Yahuah's Farm

10/25/2026

SUNDAY we will be closed at the homestead one more time. Grandkids turn as this year we have not got to see them as much as we would like. So tomorrow will be the Zoo time.

Tuesday we went on our first ever TRUE vaccination. These kids deserve it and I felt like it was time. We had so much fun together. Thank you all for understanding that family must come Second as Father is always First.

I am sharing photos my kids took with my phone 😂. Hope everyone has a blessed weekend and we will be back open Monday.

I am working very hard to find amazing sea moss and I think everyone is going to love the prices.

10/23/2026

10/23/2026

What I take everyday. This is a concentrated tonic. As I literally steam it to remove half the water. The roots are separate and I will bring them to a boil during the same process removing half the water.

10/23/2026

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10/23/2026

10/22/2026

Lyme Disease and Alpha-Gal
At Yahuah’s Farm, we love learning the history behind the plants growing around us—and teasel has a story that reaches from traditional herbal practice to modern laboratory research. Both its roots and leaves have been studied, including research involving the bacteria that cause Lyme disease.

Common teasel, Dipsacus fullonum, is also called wild teasel and appears in older research under the name Dipsacus sylvestris. It is the tall, prickly plant with egg-shaped flower heads, usually lavender flowers, and opposite leaves that form little cups around the stem. Originally introduced from overseas, it is now naturalized across parts of America. Its dried flower heads were historically used to raise the nap on woolen cloth, which is where the name “teasel” comes from.

In European herbal traditions, teasel root was used as a bitter digestive herb to encourage appetite and ease stomach complaints. Historical records also describe its use to promote urination and sweating, and for jaundice, skin complaints, sores, and wound cleansing. These records tell us how people used the plant; they do not establish that every historical application was effective. University of Kent’s ethnobotanical collection specifically records digestive, diuretic, and skin-related uses.

The leaves and roots contain different combinations of plant compounds. A 2020 study identified iridoids such as loganic acid, loganin, sweroside, cantleyoside, and sylvestroside III, along with phenolic acids. The leaves contained more of several measured compounds and showed stronger antioxidant activity in laboratory testing. Roots showed stronger inhibition of acetylcholinesterase, an enzyme involved in nerve signaling. That finding is interesting, but it is not evidence that teasel treats dementia or neurological disease. The same study also found antibacterial activity from root-derived preparations against certain strains of E. coli and Staphylococcus aureus.

The Lyme research on the ROOT goes back at least to a study published in 2011. Researchers tested fresh, first-year teasel roots against Borrelia burgdorferi, a bacterium that causes Lyme disease. They prepared separate extracts using 70% alcohol and water, ethyl acetate, and dichloromethane. The alcohol-and-water extract did not inhibit bacterial growth, while the other two extracts did, with the strongest inhibition from the ethyl acetate extract. This shows that the extraction method matters greatly: activity from a laboratory solvent extract cannot automatically be attributed to an ordinary root tincture or tea.

Other findings have been less encouraging. A 2016 research update reported that the teasel root extract examined by those researchers did not significantly affect rounded forms or biofilms at concentrations up to 2 mg/mL. A separate 2020 botanical screening paper also reported no significant activity from its tested Dipsacus preparations against growing or stationary-phase Borrelia. These results are part of the research picture too—teasel has not performed consistently across preparations and experiments.

The LEAF research added another important piece in 2022. Scientists tested a 70% ethanol leaf extract and separated fractions against stationary-phase Borrelia burgdorferi cultures. The crude extract reduced measured bacterial viability to approximately 20% under the experimental conditions. However, it also substantially reduced the viability of mouse fibroblast cells tested alongside it, raising a concern about toxicity. Further separation produced a fraction rich in sylvestrosides III and IV that retained anti-Borrelia activity with less toxicity to those mammalian cells. The findings point toward compounds worth investigating, rather than establishing that drinking a leaf preparation safely produces the same effect.

A 2025 comparison again found stronger antioxidant activity in leaf extracts than root extracts. Its antibacterial tests found some activity from leaves against selected bacteria, while the root preparation showed none at the concentrations tested. This study did not test Lyme bacteria, but it reinforces why species, plant part, preparation, and target organism all matter when discussing herbal research.

What about alpha-gal? Although both Lyme disease and alpha-gal syndrome can follow tick bites, they are different conditions. Lyme is a bacterial infection; alpha-gal syndrome is an allergy to a sugar found in most mammals. Antibacterial activity against Borrelia does not demonstrate an effect on that allergy. I could not find published studies showing that common teasel root or leaves reverse alpha-gal syndrome, lower alpha-gal-specific IgE antibodies, or prevent reactions to mammalian foods. Teasel should not be used as a reason to try a known trigger or replace prescribed emergency epinephrine.

The claim that teasel “pulls Lyme bacteria out of hiding” also goes beyond what these studies demonstrate. Researchers have measured effects on bacteria in laboratory cultures; they have not established that teasel draws bacteria out of human tissues or cures Lyme disease in patients.

Teasel deserves a careful look for its traditional digestive and skin-related uses, its diverse plant compounds, and the laboratory research on both leaves and roots. Appreciating what Yahuah has created includes learning what each plant has actually been shown to do—and keeping promising research distinct from a promise of healing.

This has been added to the Tick Bite Support that everyone who tried gave amazing reviews on. We did this to hopefully make it even better.

