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9 Hiding Spots In Your House Where Looters Always Look First
Thursday, March 14, 2024 13:36
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by NICHOLAS OETKEN
When stockpiling supplies, it’s vitally important to hide as much of your stockpile as you can.
If the grid goes down, people will become desperate and once ordinary people will turn into thieves, raiders, and looters to the streets to rob and steal what they can to stay alive. They’ll target homes and stores in town first, and once those have been looted and stripped, they’ll set their sights on suburban homes next.
You may think you already have it figured out for how you can keep your stockpile a secret and hidden from any thieves or looters who may break in.Unfortunately, thieves and looters can be a bit smarter than you may think. They’re already taking a major risk by breaking into any home, and they won’t want to leave empty-handed in exchange for taking that risk.
Furthermore, many thieves and looters will already be experienced and know exactly where to look in your home for your valuables or stockpiles.
That’s why it’s critical to be extra creative with where you hide your stockpiles and avoid hiding them in areas where looters are likely to look first.
Here are the nine hiding spots in your house that looters will always look for first:
Attics And Basements
It’s common practice for preppers to stockpile their food, water, and other supplies either in the attics or the basements of their homes.The logic for doing so certainly makes sense. This way their stockpiles are out of the way and out of sight of any guests who come to visit. It’s important to keep your stockpiles as much of a secret as you can.
Just because your neighbors and regular guests are friendly now doesn’t mean that they won’t come knocking on your door demanding supplies later.
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That being said, while stockpiling supplies in your attic or basement may be a good way to keep your preps a secret from your neighbors and guests you have over, it’s a much poorer way to keep them hidden from burglars and looters who break into your home.
That’s because most burglars are acutely aware that people will often store valuables in their basements and attics, so they are two rooms they will often go to investigate first.
Closet
A closet is perhaps the most obvious hiding spot there is. Looters will look through your entire closet, including the pockets of the clothing in your closet, looking for valuables, guns, or cash.
It’s common practice among many people to store their valuables in closets as well. If you have any valuables you’re keeping in your own closet at the moment, you would be wise to think about another location for them.
Dressers
Many thieves are acutely aware of the old trick of hiding valuables amongst shirts, socks, and underwear stored in dresser drawers. That’s why a burglar will open your dresses and pull all the clothing you have out looking for anything from cash to watches to jewelry.
Additionally, think twice about having any jewelry boxes on top of your dressers. If you have a jewelry box out in the open and a burglar comes rummaging through your house, it’s an absolute certainty that the box will disappear with them.
Mattress
https://www.askaprepper.com/wp-conte...ok-First-1.jpgThe closet and dresser drawers will likely be the first two locations a burglar looks for in the bedroom. The next location they’ll look is under the bed and under the mattress. Just like how it’s common practice for people to store valuables in their closet, it’s also common practice to ‘hide’ valuables under a mattress.
Safes
A safe may seem like the ultimate place for storing precious items such as firearms or jewelry because it offers protection against both thieves and a house fire.
But a safe also makes it incredibly obvious about where your valuables are being hidden. Any small and portable safe can be easily picked up and carried out by a looter.
A heavy safe, such as a safe designed to carry rifles, will offer more protection. Most burglars will try to get in and out of your house as quickly as possible, and attempting to break into a big safe certainly isn’t going to help quicken their pace.
That being said, if a burglar happens to be experienced with safe cracking and is determined enough to try and break in, then your safe no matter how large is going to be vulnerable.
Suitcases
This is another old trick: to keep valuables ‘hidden’ in suitcases. The idea is thieves won’t think there’s anything inside your suitcases since you’re not traveling, but many thieves and burglars will be aware of this old trick just like how they’re aware of the mattress trick as well.
Storage Sheds
https://www.askaprepper.com/wp-conte...ok-First-2.jpgBurglars and looters may not just target the inside of your house; they may target other buildings on the property as well. Besides your garage, they may also break into any storage sheds or shops that you have outside.
Under the Stairs
Many homes have a spare storage space under the stairs. This is a good space to store certain items that you could do without, perhaps, but it’s not a good place to store your precious valuables.
Vases
Hiding valuables in vases is another classic trick. Most burglars who don’t care about their presence in the home being known will just knock over vases and other glass furnishings to break them and see if there’s anything inside.
If you were thinking about using any of the above locations as a hiding place for your valuables or supplies, you may want to consider getting a little more creative.
Imagine yourself as a burglar breaking into your home. Move through your home and think about the places where you would look first.
Additionally, and this may sound a bit strange, when going to the homes of your friend or family, imagine yourself as a burglar as well and where you would look in their homes.
You’ll likely come up with a few more hiding places that were not included in the above list.
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Survival foods: 5 simple, easy-to-make recipes for foods that can sustain you in emergencies
03/14/2024 // Olivia Cook // 700 Views
Tags: bannock, biltong, emergency food, goodfood, hardtack, parched corn, pemmican, preparedness, prepper, prepping, survival, survival food, trail biscuit, trench cake
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When disaster strikes, it pays to know how to make foods that do not need many ingredients, are very nutritious and can last a long time when properly stored. Here are five recipes for easy-to-make survival foods you should know by heart.Hardtack
Also called hard bread, this tough biscuit is a survival food with a history going back as far as Ancient Rome.
Ingredients:
- 5 cups wheat flour
- 2 quarts water
- 3 teaspoons of salt
Combine all of these ingredients in a large mixing bowl. When the flour, salt and water have formed a dry bread dough, roll it out flat with a rolling pin or pat it out by hand. If the dough still has sticky spots, add more flour.
Make a 12-inch-thick dough sheet, cut it into three-inch squares and poke holes in both sides of each dough square. Bake these squares for 30 minutes per side at 375 F on an ungreased cookie sheet.
Keep your hardtack in a cool, dry and dark place away from pests. Once hardtack has fully dried, it can last for years if stored properly.
Pemmican
Pemmican is a very ancient forerunner to modern survival rations, known as a very weird meatball made of dried meat and rendered fat. It is filled to the brim with calories and its invention its popularity is traditionally credited to Native Americans.
Ingredients:
- 8 ounces of lard
- 8 ounces of packed powdered jerky chopped in a blender
- 8 ounces of dried fruit, ideally berries
Warm the lard in a pot to a temperature below 100 F until it turns into a soft, pasty texture. Keep stirring while it heats up. Stir your other ingredients into the softened fat until they have thoroughly combined with the lard, which usually takes about two minutes of continuous stirring.
If you have the ingredients, feel free to add small amounts of flour or other starch sources for additional carbohydrates. You can even add different spices to add some flavor.
Turn off the heat and, once the mixture is cool enough to touch, scoop it out by hand and compress it into round balls or flat cakes. Be sure to let the pemmican completely cook before you store it.
Traditionally, pemmican would usually be stored in rawhide containers. Instead of this, you can wrap up the pemmican in wax paper and keep it stored in a cool place. If kept relatively cool, pemmican can last for months. However, as the weather warms, it would be wise to eat the pemmican before the fat begins to smell rancid.
Bannock
Sometimes called skillet bread, bannock is a round, flat, unleavened bread that is associated with Scotland and northern England. Although you can adapt a bannock recipe for the oven, it is meant to be cooked in a skillet over a campfire or in a fireplace.
Ingredients:
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 ¾ cups dried fruit (e.g., cherries)
- 1 teaspoon chopped rosemary
- 1 ½ cups buttermilk or sour milk
Preheat your oven to 300 F.
In a medium-sized bowl, combine all of your dry ingredients except for the dried fruit and rosemary. Thoroughly mix them. Chop your dried fruit and rosemary into very fine pieces and set aside.
Now that you have a bowl full of dry ingredients, make a well in the center for your buttermilk. Add the buttermilk to the well and begin to slowly incorporate flour from the sides – this will allow you to control the dough consistency. Do not collapse the sides of the well. You will have leftover flour to coat your table and to use while you knead the dough.
Once the batter becomes stodgy and pasty, you can add your finely chopped dried fruit and rosemary. At this point, you are going to dump the dough out onto a floured surface. Work the dough and add flour until it becomes less sticky and the dried fruit and rosemary are fully incorporated.
At this point, you are ready to begin baking the bannock. Bake the bannock for 20 minutes until it has started to brown a bit. Remove the bannock and allow it to rest and cool. After the bannock has completely cooled, it can be sliced and served or sliced and stored.
The best storage method is to keep it whole until you need it. If you leave it uncovered, it will get very hard in a couple of days. Freezing would be the best way to keep it for a really long time. But if you don’t have that option, keep it hard and dry. (Related: 8 survival bread recipes for preppers.)
Biltong
Biltong is a traditional South African food that consists of dried and marinated meat. Whereas jerky is often smoked, biltong is cured with vinegar, salt and spices and then air-dried. Also, you can make biltong from a large variety of meat cuts.
Ingredients:
- 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of lean meat
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 3 cups plump sea salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 tablespoons ground black peppercorns
- 100 ml Worcestershire sauce
- 5 cups vinegar
- 4 tablespoons of ground coriander seeds
To prepare the meat, always cut to the length of the grain, never against it. Prepare 1 cm thick slices of meat and then put those slices into the vinegar-Worcestershire sauce mix for half an hour. Store the remaining vinegar in the fridge because it will be used later in the recipe.
Crush all the spices and then mix in the salt, baking soda and sugar. Make sure that all the meat is perfectly coated with this and then layer those slices on a clean plate. Place the thickest slice at the base and the other chucks above it. Sprinkle your remaining spice mixture on top of the upper layer. Refrigerate for at least eight hours.
Take out the refrigerated chunks of meat and then soak them again in the vinegar mix for at least 15 minutes. Remove the meat slices and then rinse out the salt residue from every piece. Squeeze the moisture out of the meat pieces.
You can then dry the biltong in two different ways in the oven or in the traditional way by hanging the strips up on racks in a room with good circulation. Alternatively, the strips can be refrigerated and, if frozen, they can last for up to a year.
Trail biscuit
This is a stick-to-your-ribs food that will help stretch rations or fill bellies. The egg and lard are optional, but if you’re not using lard, substitute the baking powder for a couple of teaspoons of baking soda.
Ingredients:
- 3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons baking powder
- 1 egg (optional, if available)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ cup lard (or butter)
- 1 ½ cups milk
Preheat oven to 370 F or stoke your coals so they’re hot enough to cook on.
Combine flour, salt and baking powder (or baking soda) in a bowl, then cut the cold lard (or butter) into the flour mixture until you have pea-sized pieces. Add milk until the dough is barely sticky. Don’t overmix or your biscuits will be tough.
Drop about ¼ cup of the batter into a greased pan or Dutch oven. Cook for 20 minutes or so until the biscuits are brown. If using a Dutch oven, put the biscuits in.
There are many, many more survival foods you can make to keep you well-fed with necessary nutrients during survival situations, such as parched corn, trench cake, jerky, dried fruit, beans and rice and peasant's bread. What's important is you are aware of the kinds of foods you can make that can keep you sustained during emergencies.
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Read This Before Buying Survival Food
by FERGUS MASON
March 4, 2024
Food is a key part of prepping. Without a stockpile of food to keep you going through at least the initial stages of a crisis, your chances of survival are very low.
Unless you’re already completely self-sufficient – and not many of us are – you’ll be relying on that stockpile when the SHTF, so it needs to be large enough to keep you going. The question is, what should be in it?
Firstly, the kind of food you want in your survival stockpile depends on exactly what you’re planning to survive.
If you live in San Francisco and you’re putting together a stash to get you through the aftermath of an earthquake, your needs are very different to someone who’s preparing to survive the long-term collapse of civilization. In a crisis, any food is better than nothing – but the right food will make a big difference.
Let’s look at what you need in different scenarios.
Short Term Survival
https://www.askaprepper.com/wp-conte...vival-Food.jpgMost residents of California’s earthquake hotspots take the state government’s advice and keep an emergency food supply at home, to keep them going for at least three days after a disaster. Personally I think everyone should do that. Even if you already have plenty of food at home it’s worth keeping a short-term stash in case there’s a natural disaster like a storm.
This sort of food supply should focus on food that’s energy-dense and doesn’t need much in the way of preparation. A storm or earthquake can leave large areas without power or water, so food that can be eaten cold and without rehydration is the best option here.
Military-style MREs are good; they can be eaten cold, straight out the packet, if necessary. They do taste a lot better if you can heat them, but it isn’t essential – and anyway, you can easily and safely heat them with a flameless ration heater. They’re also packed with energy, so they’ll keep you going for days.
