The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Medical Kits & First Aid for Survival & Prepping

Episode Date: April 13, 2026

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We'll go into that kit and see what's all in there. Look at the whole situation. Very interesting. See what they got going on? You know, what I want to do. talk about today is kind of a holistic approach to medical preparedness.

Kits, skills, reference. I left my reference in the house. We'll have to talk about the reference. I won't be able to show them off. But the audio podcast wouldn't make you any different anyway. You guys are listening to the audio podcast, right?

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All right? Thank you guys. So we're over on Instagram. We're over on Rumble right now. We're over on X right now. Unfortunately, we've been obliterated and eviscerated from YouTube. And I don't know that we'll ever come back. I think it's time to move on to bigger, better things.

we've never had any real income come from YouTube so we've never really had any influx of listeners come from YouTube I don't know it's an ease of access thing the only thing that I'm on the fence with with YouTube is it's an ease of access right everybody's got used but with the nature of ads on YouTube and things like that I'm also wondering how long people are going to have YouTube and use YouTube so much with the nature of censorship on YouTube. Remind you, we've been nuked off of YouTube,

and fundamentally for talking about what we're going to talk about today. It is Medical Monday on Prepar Broadcasting Network. We talk about alternative medicines every Monday, well, most Mondays, right? Today we have a great show. I mean, one from the archives could just as easily be a throwback Thursday, but it's a great show from Sam Kaufman, who is like one of my favorites. I mean, really, Sam Kaufman is one of my all-time

favorite hosts on PBN. He used to do a show called The Herbomedic, and he's doing his thing. What is that Phoenix over there in the Instagram world? How you doing? But he's doing his thing today talking about sustainable herbal medicine, which he did that show probably in like 2015, 2016, maybe.

Fast forward to 2026. And a big thing that Sam does nowadays is he goes to foreign countries, sets up sand water filtration biofilm sand water filtration I think it's called and teaches people how to use sustainable herbal medicine

like this has been the guy's passion forever this is a great show on on just how to do that not just how to buy like an herbal medicine kit with some tinctures and some sabs in it and use it and then once it's gone it's gone right

but how to grow it sustain it, store it, the whole thing. I mean, it's a great show. It is an awesome pick for medical music. And for me, I just said, you know, I got my survival scripts from our great sponsor, Survival Scripts.com. I got that in the mail over the weekend. And I said, why don't we just do a talk?

Why don't we just do a medical kits in first aid for survival and prepping kind of overview? Talk about things, you know. Talk about different kids. Talk about different books. talk about really how to use how to use and how to get used to using the natural world

as medicine. That's important. Right? You guys probably want to see kits off the bat, right? I imagine most people they get into a show like we say we're not going to go digging in two kits, but Rambo Rogan, how you doing,

what have you been? Quiet prepared. I've seen Quiet underscore prepared showed a lot showing a lot up on my recommendation. I'll check you out. Who else is in here? It's a good-looking group. It's a good-looking group. So,

how do people familiar with this kind of a bag? Right? The individual first aid kit kind of kit, right? I actually use an IFAC that is a lot smaller in the vehicle. You probably would call it like a vehicular. iFAC or individual first aid kit i feel like for those of you who don't know the iFAC has an emphasis on like serious trauma stop the bleed bullet wounds repairing those that kind of damage you know what i mean what i think people miss in the i fact that i put in mind is uh you know

sort of the day-to-day ailments and sort of uh those more common ailments. In other words, I see IFACs kind of packed to the gills with things like tourniquets, high fin chest seals, like nasal pharyngeal airway, these kind of, you know, things that you don't see in your average first aid kit. What I go into an IFAC for more than anything is ibuprofen and an acid. I mean, really, like when you really think about it, ibuprofen and acid, triple antibiotic ointment or acid tracing, right? Or real band-aids that actually work, right? We don't buy plastic band-aids in our house.

We only buy the cloth band-aids because those are the only ones that actually work in my opinion. A variety of bandage sizes can help a lot. Another thing, I don't know if I have in my vehicle, is a... A pair of tweezers, man. A pair of tweezers can get you out of so much truck. Alcohol pads, soak wipes. Oh, this is a good one to have on there. People take deep for granted.