10/22/2026

Japanese knotweed is often known for its aggressive growth, but its roots also have a long history in herbal medicine. Known as Hu Zhang in traditional Chinese medicine, Japanese knotweed—Reynoutria japonica, also called Polygonum cuspidatum—has been used medicinally long before its compounds became the subject of modern laboratory research. The dried root and rhizome are the principal medicinal parts.

Traditionally, Hu Zhang has been used for painful joints, bruising, menstrual obstruction, jaundice, coughs with phlegm, constipation, and certain skin conditions. External preparations have been used for burns, sores, and injuries. Traditional practitioners describe its actions as moving stagnant blood, clearing heat, resolving dampness, and relieving pain. These are traditional medical concepts and historical uses, rather than proof that it treats every condition on that list.

Its roots contain resveratrol, polydatin, emodin, and other plant compounds. Researchers study the whole extract and its individual constituents separately, because an isolated compound does not necessarily have the same effects as a tea, tincture, or root powder.

One of its most interesting properties is its effect on inflammation and oxidative stress. In a small randomized study published in 2010, 20 healthy adults received either a standardized Japanese knotweed extract or a placebo for six weeks. The extract reduced several inflammatory and oxidative-stress markers, including CRP, IL-6, and TNF-alpha. A separate small trial in basketball players also found reductions in inflammatory markers. These are encouraging human findings, although changes in blood markers do not establish treatment of a particular disease.

Japanese knotweed also has documented antibacterial activity in laboratory experiments. Researchers have tested extracts against organisms including Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Other studies have investigated wound repair, including improved healing in rats and effects on human gum cells grown in the laboratory. This research helps explain the scientific interest in its traditional use for skin and tissue injuries.

Its connection to Lyme disease comes from research directly examining Borrelia burgdorferi, a bacterium that causes Lyme. A 2020 study involving Johns Hopkins researchers found that Japanese knotweed extracts had activity against both growing bacteria and non-growing, stationary-phase cultures. However, bacteria grew back after the knotweed-treated cultures were transferred to fresh growth medium.

Alpha-gal syndrome raises a different question because it is an allergy, rather than a Borrelia infection. There is research relevant to allergic responses: a 2013 study found that polydatin, a knotweed constituent, reduced mast-cell activation and histamine release in an experimental food-allergy model in rats. That experiment used egg protein, not alpha-gal. A 2024 laboratory study also identified knotweed compounds that inhibited histamine release through another mast-cell pathway. These findings provide reasons for further investigation.

There is also research relevant to multiple sclerosis, mainly involving isolated resveratrol rather than whole Japanese knotweed. Some mouse studies have found reduced autoimmune inflammation, less nerve damage, or improved blood–brain barrier integrity. But the findings are mixed: a 2013 study found that resveratrol worsened disease in two experimental models of MS.

Japanese knotweed has a substantial traditional history and some compelling research behind it, especially around inflammation, oxidative stress, antibacterial activity, tissue repair, and allergic-response pathways. Understanding exactly what was studied—whole root, standardized extract, or an isolated compound—helps us appreciate its potential without turning early findings into promises.

10/22/2026

Mimosa, also called the silk tree (*Albizia julibrissin*), comes to us from Traditional Chinese Medicine. Here in the southeastern United States, you can practically throw a rock and hit one! They grow everywhere and are considered invasive in many areas.

Most people notice the beautiful, wispy pink-and-white flowers, but the bark is traditionally considered the stronger and more important medicinal part.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, mimosa bark is called **He Huan Pi**, while the flowers are called **He Huan Hua**. Both are medicinal, but they are not exactly the same.

Mimosa bark is the Stronger Medicine and has traditionally been used to calm the spirit, uplift the mood and support people experiencing emotional heaviness, grief, sadness, nervous tension, irritability, restlessness and occasional sleeplessness. It was also traditionally used to encourage circulation and support the body following bruises, swelling, injuries and painful congestion.

The bark contains abundant triterpenoid saponins, lignans and other active plant compounds. Laboratory and animal studies have reported antidepressant-like, anti-anxiety, calming, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and neuroprotective activity. However, proper human clinical studies are still limited, so these should be described as promising research and traditional uses—not established medical treatments.

The fragrant flowers are generally considered gentler and more uplifting. They have traditionally been prepared for sadness, emotional tension, irritability, anxious feelings and restless sleep. The flowers contain more flavonoids and aromatic compounds than the bark, giving them their own medicinal value.

The flowers are wonderful for a gentle tea or tincture, but when I want the stronger traditional preparation, I choose the bark or combine the bark and flowers together.

Mimosa flowers can be steeped like an ordinary herbal tea. The tougher bark is better prepared as a simmered decoction or tincture so its compounds can be extracted more thoroughly. Combining the bark and flowers brings together the deeper traditional strength of the bark and the gentler, fragrant qualities of the flowers.

If harvesting bark, take it from trimmed or removed branches whenever possible. Never remove a complete ring of bark around a living trunk or branch because this girdles the tree and can kill everything above that point.

Mimosa is called the “tree of happiness” because of its long history of uplifting the spirit. Even harvesting its inner bark on a sunny day can remind us that Yahuah filled His creation with beauty, fragrance and purpose.

Bark tincture is almost done. Flower and bark is for sale and I'll work on a flower tincture next week. Flowers still need to be added to the website.

10/21/2026

Links now work for some reason and I am not paying for them to work at all. I would never waste 500$ a month to be able to use links.

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10/21/2026

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