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Hairyloon
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dpack
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Hairyloon
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dpack
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comfrey in a mug, add boiling water, cover, and cool until a comfortable temp before using it as a poultice
i thought "tea" and "mash" to be self explanatory
it is the easiest way to use the stuff
re toxicity, there are assorted views on how toxic and in what ways
the carcinogenic claims originally came from the spinach industry
various strains have different active ingredients
young leaves are not "deadly" cooked like nettles as greens
much like many other plants there are plenty of myths, reality might be more complex
there is a splendid saxon poem which was taken as art/myth, it is actually a list of good wound herbs that covers the entire year
off grid/traditional (and effective) medicine is one of my subjects 
i was taught uses of "common" plants along with their names when i was very young, grannie was a highly skilled pre-antibiotic healer and nurse
since then i have continued a family tradition that she learnt from my gt gt grannie
dr james duke, green medicine. good basic advice
lofty wiseman covers some off grid aspects, so did mr mears,
widerness medicine is a useful book
culpepper has some good stuff along with the toasted mouse placebos etc
the B. P. herbal medicines book is useful and has lots of technical data
rev keeble is a handy field guide to most of the UK ones |
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Slim
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dpack
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dpack
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dpack
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Slim
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dpack
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i might manage a reading list
get it for free if you can it cost me £80
virtual naval hospital, i have 4.5 G on disk, the interweb can be "interrupted"
with that corpsman pt 1 and 2 for decent first aid /triage
the "outward bound" wilderness medicine book
lofty wiseman survival guide
Dr A Duke, dont get poorly, deal with it if you do 
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have a chat with wolf clan about useful plants local to the area, tell them Miriam's friendly wolf sent you
meet and learn from the hobo foot monitors  off grid can be very foot based, the stuff i saw and often mended was special
ditto basic dental care
confidence and do no harm (if possible) is a decent starting position to up the patients chances of survive and maybe thrive
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gather kit(and know how to improvise)
learn whenever you can, do it is very educational
embroidery, plenty of ways to practice, cut one end off a haggis, remove a little of the contents, then stitch, and boil without it splitting
if you master that, guts(appendix is a common off grid issue) and most other bits can be sewn properly
two lines of stitching
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it takes a decade or more to become a doctor, off grid starts when you have no "grid" and it is necessary (and it is a good use of resources, see triage )
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Hairyloon
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Slim
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Mistress Rose
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