That one can go a long way, right? I'm showing off a cold compress. Cold compress is an easy one, cheap one. Thermal blanket, right? A mylar blanket can go a long way. But this guy, this is your travel, your tiny travel, your eye back, your individual person. day kit maybe you throw it on your chest rig from time to time or whatever it's

I don't know people back I don't do that kind of stuff this one is usually in the house to be you know divvied out to whoever's going a place I have one in the car that's always in the car behind the passenger seat headrest another important kit is I think like an overall first aid kit for the house one that's mobile right like this is not the extent of our first aid but this is sort of like uh-oh something's happened in the dining room go grab the kit you know what i mean and it this is by a company that i go back to they're not an american company i really don't care survival first aid kit you can look them up they're still in business survival first they even do a bigger one now than this they do a black one and why why do i like these kits these kids first of all

these kits been out a long time. Before it was fashionable to have a first aid kit company, which it is now. It seems like before it was fashionable to have that kind of kit. These guys were out. These guys sent you a kit with a tourniquet in it before turnicot. Turnicot stuff was all everywhere, right? These guys sent you kits with like eye wash. They have eye wash in it. They have a lot of different bandages in them. Suture stuff, not like suture with needles, but like suture stuff that you'd actually use. It's a big old kit. It's a big old kit that over the years was well labeled on the insides. Over the years, I've used up things and added things, right? Depression bandages I've added. When I had little kids, I bought up the SWATTs at PreparCamp to make sure I had those.

The SWAT tea. A normal tourniquet might not work on a little arm or a little leg, but a SWATT is like a big rubber band basically. You know what I mean? It's like a big painful, horrendous rubber band. But what it will do is cut the blood flow off so that your kid doesn't bleed it. But whatever brand,

you know what I mean? The brand is kind of irrelevant. The contents that you want, the things that you need in a kid, um, this was the one that worked for me way back when I started trapping and I stelt with them ever since.

I don't know. these are the decisions that you have to make. I can give you guidance, but at the end of the day, you have to decide. And when you're deciding on a brand, one of the things that you have to decide on is, oh, can I afford that? Because when you get into the medical equipment, it's outrageous. I'll just tell it like it is. You know it's outrageous.

You look at some of these medical bags. There's $700 to $1,000. I don't know about you, but that's one of those things. You know, who can do that? Real quick, everybody. I want to introduce you to something pretty cool. Give me a sec. Oh.

You see down here on the left of me, I wish the podcast audience to participate in these. That'd be great. Phoenix says I keep a bigger-sized container in my car. We'll talk about that in a minute. But if you're watching on Rumble, Instagram, or X, You'll see that there is a numbered poll. Wow, that poll's really in the way on Instagram.

You'll see that the answers to the poll are numbered, right? What will people need most in a collapse? Type one in chat for medical gear, type two in chat for herbal medicine, type three in chat for antibiotics, and four for referencing guidelines. So if you type the number of the corresponding answer into the chat, you'll vote in the poll. Nobody wins anything. It's just fun.

It's new. It's fun. I've been playing around with it. Having a good time. So, Phoenix, I don't know if it works in Instagram or not. Do me a favor and type a number in.

Just one number in and then hit enter and see if it works. I think it does work on. Definitely works on Rumble. I don't know about it. I think Firewolf said it doesn't work on it. But anyway, the poll's fun. The polls are good time.

I like it. The other thing that we do, is the survival medical cash, okay? And it's not a hidden cash, but I call it a cash, because what it is for me is kind of the everything, extra everything else bins, right? The backup bins. We still have the medical cabinet, right?

The medicine cabinets, like we do like a three-tier medicine cabinet in the kitchen, right? It's not enough stuff, right? It's not enough stuff. There's stuff that, like, when you're a parent, just buy all the liquid Tylenol, you know what I mean? All of them. Buy it all.

