AS 400 SURVIVAL Lesson 2-2 Plants for Medicine

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Course Overview Unit 1 – The Elements of Surviving Unit 2 – Personal Protection Unit 3 – Necessities to Maintain Life Unit 4 – Orientation and Traveling

Unit 2 Personal Protection Basic Survival Medicine Plants for Medicine Proper Body Temperature Clothing Shelter

Chapter 2-2: Plants for Medicine 1. Chapter Objective Know how to use plants for medicine. 2. Samples of Behavior/Main Points a. Define poultice and decoction. b. Describe treatments for fevers, colds, and sore throats. c. List some plants that can be used to make tea. d. Define antiseptics and state how the survivor can make antiseptics. e. Define expressed juice and list its uses. f. Describe how to treat diarrhea, aches, pains, and sprains. g. Describe how to treat hemorrhoids, constipation, worms or intestinal parasites.

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The extract of a boiled down or simmered herb leaf or root that is used for survival medicine is called? . Expressed Juice Decoction Infusion Poultice 1 30

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Terms and Definitions I. A. Poultice. The name given to crushed leaves or other plant parts, possibly heated, that you apply to a wound or sore either directly or wrapped in cloth or paper. B. Infusion or tisane or tea. The preparation of medicinal herbs for internal or external application. You place a small quantity of a herb in a container, pour hot water over it, and let it soak (covered or uncovered) before use. C. Decoction. The extract of a boiled down or simmered herb leaf or root. D. Expressed juice. Liquids or saps squeezed from plant material and either applied to the wound or made into another medicine.

Specific Remedies II. Specific Remedies. The following remedies are for use only in a survival situation, not for routine use. A. Diarrhea. Drink tea made from the roots of blackberries and to stop diarrhea.

Specific Remedies 1. White oak bark and other barks containing tannin are also effective. However, use them with caution when nothing else is available because of possible negative effects on the kidneys. You can stop diarrhea by eating white clay or campfire ashes.

The extract of a boiled down or simmered herb leaf or root that is used for survival medicine is called? . Expressed Juice Decoction Infusion Poultice 1 30

This should should not be used to treat dihrea? White Oak Bark The root from a Black Berry Bush White Clay Black Clay 27

Specific Remedies B. Hemostatic. Make medications to stop bleeding from a poultice of the from the leaves of the Common Yarrow.

Specific Remedies C. Antiseptics. Use to cleanse wounds, sores, or rashes. 1. You can make them from the expressed juice from wild onion or garlic, or expressed juice from chickweed leaves or the crushed leaves of dock, or pine needles. 2. You can also make antiseptics from a decoction of burdock root, mallow leaves or roots, or white oak bark. All these medications are for external use only.

Specific Remedies D. Fevers. Treat a fever with a tea made from willow bark, an infusion of elder flowers or fruit, linden flower tea, or elm bark decoction.

What plant can you use to help control bleeding? Elm bark Common Yarrow Pine Needles Walnut Shells 1 30

Specific Remedies E. Colds and Sore Throats. Treat these illnesses with a decoction make from either willow bark, or pine needles. You can also use a tea made from burdock roots, mallow or mullein flowers or roots, or mint leaves.

Specific Remedies Aches, Pains, and Sprains. Treat with externally applied poultices of dock, chickweed, willow bark, or wild garlic. 2. You can also use salves made by mixing the expressed juices of these plants in animal fat or vegetable oils.

If you are using pine needles to treat a sore throat, you would prepare them using this method? Poultice Decoction Infusion Expressed Juice 1 30

Specific Remedies Itching. Relieve the itch from insect bites, sunburn, or plant poisoning rashes by applying a poultice of jewelweed or witch hazel leaves. 1. The jewelweed juice will help when applied to poison ivy rashes or insect stings. 2. It works on sunburn as well as aloe vera.

Specific Remedies Sedatives. Get help in falling asleep by brewing a tea made from mint leaves or passion flower leaves. I. Hemorrhoids. Treat them with external washes from elm bark or oak bark tea.

Specific Remedies J. Constipation. Relieve constipation by drinking decoctions from dandelion leaves, walnut bark. Eating raw daylily flowers will also help. Worms or Intestinal Parasites. Using moderation, treat with tea made from tansy or from wild carrot leaves.

Specific Remedies III. Miscellaneous Uses of Plants. C. Make fish poison by dipping walnut hulls in a small area of water. This poison makes it impossible for the fish to breathe, but doesn’t adversely affect edibility. D. Make tinder for starting fires from cattail fluff, cedar bark, lighter knot wood from pine trees, or hardened sap from resinous wood trees.

Specific Remedies Make insect repellents by applying the expressed juice of wild onion to the skin, or by burning or burn cattail seed hair fibers. F. The key to the safe use of plants is positive identification whether you use them as food or medicine or in constructing shelters or equipment.

Chapter 2-2 Plants for Medicine Summary a. Define poultice and decoction. b. Describe treatments for fevers, colds, and sore throats. c. List some plants that can be used to make tea. d. Define antiseptics and state how the survivor can make antiseptics. e. Describe how to treat gas and cramps. f. Define expressed juice and list its uses. g. Describe how to treat diarrhea, aches, pains, and sprains.

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