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Title: Little Medicine Thing Emma Dupree, Herbalist

Emma Dupree (00:11) Raised 'round a town bout two miles of Falkland on the farm Dupree Farm and it was my life then helping peoples, fixing my herbs, taking it to 'em food and so on like that on up every year and every year and finally my mother stopped farming. We moved right in the little town of Falkland. And I served 15 years with Eaton King, his wife named Daisy and so on. I stayed there and was married there twice. And my last husband, I went to work where he was working at with Dr. Jennis Morrill, for 15. I still was making my herbs and helping him out with his medicine [for] all and any kind of sickness I always did and all I made fix and rubbin' and pneumonia and dropsy. In 1918 the influenza when it begun I toted my tea and so on the Lord just let it work. And it's been working I've been doing it all my life and on up until now. They have found me some of my herbs [have] heal many dangerous thing diseases, complaints, and arthritis and sugar and Bright Kidney Disease and [Roccia Julio] so on and that's the story that they is telling I get calls and they comes and get my herbs [big a sign that right here on my yard]. And they tell the story that is happenin'. And I gets mighty good views, I'll get mighty good views from some of the different doctor that don't know anything about my life. But this life of mine I was told herbs are little bit good. Six years old, my daddy took me to the Seven Spring, and I got 14 I went myself so it's just my life, I already did it. And they always used it. They use my food, they use my popcorn they use little [cone come out the body] they use anything that I fed on them. They were nice it's never nice anything and people doctors, we're the doctors here with the herbs. We're the doctors with the same herbs mullein, and rabbit 'bacco, heart leaves, redshank and so on right all that kinda herbs and it healed it, it helped it did. Well the water was more purified then it is now the water was well water and pump water on that was iron, that was pure iron and the food, vegetables, [iron spiders], iron pots, stone bowls, wooden trays and they had no ice box much. The babies meals I helped tied it a string to a jar and let it down in the well to keep it for the babies, it didn't sour yeah the meats and so on, you have your food, barbeque and so on and you get a coal out of your hay for your stove and lay it around in the bowl. You could keep it 'til Tuesday. And I should buy this block of ice, the ice truck would come along and you'd bait in the ground and sprinkle some salt over it and wrap it up in brown paper and bait in the ground go kill some and you won't. And well there's our food and chickens and holes and they were saying they would raise the food from them was better than the food baby. And I think it's this poison and you know the pipes we run down here and my rank I worked hard and day this morning to clean it. And that roast if it drip on anything they need to get out a little while and half do it sir. I'm sad. He lives on the interest of the kidneys and the bladder. And gluten so And I understand that but the Lord said it and the word is true he said for the end that there would be diseases that no doctor couldn't comprehend

Emma Dupree (05:14) and he said that we had been it would be again so i gets called different from you when done by in my big life cookie and [herbs] so that's that's the Bible going back to what he say and we read in what he see all the different kinds of diseases and all the different kinds of mind killing cells and their whole family and oh that His word so that this way I live it and that this way I believe the Bible God said it would would not fail for it would hate me No, it would pay us Okay, so let's get hit with eating and living and deaf poets what is it doing to you blued and yes everything your nose and just everything showing you doing it no good. I don't remember this Harnett but that's what allowed say. We will run in contact me and I don't know I must say myself. It I was out of bone with it because I always did get to throw it back because I remember a real old man I stole my mother's they call it pagan Moloch salt mullets come back to me. And I had slipped it i know i catered food from hip town and bar Merlin and Mohali able to lift up his leg and put in the internet seat legs and busted open midwater reps. But it he'll do it he'll delay the he had a daughter My granddaughter and the head will end the same [July bunch and cotton] lay was to do so address already. And nobody knew when I had used the nothing that I have to do for them white or coloreed. My yamsI could make my grease and cook my food and they would eat that little plan. They had a plate of food we just placed and it worked just like any other medicine we come from the pure medical education doctors. It does work all over your body and God this get entered and just let it help this red plane a lot of it grow right round here. My yard best you can buy it and you Paisley cat nip, green sage you can buy sage putting in [Backbone] in your food. They don't even do that in that era no red where you see no food weed back in them days. You know you're ready to move. To that's got a whole lot to do. Do eg wherever you eat if you're feeding everything dude back there see blood nurse system. Strike is everything. So diseases the way it now. I don't know nurse knees but this day we this eating our diseases and drinking it. the heat the cooks our food all thats poison you make your biscuits your cake or Watson airboat and put in that stove when you smell that scent time you Oh is any food when you will cooking with wood tasting was quite better than this gas and Electress and all that stuff that we've eaten and smelling and this and the deep freezer and then the [cabinet] and you put hot grease whatever you fried steak and so on. And time it heated and you go to bed at night about all under come off in your mouth and bone is a bone in it is blue black butcher it's done frozen rotton now that is the way it is and I know y'all have hadn't eaten it seen it like they had me watch it if you happen this way it is and we have pipes already here pipes. It's not iron like the old pump pipes.

