#119 Exploring native plants and clearing ruins

Not a big fan of the herbology part. Regarding the scientific approach you take with every other project presented -this was giving „alternative fact“ vibes. enjoyed the classification though and would love to know more about the native and invasive plants around Kamp and how to classify them.

While plants and herbs can be edible, please dont use them to treat serious medical condition like venomous bites or mycosis!

The brick ruin with three rooms looks like a perfect camp shower, bath, etc.

Quite dangerous misinformation here. If you get a snake bite, don’t put anything or do anything to the area of the bite. Keep that body part as still as possible and get to an emergency room for treatment.

Please invest in some chainsaw pants for this man, hes swinging that thing around like crazy. Its going to go wrong one day

I’ve learned from another you tube channel that granite can be made very fragile from fire. They had a ruin that still had a roof and a fire came through and burned everything. It made the granite very crumbly. It may be that you can deconstruct the one ruin and use the stone for some other use.

Probably late, but you can save the oak by putting him inside water container, it will sprout new roots.

I'd honestly cut the full section discussing the plants, identifying the plants and trees is great but providing advice on what you can use them for (and not specifically mentioning that a lot of the practices she mentioned are no longer used!) without even mentioning the adverse effects of poor administration, formulation and interactions with other drugs which can be FATAL. For example, she mentions stinging nettle, which yes is edible (although most people would have it as a tea) but she fails to mention that it can affect the menstrual cycle and stimulate uterine contractions or the fact that it can have a significant effect on a persons blood sugar level and can trigger hypoglycemic episodes, it can also effect the efficacy of diabetes medicine. Here's interactions it can have with some medicines that weren't even discussed: Blood thinners such as warfarin, clopidogrel and aspirin because stinging nettle contains large amounts of vitamin K, which can help the blood’s ability to clot. Taking stinging nettle can decrease the effects of these drugs. Drugs for high blood pressure such as ACE inhibitors, beta-blockers and calcium channel blockers because stinging nettle can lower blood pressure and strengthen the effects of these drugs. Diuretics and water pills because stinging nettle is also a diuretic and when used together can cause dehydration. Lithium because of stinging nettle’s diuretic qualities. It may reduce the body’s ability to remove this drug, resulting in higher than recommended levels of lithium. NSAIDs because stinging nettle can enhance the anti-inflammatory effect of some of them. Despite the evidence that combining stinging nettle and NSAIDs leads to more pain relief, it should be taken under supervision. Sedative medications (CNS depressants) such as clonazepam, lorazepam, phenobarbital and zolpidem because when large amounts of above ground parts of stinging nettle are taken, sleepiness and drowsiness can occur. Taking sedatives along with stinging nettle might cause too much drowsiness. And for the love of god, DO NOT try to make a poultice to extract snake venom. It is as insane if not more insane than all the other "treatments" people use to use in the 1800-1900s where they literally poured ammonia into snake bites :). If anyone's interested the University of Sydney have an opinion piece about the history of snake bite remedies: "hissstory how the science of snake bite treatments has changed".

Medicinal uses for plants are poorly researched and dangerous to recommend for acute conditions. Some can even do the opposite of what people think they do which is obviously the last thing you want. I certainly wouldn't condone going around pointing to seemingly random plants and saying they treat this and that. You would never see a video of someone going around pointing at medication in a pharmacy making these sorts of claims about so many things at once. And another often left out point is that just like medication, some medicinal plants are not safe to consume regularly, some are not even safe at all. I don't hate medicinal plants, some are great medicines, but they really need context just like any drug. For example, mint was mentioned for digestive issues. Mint contains a fair amount of menthol, and research has shown that menthol calms the muscles of your digestive track. Now that sounds great, and it usually is, but the menthol is a bit too effective, it's indiscriminate and relaxes certain muscle groups which could make digestive discomfort worse. There are IBS medications which combine it with things that excite certain muscles you don't want to be calmed to try and achieve a sweet spot. This also raises another point, not everything should be taken on it's own. Anyway, my point is it may seem mundane, but you are giving medical advice. Medical advice is not mundane, it's serious and it better be correct.

Jaime is back!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Also really glad about all the bigger Oaks!

"is to heavy, even for Jaime" HAHAHHAHAHAH

Not keen on the "medical herbalism" this week. (EDIT: I had to reword this several times to minimise the rudeness. Iridology? My arse!)

so happy to see Jaime back, now lets hope Kevin will make a return too

Brick ruin: - bathroom, showers, change rooms - storage, pantry, shed - dormatories (2 bunk beds each)/guest rooms - offices (video production, social media/community, planning, blue printing) - workshops (handicrafts, sewing, repairs, woodworking)

28:15 aint noo way hes back. Jaime you gigachad ❤, project Camp is not the same without you <3

4 years in and still loving your content guys, love seeing how the community is developing!

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE. When spreading information regarding medical treatments, you need it to be done by a TRUE PROFESSIONAL, otherwise is misinformation. Spreading herbs on snake bites is not backed up scientifically. As any professional in project kamp does their job and explains the objective method, so science must applied to medical treatments like snake bites.

All mushrooms are edible some you can only eat once.

That was some very sketchy chainsaw work. Especially on that bigger tree. Please get some basic chainsaw training.

With all the ecosystem restauration ambitions evolving, I am very curious to hear if you ever contemplated setting up a local tree species nursery. Collect seeds and seedlings locally, propagate (and show us the successes/failures), and plant them out in a few years' time! A living library of genetic diversity, chance to explore ecosystems with the viewers beyond Project Kamp, and enhancing regeneration beyond what nature can do by itself given local conditions (especially drought).