All have it on here. You'll use it. You know what I mean? Or whatever you want to do, ibuprofen. I don't know. Everything, everybody has 17 opinions on everything. All I can tell you is we did liquid Tylenol, liquid ibupin.

None of our kids are autistic. Every boy has ADHD. so I don't give a shit about that. That's just my personal experience. But beyond the medicine cabinet, beyond the medical, beyond the actual first aid kits, we keep a big Tupperware bin and a subsequent smaller bin of sort of your backup inventory. You know what I mean? This is where you put your extra bandages, where you put your backup OTC medications,

where you probably go to store your prescription antibiotics like survival scripts, right? These things you don't need six bottles of ibuprofen in the medicine cap. It's done, right? But in your backup inventory, you can have that extra medicine. And you should. You can buy like four pack of ibuprofen. And I know super health world now, nobody takes ibuprofen until you need ibuprofen. Right? I keep it on handle.

Sure, keep it on that. Anti-inflammatory fever reducer, you kidding me? Works like this. We take very little medicine in my house. I mean, very little. I think I took an ibuprofen a few months back for a headache that came on out of nowhere. It's pretty bad. It lasted a couple days. The kids, we don't take medicine. Very rare we take any medicine. We have medicine on hand. Because when we go, oh, God, life is hell, I need medicine. We take medicine. So just, you know, to clear that up. So the medical cash is kind of the background for all the stuff that you don't need in your medicine cabinet and maybe the backups or extras that you normally have in something like an eye effect, right? Spanko bandages, ace bandages, like I said, the children's allergies, children's medications.

We don't use them anymore because the kids are so old now, but it's, those things, right? Know what we have in there? The finger cots, the finger sprained casts like, all that kind of mobility stuff can live in that cash. You know what I mean? I think that's a great thing to do.

I'm going to give you a resource right now, absolutely, great resource that you can use. Over at pbnfamily.com, we have a page called Build Your Medicine. medical cash, all right? And our great sponsor, can I hide this thing for a minute? I'm going to hide

Jay Ferg jumping to the Rumblestream. Thank you. I'm going to hide this thing real quick because I want to show you our website. Because this we built out a few years ago. It's important. With the help of Dr. William Forgey, we built this out. He is the he's a practicing medical doctor and also

the man behind the preppers medical handbook which is the longest sponsor we've ever had. He's our longest term sponsor of all time, ever grateful for the guy. I think his book is about the best book you can buy, particularly if you start from scratch. But basically what we did is we pulled everything out of his book. So this is his book right here.

You see it. Buy it. It's like 18, 19 bucks on Amazon, something like that. It's the best. It's small, easy to read, easy to diagnose from, easy to treat has everything in it, even up to antibiotic use and dosage, right? Which, whether you know it or not, if you're watching me and you're going, I like this prepping stuff. Eventually, you're going to go crazy enough that you have your own antibiotics.

Maybe you'll get them from survival scripts.com, but you're going to get, you know, have your own antibiotics. And then you're going to go, oh, I don't know how to dose these things. What my kids got an ear infection. He needs antibiotics. What am I going to? How much do I get? Rep.'s Medical Handbook has that cover. But for what we're talking about, every single item that's in that book is listed here and linked here. Right? And it links right to Amazon. You see? Take you right there. You get it if you need it, right? Boom. I probably should go through a QA on it. But if the link doesn't work, you can find something similar, right? So you can go here and you can build out your survival cash. It's not that much. I just.

say it's probably about 40 to 50 items and again you're building your situation you don't have to put in there everything that i say or the doc says what he did and what i did is he sent me a list of every item over the counter that's in his book i put every item that's over the counter in his book on the list that way if you have the book and you have the list you're 90% ready right you're 90% ready to grab the book oh my god something's wrong leaf through it oh i need the uh i need the percogizic tablets well that's a weird one but i you know what i mean i need the i need the disposable skin stapler that's a good one have around uh so those are the things that you can have on the i do not have a disposable skin stapler by the way um the dermaquitch strips i think might be a

