5 Aspects of Off-Grid Living that Make You Happier & Healthier We’ve all heard early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. There are many homesteaders still waiting on the wealthy to find them! There are advantages to clean living that are evident to just about everyone after the first …
MIY Toothpaste 3 Recipes Oral hygiene is so much more important than people realize. Infected teeth can negatively effect your heart and throat. Bad teeth hurt and interfere with your nutrition and your sleep both leave you venerable to other illnesses. This will be especially important post SHTF when medical and dental care will be …
Russian Tea Recipes For Colds & Flu Today I have two recipes for you. There are literally dozens of recipes for Russian tea. These two are my personal favorites. Both are excellent for colds and flu, I am not a doctor, of course so I can’t tell you with scientific facts or certainty that either …
MIY SHTF Penicillin A generation or two ago people died from simple small wounds that became infected. Many more died from STD’s that went untreated until the advent of penicillin. Now these deaths are quite rare and the infections have to be much worse to cause death. In any major SHTF event the basic necessary …
Setting a Broken Bone or Treating a Dislocated Joint Injuries are going to happen during a SHTF event, that is just a given. They will continue to happen after the event as well. What could also be factual is that you will be the first and in a worst case scenario the only responder. If …
Homemade Cough Syrup That Reduces Phlegm Carrots tend to get under-rated in the area of health benefits. I can attest to the fact that in many European countries carrot juice is one of the first juices introduced to babies for skin health. I remember myself as a child being told carrots would assist my eye …
Hand-Foot-And-Mouth Disease It looks like chicken pox and sounds a bit like hoof and mouth disease, but it’s neither! Hand-Foot-Mouth-Disease is caused by a couple of viruses. Coxsackievirus A16 is the most common cause and Enterovirus 71 is the second-most common. It is highly contagious like the chicken pox caused by the varicella-zoster virus and is not the …
Medical Uses and Benefits of Peppermint Oil Peppermint flavoring is used so often in sweet treats that it’s easy to forget that in fact it is an herb. One of my favorites in that regard is peppermint hot cocoa. Particularly appropriate for cold winter nights in front of a fire. Especially that I now know …
MIY: Eggshell Calcium Calcium is essential for healthy bones and teeth. Many people, especially those who aren’t fans of dairy products, don’t get enough in their daily diets. This is especially true for women who as they age need more calcium than do their male counterparts. Perhaps you don’t want to take a mass produced …
Naturopathic Medicine For SHTF Preparedness From acupuncture to aroma therapy naturopathic medicine is practiced across the world. In today’s world some see naturopathic practitioners as practicing “fringe” medicine. Others swear by them and the benefits they receive from treatments. In a post SHTF world anyone who can provide hope and relief will be needed as traditional medicine relies …
