First Aid
FIRST AID KIT ADDITIONS I RECOMMEND
TOPICS:
A) Essential Oils
B) Herbal Medicine First Aid
C) Bee Stings
C1) Sub-topic: Understanding how Homeopathy works
A) ESSENTIAL OILS
Essential oils normally come in thick, hard to break, brown glass jars, usually 15 ml per jar. Very easy to insert into a first aid kit. Some MLM companies will sell tiny little 5 ml jars which I find irritating small
and very expensive for such a small volume of oil.
Recommended Reading:
“Foundational Aromatherapy” by Leiann King and Brenda Wright
ISBN: 978-0-692-40023-4
$45.00 U.S.
This is a medical grade reference book, designed so the average lay person can understand it.
The above is a good book. However, the following recommendations below are from my personal experiences. I have lived through every one of these, several times. I know what works and what to expect.
PEPPERMINT:
Impact trauma to soft tissues, such a hitting your finger with a hammer, slamming fingers in car doors, etc. Enemy hitting you on the head with a blunt object.
Application: Use straight from bottle, a few drops every 30 to 60 seconds for the first few minutes. Then spread out a little longer until the pains are gone and the blood shot tissues are no longer bloodshot. Best to apply as quickly as possible. Waiting for hours will have little effect, compared to having only a few minutes delay. IE: A “handy” first aid kit.
LAVENDER:
Lavandula Augustifolia, grown at high altitudes. Other Lavenders grown at lower altitudes are used for nice smells but have no medicinal value.
First and second degree burns.
Emotional trauma.
Burns: Application: Use straight from bottle a few drops every 30 to 60 seconds, for the first few minutes. Then spread out a little longer until the pains are gone and the redness of the burn begins to fade. Blistering skin takes longer. Best to apply as quickly as possible. Waiting for hours will have little effect, compared to having only a few minutes delay.
Emotional Trauma: Apply as need to temples, both sides of forehead and center of forehead (“the second eye”.) Helps to innervate the forebrain where the thinking process of emotional trauma is relived over and over again. Center of the forehead is the most important part of Chinese medicine energy meridians. It is also the most important part of
India medicine for emotions.
CAUTION: Rub into skin, if not then the oils will run into the eyes. If you get oil in your eyes, using water to flush it out just makes it worse. Keep your eye closed until the oil soaks in and the burn goes away. Can take 10 to 45 minutes.
TEA TREE:
Anti-bacterial, Anti-viral, Anti-fungal.
Use as needed for open wounds, cuts, etc. where the injury could turn into and infection. Useful on skin fungus as well, or under toenails.
BETADINE:
Works the same as Tea Tree Oil but is easier to use. Carry both in your first aid kit. Betadine is a liquid and therefore is used all the time in surgical procedures to flush out the area prior to surgery and again before suturing. It is easy to get at drugs stores. We used it every time we cleaned our milking cow’s teats, prior to milking. Critical when drinking raw milk.
CLOVE:
Helps to numb a painful tooth. Normal part of first aid kits for people who work out at sea for two weeks on, two weeks off and not able to get to a dentist for two weeks. Buys the patient time until a dentist can help.
Tooth infections: Antibiotics will NOT reach the tip of the tooth root were a tooth abscess grows. The molecule is too big to pass through the tiny blood openings to reach the tip of the tooth. Antibiotics are still useful to stop the tooth bacteria from spreading to the jaw and face. It is critical to keep the bacteria from spreading to this point. Bone cancer or even death can occur.
I have used Tea Tree Oil, straight, to help get rid of a tooth abscess, while on
antibiotics to make sure the infection does not spread to the jaw bones, or face.
Apply very often to the gum, as near as possible to the infection. Rub it in between the gum and towards the root of the tooth. Spread all over
that area, often. It works slowly. Must be consistent or the infection will win.