Emma Dupree (09:50)And then this well was drawn in fresh water and it's like this like yo took me from that spring purified water ran out ground [they come and and put something in it] and they tell me I don't know that and them oh nasty the pipes is a site and they keep it from little pack then run a stick in there and see that rust and it rope and like over and you drink no. What do you think about the sweat What is this what is you know you know whatever goes inside of you goes all over it's searches I get calls and they come and get my (undecieferable) house ready to even get a piece for us and show us what to do. Now you in any kind of way you want to you lay it ony you any way they are feeling, on your chest your shoulders, your head [I have four high blue] I have put it right up down a little Epsom salt and a little white vinegar and your good just like this. Now I aint known it to fail. And this leave it was a half right back then [and Dr. Beasle was our doctor] here and they sent somebody all the time because they know for that board and couldn't find out what kind of fever you had head and district by seven they disappeared less than a half a day. Because then the demo time and you can hardly get that baby to breathe. You just had a summer summit Romney and his Wriddhiman vaniqa need all over his stomach. Oh back there in Belka and it was in the dinner time and it was in this month. Putting him back in that evening. I didn't watch the time it took a long time for night. He told his mommy ready to eat and got nothing in him that week. Just this plain by itself. But you know they don't have a nurse we don't think and I don't talk about it unless I'm talking to him about it too. I'm Sandra Hancock to you there's like this termite and there'll be some mischief in me to the power of Jesus call evil thing we made he made it he put live and power and everything he grid dad when anything it belongs to him this kid wrote this like he wrote like a man but this was on the side of the house this is coop said it had their arms and hair delays and everything and visibly group now my mama lived away from this and I have gotten involved and she drank the juice and Id get all the meat I could and make her pancakes

Emma Dupree (13:10) Yes, it is me you can smokey put in I've got people like people and dried and crumbled it up and put come about to start on from the smoke off ended pay real Oh hip on hip and get your hip