better option but i guess if you needed it you had to have it the dermaquick wasn't working something was gaping might be worth having i don't know i've never used one again get a lot of decisions to make when you're building out your own medical cash medical uh survival medical cash but this is just our our little uh resource for gingo right we built this into the website because of our great sponsor because he did the work of pulling all this stuff out um i said yeah you know what let's let's put that in there man let's see what we can do with that and it's been a great help to listen to other sense, okay? So what I want to do now is I want to look at,

whoa, good? I just disappeared. Oh, it's because I took the thing now. What I want to do now is I want to take a look at this medical kit. I want to look at the Survival Scripts kit. But we've got to switch here. Screen, but I guess I can't do it. So we're going to take a look here. Let's get down a little bit. Yeah, that's pretty good. I haven't looked in it.

I didn't look at it on purpose. I wanted to make sure that we looked at it together to see what was what. And I'm pretty interested. I mean, I know what's in it, but I don't know what all of it looks. I know the items that are in there, but I'm not 100% sure about how everything looks.

Let's start with a small pack. Small pocket first. That's empty. I'm sure there's information within and information that you probably want to have to have that in that pocket also. This could be like your personal information pocket. Like my family has X, Y, and Z things, right, going on and we need X, Y, and Z medications. Let's have a feat. Let's unveil.

Oh, my goodness. Look at it. Looks great. Well organized. Looks great. I'm not good at all this stuff, so some of it I'm going to get wrong. I love the clear pocket. The clear pocket is great.

So we got some allergy medicine. That's a good one. UTI test strips, anti-diereal. Some of this stuff is over-the-counter stuff that you could buy, but the survival scripts people provided in these larger kits. There are companies that provide just antibiotics. in their kits and things like that. That's cool. There's nothing wrong with that.

But what they do is they do a mix. They do a little bit of a mix. I really like it. I think it's cool. I think it makes a lot of sense. Zithromycin, tablets, full course of antibiotic therapy, right? Beautiful. I don't know about you, but these things help me sleep at night. I'm pretty sure this isn't.

an interesting one man don't quote me because it's been a while but i'm pretty sure my son suffered from some uh my youngest he's sorry trying to do this right i'm no qvc guy he suffered from some uh what's it called eczema and i'm pretty sure this was what we used on that we used a topical antibiotic that really helped him because he got bad started to get bad like infection Muporosin. Why do they do this stuff? Calcium. Apply a small amount top of it to affected areas three times a day. Why do the pharmaceutical companies create that situation where you know you can't pronounce shit that they're sorry? There is that on purpose.

It's like a secret language. Cyproflaxin. eye drop medicated antibiotic eye drop one to two drops and affected eye five times a day that's pretty sweet that is pretty good man i mean if you wrap your head around like i don't want to scare you to that but if you wrap your head around like there's an eye infection in the family and nobody's got antibiotics so we got ibuprofen and we got some tylonol here good you throw this thing in your vehicle for travel, bug out, whatever. This is another thing you can put in a bug out location or alternate location if you already have bug out antibiotics, right?

Pretty cool. Then we've got, these are the prescription meds, right? So I'm not even going to try that one. I'm not even going to try that one. You can figure that one off if you'd like. That is the neutrophicin. from Breffin crystal. We have got

Neklizine. We have got the big one, right? The big one everybody knows. Amoxicillin treats everything, it feels like. No matter what the hell you got going on, your doctor's like,

oh, give you some moctosil, and it'll be good. On Densdron HCI, tiny little tablet. Tiny little tablet. doxycycline that's another big one we see a lot these are prescription medications you know that's what we're dealing you got to go you got to fill out a i think they call it like a finding form

you basically take do a little online doctor's appointment it takes no time at all this kit was 299 uh and they you know good luck getting your hands on all that kind of stuff otherwise, right? That is our sponsor, SurvivalScripts.com. I would highly recommend you take that into consideration

because a kit like this with all that kind of antibiotic stuff, you know, you know who makes our antibiotics, right? You know where the antibiotics come from? They come from China and now India. I don't know. What if they stop coming from China, right? That's why we started this years

