BUZZ BUTTONS - Cooking Experiment With Toothache Plant, a Flower That Numbs Your Mouth 

Have any ideas on ways to use this in cooking? This is such a weird one, I may make another episode on this in the future.

Electric Daisies sounds like a psychedelic rock band from the 1960s

4:23 "That didn't do anything for me" [Immediately goes invisible!]

4:28 - it might not have numbed your tongue, but it did seem to temporarily break reality, so that’s something

"A flower that numbs your mouth" Seems healthy. Ill have it on my cheerios in the morning.

the way you drew an angry face on that oxygen bond gives me life

Been waiting for this one. They went through a brief gourmet fling few years back in mixed drinks. Called them buzz buttons.

I appreciate you keeping out of the medicinal realm of edible plants. There are so many wild claims about plants, basically every one is used to cure just about everything depending on the culture or region it comes From. And it’s cheaper to produce and sell than actual medicine, making it easy for people to prey on others desperation. Glad you stay out of that mess. Flavor is hard to describe as it is!

Similar compounds to what's in Sichuan Peppercorns. We grow these in my university teaching greenhouse for demonstration, and often offer them as a test of bravery for students. Usually people just end up drooling. They reseed themselves easily and you can take cuttings to propagate, so they're very easy to keep around all the time.

I'm from Brazil, and ate a whole flower once. Let me tell you, it was... interesting lol

In Brazil we pronounce the J. Making it sound like an R is a spanish thing, in Brazil we talk portuguese

I started growing these after I had one in a bar in the Netherlands. You chew up the flower and do a shot and it feels like your mouth is fizzing.

I toured a hydroponic farm where the tour group tasted their way through the farm. At the end, everybody ate a buzz button. Surprising but not bad. One woman exclaimed "Ooo! I want that feeling all over my body!".

We have Zanthoxylum clava-herculis here in Florida which is called Toothache tree. Ive heard you can also use that in chinese cooking, similar to szechuan peppercorn, as well. I will send you some if I can find it.

I know I'm a bit late, but I'm from Madagascar and we use those in a dish called romazava, which is a meat stew to which you add this plant as well as spinach, it's very nice and if you substitute the meat for fried tofu it makes for a very interesting vegan dish. when cooked the bred mafane keep the same effect but lose some of its strength.

I remember seeing this video called "Poppies for pain" and it was just a video on how to make opium.

Brazilian here! The right pronunciation of 7:09 (for those who are curious) would be "ca-sha-saw de jam-boo". We say the J as in "jam", H sounded J's are for spanish speaking countries. The A's in "cachaça" sound like the A's in "car", "shag" and "saw", respectively.

This has probably been done before, but you should make a book or website explaining and describing all the plants you have tried (kind of like documenting all the things you have tried).

The flavor of molasses that you described for the ""Cachaca"" could be that rum is distilled from sugarcane mash. You say you don't drink, but I think that's the second time I've seen it on the channel (after the Coco de Mer episode) :)

salivating is spot on. I grew this last year and ate the whole flower. Had bit hard time talking for maybe 10-15 mins. I tested putting in salsa. Pretty fun!

That flower is like "stinky peanut / Petai Flower" in Indonesia, but they use it for anti mosquito, just burn it when dried.

9:08 I was waiting for "and now I'm blind"

i've eaten jambu flowers straight from the plant a couple of times and i find it quite pleasant and havent thrown up yet, so yeah i dont think you need to worry too much about being sick, but who knows honestly

Making ice cream out of enough of that stuff to cause a 'peppery' reaction sounds really fun and potentially quite good actually...

I really love that you make these videos i always watch them because i know:"i am gonna learn new facts and i am gonna like it"

I laughed so hard when you showed the chemical compounds and gave the oxygen expressions

The reluctance to taste the strange spiciness made this kinda hilarious to watch haha. I've also heard of it called buzz button. Thanks for the review.

"You do not want to eat a whole one of these flowers raw.".....Is he challenging me?

You really need to chew up an entire flower or two to get the numbing effects. The tingling comes first, then the numbness... and then some curious flavor changes as your sensations come back from the numbness. The lips are especially effected if you blow /breathe past them. The flowers mostly taste grassy initially, so most people don't care for them, but it's unique. The electric daisy aka buzz buttons are members of the daisy and sunflower family and are edible. They aren't toxic, but the buzz can be an acquired enjoyment - not that dissimilar to people who enjoy hot peppers or mints or other strange flavor / sensation -causing herbs 'n spices.

Damn! Back to back to back! Keep the videos comin!!

I grew this last year as a novelty and the plant grew well. I basically let it die in the garden and pulled up the roots when I amended the soil this spring. Fast forward to now and I have a whole bunch of toothache plants sprouting and flowering. Amazing. The reaction isn't bad but now I'm interested in buzz rum lol

I got seeds for this awesome plant a few months ago and have been so impatient for spring to get some growing! I didn’t know the leaves were edible so thanks for the info. Great video as always. Glad you didn’t go blind. 😄

I think there is a bar in Las Vegas that uses this in one of their cocktails due to the way it interacts with sour flavor. No idea about cooking with it though.

these are called schezuan buttons too, unless those are different. but a man always comes into the cafe i work at and gives me a handful of these in the summer, he also makes tincture out of them. i love these things i just think theyre so fun. the ones he gives me arent red though, just yellow, and a tiny bit smaller

Very interesting to learn about these. I’ve no interest in trying them, but fun to watch.