Related: 4 Long-Lasting MREs You Should Make For Your Stockpile
A lot of bulk survival foods aren’t a good choice here. A bucket of survival food might promise 60 or 120 portions, but they won’t be very large portions; in my experience it’s best to half the number of servings the manufacturers promise, if you want to get anywhere near enough calories. They also need a lot of water, and you really don’t want to be eating cold rehydrated food – it’s pretty vile.
Instead of MREs, or as a supplement to them, look at canned foods like chili and stew. These taste better hot, but they’re palatable cold, too, and they don’t need any extra water. Pouches of tuna are good too. Add canned fruit, cookies, chocolate and candy. A nutritionist wouldn’t be happy, but this isn’t a long-term diet; it’s just meant to give you enough energy to push through the first few days after a disaster.
In this scenario, in an urban area, it’s not a luxury to have food that doesn’t need cooked; it’s essential. Even if you have a stove to cook on, damaged gas pipes could make it too dangerous to risk any kind of flame. Make sure you have enough food that can be eaten with zero preparation.
Medium Term Survival
https://www.askaprepper.com/wp-conte...val-Food-1.jpgSo you’re all ready to survive for a few days if you get snowed in or the city falls down around you.
Next, what happens if there’s a nuclear war or a serious social breakdown?
Now you’re looking at having enough food to survive for weeks or even a few months.
Over this length of time, the sort of stuff in your short-term cache starts to show its limitations. For a start, it’s expensive. With MREs selling for $15 each and upwards, a three-month supply is a serious amount of money. Over this sort of time period the nutritional weaknesses of MREs and prepared snack foods start to show up.
We’re now looking at the classic prepping food supplies. Dried beans, rice and pasta should be the base of what you’re stockpiling. That gives you plenty of carbs and adequate protein. Add in cooking oil to supply fats. Canned meat, vegetables and fruit will add fiber, more protein and variety.
Salt and sugar contribute flavor and can also be used as preservatives. Don’t forget seasonings so you can produce varied, interesting meals – that makes a huge difference to morale. Flour will let you make your own bread and other baked goods. Don’t forget tea or coffee to keep you supplied with hot drinks.
Related: I Tried to Eat My Emergency Foods and This Is What Happened
In the medium term water and energy for cooking are less of a problem. You’ll still want to minimize how much you use, because they’re not limitless resources, and some survival foods aren’t naturally economical – dried beans, for example. There are ways to cut fuel use, though. For example, presoak beans to reduce cooking time.
I’m going to mention dehydrated survival food again. These do better in the medium term than as short-term emergency foods, but I’m still wary of them. They taste OK when properly prepared and served hot, but all the same problems of small portions and inadequate caloric content still apply. I wouldn’t recommend making these a major part of your stockpile. Stick to dry bulk goods and cans.
Long Term Survival
https://www.askaprepper.com/wp-conte...val-Food-3.jpgIf you want to be able to stay fed indefinitely, sooner or later any stockpile is going to run out. There are long-term items that can keep you going for a year or more, until your own crops and livestock take up the slack; dried goods are key here.
Beans and rice will still be the basis of your carbohydrates.
Store as much salt and sugar as you can; producing your own isn’t easy, and you want to put that off as long as possible. Your long-term supplies need to prioritize things you can’t make easily or at all; basic protein, carbs, fiber and fats are, at some point, going to have to be hunted, foraged or raised.
Buying survival food isn’t just about buying as much food as you can and storing it in your shed or basement. You need to tailor your stockpile to suit what you think the danger is – but also keep it as flexible as possible.
If you live in a disaster-prone area and want a week’s worth of prepared food, add enough dried and canned goods to last another week if the crisis lasts longer than expected.
If your priority is long-term self-sufficiency, stockpile some MREs or prepared food just in case you have to get through a period of chaos before you can start using your main supplies. Like everything else in prepping, buying the right survival food is all about planning and making the most efficient use of your resources.
Selecting the right survival food is crucial for your preparedness strategy, yet it’s equally vital to consider sustainable, long-term solutions. Despite a well-stocked pantry, your ultimate resilience lies in getting really good at being self-sufficient, particularly in food production.
For those who are serious about surviving whatever comes their way, I strongly recommend this comprehensive guide. It offers invaluable insights and practical advice for transforming your backyard into a self-sustaining homestead.
Remember, while stockpiling food serves as a temporary fix, learning how to grow your own food ensures you can keep going for the long haul.
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How to make your own LIQUID SOAP without harmful chemicals
03/19/2024 // Olivia Cook // 880 Views
Tags: chemical-free, DIY, DIY soap, green living, homesteading, how-to, liquid soap, natural ingredients, off grid, preparedness, prepper, prepping, recipes, soap making, survival, tips
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Soap is an incredibly useful household item in everyday life. Soaps allow us to keep clean and prevent the spread of harmful bacteria, microbes and germs that make us sick.But have you ever purchased bath soap from big box stores, only to find out they smell weird when you sweat or totally dried your skin after using it? This is because commercial soaps contain fragrances and big soap manufacturers have tried to train us that "clean" has a smell.
The International Fragrance Association (IFRA) lists 3,059 materials that are reported as being used in fragrance compounds – and these compounds are often included in store-bought soaps. Some of these have been linked to adverse health effects including cancer, reproductive toxicity, allergies and sensitivities.
Fragrances are considered "trade secrets" so manufacturers are not required to disclose the potentially hundreds of toxic ingredients hiding behind the words "fragrance," "perfume," "essential oil blend," and/or "aroma" found in most personal care products.
That being said, the best reason to use homemade soap is that you control its ingredients. The natural ingredients you choose to incorporate in your soaps can add a healing touch to your daily skin routine.
Homemade soaps are safe and easy to make. They are cost-effective and do not pollute the environment. Additionally, you can customize your homemade soap to your liking.
Make your DIY liquid soap with just 4 ingredients
Author and home blogger Karrie Truman of HappyMoneySaver.com shares her liquid soap recipe that only requires four ingredients.
First, liquid Castile soap is popular among people wanting to live more naturally. It does not contain harsh substances that strip the skin of its natural oils and moisture. EntirelyEco CEO Loni Brown says this quality makes liquid Castile soap a good choice for people with highly sensitive skin and respiratory systems.
Castile soaps are made using coconut, palm kernel or hemp oil, and are also available in solid form. They are readily available from health food stores and online retailers. (Related: Use natural liquid Castile soap for safe and wonderful homemade shampoos.)
Second, distilled water will help dilute the concentrated Castile soap without reducing its effectiveness. The process of distillation – purifying water by boiling it and collecting the resulting steam – offers the highest removal rate for the widest range of contaminants at 99.9 percent.
Third, essential oils can be added in to customize the liquid soap's scent. Here are some good essential oils to use in your liquid soap that not only provide a natural aroma, but also fight germs.
- Lavender has a delicate, sweet smell with a calming effect
- Eucalyptus is often used to relieve nasal congestion
- Lemon has an invigorating smell that also kills pathogens
- Tea tree is known for its antibacterial properties masked by a fresh, herbaceous scent
Lastly, fractionated coconut oil (FCO) is a natural ingredient used for various household and personal care purposes. It is made by separating the different types of fats in regular coconut oil. The fractionation process renders FCO highly shelf-stable, lasting indefinitely at room temperature compared to only two years for regular coconut oil.
To make your natural liquid soap, simply combine the four ingredients in the amounts below and put in your soap dispenser of choice:
- 1 cup distilled water
- 1/4 cup unscented liquid Castile soap
- 1 tablespoon FCO
- 15 drops essential oil of your choice
It is advisable to use glass bottles to store your DIY liquid body soap because glass in impervious to essentials oil and is the perfect container for keeping DIY products fresh. Glass is also really easy to clean after using oils in the container. You only need to use water and soap to get the residual oils out.
The FCO can be replaced with other carrier oils like olive oil, grapeseed oil, jojoba oil or sweet almond oil. If you prefer your liquid soap unscented, you can choose not to add the 15 drops of essential oil.
Do not use fragrance oils for this DIY liquid soap. Fragrance oils, also called aromatic oils and flavor oils, are often blended synthetic aroma compounds or natural essential oils that are already diluted.
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PREPPING: What to do and NOT to do during chemical emergencies and industrial disasters
03/26/2024 // Laura Harris // 420 Views
Tags: chemical emergencies, chemicals, decontamination, Disasters, emergencies, environment, evacuation, iodine, pollution, preparedness, prepping, shelter-in-place, supplementation, survival, terrorism, toxic chemicals, toxins
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Medical preparedness advocate and emergency medicine expert Dr. Joseph Alton shares the following advice to prepare your family medically for any survival scenario. (h/t to Doom and Bloom)As part of his mission to put a medically prepared person in every family, Alton explains that the response to chemical or industrial emergencies highly depends on the substances involved as each agent has a different effect on the human body.
Here is a short list of injuries from chemical agents that may result from industrial accidents, military stockpiling, war or a terrorist attack:
- Acids – Chemicals that burn or corrode people’s skin, eyes and mucus membranes or the lining of the lungs, mouth, nose and throat on contact, such as hydrochloric acid and sulfuric acid.
- Blister agents, also called "vesicants" – Chemicals that severely blister the eyes, respiratory tract and skin on contact, such as lewisite and mustards.
- Blood agents – Poisons that affect the blood by being absorbed by the blood, such as arsine and cyanide.
- Choking agents – Chemicals that cause irritation or swelling of the respiratory tract, such as chlorine, diphosgene and phosgene.
- Incapacitating agents – Drugs that cause an altered mental state or unconsciousness, such as anticholinergic compounds (benztropine, dicyclomine, hyoscyamine and scopolamine. Modern volatile anesthetics, considered sleeping gases are BZ, fentanyl, halothane vapor, methyl propyl ether and methoxyflurane.
- Metals – Agents that consist of metallic poisons, such as arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury.
- Nerve agents – Chemicals that work by preventing the nervous system from working properly, such as cyclohexylsarin, sarin, soman, tabun and VX.
- Organic solvents – Agents that damage the tissues of living things by dissolving fats and oils, such as n-hexane, tetrachloroethylene and toluene.
- Riot control agents, also called lacrimating agents – Highly irritating agents such as tear gas and pepper spray.
- Toxic alcohols – Poisonous chemicals that damage the heart, kidneys and nervous system. Essentially, there are two toxins in alcohol that the body needs to work hard to eliminate – acetaldehyde and acetic acid.
- Vomiting agents – Chemicals that cause nausea and vomiting, such as adamsite, diphenylchlorarsine, diphenylcyanoarsine and diphenylaminechlorarsine.
Depending on the chemical agent, the type and amount or concentration of exposure, the effects may be immediate or delayed. This also doesn't take into account long-term effects of exposure, such as possible cancers and debilitating health conditions.
People can be exposed to these agents via one or more of three routes: The eyes, respiratory tract and skin. Even a slight breeze can blow a nerve agent vapor, for example. The effects of vapor are enhanced when exposed to a closed space.
Evacuation
Common sense dictates evacuation as the wisest course of action – not only to prevent physical contact but also to avoid noxious fumes that may be carried by the winds. Monitor the advice of your local emergency department for specific events and do what you safely can to immediately get your family out of the danger zone.
Shelter in place
Some chemical emergencies could make going outdoors riskier and put you in harm’s way. Sheltering in a vehicle might not be ideal, as vehicles are not airtight enough to protect you from noxious fumes.
If you can’t evacuate, choose a room in your home with as few windows and doors as possible. A room with a water supply and a connecting bathroom is ideal. Some gases sink to the floor, so a room not on the ground floor is preferable.
Shut all outside doors and windows as soon as you are aware of the emergency. Locking and taping them will make a better seal against chemicals. Use damp towels, plastic sheeting from your garbage bags and duct tape to form better seals.
Turn off air conditioners, fans and heaters. Close off any vents and any place where air can enter from the outside.
Go into your designated safe room and shut the door. Stay updated with a radio or through the internet with a desktop, laptop or smartphone. If it is necessary to drink water, drink safely stored water and not water from the tap.
Decontamination
As many substances can penetrate clothing and be absorbed through the skin, remove and safely dispose of potentially contaminated clothing. Thoroughly wash your body with soap and water. The faster this is accomplished, the more effective the decontamination.
Avoid hot water and vigorous scrubbing, as these may worsen the effects by increasing chemical absorption into the skin.