Emma Dupree (13:37) end this is purple we're gonna get right purple I've made wine for part time rheumatism ray to see their bursitis and arthritis to the new red and rheumatism and rheumatic rheumatism This deal was three things when you see the [apparatus and the new routers and abrasca] same thing but it's also called you full of coal multiple diseases and you will be we go naked and go bareheaded and all that and they will the shoes and the stock. Now they say here for that turn over telco you know what a tougher you do. Well that's all on him to take from him. That's a rumor till now and you rebaiting them they would get the glare to get a tougher get the Fenton and the sun dries it up the oil dating tree tree? I really don't know the name of that tree. My granddaughter had the ricketsin rheumatic rheumatism and that's [the and and Greenwoods] her doc and she was sickly and thin and weekly and [Mrs, Suvace] they had that tree and brought her some of the berries that were ripe at that time and told me to feed the owner and then bed the laying sit and that will he'll say coal is a healing berry tree. So it's healing to the nation. So that's the name that she gave me. But that tree is in the old fashioned Bible, but I don't know where that's the name and if she didn't come Rome see then it come on the other side from Rome and amid the levels and I packed them up I didn't last year but yeah, before last but I give a lady a quote that I did have packed up. We had sugar she said the doctor couldn't do with me. I give her that girl berries and it helped her she said. It hope she see I pack them up in brown sugar rock candy, you know? No. Honey, we noticed that this drawer there strangled the Powerball you know out and there's like I got I'm sure they've been nothing to it I'm sure but rockin and honey. See oh let us know come out from Chile well that's a good blue tan while chair so that tree the big tree we just planted but you see that grown with the limb? That is a tree with just like you Barbara Chyna bam. But the children kill it getting it berries and breaking the limbs so this no but some of them better than then fact that even the least not right so in November my older sister lost her baby and Rich and I went to the gym and one of the boys why your doctor couldn't do nothing with the sugar she hated and let's let you get this taken and put your thing in her and get out you blew the shoe it was so hot. And I made her $6 Woohoo you get some of them leave the bar or the berries you get much pop and that is in the berry Alright got the same strength center that and read it back up put on one on routes they will small I got a lot and that cook somebody he said he said it when it first come up just like mustard bring it is good. And And when my brother died he had no clue. He said the doctor said you know [we're chewing Peter Bronco Lindgren], anybody he says she doesn't know she bought it until till the [water would get cold] and then I've seen her since then she don't look like this it put it in a thing and a foot raises third turn rate dark and it's cool to be so I just don't know all I knew it I was medicine the say yo come get little medicine thing but what's the nearby head they would use POST calling you to get this happen I learned a lot do find it quite natural body helping him out with his medicine and keeping it all straight on the shelf and making

Emma Dupree (18:40) games and of that site and then the doctor lady I'd go with her to kinda nice to get a year she'd take pains and show me what fat grown what root look like there's our that will that was you know that was only hip to what times boundary oh we cook cook cook and my mom didn't care she raised the plane hang on and take a cut of ham couldn't wash port and shouldn't you take Ghana's I could go and go on again and NAS and again it would keep on laying there suddenly say they had never known hadn't put your hand on again this didn't lay down on me and I guess don't know what that is him

Emma Dupree (19:36) made I have a maypop vine right in there my T shirt is ready and they were to number your No you got bruise. I don't know we make it or not You can you can watch the leaves and pretty much can mark delete anything in this tale about what did he really think and God was three of these but even Steve has never shaped like a hand

Emma Dupree (20:22) and when the maypop counted it smells like a banana back and the good the good for you they use even grown folks and children to close I have been in picked a many urban for the male shoe colored children who had been in low ground it felt but you can't find them down in their mood they took me over the river some folks around Penny here couldn't even run and be paced back out of the feel they had run down my birthday so quite a mini hinder they told me to get on and get them and set them out but I felt me do a better state than me but I could go back when when it may pop come on so that I know this was good but a lady in new yo she hates the end Lord leaving your heart and all Dr Ravel to told her they didn't know no help for her but later any thing about the napalm you're talking to me pop that may pop by root and anything we don't want to think they knew would help who and now a friend of mine here many children in New York she will visit and then told us that we I have a friend that she really no yams and NMEA books sent in she knows the most thing and she sent me the money but it leaves and I sent it back and she sent it for two years and I stepped on more on that railroad going to the blacksmith show our Blake Smith man would tell me emma anything you got to cut me and so you branded me I'd be glad to fix it for you now me and Steph tome on I told him I stepped on the snake and the snake is older than me. He said Well I hate to kill it but happy to kill the snake but I went back and find out to the maypop read in between the [Qian] and looking own way to run head run over I got eight and I sent them to her in the next summer she come set and she said the [lord kept me until' you got me that I'm well if you were here last summer she would say to one or this lady's daughter soon fat and find her neck mobile net cheered him up she cooked him and hit him up and drunk the broth and then what she do that's why she killed his Mullen is a lung kidney back now my mullen you know you have to be the long trip you pocket right in this pocket I've got a lot of dry ground you bought it and if put your put your stuff in the swollen the fluid goes settling gold in your body and get around your knee you know to the land on the land the knee and ankle from the from the arthritis and (undecipherable) data this through getting in the Neal Hopper will def days and that will quite often put me foot in a drawer it out what to do there's no end devil can flirt knit haha I couldn't get your brand vs painting and run down my wisdom zone cram it down in there like they hadn't been on time who could get

