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Apr 18, 2015

Radioactive Fallout can you survive?? PT2

This is a 2 part post....CLICK HERE for the first part.

I always tell people to have Potassium Iodine on hand enough for your family plus.
Click here for some info on it from the CDC.

Make sure to keep informed by radio or TV. The decision to take potassium iodide should be based on info you get from the national health authorities. They will be in the best position to decide if it is needed and in which areas.

Also a reminder...boiling water DOES NOT remove radiation. There are some filters out there that claim to.So water stock up is important.

Some Medical Herbs for radiation exposure.

Here is a list of medicinal herbs that I recommend you take for radiation exposure. You can take them as a tea, a tincture or even eaten.

BUT!!!!!! BIG BUT
I have come across a lot of websites that say you can take this herb and that herb in a pinch instead of Potassium Iodine.
the answer is NO. It can hurt you more. It has to be Potassium Iodine. So stock up! Really have some. I have found it in a few places. But if you have a good doctor they may be kind enough to give it to you. I am lucky mine finds my prepperness to be quaint. But I have no thyroid...so this does not apply to me. Radiation goes after the thyroid gland, this is your immune system...without these hormones....ya die...that is why it is such a big deal to take the potassium Iodine...to protect those glands. Because I do not have them, I need to take meds for the rest of my life. And again...I have a double script. Every month I get and extra month....and I have a major stockpile of it and have it at every place that I may go. I also had to learn how to processes rabbit glands to make the med. Just in case and for if I run out...or if I want to help others that do not have their thyroid glands. But you do not want to lose it!!!

Once you are done with you Potassium Iodine you will want to get the rest of it out of you....look at the chart above....this is just to show how much radiation is in things we do in our daily lives...You get up to SIX YEARS of everyday radiation in ONE CT SCAN! That is crazy. So you want to have these herbs to detox this out of you.You want to have them pre radiation situation. In Jars, Mylar or at the least have seeds for them.

So these are the herbs that can help you clean some of this out of your system.
The herbs that people recommend are more for if you have had an X ray done. Or event even everyday exposure form computer, cell phone, microwaves, the sun, even some of our foods.

Little known fact, Grand Central Station is one of the most radioactive stations. The walls of the station,and its foundations, are built with granite, a rock that naturally holds radiation.The radiation levels produced by the station are so high that they actually exceed the levels that nuclear power plants are legally allowed to emit.

Any who.....I think that is what people mean when they say you can take Burdock Root or Cilantro Leaf for radiation,,,,or for after you are done with the PI. NOT IN PLACE OF or with!!

But because we do have daily radiation and it is worth touching base on a few of the helpful herbs to help clean your body of them. And or to clean them out after a fallout.

We will start with
I am going to say using tincture are your best option. which you can make with the herbs yourself and keep in glass jars to keep them safe. AND ALWAYS talk to your doctor first before taking herbs as meds! I do!

Burdock Root You can ingest 15 to 20 drops of tincture 3 times a day. This will help clean your system out....but do not do if prego..

Cilantro Helps with cleansing the body of heavy metals and it will help some with radiation. 1-3 drop of Cilantro is a good dose depending on body weight. You can even just eat it but it would have to be a lot.

Ginseng Is known to help with the side effects of radation expoure. 15 to 20 drops of Tincture 3 time a day.

Basil is help with a lot of the side effect of exposure....but for it to help you are looking at taking a whopping 40 to 60 drops a 3 times a day. Which is crazy!! I also read that you can just do a tea with 1 tsp of dried leaf in 8oz water 3 times a day???? (the 40 to 60 seems to be wrong to me)

Other things to have on hand

Bentonite clay or any other edible clay helps remove toxins and get this you put a teaspoon in a glass of juice or pure water. But you must drink a lot of water throughout the day if you do this.

Extra virgin olive oil (cold pressed) helps protect the cell membranes.

Sea Salt and Baking SodaBaths- add 1 pound of sea salt and 1 pound of baking soda and soak in chlorine-free water for 20 minutes. Then rinse with cool water. You can also 1 pound of betonite, or other clay, to the sea salt and baking soda when soaking which increases the removal of radiation. Some specialists who work with radioactive isotopes use this method to remove radiation from their body. If you have been exposed to an abnormally high level of radiation you can use this method three times a week for one month.
Milk Thistle helps the liver deal with the effects of toxicity of radiation poisoning.

A few other foods that can help
Onions, garlic, green and black tea, cabbage, broccoli all citrus fruits.

Come Away Melinda. Tim Rose

Mar 28, 2015

Many Ways to Stop Bleeding (or fix big boo boo's)

Lets first start with.... if the wound is really large you need to go to the doctors or find medical help.

-If it is a wound you can handle or have no choice but to handle the first thing you need to   do is clean the wound the best you can.

-Try holding the wound closed and see if butterflying it with a bandage or tape does the trick..and elevate it if you can to.

If this does not work then here are a few things that have worked.

**Many astringent herbs when applied externally to stop bleeding are called styptics or anti-hemorrhagic for internal bleeding.