Avoid pulling your contaminated clothes over your head. Cut it off instead. When removing clothing from others, make every effort to avoid touching contaminated areas with unprotected skin. Use rubber gloves, tongs or other methods to avoid skin contact. Place all contaminated items in biohazard bags and seal them.
To prevent serious eye damage, remove any contact lenses, if any, and rinse eyes with clean water for 10 to 15 minutes. Hold the eyelids away from the eyeball while moving your eyes in all directions. Wash eyeglasses, if any, with soap and water.
Health supplementation
Your medical emergency stockpile should include stable iodine supplements since they can be taken in response to possible nuclear power plant explosions to support your thyroid glands by keeping them from absorbing radioactive iodine. (Related: Protect your health and your thyroid with potassium iodide in case of a nuclear emergency or terrorism event.)
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Every Alone Show Winner Had This in Their Backpack
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There are a lot of wilderness survival shows out there, but one of the best and most realistic to watch is the aptly named Alone.
In production since 2015, Alone is a reality television series that challenges participants in the show to survive in the wilderness with minimal equipment and absolutely no human contact.
The show follows a unique format where people are scattered in remote locations, with each person equipped with a limited set of survival tools and cameras to document their experiences, which becomes the footage used for the show.
The primary goal is to endure the harsh conditions, secure food, find shelter, and ultimately outlast the other contestants to win a cash prize.Perhaps the best way to describe the show is as a mix between Survivorman and Survivor, in that each participant is living out in the wild as Les Stroud did in the former but where there is only one winner at the end as like the latter.
The participants on Alone are selected for their diverse range of survival skills. Some are experienced outdoorsmen and women while others are novices seeking to test their mettle in the wild.
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The main theme of the show highlights the mental and physical challenges of living in isolation, pushing the contestants to their absolute limits.
Another notable aspect of the show is how the survival conditions are demanding, with contestants surviving factors such as extreme weather, limited resources, and even encounters with wildlife.Each contestant is also allowed to bring exactly ten items with them to help them survive.
All of this naturally begs a simple question: what kinds of tools did the winning and runner up participants on Alone use to help them survive?
And what was the most popular tool or item used by the winners specifically?
The answer may surprise you.
The Most Popular Item on Alone
The most popular item on Alone was the same item that every single winner all brought with them to the show.
Want to guess what it is?
A knife? Nope.
Paracord? Nope.
Canteen? Nope.
Water filter? Nope.
Magnesium flint striker? Nope.
Matches? Nope.
Tarp? Nope.
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The answer is a sleeping bag.
If you think about it, it’s not hard to see why. A sleeping bag provides you with immediate warmth and shelter. Beyond the obvious comfort it provides, it can play a crucial role in maintaining body temperature, especially in cold or inclement weather.
The insulation they offer essentially creates a microclimate around the sleeper, which prevents heat loss to the ground and effectively shields them against chilly winds. This insulation is particularly vital in preventing hypothermia, which is a very real threat in many of Alone’s cold locations such as Patagonia in Argentina or the Rocky Mountains of Canada.
Furthermore, the compact design of sleeping bags allows for easy transport, making them essential when setting up temporary camps or when changing locations. So if you think about it…it actually makes sense as to why the sleeping bag is the most popular item used on the show.
While a sleeping bag is definitely important for surviving in the wilderness, just having one isn’t enough to guarantee you’ll make it. That’s why this guide is my go-to for learning all the skills I need to really survive in the wild if I have to.
The Wilderness Long-Term Survival Guide teaches you how to prepare for uncertain times and learn from those who made the wilderness their home. It’s packed with essential knowledge for handling tough situations out there. And get this: it’s written by Nicole Apelian, who actually was on the TV show Alone and lasted 57 days on Vancouver Island with basically just her knowledge.
Additional Popular Items
The sleeping bag may be the most popular item used by the Alone winners, but there were several additional items that were very popular on the show as well. Remember that each participant is allowed ten items specifically.
Other popular items included a ferro rod, a fishing kit, a saw, ax, and a two-quart pot. Each of these items were selected by 90%+ of winners, but it’s the sleeping bag that’s the only item that was chosen by 100%.
https://www.askaprepper.com/wp-conte...Backpack-4.jpgSurprisingly, a knife was not one of the most popular items on the show, with one study finding that less than 65% of winning participants on the show brought a knife.
It appears that the participants favored the ax or the saw over the knife, perhaps because of the increased versatility of both tools.
Other items that you would think would have been popular among the winning participants, but weren’t, are water bottles, tarps, knife sharpeners, shovel, frying pan, hammocks, soap, multi-tool, and a machete. Each of these items were only selected by less than 50% of participants.
In short, it seems that the priorities amongst the winners were to stay warm and dry (hence the sleeping bag), to gather more food (hence the fishing kit), to get a fire going (hence the ferro rod), to boil water and prepare meals (hence the pot), and to chop or saw wood (hence the ax and the saw, in addition to the multitude of other uses that these tools can be used for as well).
So if you think about it, the winners were actually extremely well-rounded in the tools that they selected and made sure that their bases were covered. When putting together your own bug out bag or survival kit, you’ll want to make sure you do the same thing.
To that end, make a list of the priorities you would have in a wilderness survival situation (finding food, purifying water, defense, shelter, warmth, etc.) and then make sure that you have the right tools for each of those priorities.
Alone is definitely a show worth watching so you can see how ordinary people across a variety of backgrounds can survive out in the woods.
If you went on Alone, what would be the ten items that you would bring with you? Let us know in the comments.
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7 Homemade Weapons That A Prepper Should Have
by FERGUS MASON
January 17, 2022
Surviving a crisis is a lot easier if you’re appropriately armed. With the right weapons, you can protect yourself from attackers and hunt game to improve your diet. In the US we’re lucky; even in the most restrictive states, it’s still possible to buy guns that will cover most survival situations. But what if disaster strikes and you don’t have any guns to hand?
There are ways that can happen – you could be away from home, for example. Sometimes you just have no choice but to go somewhere with no weapons. The problem is, when the world as we know it decides to end it’s no respecter of the choices you’ve had to make. You can find yourself in a survival situation with no weapons, so you need to know what to do about it. Luckily there’s an answer – make some.
There are a lot of weapons you can improvise from everyday objects and materials, if you know how to go about it. Sure, they’re not as effective as a good firearm – but they’re a lot better than nothing, and could make the difference between life and death.
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Here are some of the most effective homemade weapons every prepper needs to know about:
Spears
https://www.askaprepper.com/wp-conte...uld-Have-2.jpgForget all those sword-swinging movie heroes; before guns took over the battlefield, most soldiers carried a spear. Spears are excellent weapons for a whole bunch of reasons. They’re cheap and simple to make. They give you a long reach and let you keep enemies at a distance – a well-handled spear will beat a knife every time.
With a bit of practice, you can throw spears a reasonable distance They double as walking sticks and carrying poles. They’re a good way to tackle large but slow-moving animals. You can catch fish without getting wet. If you know how to make a spear, you can equip yourself with a reasonably effective weapon almost anywhere.
To make a spear, start with the shaft. You want a solid pole that’s as straight as possible. You can make a small spear from a hardwood broom handle, but ideally you want a shaft at least six feet long and 1.5-2” thick. Straight-grained hardwood is best, but the main thing is it needs to be solid. A good spear has some weight behind it, too.
If necessary, you can simply sharpen the point of the spear then harden the tip in a fire. You can make a sharper and more durable point with a knife (the more symmetrical, the better). Don’t use your primary knife as a spearhead – as well as the obvious risk of it getting lost or damaged, it’s hard to use as a knife when it’s tied to a six-foot pole. Find an old knife; a chef’s knife will work well. Remove the handle, split the end of the pole, fit the knife’s tang into the split then bind it up tightly.
Slingshots
https://www.askaprepper.com/wp-conte...ld-Have-11.jpgA slingshot isn’t just a kid’s toy. Well handled and with the right ammunition it’s great for taking small game, and it can deter an unarmed attacker. They might laugh when they see it, but whack a half-inch BB off them and they’ll start taking the danger seriously.
To make a slingshot, find a strong forked branch and cut it down into a Y shape. Find some strong rubber. You’ll see sites that tell you to use the elastic out of your pants. Don’t bother; it’s nowhere near strong enough.
You need something like surgical rubber tubing or an old bicycle inner tube. Cut a pouch from leather – a three-inch section from a belt with do – and punch a hole in each end. Knot a length of rubber through each hole.
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Cut a groove round each upper end of the Y on your fork, and tie the rubber tightly to it. Then find some ball bearings, glass marbles or round stones, and start practicing. A slingshot can easily drop a rabbit, or knock birds and squirrels out of trees – and unlike a bow, there’s no risk of nailing your quarry to a branch 50 feet up.
Self Bows
https://www.askaprepper.com/wp-conte...-Have-61-1.jpgBows definitely have their place, though. They’re harder to make than slingshots, but much more powerful – with the right bow you can bring down any animal in North America. In fact there are tribes in Africa that hunt elephants with simple wooden self bows.
A self bow is a bow made from a single piece of wood. To make one, find a straight branch or trunk made from a rough, springy wood like osage orange, Pacific yew or red oak, split it into quarters along the grain, then shape one of the quarters down into a bow.
Use a tiller to gradually bend it further and further as you carve it, so you can check it bends smoothly with no weak or still spots. Then string it with strong cord and you have a powerful, easily maintained weapon.
PVC Bows
https://www.askaprepper.com/wp-conte...d-Have-7-1.jpgThe hardest part of making a good bow is finding a good piece of wood to make it from. If you’re struggling with that, don’t worry – there’s a modern alternative. Just find yourself a five-foot length of PVC pipe and you can make a powerful bow.
You can turn any PVC pipe from about ¾” to 1.5” diameter into a simple bow. What you have to do is mark out a 5” section in the center, then cut away one side of the pipe outside of that section to form the back of the bow.
Just like making a self bow, you can use a tiller to help get the curve right. Then file notches into the ends to take a string, and you have a bow. If you can, wrap the center section in cord or leather to give a better grip. If you have a heat gun you can even make a more sophisticated PVC recurve bow.
Pepper Spray
If you just want something to deter harassment and mugging, pepper spray is ideal – but in a crisis it could be hard to find unless you get to the store early.
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On the other hand, you can easily make your own.
Put 4 tablespoons of ground chili powder in a bowl. Pour in 100ml of rubbing alcohol and leave it for eight hours so the alcohol can soak up the capsaicin from the chili.
Mix in two tablespoons of olive oil to give the mixture more density and help it stick. Then filter it through cheesecloth or a fine wire strainer to remove the particles of chili, and load it into a small spray bottle.
Store it in a cool, dry place.
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Taser
https://www.askaprepper.com/wp-conte...-Have-81-1.jpgWant a more modern way to scare off attackers?
An electronic stun gun should do the trick! Police-style Taser pistols are expensive, and the ammunition for them can be hard to get, but you can easily build a simple hand-held stun gun.
All you need are two nails, a few cheap and simple electrical components and a plastic project box to fit all the parts in.
Caltrops
https://www.askaprepper.com/wp-conte...uld-Have-5.jpgCaltrops were used in the Middle Ages as a sort of anti-cavalry minefield. You can make a caltrop from two metal rods, joined together into a cross and bent so one point is always facing upwards. Sharpen the points and you have a nasty little weapon that will injure any attacker who stands on one and make his friends slow down and go carefully.
If you have basic welding equipment you can easily make caltrops out of large nails. Place two nails so they cross at the centers, then simply weld them together. Bend them with heavy pliers or a vise and hammer so that, however they lie, one point sticks up. Then cut off the nail heads and grind into points.
A bag of caltrops scattered behind you can deter pursuers, or use them to booby-trap parts of your property that can’t be seen from the house. Just remember where you put them!
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There are plenty other improvised weapon designs on the internet, but I wouldn’t want to trust my life to most of them. If you need an improvised weapon you need one that works. Stick to simple, proven designs like the ones here, and they won’t let you down.
Even simpler weapons can be picked up as needed; a solid branch or table leg will make a good club, a baseball bat makes an even better one, and a well-thrown rock will put off many predators of both two- and four-legged varieties.
If you have more time, a spear should be your first priority – it’s the easiest to make – followed by a good bow to give you some range.
Remember that so-called “primitive” weapons are still used every day by people whose whole life is a survival situation. One reason things like the spear and bow have stuck around so long is that they can be relied on to do the job.
