The outdoors provides plenty of opportunities for recreational activities like backpacking, camping, and boating, but secluded environments come with their own risks. For one, you are far from civilization where the nearest help could be hours or even days away. In dire circumstances, being properly prepared could mean the difference between life and death. There …
Category: First Aid
Natural Bee Sting Remedies
Bees are essential to the health of our world, but their stings hurt something fierce. If you’re allergic to bee stings, well, it’s certainly not good new bears. Rather than discussing whether or not your bee sting will land you in the hospital, let’s go over a few home remedies sure to lessen if not …
Plants For Cuts And Scrapes
Whether lost in the wilderness or simply enjoying a camping weekend, the likelihood of sustaining minor cuts, scrapes and burns is fairly high. It therefore helps to know which plants feature the properties you need to heal flesh and make pain go buh-bye. Check out a mere few of the many plants you can use …
Wilderness First Aid Certification
A large part of survival is knowing what to do when plans go wrong. So when an injury occurs to you or someone else around you, do you know what to do? Would you know how to treat common injuries or traumas so that you can help in an emergency medical situation? In order to …
DIY Sunscreen
Numerous homemade sunscreen recipes are floating around out there, with most highly effective and a heck of a lot better for you than the nastified stuff found in most commercial sunscreens. Let’s take a brief look at some of the chemicals you’ll want to avoid, as well as an easy recipe for homemade sunscreen. Check …
Dandelions: Medicinal Uses And Foraging Recipes
Many folks consider dandelions nothing more than a nuisance weed, but they counldn’t be more wrong. The Taraxacum officinale, the scientific name for dandelions, can be used for both natural remedies and as an ingredient in a plethora of recipes. There are many varieties of dandelion leaves, some lobe (or segments) of the plant are …
Live to Fight Another Day: Basics of Survival Medicine Part 2: Medical Emergencies
Even under the best conditions medical emergencies come up. That’s pretty much the reason emergency rooms and urgent care exist. In a survival situation these medical emergencies will be greater and your ability to care for them will be greatly diminished. While there are quite a few first-aid guides out there, the three major medical …
Live to Fight Another Day: Basics of Survival Medicine Part 1: Health Requirements
Keeping healthy isn’t too difficult in our current society but in a survival situation the need to protect your health becomes one of the most important factors to most decisions. In a non-survival situation, if you get a cold you go buy cold medicine. If you eat some bad food you drink Gatorade and hug …
Herbal First Aid Remedies
Aches, pains, bruises, cuts, and scrapes can be uncomfortable and hindering, especially when they occur at inopportune moments, but mother nature provides many herbal remedies for common first aid problems. By creating, combining, and administering natural salves, tinctures, and essential oils, you can quickly and naturally sooth or heal common ailments that occur in the …
First Aid: How to Treat a Burn While Camping
How to Treat a Burn. Camping is still considered by many to be one of the greatest of all American pastimes, from roasting marshmallows over a crackling fire to grilling hot dogs and hamburgers on a sizzling metal skillet, camping is truly the sport of kings. Receiving a painful burn while camping however, can put a …