountry think it is okay to stop showering and stink. You can only really get away with this for about 3 days. Then bacteria and yeast start to grow and stuff gets stanky. Native Americans routinely used the smoke from Sagebrush to kill this bacteria. At face value this seems unclean when in reality bacteria and yeast make you dirty not dirt. So if you have a technique to kill bacteria and yeast you have a technique to be and feel clean. Sagebrush being an antimicrobial and antibacterial plant is perfect for this application and it’s everywhere. With this in mind it is also an excellent minty fresh feeling toilet paper replacement plant. That one little tidbit of information might be the difference between life and death someday after you have bad tacos and no toilet paper. Once you start to learn more about the medicinal purposes of plants you tend to look at the outdoors in a different way. You start seeing things that you can eat, things that you can use to clean yourself with, things that you can make fire with and things that you can make shelter with instead of just a bunch of bushes. check out this video for more
