“DIY Antibiotics”: What To Grow to Protect Your Health In a Crisis

[Achilles]

“DIY Antibiotics”: What To Grow to Protect Your Health In a Crisis

Mac Slavo April 29th, 2016

What will you do in a crisis without life saving medicine and antibiotics?
If society breaks down, hospitals, pharmacies and clinics will be unavailable, and the medicine you or a loved one need may be unavailable.
Clearly, this means you need to have to supplies on hand, particularly for anyone who is dependent upon insulin or other medications that can be deadly if disrupted.
But those supplies will only go so far. Something that is also important to do is become familiar with medicinal herbs and plants, and grow some of the ones that could be most useful to your family or network.
Wilderness and homesteading survival teacher Marjory Wildcraft shows how you can grow and process your own medicines – many of which are more potent and potentially beneficial than those developed in the medical industry. Best of all, it is relatively simple to do:

Yes, you can make your own anti-biotics at home. I’ll show you how to make a really super powerful one (it’s easy to do). Anyone can do it. Most people will want to do this in their backyards or on a patio. But I suppose you could do it indoors too. This one I’ll show you how to make is way more complex than anything the pharmaceutical companies can produce, yet it is simpler and easier to make. No, you won’t need a lab of chemistry set. No, you won’t need microscopes or chemicals. Nope, you won’t even need a spectrum analyzer….
This particular anti-biotic not only helps boost your immune system for any time you have an infection, but it is also good for when you have a cold, it’s known to help lower cholesterol and high blood pressure, it’s been known to help balance blood sugar, fight cancer, fight fungus, and more.

The answer is simple… Garlic is perhaps the single best natural antibiotic, and very well known for staving off colds, infections and for overall supporting a healthy immune system and restoring good health.
Quite simply, garlic is well worth growing, eating and having around, as this video demonstrates. Adopt some of the best practices for growing and storing it, and it will always be around.
There are, of course, many other important medicinal plants that can be grown and utilized than just garlic:

Sara an expert in Medicinal plants explains the properties of several different plants and what their uses are for different ailments. This is information that could save you lots of money in buying medicine and can help you live a healthy diet. Filmed at the eco village of Valdepiélagos, Madrid

According to Sara (in the video above), these plants and many more can address many health issues, including some of the most serious.

• Stevia isn’t just a “sweet leaf” to be used as a sugar substitute, but eating the leaf or its extract can help regulate blood sugar (not in the processed form used by soda companies).
• Kalanchoe Daigremontiana can strengthen the immune system and reportedly even fight cancer.
• Melissa and Evalouisa – Plants from these families both have similar medicinal properties for digestive and stomach relief, as well as as a sleep aid.
• Caledonia can help with cataracts (the orange liquid can be put in the eyes) or for cuts on the skin
•Artemisia Annua is another powerful anti-bacterial that can fight malaria and other serious diseases.
• Galio can be used to regulate the hormonal system
• Epiolobium can reduce inflammation in the prostate
(Note: some of these names may be more familiar to Spanish speakers, or go under a different name elsewhere)

There are, of course, hundreds of more varieties of plants that you can cultivate, but you will need to do your own research. Many plants are found in certain regions only, and others may be difficult to grow outside of their typical climate.
Though they have been used for centuries, no one can guarantee they are safe for everyone, and most doctors and hospitals refuse to recognize the potential of these natural (and unpatentable) medicines.
Regardless of whether or not you endure a collapse or prolonged crisis situation, these are valuable skills that could improve your personal well being, or come in handy as a tradable and necessary skill within a self-reliant community or survivor group.
Along with goods and precious metals, exchanging skills & service is a useful part of any barter economy that could thrive under the right circumstances of determined and freedom loving people.
Read more:
30 Most Popular Herbs for Natural Medicine
Tom Brown’s Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants (Field Guide)
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[Sherree]

Thanks Achilles. Garlic is my "go to" medicine for several ailments. Once you get it started in your garden, you can't get rid of it. Spreads like crazy.

[breezy]

Thanks Achilles.