ago. We used to do business with a company called Jace Medical. They're still out there. I don't know what they're up to these days, but they're still out there. I like survival scripts. I think survival scripts does a better holistic kit. You know what I mean? They do much bigger kits. They do all some stuff. So check them out, survival scripts.com, see what they have to offer. You could check out their cycle. Before we move on out of kits. So they got a bunch of collections, right? They got a bunch of collection, right? They got the preparedness collection, travelers collection, the essential collection. Let's take a keep, right? The disaster

preparedness kit, this is a monster, this thing back here, in the kit, that kit in the back there, the disaster preparedness kit, let's see what? The OTC kit. The OTC kit's cool. You can buy it without the sort of doctor approval you have to go through for the other one. And like I said, this doesn't cost any money extra to meet doctors I can't remember what it's

called. You just fill out a bunch of questions. What they're doing, they're making sure they don't send you something you're allergic to and then they get a lawsuit. Let's check out the disaster from there. This thing looks huge. This is a monster. Wow. This is the $1,300 kit. Wow.

We. Zipro-mic and a macheteer, prednisone, doxycycline, shit. proplexing. A lot of stuff, man. And it's even got some basic first aid. Pretty cool. So check all their stuff out. SurvivalScripts.com.

The kit that I got is actually in the Travelers Collection. I'm pretty sure. Maybe not. It might be in the every essential collection. That's it, the essential kit right there. That's the one we got. The essential kit. It's got your RX and it's got your OTC.

Pretty cool. Pretty nice. Pretty interesting little kit. So, you know, you've got the gamut of a variety of kits that you could store in your house, store in your car, however you want to do it. I'd highly recommend to spread things out. I think it makes a lot of sense to spread things out. Give me just one second.

Bring you a thing back. Let's here we put our sponsor up. Survival scripts.com. I don't want to be the whole show. I'd rather bring our cool background. Oh, it was. So silly. Let's talk about reference a little bit, right?

Let's talk about reference. All the medical kit in the world does you know good if you don't know what you're doing, right? You have no idea what any of that stuff I just showed you is or how much you give to somebody. If you don't know how to wrap somebody up so they don't die, how often you change the bandages so they don't get it in faith. Like, right? You need preface. And, hey, dude, look, don't come over here thinking you're going to pee on this log and on all my medical foot. I got a dog over here that's giving me that look like he's about to lift his leg, all my kids here. So there are three books that I want to tell you about.

You've seen one already, right? That was the Preper's medical handbook. It's good book. It's the best book, I think, for a one book option, really. and a new book option because it gives you all the information you need in a smaller book because some medical books are absolutely outrageous. And to be honest, they're filled with a bunch of stuff you're likely not to have to deal with, but you may want the reference.

I would much prefer to have something like the doomsday book of medicine, which I'd highly recommend. Here's the caveat, right? Though I like having a smaller book and some big books have lots of extra information, I'd much rather have a big book written by a doctor called the Doomsday Book of Medicine than have a LLM off-grid medical guide, which is likely what people are going to start having and referring to. Like I really do think.

I've seen a lot of these, man, these things are popping up everywhere. I haven't tested one out. I'm trying to get somebody to test one. But people are basically taking wiki and other data from across the and creating large language model AI reference tools for preppers that run off-brid. For some things, this is cool, right? For medical, no. No way, right?

You do not want to get your medical information from a large language model, AI that is off-grid, that is built to, you know, sit on a USB stick. You do not want to do that. AI will lie, AI will misrepresent information, AI will try to craft an answer that you like, more importantly than it will try to give you the right answer. And when it comes to, you know, Karen, for your loved ones in a medical situation, you can't risk it. So in order for me to put in a good word on those kinds of technologies, I got to see them in action. I got to verify that the information is read on money because I've read. AI generated survival articles, right? I know sort of the weak points and strong points.

It's a dangerous game. It's a little bit of a gamble, depending on what topic you're talking on, right? So better to have a big reference. The big reference that I always turn to is the Duesday Book of Medicine by Ralph LaGuardia. The Duesday Book of Medicine, it's a biblical size text. It's huge. And it has a lot of straight up and down medical. It has a lot of treating with baking soda, treating with sea salt, treating with a lot of sort of vinegar, like a lot of sections on some of the more austere and prepper-related medical things.