That face at 9:08 right before “There it is” cracked me up.

That extract could be interesting in drinks or coctails. Or shots, kinda exotic ting

It really does feel like a buzz in your mouth. I wanted to make a jam out of a bit of it but never got around to it. Very spready, low growing plant and all those seeds seem to germinate well so you end up with a lot of them next year in your garden.

Great video. I have grown this plant for the last couple of years in my garden, and plan to grow it again this year. I use it as a spice in cooking, very similar to how I would use Sichuan peppercorns, but not in Chinese cooking. Thank you for sharing this plant with the rest of the World!

I was super surprised to see you try the rum and popsicles knowing that you dont drink. Really nice to see you documenting even if a little outside your norm or comfort.

Great video. That was a big bite of the flower. When I tried them, I maybe had 1/10 of what you ate and it was more than enough to realize it wasn’t pleasant. The sensation almost seemed electrical. Such a crazy plant.

I am from India and as kids we used to chew the flower and it tastes good (we don't use the leaves also we spit the flower after chewing and swallow the sap) people also use it for tooth ache and the one found here have a smaller flowers than showed in the video and the one used in the video is little bit dry that why it looks odd the one we see here looks more like on 6:41. And I don't know people who uses it on tobacco may some parts of the country doing it. Now not many of these plants are found these days

buzz buttons are awesome they are great in soups and stirfry.

I work in a children's tasting garden and love to visit this plant on my tours. I always ask the children who is the bravest. Hands up all sind me. I follow it with a trip to the stevia.

Looks a bit related to achillea millefolium (röllika in Swedish) which roots and flowers has been used for soothing/numbing toothache way back when... classic home remedy.

I have been growing these in my garden for nearly ten years. They are a great plant. Thanks for the video.

I think I have tried chewing on several different plants. No idea what 😄 never enough gloves and goggles to go around. Thanks again!

In Brazil, around the Amazon region (where the flower is from), we also use in other recipes, like in Tacacá, a indigenous recipe of shrimp soup/stew.

jambu! it's so so good. We have this in our garden, but the flowers are a bit smaller in south america's variation of it. I really reccomend some garlic fried rice whit this plant and shrimp. Cachaça de Jambu is DANGEROUS tho, that shit makes you not realize you're drunk. It's like amarula, when you realize it youre drunk already. cachaças are not exactly rum as well, cachacas is basically just alcohol whit water. I think that the best comparison would be some shogu (Japanese potato alcohol) instead of rum.

I used to work at a cocktail bar called the Alchemist in the UK where we used this to make numbing shots people would take before a certain cocktail! It worked quite well! We called them Sichuan Daisy's

We have a brand of vodka liquor here in St. Louis called Zambu. It uses the “Brazilian buzz button” flower as a flavoring agent, which is Acmella oleracea. I personally like it, but could only do 3-4 of them before enough is enough.

Omg what about a chimichurri with the leaves? I actually got seeds of this plant earlier this year, looking forward to growing them this summer

I love seeing people's faces the first time they try this plant 🤣 I love the rum with it in! Its great fun!

I worked at a place where we would give these to unsuspecting coworkers. I was a little...annoyed because I had to talk to guests while drooling uncontrollably. But that made giving it to others that much more fun!

When I was a kid, we used clove for toothaches. Just shove some in your gum and it would numb your tooth... after about 2 minutes of burning.

numby rummies !! my mum used to make a drink with black spiced rum and these plants, forget what was all in it but it was definitely good frozen into an ice cream texture! i wish i could try it again lol

Bro, you need to visit me in Humboldt because you can buy this plant at the Arcata farmer's market in June and July. I buy one almost every year, honestly 2020 when everyone was commanded to stay at home was the only year I didn't, but for some reason my cats love it more than catnip and not only eat it but knock the pot over and roll in the roots and dirt pulverizing them leaving nothing left alive to grow a new plant. Here, they call it Spilanthes. I've never tried to make it into a tea or cook it but I've eaten the leaves and flowers and every houseguest who visited me during the few weeks of every year that I grew this plant was forced to try a leaf or flower and a solanum americanum berry...

I did a study on this plant for university, amongst many others used by natives

Have you ever eaten fresh Wasabi leaves? I’m wondering if the leaves would be similar to that. Delicious with like summer soba.

It relieves pain by flushing out bacteria and the acid that they produce. This alone, is helpful, but it also has a mild bacteriostatic effect. The tingling sensation probably does nothing more than distract you from the pain.

Hugs from Portugal :)

had Sichuan buttons before. it is similar, i think, it is like eating a 9v battery. the company that made them suggests mixing them with orange sherbet.

Had a whole one at a market in France, it made me feel so sick, salivating non stop, and feeling my tongue getting swollen... Be careful when you have it!

I really like how his reactions are exact. He isn’t blowing up the reaction for likes.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 thanks for the laugh and the very interesting info.