850 mg Amoxicillin, once every eight hours, is quite effective in the antibiotic arena to keep the infection from spreading to the jaw bones. If that does not work, the next step is Ampicillin. However, Ampicillin will destroy your gut flora and makes you feel terrible until your gut flora has been repaired.
JUNIPER BERRY:
Congested kidneys where it feels like something is wrong with your kidneys. Dilute a 2 to 3 drops Juniper Berry Oil into 6 to 8 ounces of water. Drink often.
B) HERBAL MEDICINE FIRST AID
Natural Antibiotic:
Garlic bulbs.
Keep each bulb intact until needed. Then take one bulb and mince it
thoroughly. (Many small cuts to release the garlic oils.) Consume the entire bulb.
Use as needed, usually several times per day.
During WWII when antibiotics were hard to get, the US government encouraged farmers to grow a lot of garlic. It helped reduce the need for very sparse antibiotics during the war.
C) BEE STINGS Homeopathic Remedy: APIS
Strength: 30C
(Details located one page down)
C1) HOMEOPATHY:”LIKE CURES LIKE.”
You need to understand the basic principles of homeopathy if you hope to get the APIS to work.
My information comes directly from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland Oregon, renamed recently as the National University of Natural Medicine. My Homeopathy classes were taken in the early 1980’s. This is all from memory, from my classes, over 40 years ago.
At NCNM, now called NUNM, inside the college’s library, is a rare books section, presently under lock and key. When I was a student, these books were on the shelf and read freely by students. These books date back to the early 1800’s by Dr. Hahnemann and other “fathers” of Naturopathic Medicine.
Homeopathy was developed by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, a Medical Doctor from Germany, in the late 1700’s to early 1800’s.
Part of Dr. Hahnemann experiments in the early 1800’s involved miners with deadly mercury poisoning.
Dr. Hahnemann’s experiment was to take mercury and dilute it, over and over again. Using one part mercury to ten parts pure grain alcohol.
Mechanism of Action: There is a mathematical formula called Avogadro’s number. In relation to homeopathy, if any substrate (mercury as an example) is diluted one part mercury to ten parts pure grain alcohol. Then take one part of this new solution and dilute again; one part of the new solution to ten more parts alcohol. After repeating this for 9 times total, after the ninth dilution, or the tenth new solution, there are no more of the molecules of the original substrate remaining in the tenth final product.
Pure grain alcohol, used for the dilutions, has a neutral spin of its electrons. Therefore, with the tenth new mercury solution, the only thing remaining in the new solution is the vibrations of the electrons of mercury. No mercury remains, only the vibrations of the electrons of the mercury.
Dr. Hahnemann, when he administered this experimental solution to the miners that were poisoned with mercury, his patients were healed.
The key principle is “like heals like.”
When given a homeopathic solution (called homeopathic remedies”), the election vibrations of the mercury dilution provides “instructions” to the body, how to heal its mercury poisoning.
C) APIS 30C (Bee, Wasp, Hornet, and Yellow Jacket Stings)
Another example is a homeopathic remedy called “Apis”. This time the substrate used is venom from honey bees, like when you get stung. In “like heals like,” Apis tells the patient’s immune system how to recover from the bee sting. At present, homeopathy does not make remedies for stings from other types of bees, wasps, hornets, etc. It is not necessary.
Apis has enough information to tell the body how to heal from the stings of several types of flying insects that can sting like: hornets, ground wasps, yellow jackets, and of course, honey bees. (Note: Not effective for crawling insects that sting.)
Apis is part of my family’s first aid kits. One in each car, motorcycle saddle bags, camping gear, home, office, etc.
My personal experience that was the most dramatic was not knowing when I was tossing and firewood that firewood was landing on the top of a ground wasp’s nest entrance. I started running away as fast as possible, waving my hands like a crazy man. My sweet Jeannie (my wife) was embarrassed by the
people driving their cars watching me act like a crazy man.
Those ground wasps chased me at least 80 yards before they stopped stinging me. I had well over 50 stings all over my face, neck and arms.