Really great information with pictures on how to treat specific ailments. The one thing that comes to mind with that book is the eye section. The eye section is done really good. How to treat use to the eye, how to bandage, how to protect. that kind of stuff. So the Dune's Day Book of Medicine, number one, that's the big Bible-sized book. If you want the best book on the market, it's the Preppers Medical Handbook, much smaller, much easier reference. I had to decide and make a decision on what book would be my herbal medicine guide, right?

What book would be, or my wild medicine got? Let's go back. and I went with Bushcraft First Aid by Dave Canterbury. Bushcraft First Aid, I think that, I stacked them all up next to my desk and I left them. Sorry, for those who watch. The Bushcraft First Aid by Dave Canterbury, the back of the book is really all I bought the book for. It's good. The front of the book is good, but it's kind of basic in terms of first aid, which is good.

That's what you want. And the front of the book also has sort of his sort of his basic. level preparedness for the wilderness reds, 10 Cs kind of layout. It's good. It's a great book, all in all, great book. But it's got color palettes. Color palettes of the

wild medicine, trees, you know, leaves, all the whole not. And then right after that, it has the follow up on how to make the tinctures, how to make the decoctions, how to make the, what's the one with the rag and the cold water,

all those. infusions, sabs, the whole nine yards. Recipes, everything, right thing, right? Because I'm looking for a quick reference. I got to make a thing where to. What's the one book I go to to make the thing? I also published a book that I never remember because I don't make any money off of it when it sells.

I like made it as a complete project and sold it. I got to do it more justice because it took a lot of work. I think it's called Nature's Natural Medicine by James Wooden. walk me something like that i can't remember what it is but it was a very very intensive freaking research book great color pictures and if you want to go deep into the sort of the herbal medicine thing it goes plant by plant which is not my particular favorite way to do business when it comes to urban medicine right i don't want a book that tells me plant by plant i want to uh but then again you do need that reference. I'm just beyond that.

When I know kind of like, I have my rolodex in here of the plants and the barks that I need when somebody needs natural medicine remedy. What I want is the quick reference on how to turn the bark into the mess. That's the part that I'm not an expert at yet

off the top of my head. So, however you want. Right. However you. It's crazy when you've written so many books that you don't even remember. That's crazy. That's a wild thing. New book coming, too, by the way. Beautiful. Beautiful. And then I just got commissioned to write the follow-up to the Wilderness Survival Toolkit, and it's going to be the Prepper's survival toolkit, and it's going to be ten times better. It's going to be great. So three great references, man. The Prepper's Medical Handbook, the Doomsday Book of Survival. And last but not least, Dave Canterbury's Bushcraft survival skills. Bushcraft First Aid for survival. One of them.

I think it's Bushcraft First Aid. That's a great. And if you're a big fan, you can look up James Walton. Natural Medicine for Survival lists. I don't know exactly what it's called, but it's really good. It's really well, but I got to buy a copy. It's absolutely a sin that I don't have copies. You know what I mean?

Of my own books to show you. Life goes on, man. Of the writing of many books, there is, That's free. So what else? What else we're going to talk about? We're going to talk about the natural world a little bit before we wrap it up. We're going to talk about how things like this little leaf right here that I just

ripped from the ground, common clantane, can be chewed up, smashed up, minced up, ground up into a poultice, and applied, you know, grind it up with some olive oil. It would probably be great. an applied to a wound on the arm, right, under a bandage, and will literally help heal your wound quicker, keep it safe from infection. I did not bring this to the party. There's quite a few of them right around my seat right now.

There's quite a few of them right around your seat right now. You know what I mean? And I think if you want to get into medicine and herbal medicine at large and foraging for medicine, like two things, right? We're not going to go on and on about this because it's a whole other show. Two things, though, that will guide you and make you much more successful. The first thing is commonality. Go for the commonality.