I know this flower. When I was small and had sores in my mouth my mum used to ask us to chew the flower. Now I am 59 living in the urban area , haven't seen it in a long time. It does work. Also clove. Kwa Zulu Natal South Africa

Be safe, thank you for the honesty of spitting it out. I wonder if it'd help on itching or burnt skin. Although I'm scared of the numbing effect of it also and i already know that plant antioxidants have helped me heal differently and faster. (I'd gotten a burned spot on my arm from a 400° frying pan when baking fish, I'd been eating much more spinach than i normal at that time and instead of one painful blister it had about a hundred small ones and i couldn't really feel the pain an hour later when I was scrubbing over it by mistake in the shower. It seemed that the skin hadn't fully separated from the next layer of the dermis.

Essential oils and plant salts are pretty potent. I was grinding some root bark the other day and a tiny bit wafted up my nose... full blown yopo trip man. I'm serious. This surprised me.

The faces on the molecules. 😂👏👏👏

If you cook the mixture first it will cook the alcohol off and leave the tingly ingredient behind and it will freeze.it won't be boozy though

The Bakers Creek Heirloom Seed Company has packets of seeds for these. They are supposed to be relatively hearty but we will see :) I only have one seedling so far

I can only watch your Chanel on my IPhone - your Chanel is the only one that freezes my TV RU-vid. I freezes it bad too, like crashes it.

If you want to use that alcohol infusion in something frozen, light the alcohol on fire first to burn off the alcohol and leave only the infused water content and plant oils. That should work.

these are really easy to grow in a warm climate, like zone 9

Echinacea seeds will numb your tongue, and the Iroquois called echinacea the toothache plant.

For toothaches you grind it with a tiny amount of water or oil, and place the paste on the gums/tooth

Oh, just a friendly correction on the portuguese. Our J pronunciation is the same as in English. And the Ç in Cachaça, is like a S. Don't know the difference between cachaça and rum though.

it seems that the root of the Purple Coneflower has the same effect. it was the only medication that my youngest daughter used for teething. you have to collect the roots right after the first hard freeze. that way all the good stuff goes down into the roots. once the roots are harvested, you have to dry them slowly in the sun (preferred). once they're dried, grate/crush them into powder and add the powder to just a little bit of cornstarch (to help it stick) and a touch of powdered sugar (to help make it a little bit palatable). once this is done, it can be stored in a small container. i used a small "Sucrets" box. just think "Altoids". but when my daughter would start feeling a bit of discomfort with her emerging teeth, she would lick her finger, dip it into the powder, and rub the powder on her gums where it was hurting., she could, as a toddler, actually medicate herself. but i love Coneflower root for a number of ailments.

Ah yes, cachaça de jambú, the grad students bane. Love it, it's cheap, tingly and delicious.

Clove oil is so much better as an oral topical anesthetic. In it's pure form it's called Eugenol. Great stuff.

I used the flowers when I bartended a few years back. Pretty cool effect.

I dunno how I missed this one! I have seen the buzz buttons trending recently, so I am glad you changed the name. ☆

I actually grow this plants and a lots of Laos peoples we used it for cooking beef,chicken and pork.

These are fun to keep in the garden and have people try them🤣 I grew some last summer to make tinctures they also are supposed to help calm your stomach as well.

This grows a lot in my hometown and I love the taste of it tho you are supposed to eat it a lil by lil .........like one flower goes a long way like days

Side note, if you got a SOXHLET DISTRIBUTOR You could better extract the essential oils and dose them more accurately, or mix into ethanol etc.

Emmy ate the whole thing!!

what an amazing idea, make something that was said to help with toothache into something that can make your tooth ache, ice cream. maybe this could be advertise as "icecream for those with sensitive teeth" haha

These flowers are used at the disney parks in the star wars cantina. If you order a Fuzzy Tauntaun the drink comes with a foam that is infused with this.

Interesting! Thanks for the video :)

This would go perfect with a bowl of Captain Crunch. You wouldn't feel the cereal tearing the roof of your mouth apart while chewing!

In Iowa, our native toothache tree is Zanthoxylum americanum. Prickly Ash. It's historically used the same way. I've used it as a pepper substitute from time to time, but it's super strong. I've got one growing in the way back, and it's pretty hardy. Dried seeds are like Szechuan peppercorns, as well, but maybe even nastier.

This is super cool dude. What an interesting ingredient

It's often used in a traditional Malagasy dish called romazava. My parents love it, i hate it.

Oh man! Something about hearing you describe that hypersalivation and the feeling they gave you.... I'm actively getting nauseous. Think I'll be avoiding those powerful little flowers! Thanks for the videos, I'm binge watching them currently and list of garden additions for this summer is growing haha

11:50 I love how he made the chemical compound look angry😂

I suspect for Popsicles you would have had more of a reaction if u had brewed the plant in the milk so to speak instead of using alcohol. I find warming the base and steeping the herb or plant imparts more flavor since it is direct

I like the medicine plant stuff

I grew them last summer and I grew to love the taste. Very very very green taste. I ate them like candy lol.

Pairs well with nettle soup