I went inside our home and grabbed our Apis. I took a dose, then repeated more doses about every 60 seconds apart for the next ten minutes. After 10 minutes passed, I was no longer in pain. However I laid in bed for an additional 30 minutes, recovering from the emotional shock.
Then I went back to work stacking more firewood, but not until I found the entrance to the wasp’s ground nest and emptied an entire can of wasp spray inside the opening. The entrance of ground wasp’s nest is only about one inch wide.
If you dig it up, after all the wasps are dead, their nest has very large, underground chambers where they live and reproduce.
I recommend Apis in any first aid kit.
Production of current homeopathic remedies:
An “X” remedy has been diluted one part substrate to ten parts pure grain alcohol. A “C” remedy was diluted one part substrate to 100 parts alcohol. The more the substrate is diluted, the more potent and “directed” it becomes. Apis had been found to be most effective at a 30C potency. Powerful enough to get the job done, yet not too “directed” so the Honey Bee venom will still work for other kinds of flying stinging insects that sting with venom. If the remedy were a 200C, it would be too “directed” so it would
only work for honey bee venom, not for other flying dive bombers.
It is important to understand, homeopathic remedies can be nullified very easily. Since all that remains in the remedy is the electron vibrations of a specific substrate, strong orders like coffee, perfume, essential oils, and all other strong smells, even toothpaste, can nullify a remedy, even the entire container.
How to take: Take without food or drink. Allow about 5 pellets to fall out of the container, into the cap, then directly into your mouth, without touching with your hands. It is easiest to dump pellets into the cap of the vial, then toss the contents of the cap into your mouth. Do not eat or drink anything for at least 20 minutes. Allow to dissolve under your tongue. There are tiny capillaries under the tongue that feed directly into the blood stream. This is where you want the pellets to dissolve.
The pellets are a neutral electron spin milk sugar. The pellets acts as a carrier, holding the liquid in a neutral state.
Homeopathic remedies need to be made in a sterile environment, IE: like a top grade military “Clean Room.” Failure to do so can easily nullify a remedy.
In my many years of practice, I have custom made a few homeopathic remedies, specific to a patent’s oozing herpes infections. It worked and their herpes never returned, even 50 years later. However it is difficult to keep a perfectly sterile clean room environment inside a clinic, to the degree needed to make homeopathic remedies.
The most favorite homeopathic manufacturer amongst most Naturopathic Doctors is Boiron. Boiron (French pronunciation bwa?) is a manufacturer of homeopathic products, headquartered in France, with an operating presence in 59 countries worldwide. It is the largest manufacturer of homeopathic products in the world. I have seen pictures of Boiron’s labs and I feel it is the envy of top military clean rooms.
Boiron’s homeopathic remedies are packed in what we Naturopathic Doctors call for a slang name, “blue tubes.” They prevent UV sunlight radiation from nullifying the remedy. They all have a clear cap that
when turned upside down and twisted, allows one pellet at a time to fall into the cap. Remove the cap, toss the pellets under your tongue, and then recap. This delivery system keeps the contents pure.
Borion’s clean room keeps all odors away from production, assuring Naturopathic Doctors of a pure remedy.
It is safe to purchase homeopathic products where the milk sugar pellets are inoculated right there in the health food store, however a risk does remain. Is the mother homeopathic liquid still absolutely pure, after having been opened several times in a store where other things with odors are also in the same store? Was a previous customer in the store when a homeopathic mother tincture (liquid) was opened and the customer was smoking, drinking coffee, wearing cologne or perfume? Or was the store’s door ever left open when a car was idling right outside, diesel or gas? Or was there a forest fire burning many miles away, where a person can both see and smell smoke from a forest fire 50 to even 100 miles away?
This is why most ND’s prefer Boiron. Boiron has the most rigid protocols to maintain a sterile environment / clean rooms, even when working with one mother tincture, then switching to a different mother tincture.
Joy,
Dr. Young
Naturopathic Doctor
2024