Been thinking about this lately.

[BugoutBear]

Yarrow's one the Romans and Greeks used for battle wounds. I always keep a patch going.

[Summerthyme]

While there are many herbal and alternative treatments for infections, the only thing that comes anywhere near close to the performance we've gotten very spoiled to expect with modern antibiotics is colloidal silver.

I was as skeptical as they come about the stuff, having read too much on the 'net about people turning blue (yep, has happened, with an idiot who made the stuff wrong- used tap water, not distilled- and not only drank a pint a day of the stuff, but used it topically!!) or other potential "horrible" problems.

Until one day I tried it in extreme desperation on a cow which was literally dying of a uterine infection... she had a fever over 105°, hadn't eaten in 2 days and was actually "down" (unable/unwilling to rise). I infused 500 mls of colloidal silver directly into her uterus, figuring I had nothing to lose. (we'd been using the strongest IV antibiotics we could get our hands on from the vet for a week, and it wasn't touching it)

About an hour later, hubby called into the house, where I was making supper while he finished chores. He asked "what did you give to that heifer?", and I gulped and said "why, did she die?" (It wouldn't have surprised me- she WAS that bad). He said "no, she's on her feet and eating!!" I really didn't believe him... we do tend to joke around, although we don't go THAT far with practical jokes, especially in the middle of chores!... so I dashed out to the barn, and sure enough, she was standing up and chewing hay slowly- weak enough to blow over in a strong wind, but clearly better. Even more amazing, her temperature was normal!

Well, I still didn't really believe it. I figured "maybe the tetracycline we were using finally kicked in" and it was just coincidental that she got up after I infused her. But then, a couple weeks later, we had another case. I didn't want until this one tried to die... I infused her as soon as her fever hit 105°. And again, her temperature dropped within 2 hours and she was fine. Both animals conceived "on schedule" and without problems.

I've also seen it cure pinkeye when even sewing the eyelids shut and infusing heavy duty antibiotics wasn't doing anything. The beef farmer I helped that time used a Super-Soaker squirt gun to treat his herd of 80 cows on pasture!

It is NOT an anti-viral, in my experience. I tried it on several known viral problems, including herpes skin infections, where I could get it directly on the site of the infection, and it didn't do a thing. But it's absolutely amazing if you can get it on the site of the infection.

And even if you can't... the first time I saw it used in a human, one of my kid's inlaws was fighting an awful lymph gland infection for over a year. Several increasingly potent antibiotics were tried for weeks at a time, and the only thing that accomplished was to mess up her gut and destroy her immune system. The doctor had told her the only solution was surgery, removing infected glands from her underarm and in her groin. Of course, that could well cripple her, because if lymph fluid can't flow through the lymph system, it can cause awful swelling and edema.

Anyway, she had bought a quart of CS online, and "thought" it was helping... but at $40 a quart, she couldn't afford to keep using it. I started making some for her, and within a month of daily use (2 ounces a day), she was cured! The "incurable" infection was completely gone, and it never did come back.

The above is why my SHTF medical preps always includes at least a couple ounces of pure (.9999) silver wire, an AC silver generator my son made for me out of an old printer power supply, and a bunch of 9 volt batteries (in case the grid is down)

Summerthyme

[farmermom]

ST, Didn't you use that as an udder infusion for mastitis?

[Summerthyme]

farmermom- yes, but it MUST be sterile. And you also have to be very careful to not make it too strong... 10 ppm is plenty. I make up a batch in pint canning jars and then pressure can it for 20 minutes to ensure sterility. We also would give Banamine (an NSAID) along with the udder treatment, as we found that the cure rate was MUCH higher with Banamine, no matter what antibiotic you were using.

But when we sold our herd in 2013, we had only a single cow with subclinical mastitis (a high somatic cell score, but no actual clinical signs). She was the only one we couldn't get cleaned up with silver- or anything else. She was a huge animal, and awkward, and she would bump her udder hard every time she'd stand up in the stall. We think the repetetive trauma was causing the mastitis.

Summerthyme