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Bullets, batteries and more: 13 Bartering items to stock up on while preparing for the financial crash
04/02/2024 // Zoey Sky // 2.4K Views
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Even though financial systems seem stable at the moment, there's no telling when the next financial crash might happen.Sometimes, a financial crash can cause short-term suffering. However, there have also been times throughout history when financial collapse had worse outcomes. (h/t to AskAPrepper.com)
While humanity has yet to witness a crash that was serious enough to destabilize the government and society in North America, with the fragile nature of financial systems, it is something that may happen soon.
If you ever experience a financial crash that is severe enough to cause country-wide hyperinflation, unemployment and the collapse of the banking sector, you may have to resort to the barter system to acquire the goods and services that your family needs to survive.
If you're worried about a scenario like this, start preparing and stock up on items that you can use for bartering after a financial crash.
Alcohol
There are almost 15 million people who suffer from alcohol use disorder in the United States. And even those who do not have a compulsion to drink alcohol will be likely to trade goods for a bottle of spirits to calm their nerves in times of hardship.
If you don't drink alcohol, having a few bottles of liquor and wine for bartering may still offer some benefits after SHTF.
Ammo
After a severe financial crisis, law enforcement could be overwhelmed and even ineffective. This would cause a true survival situation where crime becomes rampant.
In a wide-scale disaster scenario where the rule of law becomes non-existent, ammo will be as good as, or even more valuable, than money.
Stock up on a surplus of common calibers specifically for bartering. If you're not sure what to get, stock up on ammo for handguns and small game calibers. You might also want to stockpile air gun ammo.
Antibiotics
When you're trying to resume normal life after a severe economic downturn, access to medical care will become limited. Unfortunately, common infections could also pose serious threats.
Having a supply of antibiotics can be a lifesaver for those facing bacterial illnesses and are without access to healthcare services.
Try to stockpile commonly used antibiotics, such as amoxicillin or ciprofloxacin, to meet the needs of your neighbors after SHTF.
Batteries
Once the supply of batteries on store shelves is depleted, non-preppers will be desperate to acquire all the standard sizes of alkaline batteries and power banks to charge their smartphones and other small devices that charge via USB.
If you have a reliable source of off-grid power on your homestead, you can offer to charge devices and battery banks in exchange for other items that you need.
Bottled water
All humans need clean drinking water to survive, but you don't want to risk your safety and stockpile by giving other people access to your stored water supply after a disaster.
Get two or three cases of bottled water so you have items specifically for bartering purposes.
Chocolate and candy
Many people have a sweet tooth. And while sweets aren't an immediate need during an emergency, once the financial system has collapsed, there will still be many people who crave chocolate and candy.
Feminine hygiene products
Women will still need feminine hygiene products after a financial crash.
And even if there is no serious grid-down situation, the cost of feminine hygiene products may still increase, so people will be willing to barter with you.
Flashlights
If a financial crisis is severe enough that people need to resort to the barter system, there's a chance that people will not be able to pay the electric bill or that power will be shut off.
When this happens, people will want to trade with you if you have flashlights.
Try buying packages of several flashlights for less than the price of the included batteries. Products like these are great for bartering because they are cheap and disposable.
Over-the-counter medication
If manufacturing issues can cause supply issues for several months, things might be worse after a financial crisis.
Like antibiotics, many people will need over-the-counter (OTC) medication after a financial crisis or collapse after supply chain disruptions and price increases affect the local supply.
Stock up on these OTC meds so you have a variety of items to trade with:
- Cold and flu medicines
- Diarrhea and constipation medicines and laxatives
- Headache and nausea medicines
- Pain and fever medicines
- Saline solutions
- Skin and allergy medicines
- Sleeping pills
- Wound care medications, like burn cream or antibacterial ointments
Protein bars
Rising food costs may leave non-preppers scrambling for calorie-dense food sources.
Stock up on several cases of protein bars, cereal bars and fruit bars for bartering during a financial crisis. (Related: Emergency food prep: Stock up on manuka honey, a must-have survival food and barter item.)
Radios
After a large-scale financial crash threatens to destabilize the communications grid or forces people to scale back their spending on phone and internet services, you still need to stay in touch with friends and family.
Stock up on radios that operate on the two-meter and 70-centimeter amateur bands. You can also get cheaper shortwave receivers for use as barter items. These items will be popular among those who are desperate for reliable comms.
Tobacco/vape
Like alcohol, there are a lot of people who smoke or vape. After the SHTF and the country dealing with a financial crash, these people will eagerly be trading to get cigarettes or e-cigs.
Stock up on cigarettes and some vape juice so you can trade with them.
Toilet paper and paper towels
During the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the country witnessed demand for one surprising product: Toilet paper.
At the height of the pandemic, toilet paper and other paper products flew off of store shelves. Even if you don't experience a financial crash, you should always have a good supply of these products, with an additional supply for bartering.
The current monetary system started as the barter systems that humans used for the years that pre-dated the invention of the modern currency that humans use today.
And while humans have been trading goods and services for money, if the currency collapses, society will go back to bartering. As a prepper, it's best to stock up on bartering supplies like food, medication and ammo so you can trade for supplies after SHTF.
Go to Health Ranger Store to find more prepping products that can be used for bartering.
Watch the video below to learn more about organic black beans, and why you should have them in your prepper stockpile.
This video is from the Health Ranger Store channel on Brighteon.com.
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After disaster strikes, you may have trouble buying various supplies because stores will eventually run out of products.
Fortunately, you can stock up on items like essential oils now to ensure that you have access to versatile ingredients with many survival uses. For example, essential oils like eucalyptus, lemon and lavender can be used for cleaning your home or supporting your mood. (h/t to SurvivalSullivan.com)
The survival uses of essential oils
Keep in mind that essential oils are concentrated and in most cases, must be used with a carrier oil or diluted with water, especially if applied to your skin.
Here are some essential oils with many survival uses:
Essential oils for cleaning
In a post-SHTF world, the power might go out and you may lose access to running water. This can often disrupt your regular home cleaning routine.
Essential oils will come in handy when commercial cleaning products are unavailable and you need to ration your limited water supply.
Eucalyptus essential oil can be combined with baking soda and the mixture can be used to clean items like mattresses, stuffed animals and other things that can't be washed normally. The smell of eucalyptus oil in your pantry or stockpile can also help deter pests.
Use lemon essential oil to disinfect. It can also be used to clean and disinfect most surfaces.
Alternatively, you can use orange essential oil to cut through grease and grime. It also leaves everything smelling fresh and clean. Orange essential oil is also an effective deterrent for ants.
If you have thyme essential oil, use it to disinfect cutting boards and clean other areas where you prepare raw meat.
Essential oils for supporting a positive mood
Essential oils can also be used to reduce anxious feelings and support a positive mood. (Related: Here’s why Frankincense Serrata Essential Oil deserves a spot in your survival cache.)
Popular essential oils that can help positively affect your mood include bergamot, jasmine, lavender and Roman chamomile.
Essential oils as insect and pest repellents
Cinnamon oil can be used to deter pests from your home or campsite.
Combine peppermint essential oil water and spray it around your home or campsite to keep away pests such as ants, spiders and even mice.
Tea tree oil can be combined with water in a spray bottle and used to spray your campsite or other shelter area to repel pests.
Where to get organic essential oils
The Health Ranger Store offers a variety of organic essential oils with many survival uses. Organic Eucalyptus Essential Oil has a crisp and distinctive smell. When used for aromatherapy, it can help you clear your mind and improve your focus.
Organic Eucalyptus Essential Oil is also an all-natural way to keep your home or car smelling fresh. Additionally, this essential oil can be used to maintain fresh breath. Just dilute it in water and rinse your mouth for a pleasant, fresh experience.
Often referred to as the "King of Essential Oils," frankincense essential oil is a highly potent and versatile oil that offers many health benefits and uses. Organic Frankincense Serrata Essential Oil from the Health Ranger Store also contains other useful components that possess natural cleansing properties, such as alpha- and beta-pinene, limonene, myrcene and linalool.
These compounds make frankincense serrata essential oil a great addition to homemade natural cleaning solutions as well as a beneficial item in your emergency preparedness or survival kit.
Organic Lemon Essential Oil is a potent, all-natural food-grade oil that is extracted from the peel of the Citrus limon fruit. Its powerful cleansing properties and refreshing aroma make it ideal for use as a non-toxic cleaner or air freshener for your home or car.
Organic Lavender Essential Oil is carefully extracted from the flowers of Lavandula angustifolia through steam distillation. It has a distinct floral scent, marked by sweet herbal nuances and rich green accents.
Use Organic Lavender Essential oil to freshen your home, linens and clothes by placing a few drops of this purified essential oil in your diffuser, wardrobe, or on your mattress. To relieve stress and keep you more grounded and focused, add this fragrant essential oil to your bath water for a luxurious lavender bubble bath.
Peppermint essential oil is extracted by steam distilling the leaves and topmost flowers of the Mentha piperita plant, which is a hybrid species of spearmint and water mint. This versatile oil contains high concentrations of menthol (50 to 60 percent) and menthone (10 to 30 percent), which are known for their invigorating, energizing and cooling properties.
Organic Peppermint Essential Oil can be used topically or for aromatherapy to support your overall health and well-being. You can also use it to keep your breath fresh or to freshen your home naturally.
You can trust that essential oils from the Health Ranger Store are thoroughly lab-tested for glyphosate, heavy metals and microbiology.
Go to EssentialOils.news to learn more about the benefits of using essential oils. You can also visit Health Ranger Store and Brighteon Store for more supplies for your prepping stockpile.
Watch the video below to learn more about the benefits of using Organic Eucalyptus Essential Oil.
This video is from the Health Ranger Store channel on Brighteon.com.
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Must-have items for sheltering in the wilderness
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Here is a short list of items you should have in your survival kit when bugging out or camping in the wilderness. (h/t to CampingSurvival.com)Cutting tools
Choose your survival knives based on tasks they must be able to perform – i.e., building and repair, self-defense, hunting, cooking or wood processing – not just their features. This also applies to axes, multi-tools, saws, shovels and other survival gear.
A good survival knife has to be thin enough to carve well but strong enough to baton with. It also needs to be comfortable in your hand and must have a full-tang blade about four to six inches long. The handle must be ergonomic and made from a material that doesn't get overly slick or slippery when wet and grimy. Learn the difference between "bushcraft" knives and "survival" knives. (Related: Health Ranger Report: High-grade corrosion-resistant knives co-designed with Dawson Knives a popular choice among backpackers and preppers.)
Combustion and lighting devices
These include fire-starting implements that will allow you to build a fire for cooking, drying wet things or keeping yourself warm.
Pack at least two different kinds of fire starters in your survival bag, such as a ferro rod and a lighter or waterproof matches. You'd also need some quick-lighting tinder or kindling (e.g., cotton fabric, dry grass, leaves, sticks, etc.) so you can easily get a proper fire going.
Personal lighting, such as flashlights, headlamps and weather-proof torches, are life-saving utilities for navigation (especially when darkness is constant) and other basic tasks, so don't go cheap on them.
Cover and shelter
This will include items that will help keep your core body temperature to around 98 F, which you can also use as a makeshift cover from the elements (rain, sun, wind, etc.) – a blanket (an emergency blanket, a classic wool blanket and/or a Mylar blanket), a tarp (preferably a 10 by 10 waterproof ripstop nylon tarp with multiple tie-out points) and others.
Garments fall under this category – tops, bottoms, footwear, headgear, etc. Consider – and don't scrimp – on high-quality sturdy footwear that fits you properly and offers good support when you are loaded with a pack and other gear. Get a pair that is optimized for multi-terrain.– serving the purpose of protection against adversities of the environment, such as stability on slippery ground, temperature and wear from rough ground.
Cordage
These are some of the most important resources you carry with you and should never be without – climbing rope, natural or nylon rope, paracord, string, twine, UHMWPE braided cords. There are endless light- and heavy-duty uses for them. (Related: Prepping essentials: 12 Survival uses for a paracord.)
You can also learn how to make natural rope out of various materials, including the fibers of various wildflowers, the inner fibers of agave or yucca or the sinew of large game animals.
Also throw in a couple of cargo or waterproof duct tape rolls, which have more than a hundred practical uses for survival, including first aid applications.
Cotton bandanas and scarves
A cotton bandana, and larger neckerchiefs, are used for decorative and protective purposes. A scarf can be used in many ways – worn as a perennial accessory or to protect the head from overheating and the lungs from dust inhalation in arid regions. Conversely, in cold weather, wearing a scarf can protect your sensitive facial skin tissue and keep your head, neck and chest warm – preventing heat loss.
