2. First Aid and Wellness
Information on In the Wake:
From the practical Q&A series
see:
Q&A #1: Toothpastes, soaps, and razors
Q&A #7: Tobacco and Fermentation
Q&A #8: Condoms and Birth Control
Q&A #9: Medical Supplies
Information from other sources:
Further Reading, Bibliography
and Links
Related posts from the blog:
Thursday, April 13, 2006
The Soil and Health Library
is a simply massive online collection of important, hard-to-get
and out-of-print books on soil, ecological and human health.
It's broken down into several sections. One section is the
Holistic Agriculture Library. I really like Soil
Microorganisms and Higher Plants by N.A. Krasil'nikov, which
is one of the classic old texts of soil ecology. (It's a bit dense,
but full of really important information.) There are also books
on what civilization has done to the soil, such as the oft-cited
Topsoil and Civilization.
Some of these, like Topsoil and Civilization, will bring up a
request for you to put in your email address to get a copy due
to copyright issues. If you are worried about getting spam, you
can always use a free disposable email address from a service
like Spam Gourmet.
In the health section you can also find, among many other things,
a review of and excerpts from Weston A. Price's classic study
of health in uncivilized peoples, Nutrition
and Physical Degeneration.
Thursday, March 30, 2006
I've often recommended the excellent and highly readable books
Where There Is No Doctor and Where There Is No Dentist.
You can get both of those books online
from HealthWrights. See the online
Where There Is No Doctor and the online
Where There Is No Dentist. Also available online there are
several books I've recommended before for people with disabilities
in the "undeveloped" world which would be very useful
in a collapse context.
Another useful online book is the Ship
Captain's Medical Guide. It is a manual published by the British
government for ships with no doctor on board. It discusses medical
actions people without advanced medical training can take can
take when medical attention may be significantly delayed.
All those books are in PDF format with a file for each chapter.
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Via Cryptogon: Hot
pepper kills prostate cancer cells in study.
Friday, March 3, 2006
The recent bill to outlaw
abortion in the state of South Dakota has provoked a lot of
information sharing online.
These links are for-your-information, I'm not suggesting that
you use any given technique linked here since many of them could
be quite dangerous. Here is information
on setting up your own DIY abortion clinic along with a lot
of feedback comments. And there are also plenty of links at
Bitch Ph.D. which are being updated as new people get into
the discussion and new articles are posted.
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
I almost saved this for the Q&A
answer on medical supplies, but I decided to post it today instead:
[Researchers] selected three Labrador retrievers
and two Portuguese water dogs with no previous training, and over
several weeks trained them using breath samples that had been
exhaled into tubes by cancer patients. [...]
The dogs correctly detected 99% of the lung
cancer samples, and made a mistake with only 1% of the healthy
controls. With breast cancer, they correctly detected 88% of the
positive samples, and made a mistake on only 2% of the controls.
[source]
Subjects to add, discuss or address:
Suggestions welcome.
General first aid
Wilderness first aid
Womyn-specific wellness, menstruation, childbirth
Sex related wellness, like contraception
Treatment for chemical weapons (which many of us know about since
"our" governments like to us them on the populations of "our"
respective countries)
Treatment for biological weapons
What to do in the case of nuclear weapons use, treatment.
The psychological stress of collapse and how to deal with it
(see community chapter for more)
Dealing with the absence of industrial medical aids:
-Glasses and Vision (Several friends of mine have done yoga-derived
eye exercises, and reported that their vision improved, and that
they needed their glasses less.)
-Aspirin and painkillers (also see food gathering and production:
medicinal herbs)
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