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Emma Dupree (26:56) they come in here they slips in here and bring something now that is good medicine. That's good medicine good going and food too. Are you guys barley is good for you know [aerated stomach and iron] not a bad they broke open and then they put can be food specially they poke me poke cook and I will cook some of that phase and pig and a goose and and dry it and then you can grind till there's like next you back and cook and poke and poke me you put some of that in there and that will kill that pause under the animal and is holding me poking me that's where I cook we bet that's another thing please don't they will they cook it is cook the food. My ball a hammer cook a ham now who won't cook it in the oven my friend Hammond thing right there now always would let some save some time I put kind of bag you notice Washington ham a little bag and late round in there when I be baking a whole ham it still would be in there taking some of the colors and Sunday ham put me you know right now a lot of people can eat but they don't cook it right if they would cook it. It still wouldn't bother the [blues] don't cook it it is scheduled and if not done and if not done. He was well he had worked up and kept he didn't do the cooking so much she does give all to the oven to cook and visit him Fort Monroe up in Virginia and they had planted a big party for the gentleman's you know and so on and their wives and he did throw was Heydo seen everything being cooked and not know lead put on no put me it cooked that any lead that being covered. And they had to have the right cook food everything right from surgeons and the best of medicine and they're still down there this year boy was going into Dukes for his liver and kidney and the kidney Bagong who don't want on fact that thing. And liver was just about going with this cover. And one of my sons told me if I would see a liver pie shape and what it looked like and a human being said Mama says fry us everything So that's like what is covered covered over just like come on a [little home chimmeny] and then a little bit like pushing away you can hold a whole level

Emma Dupree (30:12) with like this kind of working on amongst the doctors So the answers are some call it silkweed we can call it butterfly weed but this is a wonderful new blood and bright kidneys and so on and it grows you look at it line and it grows down in their different roles and they're different from the mint for you fight mint I've got three different kinds of mint right here this is this good drink out for your kidneys Liz and I drank a lot of our drinks learning our grant this when it started the ball in my hand meal cook with nothing in itsoon to get cold drink we'll cook real good and get all the strain data out of this year then strain and strain it and put down a job container that I got the rock candy and now juice and honey in my in my yield strength out of my yield all that mix together see incoming work yet you haven't ball but anyway how started drinking me somebody when it is less coffee is good for the [Maori many bones and it makes them rich Sally]

Emma Dupree (32:40) were doing get various skis here on the yard and in the woods some places it don't grow like it do not on the river round the lower place now when you felt numb down bruising old spot old up and down on low rounds you know you could get most all of these there you may pops and it's already people's inner children growing up there to leave open it's like fatten pigs you're very strong and healthy don't get into that now they don't get enough maybe and it makes it different to blood and acid and older stuff is not fed with this stuff right back when I was growing up and after I roomed with a steel utility in older people need to but just like everything is changing. I say my mom could come back here and see all the history of Masbate she does a whole run right Ben Graham you won't desert like this yet your immune kill burger road ahead get in the woods and read through that page by and see this oh yes oh that is happening in us last night going on photo from way back but we would still with the best ad and it's makes me very strong and crazy and brave and thank into God is just like this is like he made it

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