Bandanas, neckerchiefs and scarves double as great aids for a variety of first aid applications to water filtration and treatment and work well for signaling.
Map and compass
With a topographic map and compass (assuming you know how to read and use them), you can confidently establish your bearings or location and set a course toward safety. Without these, you may wander in circles or head in the wrong direction. These items don't rely on batteries or satellites or have screens that break.
Learn how to use a compass and never get lost again. In case you break your compass, you can learn to create your own with sticks.
Throw in signaling essentials in your survival essentials, such as a whistle, a signal mirror or other reflective materials, etc., and learn ways to signal for help.
Water filtration and purification supplies
You can consider portable filters Life Straw Original (which can filter around 40 gallons of water or about two months' worth of drinking water), Lifestraw Filter Bottles (which will allow you to transport your water) or Life Straw Gravity Filter (a collapsible portable water sack).
For water purification – but without filtration – you need iodine tabs, like the Potable Aqua Plus with neutralizer tabs and/or a portable SteriPen UV wand that doesn't leave any chemical aftertaste.
Don't forget your containers – preferably metal (or stainless steel) that would be ideal containers as your drinking vessels and cookware.
First-aid kit
Customize your first aid and trauma kits to contain provisions for minor and severe injuries and illness – a life-saving resource when access to professional medical help or a hospital is limited.
Visit Survival.news for more stories like this.
Watch the following video about the Wilderness survival kit: 10 Essentials you need.
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Learn to make your own infant formula that’s far healthier than store-bought processed formula
Friday, May 13, 2022 by: Ethan Huff
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https://www.naturalnews.com/wp-conte...rmula-Milk.jpg(Natural News) The ongoing baby formula shortage has many parents concerned, but there is no need to panic. These simple, easy-to-make recipes will provide your little ones with more nutrition than anything they could ever get from a store-bought powder.
Each of these recipes was lovingly created by the nutrition experts at the Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF), which is dedicated to teaching people about whole foods made traditionally for optimal health.
The first one contains raw cow’s milk, which unfortunately is not available in every state or area. To see if raw milk is available near you, visit the Real Milk website.
Just to be clear, the following recipe can still be made with pasteurized commercial milk. It will not be as healthy, but it is still better than any store-bought processed formula that you might find.
Raw Milk Baby Formula
Since human breastmilk is naturally richer in whey, lactose, vitamin C, niacin, and long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids than cow’s milk, as well as leaner in casein (milk protein), WAPF developed this recipe to render the cow’s milk as close as possible in composition to human breastmilk.
The recipe also contains gelatin, which makes the formula easier for babies to digest (this one makes 36 servings).
Ingredients:
• 2 cups whole, raw cow’s milk, preferably from pasture-fed cows
• 1/4 cup homemade liquid whey (Note: Do not use powdered whey or whey from making cheese, which will cause the formula to curdle. Only use homemade whey made from yoghurt, kefir, or separated raw milk – see recipe at WAPF website.)
• 4 tablespoons of lactose (available from Radiant Life, which you can also reach at 888-593-8333)
• 1/4 teaspoon Bifidobacterium infantis
• 1/2 teaspoon unflavored high-vitamin or high-vitamin fermented cod liver oil or 1 teaspoon regular cod liver oil (see WAPF’s recommendations)
• 1/2 teaspoon high-vitamin butter oil (optional)
• 1 teaspoon expeller-pressed sunflower oil
• 1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil (Note: Always be sure to use the real thing.)
• 2 teaspoons coconut oil
• 2 teaspoons Frontier brand nutritional yeast flakes
• 2 teaspoons gelatin (Collagen hydrolysate is not recommended; see WAPF shopping guide for recommendations.)
• 1-7/8 cups filtered water
• 1/4 teaspoon acerola cherry powder
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• Put 2 cups filtered water into Pyrex measuring pitcher and remove 2 tablespoons (leaving 1-7/8 cups water)
• Pour half of water into pan, place over medium flame
• Add gelatin and lactose to pan, let dissolve stirring occasionally
• Once dissolved, remove from heat and add remaining water to cool mixture
• Stir in coconut oil and optional high-vitamin butter oil, stir until melted
• Place remaining ingredients into blender
• Add water mixture and blend for three seconds
• Place in glass bottles or jars and refrigerate
• Before feeding to baby, warm bottles by placing in hot water or bottle warmer
This same recipe can be made with goat milk as well, but just be aware that goat milk lacks folate and is low in vitamin B12, both of which are vital nutrients for developing infants.
Adding more nutritional yeast to the goat milk formula will help provide extra folate. To compensate for low levels of B12, add 2 teaspoons of organic, raw chicken liver that was frozen for 14 days and finely grated.
Liver-Based Formula
WAPF’s liver-based formula also closely mimics the nutritional profile of mother’s milk. This one absolutely must include coconut oil, which is the only ingredient that provides the special medium-chain saturated fats found in mother’s milk.
Ingredients:
• 3-3/4 cups homemade beef or chicken broth
• 2 ounces organic liver, cut into small pieces
• 5 tablespoons lactose
• 1/4 teaspoon Bifidobacterium infantis
• 1/4 cup homemade liquid whey
• 1 tablespoon coconut oil
• 1/2 teaspoon unflavored high-vitamin or high-vitamin fermented cod liver oil or 1 teaspoon regular cod liver oil
• 1 teaspoon unrefined sunflower oil
• 2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil
• 1/4 teaspoon acerola cherry powder
Instructions:
• Simmer liver gently in broth until meat is fully cooked
• Liquefy using handheld blender or food processor
• Once liver has cooled, stir in remaining ingredients
• Store in very clean glass or stainless steel container
• To serve, stir formula well and pour 6 to 8 ounces in very clean glass bottle
• Attach clean nipple and set in pan of simmering water until formula is warm but not hot to touch, shake well, and feed to baby (never heat formula in microwave)
Some readers are probably wondering why both of these recipes contain vegetable oils like sunflower and olive oil. The answer is that vegetable oils are very high in linoleic acid, which serves as a precursor for arachidonic acid, which along with DHA is necessary for proper infant development.
At four months, a baby’s first solid food should be an egg-yolk based formula, the recipe for which is available at the WAPF website, along with a simple recipe for fortifying commercial baby formula if you need a simpler shortcut.
The recipe for making your own homemade whey is also provided there along with additional tips for making the recipe process for all baby formulas as simple and organized as possible.
Take some time to peruse the WAPF website as it contains a trove of useful information about nutrition for both babies and adults alike.
“It takes me about 10 minutes now to mix up a batch,” says WAPF chapter leader Sarah Pope about her success in making highly nutritious homemade baby formula quickly and easily, offering the following additional tips:
• Set all tools, ingredients, and recipe on counter
• Measure 2 cups water, remove 2 tbsp
• Put half of water in small saucepan
• Turn dial on stove to 3.5 (low heat)
• Add gelatin and lactose and set coconut oil nearby
• Stir with baking spatula
• In blender, add milk and whey (put back in fridge)
• Add all dry ingredients (put back in cabinet or fridge)
• Then add all oils (except coconut)
• Stir water mixture again
• Take off heat, add coconut oil
• Stir slowly until melted
• Add remaining water and pour into blender
• Blend for three seconds
• Add cream and stir
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HOW TO MAKE PROBIOTIC GINGER BEER – – A Naturally Fermented Probiotic Drink That is Packed With Health Benefits
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How to Make Probiotic Ginger Beer – a naturally fermented probiotic drink that is packed with health benefits.
This article includes a photo tutorial, information on secondary fermentation, flavoring your ginger beer, and troubleshooting when the process goes awry.
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Disclaimer: brewing probiotic beverages at home can be risky. When fermenting probiotc foods and beverages, use caution. Always use sanitized tools and when in doubt, throw it out! If you notice any strange smells or mold, be sure to discard the whole batch.
Many moons ago, I wrote a cookbook called Self Sufficient Backyard. This cookbook is focused entirely on making probiotic-rich beverages such as kombucha, kefir, ginger beer, fermented vegetable juice, and more, at home.
My favorite of all the fermented beverages to make is ginger beer. First and foremost, it is magnificent tasting.
Secondly, it is CHALLENGING.
Perhaps the most challenging and unforgiving of all the fermented drinks.
And for that reason, the most rewarding.
For those of you who have been around this site for a long time, you may remember my easy tutorial on How to Make Ginger Beer.
This is the goof-proof method that works each and every time and does not require much time or attention.
This version of probiotic ginger beer is different. It involves preparing a “ginger bug” (or ginger starter) from scratch.
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How does that work?
Probiotics and yeast are naturally occurring everywhere. They are in our fruit and vegetables and are also present in the air. Giving these probiotics and yeast optimal conditions to grow and reproduce results in fermentation.
You’re already familiar with this concept, as it is the same process for creating yogurt, cheese, beer, wine, pickles, prosciutto (and other fermented meats), etc.
Applying this idea to fresh ginger is how we create a ginger starter, which is then used to make ginger beer.
Don’t worry…I’ll go over how to make a ginger starter in excruciating detail later on in this post. First, let’s cover some basics.
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WHAT IS GINGER BEER?
Ginger beer is a naturally fizzy beverage with a sweet and spicy bite. Grated ginger is fermented in sugar water and lemon juice, allowing the natural yeasts in ginger to feed and multiply, creating a probiotic beverage.
While ginger beer is a sweet, spicy, delicious beverage all on its own, it is famous for its role in cocktails, particularly the Dark & Stormy cocktail, a mixture of ginger beer and rum, garnished with a slice of lime.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GINGER BEER AND GINGER ALE?
The phrases, “ginger beer” and “ginger ale” are typically used interchangeably, but there is a difference between the two beverages. Ginger beer is fermented for up to 2 or 3 weeks using a “ginger bug,” where ginger ale is more of a ginger flavored soda.
While there are ginger ale beverages made with real ginger, most ginger ales are simply carbonated water with ginger flavor and sugar. In this sense, ginger ale does not go through the same fermentation process that ginger beer does.
METHODS FOR MAKING GINGER BEER
There are multiple ways to make ginger beer. Here are three of the most common methods:
- Non-probiotic ginger soda/ale: For those who aren’t concerned about the probiotic benefit of fermented ginger beer, you can simply combine ginger simple syrup (made with ginger and sugar) with soda water and achieve a great-tasting homemade beverage. This version contains no probiotics and is basically fancy soda.
- Quick and Easy Ginger Beer with some probiotic benefits: This fast method uses bread yeast for fermentation and requires only two days to complete. For this version, read my blog post on How to Make Ginger Beer. This version is not as probiotic rich, but is still lower in sugar than regular soda.
- Authentic Probiotic Ginger Beer – a health elixir: The authentic method for making fermented ginger beer is outlined in this post. It uses a probiotic-rich “ginger bug” (or ginger starter) which you make yourself at home. Like most things in life, the authentic version takes much longer than the easy version, but also yields great results. This version can take between 2 and 3 weeks to complete.
HEALTH BENEFITS OF GINGER BEER
Fermented ginger beer has a great deal of health benefits and is commonly used to ease upset stomach, nausea or diarrhea.
Ginger is an anti-inflammatory, which can help with migraines, and studies show fresh ginger prevents and fights several types of cancer cells including breast, colon, ovarian, prostate, and lung cancer.
Ginger is also known for cleansing the body of toxic chemicals, easing menstrual cramps, and much more!
The probiotics and yeast that grow during the fermentation process help colonize your gut with good bacteria, which helps boost immunity, fight disease, and promotes overall health.
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HOW TO MAKE FERMENTED PROBIOTIC GINGER BEER
Fermented probiotic ginger beer requires a three-step process.
Step 1: Make a “ginger bug” or starter using fresh ginger, water, sugar and lemon juice. This starter is used to brew a batch of ginger beer (Step 2). This can take 1 to 2 weeks to complete (depending on the temperature of your home and how active your culture decides to be).
Step 2: Brew a large batch of ginger beer using the “ginger bug” – you could compare this process to making a batch of sourdough bread dough using sourdough starter. This process takes about 1 to 3 weeks, depending on how active your ginger bug is and how warm your home is.
Step 3: Bottle the ginger beer and allow it to ferment further – Once the beverage becomes effervescent (fizzy/probiotic-rich) we bottle it and allow it to sit for “secondary fermentation” (more on this below). This process takes about 2 to 5 days.