Understand what's common, common, common. Don't go finding rishi mushrooms unless they're common in your area, right? Don't worry about anything obscure. Start with everything that's right in your front yard. you know what I mean there's a ton of stuff in your front yard for medicinal purposes and you know what probably work in tandem with forging at large so turn your foraging like oh I'm going to go forage some dandelion because it's everywhere right into uh and that's a diuretic the root of dandelion to be used medicinally um but turn that into foraging and medicinal foraging as one now you're out killing two birds with one stone. But commonality is the theme. The other thing I would say is,

and this will bleed into commonality too, is get by water. You know what I mean? Get by water. If you want to have fun foraging, if you want to have fun foraging wild medicine and learning, you've got to get down by water. It's just, and when I say water, I don't mean like go to the lake,

go to the big river. Just go to where the water is, the streams, the creeks. Everything is there. The best move I ever made was moving near a creek, moving in low on the water table. Now, that's like blasphemy, a lot of preppers because they want to be hot. You know what I mean? And maybe in the mountains you have a lot, you got a lot of medicine too.

But I'll tell you, man. Well, to me, one of the biggest things that grows and grows exclusively near running water is, Hey, what are you doing? my dog's standing in the in the fire pit just eating charcoal that will come back up buddy you're going to regret that you don't want to do that to me but you can use that for medicine as well actually activated charcoal is really it's all connecting um willow the willow tree very common you find it down by creeks and rivers all the time super easy to find pain reliever fever reducer in the bark white willow black willow very distinct leaf right common thing stinging nettle down there spotted touch me not a jewel weed down there i was talking to jay bird

about this the other day right i don't want to turn this into a list of uh of medicines because it's it doesn't do it justice it's too shallow suffice it to say look for commonality go for easy to find medicines that are wild that are everywhere or that are in your area in particular. Easy to find front yard, waste areas, the end of the coldest sack where all the bushes are, right? Those kinds of medicines you find like golden rods down there a lot of times, mulling down there a lot of times. Real common stuff. And the other thing is, you know, find, understand your habitat, but also try to seek out some water. Seek out some running water and you'll be surprise that all the things that pop up around running wood better than this is a lot and then uh of course

you got to have the follow-through like the same follow-through that i talk about with for it's good to be able to identify willow good be able to identify wild cherry which is actually more common than the thing um but scrape some of that inner bark off and just go make just go make a uh wild cherry tea for for coffee Maybe even if you don't have culf. One thing I did with the wild cherry bark was I prepared it completely wrong the first time I made it and it still helped. But then when I went back and saw that the simmer time was different, it was better the second time, you know, and subsequent time. So follow it all the way through, right?

Go grab some plantain from your front yard. You can mince it up, you can chew it up, you can chop it up, whatever you want to do. I'd say put a little good olive oil with it because that's great for your skin too. And then apply that to a wound. You probably have some kind of little cut on you. Wrap it up with a bandaid or a bandage and know that you've taken it from start to finish. Now you've done it. It gets to move out of the first category, right?

Here at PBN, we always talk about too many firsts. You don't want to have too many first. You don't want to be in a boat where it's your first collapse. the first time you need to use your medical kit, the first time you're doing wild medicine foraging because you ran out of this thing, the first time that you're eating survival food, the first time that you're doing all these things

because then when something goes wrong, you have no idea what is going wrong. It's the medicine, this, the food is it. Right? Don't have too many firsts. So this is my medical Monday continue. I hope you guys enjoyed it. There's a lot to consider,

but once you start making decisions, it's not so bad. You familiarize yourself with your medical kits and your medical gear. You know where they are, what's inside of them. You know what should be inside of them, right? Then you have your medical references, which are all key. And then you start to delve into the natural world. And understand that these things work. I mean, they always have worked.

We're here because, listen, you are here because herbal medicine and natural remedies work. That's it. You're not here because somebody. sent amoxicillin back to, you know, 1502 to heal one of your ancestors from an infection. No, you're here because someone smeared garlic paltice over the wound or applied garlic tincture or something to the wound for days at a time until the guy got better or the gal got better, right?

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