To start with here are a few things that you can use

Acorn meal - Aloe Vera -   - Cinnamon powder - Geranium - Goldenrod root powder - Horsetail - Lady’s Mantle - Marigolds - Mugwart Dry - Oak Bark powdered - - Paprika - Pine sap - Plantain crushed - Shepherd's Purse - Stinging Nettle - White Vinegar - Witch Hazel

Here are a few more:

Black Pepper
We'll start with the popular black pepper. This only works on small and medium wounds. Black pepper is an antibacterial. It is known to help blood coagulate. This can stop bleeding. In fact it was used for just this purpose before our modern styptics came along. Chefs still use it.

You would pour a good amount on the wound, apply pressure or a tight bandage and the bleeding should stop fast.

Cayenne Pepper

Lets talk about Cayenne Pepper, . And a tea reduce internal bleeding, One teaspoon in a cup of water (only do this if it is a SHTF situation!)
A wound, external or internal, will stop bleeding if the individual drinks a cup of water (preferably hot) with a teaspoon of cayenne pepper (red pepper) stirred into it. The bleeding will stop generally by the time a person can count up to ten after drinking the cayenne tea. The cayenne equalizes the blood pressure from the top of the head to the feet. This keeps the pressure from the hemorrhage area so it will clot naturally, which it cannot do with heavy blood pressure pumping the blood rapidly at the hemorrhage area.

Honey!!

Of coarse! Wrap a small wound with honey and yep it will stop it from bleeding. And the kicker is that the wound mixed with honey actually creates a form of hydrogen peroxide!
But mix honey and Cayenne Pepper for larger wound and it may just surprise you how fast it stops bleeding.

Finely ground clean moss
I stress clean. Some moss's are better than others.
Dry moss finely ground will stop bleeding and some moss even has a form of penicillin in it. If you do not or can find dry moss to grind. The top part of the moss can be placed on the wound and wrapped it will stop bleeding and help keep the wound clean.

Ash
Is a great wound healer, it is sterilize because of the heat that creates it. It will also disinfect the wound. Remember lye is made from ash.

Turmeric does the same, but personally I do not have this in my herbal medical stash.

Yarrow

"The nosebleed herb" got its name for that very reason the leaves act like an astringent swab. But for wounds you just crush the leaves and same as above apply pressure till it stops bleeding. ( I have tons of yarrow....just cuz it is pretty and grows like crazy.)

Echinacea
Purple coneflower and other species of echinacea has been used for at least 400 years by Native Americans to treat infections and wounds.

Salt

Next my moms favorite boo boo fix. Salt!! When we had a cut my mom would take us to the beach and have us stay in the water....it helped heal them faster and kept them from getting infected. But right now we are talking wound care. Soaking a small wound in salt water will stop the bleeding and help heal it.
I am a big fan of salt. It really does heal, and it heals fast. Also keeps infections at bay.

Garlic power

YAAAA ohhhhh...Can't forget about da garlic! Garlic power is the real deal, same as above apply to the wound and then apply pressure. (I grew up in little Italy so garlic HEALS EVERYTHING! kinda like salt does).

Flour or Cornstarch
You just place on a wound and it will stop it from bleeding. They will basically absorb the blood and stop the bleeding

Coffee

Next is gram's trick, coffee. Never really bought into that one. But while doing my research it appears others say it works to. Just apply the grinds to the wound (the finer the better).
She has to be sending me the the "I told ya so vibe right now".

absorbs all the moisture and blocks the blood from coming out of the infected area. - See more at: http://www.findhomeremedy.com/the-12-fast-and-effective-home-remedies-for-bleeding/#sthash.xOTeGxaf.dpuf

Tea Bags

They say tea bags...but I have tried it on a small cut and it did not work...I of course grabbed the salt water and bam...I was good.

Glass

Ok now we go a little astray ....Glass, yes glass. Not broken glass but a bottle or a window. Glass is known for electro-negatively charged surface. It helps in the stopping the blood by activating the clotting process of the blood vessels. Ok I have done this...not because I thought it would stop the bleeding but because it was cool and took some of the pain away..and the bleeding did stop...did the glass do it? I don't know.

Cattail pollen

You can put the pollen on the wound and or drink in cold water. Or the ash from the leaves will stop bleeding. This will help stop bleeding and bonus to this plant is that there in a numbering agent that grows on the plant to. Click here to learn about the plant and what part of the plant the numbing agent is.

Spider Web

Ok and I read about the spider web..and saw it on duel survival...well not sure how or if there are webs available that are big enough for most wounds. But hey ya never know.

Chapstick, or vasaline.
If you put that on a small cut it will immediately stop bleeding bythe time it rubs off the cut will have stopped bleeding. For small wounds.

Crazy Glue
Dermatologists and urgent care physicians use this why shouldn't you? What they use is called Dermabond. (it is almost the same but it is a little more flexible). this is for cuts and gashes not full open wounds.

The perfect song for this post is Garbage - Bleed Like Me

Mar 18, 2015

Paracord not just for Dude's (But I did include some dude ideas)

DUDE's Scroll down I did not forget you

Ok so here is my beef with paracord...the stuff you can make with it is such DUDE stuff. So I am always on the look out for things that I can make so I always have some on me. Right now I just have a bracelet on all my handbags.

But then I saw this bag...and I love it. And it dawned on me....

macrame or crochet
How did I not relize anything you can make with macrme or crochet can be done with paracord!!!

So here are a bunch of different kinds of how to's on crocheting purses Click Here

but here is where I found this one Click Here

If you hunt you can find some cute things that can be made with paracord by useing the crochet and macrame method.

You can make matching tassels to hang from you purse