You Will Need:
- 1-quart glass jar or jug
- Cheesecloth
- Stretchy rubber band
- 1-gallon glass jug
- Flip-Cap Bottles
- Fresh ginger
- Organic Cane Sugar
- 2 to 4 Lemons
Ingredients for the “Ginger Bug:”
- 1-inch nub fresh ginger, peeled and grated, plus more for feeding the starter
- 1 tablespoon raw organic sugar, plus more for growing the starter
- 2 cups water
Instructions for the Ginger Bug / Ginger Starter:
Peel and grate a 1-inch nub of fresh ginger (about 1 tablespoon).
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Add the grated ginger, 1 tablespoon of sugar, and two cups of filtered water or spring water (non-chlorinated) to the jar and stir (a 1-quart jar works great).
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Cover the jar with a cheesecloth or towel. Secure the cloth around the jar with a rubber band. This keeps insects away from the starter.
Allow jar to sit in a warm, dark place for 24 hours. The optimal temperature for preparing the ginger starter and brewing ginger beer is between 70 and 85 degrees.
If your house stays cool, find the warmest spot in your home to place the ginger starter. This process activates the probiotics and yeast that are in the ginger and allows them to begin reproducing.
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Feed the colony – Once a day for one week, add one teaspoon of sugar and one teaspoon of grated fresh ginger to the jar and stir well.
This ensures your ginger starter stays fed and grows, similar to sourdough starter. Stir a couple of times per day.
During this process, natural yeasts are released and create a white substance at the bottom of the jar. This is where the probiotics come from.
After about 3 to 5 days (perhaps longer if your house is very cold), the liquid will begin bubbling when you stir it. Once you can see and hear bubbles without touching the jar, your ginger bug is ready to be used. This will usually take 7 to 10 days in a warm (70 to 80 degrees F) house, but longer in a cool house.
To expedite the process, wrap the ginger starter jar in a heat blanket or an insulated blanket to keep it warm. If after 7 days, your ginger bug is still not bubbling, continue adding a teaspoon of sugar and ginger until it does. Have patience, friend!
In some cases, folks have gotten bubbles within only a few days of beginning their starter. While this is unusual, it is a sign the starter is ready! As soon as you see the bubbles rushing from the bottom to the top, you’re ready to go.
Use the liquid from ginger starter to make ginger beer (instructions below).
You can continue adding water, ginger, and sugar to the starter and to use it for multiple batches of ginger beer. In this sense, you can treat your ginger starter the same way one would treat sourdough starter and keep it alive.
Note: If you ever see mold floating on top of the starter liquid, discard the starter and make a new one.
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Ingredients for the Ginger Beer:
- 1 cup ginger starter (see above)
- 1 scant gallon of filtered spring or well water
- 1 1/4 cups organic cane sugar
- 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
- 1/3 cup fresh ginger, grated
Instructions for 1 Gallon of Probiotic Ginger Beer:
Fill a gallon-sized jug most of the way up with spring or well water (do not use water from the tap unless your house runs on a well). This water should be room temperature or slightly warmer (aim for 70 to 80 degrees).
Add one cup the the ginger starter, along with 1 1/4 cups of sugar, 1/2 cup of lemon juice, and 1/3 cup of grated ginger. Stir very well.
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Cover the jug with a cheesecloth or towel bound by a rubber band and put it in a warm, dark place at room temperature for 8 to 10 days. Mine takes 8 days, even in a very warm (80⁰F +) house.
Taste-test the mixture periodically to see if more sugar needs to be added (the natural probiotics will eat the sugar so if the beverage ever loses all of its sweetness, add a little more sugar (no more than 2 tablespoons at a time), but be careful to not overload the probiotics, as they can die when given too much sugar.
Stir the mixture once or twice a day. You will notice a white substance forming around the ginger at the bottom of the jug.
This is the natural yeasts coming out of the ginger – it’s a good sign! There will also be large bubbles that form on the surface of the liquid.
The ginger beer is ready when the substance becomes bubbly when stirred (similar to when you’re making the ginger starter).
Once the ginger beer is ready, give it a taste test. If it doesn’t taste sweet, add additional sugar and ginger because once you bottle the brew, it goes through secondary fermentation and the probiotics continue to need to eat sugar.
At this point, your options are to either bottle the ginger beer as-is or flavor it prior to bottling it. See information on Secondary Fermentation and flavoring options below.
Pour the liquid (including the ginger pulp) into sealable bottles and set them in a dark room for 2 to 4 days. This process makes the ginger beer very fizzy.
The warmer the room, the faster the beverage gets fizzy, so open a bottle every day or so to check the fizz and level of sweetness.
Both the fizz and sweetness is up to your taste but be very careful to not allow the bottles to sit for too long because they most definitely will explode.
Place bottles in the refrigerator to calm the fermentation process. Note that the ginger beer will continue to ferment in the refrigerator, so try to consume the beverage within a few days after secondary fermentation is complete for best results.
Leaving it in the refrigerator for longer than a week will result in a “drier”, less sweet ginger beer.
You can now brew another batch of ginger beer using the ginger starter you have been feeding. Because your ginger starter is now more mature, it will take a little less time to brew your second batch.
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SECONDARY FERMENTATION
Once ginger beer is finished with its primary fermentation, you may add additional sugar and/or ingredients (see “Flavoring Ginger Beer” section below) to flavor it and allow it to go through a secondary fermentation.
The purpose of secondary fermentation is threefold: To achieve a fizzy beverage (it will get just as fizzy, if not fizzier than soda!), to make the drink even more probiotic-rich, and to give it delicious flavor.
FLAVORING GINGER BEER
Ginger beer is perhaps the easiest probiotic drinks to flavor because just about any type of fruit and/or herb goes wonderfully with ginger.
The fact that there is already a great deal of sweet and spicy flavor in ginger beer provides a wonderful canvas for incorporating other sweet, sour, tart or creamy flavors.
In this way, the added ingredients are typically what one tastes first when drinking the ginger beer, with the spicy ginger coming through at the finish.
You have a few options for adding ingredients for secondary fermentation. You can add fresh fruit juice, a homemade simple syrup infused with any flavor you like, or a fruit/herb sauce (similar concept to simple syrup).
If you’re adding fruit juice, simply add 1/4 cup to each glass bottle before filling them the rest of the way up with ginger beer. Secure the lids tightly and allow them to sit for 2 days. Immediately transfer to the refrigerator to slow the fermentation process.
Getting creative with fruit and herb combinations is brilliant when it comes to this drink and you are virtually guaranteed to end up with a delicious probiotic drink!
To make flavor ginger beer, choose your fresh fruit and/or fresh herbs. Combine 2 cups of fresh fruit with ½ cup cane sugar and 1/3 cup water in a saucepan (Note: if you’re adding fresh herbs, do so here as well). Bring to a full boil and cook until the fruit has softened. Allow mixture to cool completely. Once cool, divide it between the bottles you are using to bottle the ginger beer.
Fill the bottles the rest of the way up with ginger beer, seal tightly, and allow bottles to sit at room temperature for 2 days to undergo secondary fermentation. Transfer the bottles of ginger beer to the refrigerator and chill.
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Here are some of my favorite flavor combinations for ginger beer:
- Blackberry Sage (2 cups blackberries, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/3 cup fresh sage, packed)
- Grapefruit Rosemary (1 cup fresh grapefruit juice, 2/3 cup sugar, 3 sprigs rosemary)
- Coconut Basil (1 can full-fat coconut milk, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup fresh basil, packed)
- Blood Orange (1 cup fresh blood orange juice, 1/2 cup sugar)
- Raspberry Mint (2 cups fresh raspberries, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup fresh mint)
SHELF LIFE OF GINGER BEER
When properly sealed in bottles, plain ginger beer can last for up to one month in the refrigerator. For best results, drink within 2 weeks of brewing.
When ingredients such as fruit, are added to ginger beer, consume within 1 week for best results and keep in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks. While ginger beer can last even longer than this, it is best to err on the safe side when it comes to probiotics.
A NOTE OF CAUTION
As is always the case with probiotic beverage, be cautious when opening a bottle after secondary fermentation as pressure builds and the drink will be fizzy. Never point a bottle at your face (or at any other person) while opening, and never hand a bottle to a child to open.
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TROUBLESHOOTING
If it seems like either your ginger starter or ginger beer is taking a long time to come to life (get bubbly), don’t worry. This is likely the result of the temperature of your home, and it may just take some extra time.
As mentioned previously, if you want to expedite the process, wrap the jar in a heating pad and set it to a low temperature to keep the starter warm.
On the flipside, in rare cases, a ginger starter may be ready after only a few days. As long as bubbles are flowing from the bottom to the top, that is a sign the starter is rich in probiotics and is ready to be put to use.
Like many probiotic beverages, ginger beer is one of those that seems to be doing nothing for quite some time and then all of a sudden, it’s working.
At the end of secondary fermentation, if your ginger beer too dry (not sweet and very fizzy), this is because the yeast consumed all of the sugar that was in the bottle, leaving very little sweetness for you.
Some people prefer drier ginger beer, but if you prefer it to be on the sweet side, simply make sure you add additional sugar (either cane sugar, fruit, or juice) prior to bottling your next batch.
Did you pop open a bottle of ginger beer after 3 days of secondary fermentation and it wasn’t fizzy and it still tasted sweet? If this is the case, your ginger beer still contains residual sugar that needs to get eaten up by the probiotics. This is okay!
Simply leave the remaining bottles (if any) at room temperature to continue secondary fermentation. Because there was plenty of sugar in the beverage prior to bottling, it will simply take an additional day or two for the probiotics to consume the sugar and for the beverage to become fizzy.
How to Prevent Flat Ginger Beer:
To prevent flat ginger beer, be sure there are small bubbles that rise from the bottom to the top of the liquid prior to bottling it for secondary fermentation, as this is a sign of probiotic activity. Keep in mind that even if your ginger beer does not get fizzy, it is still full of probiotics and is great for you!
Wondering if Your Batch is Bad?
If at any point you find mold on the surface of your ginger beer while it is brewing, throw the whole batch out, even if it is only a tiny bit of mold. Ginger beer is easy to re-make (especially since you already have your ginger starter ready to go), and it is not worth sacrificing quality and health even if it is frustrating to have a failed batch.https://www.prepperfortress.com/wp-c...aj-updated.jpg
Books can be your best pre-collapse investment.
Carnivore’s Bible (is a wellknown meat processor providing custom meat processing services locally andacross the state of Montana and more. Whether your needs are for domestic meator wild game meat processing)
The Lost Book of Remedies PDF ( contains a series of medicinal andherbal recipes to make home made remedies from medicinal plants and herbs.Chromic diseases and maladies can be overcome by taking the remediesoutlined in this book. The writer claims that his grandfather was taughtherbalism and healing whilst in active service during world war twoand that he has treated many soldiers with his home made cures. )
Easy Cellar(Info about building and managing your root cellar, plus printable plans. The book on building and using root cellars – The Complete Root Cellar Book.)
The Lost Ways (Learn the long forgotten secrets that helped our forefathers survive famines,wars,economic crisis and anything else life threw at them)
LOST WAYS 2 ( Wordof the day: Prepare! And do it the old fashion way, like our fore-fathers did it and succeed longbefore us,because what lies ahead of us will require all the help we can get. Watch this video and learn the 3 skills that ensured our ancestors survival in hard times offamine and war.)
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The Top Medicinal Herbs for the Garden: How to Grow & Use Healing Plants
Amy S. May 24, 2023 No Commentson The Top Medicinal Herbs for the Garden: How to Grow & Use Healing Plants
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In an ideal world, we would each have inherited the ability to conjure a personal list of essential garden herbs, tailored to our particular climate and health concerns. As it is, many of us are re-learning the traditional art of the apothecary garden—a place where beauty, medicine, and bees reign supreme.
My hope is that the information below inspires you, as a jumping board of sorts, to create your own unique dream herb garden. I chose each plant based on its ease of cultivation and medicinal usefulness and versatility. But bear in mind, there are many more herbs out there to choose from!
Thinking of starting a medicinal herb garden? Growing medicinal garden plants allows you to harvest homegrown remedies right outside your door. Here are more than 45 medicinal plants to consider growing in your garden this season.
While many of us grow medicinal plants without even realizing it, some folks grow gardens filled with medicinal herbs they use to stock homegrown apothecaries.
HOW TO CHOOSE PLANTS FOR YOUR MEDICINAL HERB GARDEN
With so many wonderful medicinal plants to choose from, how do you pick what to grow? I’d advise starting with plants you think you’ll actually use. So if you’re a fan of tulsi, chamomile, or lemon balm tea, those are good places to start.
