Preppers Survival Natural Medicine
Essential Guide of Tips and Tricks in Preparing the Best Life-Saving Herbs, Essential Oils and Natural Remedies
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Table of Contents
Introduction
After being cooped up indoors for more than a year thanks to the pandemic, most people have started participating in wilderness and outdoor activities. Whether snowboarding, sea kayaking, mountain biking, rock climbing, or hiking, more and more people have finally started enjoying the outdoors. Unfortunately, these activities can be extreme and dangerous, and there is a need for counseling and caring in both non-traditional and traditional settings.
As the number of people performing these activities is increasing, it is important to assist people to help them survive in the wilderness. What would you do if you were hurt when you were trekking or hiking? Do you know how to take care of yourself? If you do not, use this book as your guide.
This book has all the information you need about survival medicine and its importance. It gives you an idea about the basics of first aid and the essentials you need to protect yourself in the wild. It introduces you to survival medicine and tells you what you can do to protect yourself when you are wounded and alone. When you are in the wild, you will not be close to a hospital or city. This means you must learn how to protect yourself. If you are new to survival medicine, use this book as your guide.
Throughout the book, you will learn about herbs, essential oils, and medicinal plants and how to use them to heal your wounds. The book also has some recipes you can use to heal wounds, cover them, and prevent infection. Use the tips shared to help you survive and thrive even when you are wounded.
All you must do is maintain a level head when you are outdoors and look after yourself. If you are anxious or stressed, use herbs and essential oils to calm yourself down. It is only when you are calm that you can determine what to do next. While the book has all the information you need, you must practice mastering the treatment methods explained.
Chapter One: The Essential First Aid Skills
If you and your family love spending time outdoors, you must prepare yourself for any medical emergency you may face when you are in the wild and away from medical assistance. These emergencies are very common, especially if you live in the country. Unexpected injuries and accidental injuries are all too common. If you think about it, a medical crisis is one of the most common reasons why you may find yourself in a survival situation in the wilderness. Medical crises are as dangerous as getting lost in the wild.
You need to learn a few basic first-aid skills. Regardless of whether you have a doctor or nurse with you in the wilderness, you need to know what to do in such situations. What if your friend is the one who is hurt? How would you deal with such a situation? Or you may get separated from the group you are with and get injured. It is important to know how to care for yourself. In this chapter, we will look at some essential first aid skills you need to learn in order to to survive a medical emergency.
Applying a Tourniquet
Do you, like most people, carry a tourniquet when you go on a trek or hike? If you do not, you need to begin now. Before you learn how to use a tourniquet when you are injured, it is important to know that not everything you find in the wild can be used for this purpose. Yes, it is true you can use a wire, rope, zip ties, or other material as a tourniquet. Having said that, if someone needs a tourniquet, it means he is bleeding badly. You cannot waste time trying to find things you can use as a makeshift tourniquet.
Carry a ready-to-use tourniquet when you hike or are outdoors. Leave a few in your first aid kit. It is best to keep these on top of your backpack or medical kit to ensure they are readily available. If you are unsure of how to use a tourniquet, you must learn how they are used so you are prepared. Time yourself to ensure you can put the tourniquet on for someone else or yourself in less than 15 seconds. You may be wondering why you need to be this quick. If an injury is so bad it needs a tourniquet, it indicates the person is losing a lot of blood. If you do not control the blood flow quickly, the patient may become unconscious, or he could die very quickly. This means you cannot waste any time if you need to use a tourniquet on someone. You can also get a pressure dressing or chest seal if you need to.
Packing a Wound
Packing a wound is not as easy as it sounds. The process is as painful as the injury you or someone else has experienced, but you need to know how to do this to prevent anybody from bleeding out. For a campsite cut or knife accident, you can stop the wound from bleeding by applying a clean bandage and putting some pressure on the wound. What do you think you could do if you were in the wilderness but the wound you have to deal with bleeds continuously? If you lose too much blood, you will land yourself in a very serious medical emergency. You cannot stop the wound from bleeding by simply applying pressure on the wound.
You must start by applying a lot of pressure to the wound if you ever find yourself with such an injury. Everybody's natural response to deal with a wound is to cover the wound and apply pressure to stop the bleeding. This is an instinctive response that does not benefit you. If you have hurt your limbs, hold your limb upward to prevent the loss of blood. If you know how to work with arterial pressure points, see if you can apply pressure to those points to stop the bleeding.
What would you do if applying direct pressure didnt stop the bleeding? You may have put on a tourniquet but found it does not help. In such cases, you must use enough gauze and push the gauze into the wound cavity to prevent the bleeding. This can only work in cases of superficial wounds or small scratches. This method does not work for deep wounds.
For deep wounds, use the "power ball" technique. EMTs use this technique if their patients have a gunshot wound or are stabbed with a knife. They create pressure inside the wound to stop blood from flowing out of the wound. To do this, you need to bunch the end of the gauze roll. This ball can be slightly wider than the actual wound. Push the ball into the wound. You may need to be aggressive, and it is going to hurt terribly when you do this. Once you push the ball in, add more gauze to the wound until you see no more blood. Now, use a pressure dressing to bind the wound and find a way to get to the hospital fast!
