The Phoenix Sunrise

Lately, I’ve been very curious about what we would do for “medicine” in a PAW.  I would assome that if we’re talking about surviving a full-on cataclysm, then drug stores and modern medicine as we think of them today would be a thing of the past.  It would be very difficult for people to survive anything serious (gunshot wounds, deep stab wounds, etc.) without modern medicine.  Hell, even the mortality rate for child-bearing would increase a great deal, for both mothers and children, I would think.  Plus there would be an end to innoculations/vaccinations (though I question their necessity/efficacy already).  What would we do?

Along this line, I’ve been learning about the things that grow in my neck of the woods.  If we can’t refine synthetic drugs, we’d have to survive with what we had, which would be largely herbal. 

My next question was something along the lines of what are the three most common and probably the three most easily treatable things we would encounter?  Infections.  Bacterial, fungal, and septic infections.  Next would probably be skin irritation from the surroundings, which if untreated could develop into infections.  Thirdly would probably be digestive complications due to extreme changes in diet.   But are there plants out there that naturally fight those kinds of things?  You’d better believe it.  Many of them are very common weeds.

Nettles…  Live anywhere near water in the midwest?  They’re everywhere.  And as a kid, you found out, “Hey, don’t touch those.  They’re hell.” 

Anyhow, this is going to be something I comment on as I become more familiar…  I’m getting ready to try my first salve.  Wish me luck!!