Plants for the home medicinal garden :
Calendula – Gorgeous flowers excellent for many uses
Tulsi – Great for tea, fresh or dried
Chamomile – Great as a tea fresh or dried, wonderful nervine, aid upset stomach, calm upset children
Mint (in pots) – Helps some formulas work a bit better, tastes good in tea, great for drying, great for sun tea infusions
California Poppy – Best tinctured fresh and so easy to grow from seed. A family favorite for tea
Spilanthes – Fabulous antiviral, antibacterial, antimicrobial. Fun for kids to grow and taste. I use it a lot and it’s very easy to grow
Lemon Balm – Great taste and so relaxing. Best to tincture when fresh as opposed to dry, so grow it yourself to be able to do that
American Skullcap – Great nervine which, along with California poppy and lemon balm, is best when tinctured fresh
Sage – So useful for so many things: Hot flashes, seasoning food, make an herbal honey that works great as a cough syrup
Solomon’s Seal – Great for all things musculoskeletal as well as digestion
Yarrow (white) – Good for bruising, stopping bleeding, pain relief, one of my most used with grandkids
Lavender – Great for a lovely tea, massage lotion, add to baked goods, digestion. A favorite for many.
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- With your seeds kit, you’ll also receive a FREE Medicinal Guide that shows you how to turn these 10 plants into tinctures, ointments, salves, poultices, decoctions, infusions, essential oils —all in minute detail so you can follow our guide even if you’ve never made an herbal medicine in your life.
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It can be difficult to keep up with harvesting and processing all the medicinal herbs in the garden, so don’t go overboard when you’re first starting out or you’ll likely find it’s too much.
Note which medicinal plants are perennial in your growing zone, or are suited to conditions like part shade. Then also consider which might be especially useful remedies for you to have on hand, like plantain and violet (good herbs for cough, among many other uses).
Or perhaps you’d like to choose some herbs known for stress-relieving properties or herbs for sleep, including lemon balm, chamomile, valerian, and California poppy. Or plan to stock your apothecary with immune-boosting herbs like elderberry and echinacea.
USING MEDICINAL GARDEN HERBS SAFELY
Please note that when using medicinal herbs, you need to research their cautions and contraindications. Many herbs can affect the way prescription medications are absorbed by the body or are not recommended for certain health conditions. Look up this information and discuss any herbs you’re considering with your physician before consuming.
Little research has been done on the safety of medicinal plants during pregnancy, so proceed with caution and check with your doctor before using herbs in pregnancy.
WHERE TO GET PLANTS FOR THE MEDICINAL GARDEN
Many of these plants are perennial herbs, which means they can often be obtained as divisions from other gardeners, though you want to be sure the garden you’re getting it from isn’t one of the unlucky hosts of the dreaded jumping worm, an invasive you want to learn to recognize. Here’s what to know about identifying and dealing with Asian jumping worms.
If you want to avoid the possibility of contaminated soil, you can either grow these plants from seeds, or root them from cuttings. Here’s what to know about propagating plants from cuttings.
High Mowing Seeds, Botanical Interests, and True Leaf Market carry seeds for many of the medicinal herbs listed below. Seeds Now has a medicinal herb garden starter pack worth checking out.
The most expensive, but the quickest and easiest way to get your medicinal herbs, is as plant starts from a nursery. You’re less likely to find the more unusual medicinal plants at your local garden center, though, and you may need to purchase seeds for those.
WHAT TO GROW IN A MEDICINAL HERB GARDEN
Below you’ll find suggestions for some of the more common plants you might consider adding to your medicinal herb garden, as well as many useful wild plants that are often dismissed as weeds. Last, I’ll include a list of some of the less common plants you can add to your medicinal herb garden if you want to expand your homegrown herbal apothecary.
PERENNIAL HERBS TO GROW IN THE MEDICINAL GARDEN
Elderberry
Elderberry is on the shortlist for must-have herbs for the medicinal herb garden if you have the space. An elderberry plant will provide you with not one, but two medicinal (and delicious!) crops, elderberries and elderflowers. Here’s what to know about growing elderberry and elderberry varieties to consider for your growing conditions, including some compact cultivars for smaller-space gardens. If you live in a very cold or very warm climate, be sure to choose an elderberry suited to your growing zone.
Elderberry is best known for its immune-stimulating properties, but it’s also considered useful for arthritis and many other ailments, and as an all-around anti-inflammatory. Elderflower is often used for soothing skin and as a fever reducer, wonderful in elderflower tea or as a tincture.
Here are research-backed recipes for homemade elderberry syrup and elderberry tea. You’ll find loads more delicious recipes for elderflower and elderberry in my book, Everything Elderberry.
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Lemon Balm
One of most herbalists’ favorite medicinal plants, lemon balm is delicious and a soothing de-stresser. Wonderful both fresh and dried in tea, lemon balm can also be tinctured.
A tough perennial, lemon balm is easy to grow from plant divisions or cuttings, so you can see if you can get plants free from another gardener. You can also grow it from seed.
Lemon balm can be a bit invasive in warmer climates, so harvest often if you don’t want it seeding the rest of your yard.
Here’s more on uses for lemon balm.
Peppermint
A go-to remedy for headaches and upset tummies, peppermint is also a delicious herb to keep on hand even if you don’t use it medicinally.
A notoriously aggressive plant, peppermint should grow somewhere you don’t mind it spreading. You can also grow it in a container to help keep it in check.
Lavender
The soothing scent of lavender has been studied for its beneficial impact on sleep quality. One especially lovely way to enjoy lavender is to grow your own and dry buds on the stem to keep in a vase by your bedside. They’re also delicious steeped with other sleep-promoting herbs in a relaxing bedtime tea.
Lavender needs full sun and well-draining soil. Lavender may have more concentrated essential oils when grown in poorer soils.
Thyme (Zones 2 to 10)
Besides being a delicious culinary herb, thyme has antimicrobial properties and is often recommended for treating coughs and respiratory infections.
Upright thyme is easier to harvest than creeping thyme, but creeping thyme spreads nicely as a groundcover, helping to reduce the need for mulch in garden beds. Thyme also makes a deliciously scented and beautiful grass alternative if you’re looking to replace some of your lawn.
Here are loads more ground cover herbs to consider. You can grow thyme beneath your taller plants as a living mulch. It’s often recommended as an elderberry companion plant.
Thyme is easy to propagate from divisions or cuttings, and once you have some, you can divide it to expand your thyme patch.
If you live in a cold climate, be sure to find a thyme suited to your growing zone, as not all can survive extremely cold winters.
Echinacea
Echinacea is well known as an herb for supporting immune function and fighting infection, and it’s a wonderfully drought-tolerant, pollinator-friendly plant to include in the medicinal herb garden.
Echinacea purpurea is considered easier to grow, and the whole plant may be used medicinally. Flowers, stems, leaves, and roots may be tinctured for use both internally and externally.
Echinacea prefers full sun but isn’t fussy about soil. A deep-rooted plant, it’s a good choice for areas that get less water.
Rosemary
Rich in antioxidants, rosemary is prized for its beneficial effects on pain and cognition. If your medicinal herb garden grows in zones 7 to 10, you may be able to grow this delicious herb all year round. If you live in a cooler climate, you can pot up your rosemary and grow it indoors, though it can be challenging to keep it happy in the winter.
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Rosemary prefers full sun and high humidity and soil with good drainage.
Hyssop
Hyssop teas or syrup are often used to help with coughs, congestion, and fever. The leaves can be applied topically to alleviate pain and bruises.
Hyssop is yet another member of the mint family, but unlike many mints is not an aggressive spreader. Hyssop prefers full sun and makes a beautiful addition to the medicinal herb garden.
Note that anise hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) is a related, but different plant from hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis). Anise hyssop was used in similar ways by Native Americans.
Bee Balm / Bergamot
Bee balm’s other name, bergamot, comes from the plant’s delicious scent, which smells a lot like the fruit bergamot that gives Earl Grey tea its flavor. But these bergamots aren’t related, and many bee balm leaves taste a lot like oregano (not what you want in your tea).
Drying bee balm may improve its flavor for tea, and some people use the flower.
Bee balm has antimicrobial properties and is considered helpful for promoting digestion and alleviating bloating. An antispasmodic, it’s also used for menstrual cramps and coughs. Here’s more on using bee balm from The Herbal Academy.
Yet another member of the mint family, bergamot is also prone to spreading, making it a good candidate for sharing with others (or getting some from a neighbor). It’s relatively easy to pull, though.
Catnip
Most people don’t think of catnip as an herb for humans, but it’s useful for promoting sleep and a natural bug repellent. I put the catnip growing in my garden in my evening tea blend along with my fresh lemon balm, yarrow, and violets.
Catnip is an exceptionally hardy perennial, often one of the earliest herbs to green up in spring. Catnip self-sows readily, so cut the flowers before they seed if you don’t want it popping up in other parts of your yard.
A lot of people confuse catnip with catmint, a lovely garden plant that’s generally not used medicinally. Here’s what to know about catnip vs catmint.
Meadowsweet
High in salicylic acid (the active ingredient in aspirin), meadowsweet is anti-inflammatory, and a go-to for pain relief and digestive issues. In Backyard Medicine, Julie Bruton-Seal and Matthew Seal recommend a tea made with dried meadowsweet before meals for digestive issues or 1-3 cups daily for arthritis and rheumatic pains.
Meadowsweet prefers full sun but can tolerate some shade. A generally unfussy plant, meadowsweet doesn’t need a lot of special treatment and will thrive in average soils with consistent moisture. Meadowsweet clumps may be propagated by division every few years.
ANNUAL HERBS TO GROW IN THE MEDICINAL GARDEN
Chamomile
Chamomile is a go-to for tea that promotes relaxation and sleep. In the aster family, chamomile may bother those with ragweed allergies.
Chamomile’s tiny seeds may take up to three weeks to germinate, so plant them where you’ll remember to water them. Chamomile self-sows readily, so you may find volunteers in other parts of your garden..
German chamomile is generally preferred for herbal uses, though perennial Roman chamomile is also an option.
Tulsi
Tulsi, also known as holy basil, is considered an especially vaulable adaptogenic herb, which means it’s thought to help the body manage stress while providing numerous other benefits.
Tulsi is most commonly consumed as a tea, either on its own or combined with other herbs. Tulsi may can also be used as a spice on salads or cooked dishes.
You can grow tulsi as a perennial if you live in zone 10 or warmer, otherwise we grow tulsi as an annual. You can also bring tulsi indoors for winter.
Calendula
Calendula’s plentiful flowers make it a beautiful addition to the garden as well as a valuable ingredient in soothing homemade skincare.
Calendula flowers are also edible. You can add them to tea, or dry them and add the petals to wintertime cooking, where herbalists recommend them for symptoms of SAD. Here’s more on calendula from the Herbal Academy.
Calendula grows easily in poor soils and will self-seed if you don’t harvest all its plentiful flowers.
California Poppy
Beautiful California poppy is a go-to for those in need of more restful sleep. An antispasmodic and nervine, California poppy can help soothe tension and anxiety. Here’s more on uses for California poppy from the Herbal Academy.
Easily grown from seed, California poppy prefers full sun and can tolerate a wide range of soil conditions.
Borage
Borage’s tasty leaves make a refreshing addition to seltzer or homemade sun tea. It’s a cooling herb that is often used for coughs and fevers, as well as an anti-inflammatory.
Borage is a vigorous self-seeder, so once you plant it, you’ll find it popping up in your yard each season. It can tolerate partial shade and poor soils, and bees love it as well.
Here’s more on growing and using borage.
OTHER HERBS TO CONSIDER PLANTING IN THE MEDICINE GARDEN
There are many more plants to choose from when you’re choosing medicinal herbs, and I will try to add descriptions as I find the time. Here are some other herbs to look into as you expand your medicinal herb garden:
American skullcap
Arnica
Betony
Black cohosh
Comfrey
Elecampane
Feverfew
Garlic
Ginseng
Goldenrod
Goldenseal
Horehound
Marshmallow
Motherwort
Oregon grape
Passionflower
Red raspberry leaf
Sage
Solomon’s seal
Spilanthes
St. John’s Wort
Sweet Woodruff
Valerian
Wild ginger
Wild yam
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WILD PLANTS FOR THE MEDICINE GARDEN
In addition to the cultivated plants above, some medicinal herbs are commonly considered weeds, though those in the know use them for all manner of things. Here are some of the valuable medicinal plants you might already have growing in your medicinal herb garden:
Dandelion
Wild violet
Yarrow
Cleavers
Wood Sorrel
Nettle
Chickweed
Jewelweed
Plantain
Lady’s Thumb
Creeping Charlie (aka ground ivy; learn about creeping Charlie look alikes you may also find)
That should give you plenty of herbs to choose from for your medicinal garden. Enjoy experimenting with a few new medicinal plants each season to discover new favorites you can add to your rotation.
Now that you’ve got all these wonderful medicinal herbs growing, learn what you need to know about preserving herbs so you can enjoy them all year round.
Want to learn more about using medicinal plants? Check out these fantastic herbal medicine books or the many fascinating herbal courses offered by The Herbal Academy. Here’s a list of the courses they’re currently enrolling.
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Do you know about the gift of nature to save the life of people from various health problems and make them feel secure by curing significant issues? How to live healthy in this world without having chronic diseases or illness or any other health issues which may hurt you physically and mentally? Due to dense population, people are trying to demolish the forest, garden areas to create shelter, so they forced to destroy the nature’s gift such as natural ingredients, secret medicinal herbs and more which are grown in wild forest, mountains and other places. When you read this review entirely, sure you will get chance to know about secrets medicinal ingredients, herbs and more used by our ancestor to get back the lost health without losing your life. Claude Davis was highlighted all the stuff in the form of the e-bookThe Home Doctor filled with a list of natural ingredients and remedies that you can quickly grow in the backyard or at free space to include it in your routine diet or external usage to get well soon.
Books can be your best pre-collapse investment.
Carnivore’s Bible (is a wellknown meat processor providing custom meat processing services locally andacross the state of Montana and more. Whether your needs are for domestic meator wild game meat processing)
The Lost Book of Remedies PDF ( contains a series of medicinal andherbal recipes to make home made remedies from medicinal plants and herbs.Chromic diseases and maladies can be overcome by taking the remediesoutlined in this book. The writer claims that his grandfather was taughtherbalism and healing whilst in active service during world war twoand that he has treated many soldiers with his home made cures. )
Easy Cellar(Info about building and managing your root cellar, plus printable plans. The book on building and using root cellars – The Complete Root Cellar Book.)
The Lost Ways (Learn the long forgotten secrets that helped our forefathers survive famines,wars,economic crisis and anything else life threw at them)
LOST WAYS 2 ( Wordof the day: Prepare! And do it the old fashion way, like our fore-fathers did it and succeed longbefore us,because what lies ahead of us will require all the help we can get. Watch this video and learn the 3 skills that ensured our ancestors survival in hard times offamine and war.)
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Native Americans Plants Use To Cure Everything – Miracle Plant That Cures Cancer, Hepatitis, Liver, Kidneys
Amy S. May 28, 2023 4 Commentson Native Americans Plants Use To Cure Everything – Miracle Plant That Cures Cancer, Hepatitis, Liver, Kidneys
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The Cherokee is a Native American tribe that is indigenous to the Southeastern United States. They believe that the Creator has given them a gift of understanding and preserving medicinal herbs. The Cherokee trust the healing and preventative properties of nature’s pharmacy. Because many plants become scarce throughout history, the Cherokee promote proper gathering techniques. The old ones have taught them that if you are gathering, you should only pick every third plant you find. This ensures that enough specimens still remain and will continue to propagate. Here are some of the medicinal plants that were commonly used and foraged for by the Cherokee tribe.
However, the following plants were used by this tribe in the treatment of almost every single illness and health condition. However, before we explain their properties, we must warn you that they can be quite strong and dangerous if not used properly.
Keep in mind that the Cherokee healers were experienced as they had centuries of practice. Furthermore, it is of high importance to understand their value as powerful natural medications, so you should be gentle when scavenging them.
These are the natural plants that provide amazing health benefits:
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Blackberry.
Cherokee used blackberry for treating almost everything, including an upset stomach, strengthening the immune system, cancer prevention, improving digestion, and better heart functioning. By making a tea of its root, this tribe healed swelling of joints and tissues. And if you make a decoction from its roots, thus sweetened with maple syrup or honey, you will get great syrup for treating cough. Chewing the blackberry leaves can soothe bleeding gums.
Blackberries an amazingly nutritious because they are rich in vitamins A, C, B6, E, K, riboflavin, thiamine, folate, and minerals such as iron, calcium, magnesium, potassium, zinc, and phosphorous.
To the Cherokee, the blackberry is the longest known remedy to an upset stomach, however this herb can be used for just about anything. Using a strong tea from the root of blackberry helps to reduce swelling of tissue and joints. A decoction from the roots, sweetened with honey or maple syrup, makes a great cough syrup. Even chewing on the leaves of blackberry can sooth bleeding gums.
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Some other health benefits of blackberry fruit include
•better digestion
•strengthened immune system
•healthy functioning of the heart
•prevention of cancer
•relief from endothelial dysfunction
Herbs and other naturalremediescan be as effective as traditional treatments, often without the same negative side effects,” says Roberta Lee, MD, medical director of the Continuum Center for Health and Healing at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City.Here are 10 super healersyou’ll want to add to the all-natural section of your medicine cabinet—and even to your favorite recipes. Folding one or two of them into your cooking every day can yield big benefits.
These tasty berries are also incredibly nutritious. Vitamins provided by blackberries include vitamin A, vitamin B6, vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin K, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, and folate. Blackberries also have an incredible mineral wealth of calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium, and zinc. They are also a good source of dietary fiber and essential amino acids.
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Hummingbird Blossom (Buck Brush)
Cherokee used this plant for the healing of fibroid tumors, cysts, mouth/throat problems, and inflammation. In addition, they mainly used hummingbird blossom in order to stimulate kidney function, but it was also used in the treatment of enlarged lymph nodes, hemorrhoids, inflamed tonsils, enlarged spleens, and menstrual bleeding. In order to get all healing benefits of this plant, they put the flowers and the leaves in boiling water for 5 minutes, and then drink the tea while it’s still hot.
Hummingbird blossom has been used by the Cherokee for treatment of cysts, fibroid tumors, inflammation, and mouth/throat problems. Present day research has concluded that this herb is also great for treating high blood pressure and lymphatic blockages.
The Cherokee mainly use hummingbird blossom as a diuretic to stimulate kidney function, h
•inflamed tonsils
•enlarged lymph nodes
•enlarged spleens
•hemorrhoids
•menstrual bleeding.
To get all of the benefits from hummingbird blossom, the Cherokee would steep the leave and flowers in a boiling water for about five minutes then drink the tea while it is still warm.
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Qua lo ga (Sumac)
Every single part of this herb can be used for medicinal purposes! Sumac bark can be made into a mild decoction that can be taken to soothe diarrhea. The decoction from the bark can also be gargled to help with a sore throat. Ripe berries can make a pleasant beverage that is rich in vitamin C. The tea from the leaves of sumac can reduce fevers. You can even crush the leaves into an ointment to help relieve a poison ivy rash. A study published in Iranian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research reported that sumac, if added to daily diet, can help lower cholesterol levels.
Each part of this plant might be used for medicinal purposes in the treatment of diarrhea, sore throat, and fevers (by making a decoction from the bark). In addition, if you want to get rid of poison ivy rash, you need to crush the leaves into an ointment.
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Cattail.
The Cherokee tribe considered this plant as a preventative medicine and they used it as a digestible food for recovery from each illness. Almost each part of the plant (except its seed heads) can be used for medicinal purposes. Its root can be prepared like potatoes, mashed or boiled for treating sores and burns. The seed down from its flowers is used for diaper rash in babies in the treatment of skin irritation.
Greenbriar (Pull Out a Sticker).The leaves and stems of this plant are rich in numerous minerals and vitamins while its roots are high in starch and they can be used like potatoes. Although its root has a strange and harsh taste, it’s rich in calories. Cherokee used this plant as mild diuretic and a blood purifier in the treatment of urinary infections. Its leaves might be put in a tea to heal arthritis! Its berries might be eaten as jam or raw.
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Mint.
Being a very popular herb, mint is commonly used in tea because of its numerous antioxidant properties. It possesses phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, vitamins C,A, calcium, and fiber! The Cherokee used the leaves of this plant crushed as cold compresses, or made into ointments, or even added in the bath to calm down and itchy skin. Moreover, they used a mixture of leaves and stems in order to reduce high blood pressure.
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Mullein.
This herb soothes chest congestion and asthma. If you inhale the smoke from burning mullein leaves and roots, it will calm your lungs. This plant is exceptionally useful in soothing the mucous membranes. Due to its anti-inflammatory features, it calms the irritated and painful tissue and joint. Mullein flowers are used to prepare tea that contains a lot of mild sedative effects.
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Big Stretch (Wild Ginger).
A tea made of the root of this plant was used by Cherokee in order to improve digestion, intestinal gas, colic, and upset stomach. A stronger tea from its root can even remove lungs secretion. You might use rootstocks from this plant instead of regular ginger and its flowers for flavoring your favorite recipe.
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Jiddu Unigisdi (Wild Rose).
The fruit of this plant is high in vitamin C and is a great healing remedy for flu and cold. The Cherokee made a tea out of wild rose hips in order to stimulate kidney and bladder function. You can even try to make a decoction from its root to treat diarrhea.
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Squirrel Tail (Yarrow).
Being known best for its blood-clotting features, the leaves of this plant (fresh or crushed) might be put to open wounds in order to prevent excess bleeding. The juice of this plant, when mixed with spring water, might stop intestinal illnesses and internal stomach bleeding. Its leaves can be used for tea in order to help in proper digestion and stimulate abdominal functions.
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Kawi Iyusdi (Yellow Dock).
The Cherokee used this herb in their cuisines because it’s quite similar to spinach. But, it possesses a lot more minerals and vitamins because of its long roots gathers nutrients from deep underground.
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Dandelion
Even though considered a weed, dandelion root has a long history of therapeutic use. In fact, this extremely beneficial plant has the ability to treat allergies, lower cholesterol levels, stimulate the production of bile, and detoxify the liver. It also has diuretic properties and it is especially beneficial for pregnant and menopausal women.
The best time to harvest dandelion root is in the spring, especially in the beginning of April. Make sure you pick it from places which are less polluted, such as areas away from the town and the road.
The best part about dandelion is that all parts of it have medicinal properties. For instance, the leaves are abundant in vitamins and can be used in a salad, along with potatoes and eggs. The stem relieves stomach issues, stimulates the gallbladder function, regulates the metabolism, and purifies the blood. Moreover, the stem can be used to treat diabetes while the milk from the stem can be used to remove warts.
Ultimately, people use dandelion flowers to prepare homemade dandelion syrup which purifies the blood, relieves a cough, and improves digestion.
DANDELION SYRUP RECIPE
Get 400 yellow dandelion flowers and pour 3 liters of water over them. Then, cut 4 oranges and 4 lemons into slices and add them to the mixture. Leave the mixture for 24 hours.
After 24 hours, strain the mixture and pour the liquid into a pot. Add 2 cups of sugar into the pot and cook for about half an hour.
Once the mixture boils and gets thick enough, remove from heat and transfer the syrup into sterilized jars. Use the dandelion syrup to treat cold, cough, or bronchitis.
HEALTH BENEFITS AND CANCER-FIGHTING PROPERTIES OF DANDELION ROOT
Dandelion has been long used and appreciated for its medicinal properties. Today, the modern medicine confirms its health benefits and suggests that it is even capable of curing cancer. Keep watching to learn more about preparing and storing roots for future use.
You need to peel, cut, and dry the dandelion roots on a fresh air. Let them dry for about two weeks or until they become brittle under the fingers. Once dried, put them into a jar and store in a dark and cool place.
Dandelion root has the ability to clean the kidneys, liver, lymph and gallbladder, which makes it effective at treating gallstones, constipation, hepatitis, acne, edema, and rheumatism. Moreover, it is very beneficial for women, especially for prevention and treatment of issues related to breastfeeding as well as cysts, tumors, and cancer.
HOW TO PREPARE DANDELION TEA?
Pick some leaves, dry, chop and mince them well. Store the mixture in a jar and keep for future use. To prepare the tea, you need to add half a teaspoon of the mixture into a glass of water. As simple as that!
Another option is to mix 60 grams of a fresh mixture and 30 grams of dried dandelion root. Put this mixture into a pan along with 2.5 ounces of water with a pinch of salt. Bring the boil, cover the pan, and simmer for about 20 minutes. Strain the liquid afterward and consume three cups daily.
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