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Post by fortunateson on Dec 11, 2014 18:00:24 GMT
Hello Naturopathic friends, As I worked through the course material Herbal First Aid and Health Care by Kyle D. Christensen I assessed how prepared I was to deal with a medical emergency. After getting through the book for the first time I had and overwhelming sense that I was not prepared. There are too many significant gaps in my knowledge. My first aid kit is a pitiful collection of over the counter medicines and an assorted collection of bandages and tape. One morning a man in his mid forties collapsed on the treadmill. I could see a group of people gathering around the man standing, looking on, murmuring among themselves. In a moment I could see him, he was cut from the fall, not breathing. He was dying. No one moved. Suddenly I felt a surge of rage overtake me and I thought “Are these people just going to stand here and watch him die? I guess it's going to have to be me!” I through down my exercise towel and went to work rolling the man to his back. Two others joined me and we began CPR. I administered breaths while another man pulsed the chest. After what seemed like an eternity, the emergency team arrived. They took their time setting up while the man slipped back into unconsciousness and I thought they are going to let him die. It didn't happen. The man lived. I've gotten very serious about the first aid topic and this question “What happens when medical help is not on the way...” I'm expanding my first aid study to include the following resources: Herbal First Aid, Kyle D. Christensen Red Cross First Aid/CPR/AED Participant's Manual The Survival Medicine Handbook, Joseph Alton, M.D. American College of Emergency Physicians First Aid Where there is No Doctor Where there is No Dentist Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine Prescription for Herbal Healing The Encyclopedia of Essential Oils Ditch Medicine Oxfort Handbook of Midwifery Video Resources Are you ready? Fortunateson |
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Post by fortunateson on Jan 12, 2015 5:45:34 GMT
Dear Naturopathic friends,
I started Herbal First Aid believing that I could master the skills necessary to deal with emergency situations. The more I read, the more insufficient I felt. During the last month, I have studied intensely hoping to reach the bottom of the subject. I never did. Things I hope to complete in the future include:
Learn to feel and understand the pulse of the heart
Learn to hear and understand the signs of respiration
Learn to palpitate the major organs for signs of distress
Learn to examine the eyes, ears and nose and throat
Learn how to splint and cast
Learn how to suture
Learn to treat bacteria and virus infections with natural remedies
Learn how to manage acute and chronic pain
Learn to test blood and urine samples
Learn to read the eyes and tongue as an indicator of health and disease
Learn to address major health issues with natural remedies and methods
Built out my medical kit and tools
Here is a summary of the books I have recently completed. Three books made a lasting impression on me: Primary Surgery an unforgettable account of life and death in the remote hospital; Survival Medicine a real nuts and bolts guide including how to build your medical kit; Healing Intelligence of Essential Oils my first real look into the breath and healing power of essential oils.
A Barefoot Doctors Manual - This document, titled A Barefoot Doctor's Manual, was published by the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Hunan Province in September 1970. It focuses on the improvement of medical and health care facilities in the rural villages.
A Book for Midwifes - Care for pregnancy, birth, and women’s health
Essential Procedures for Practitioners in Emergency, Urgent, and Primary Care Settings - As the title suggests, Essential Procedures for Practitioners in Emergency, Urgent, and
Primary Care Settings is a book of procedures for practitioners to use in emergency, urgent, and primary care settings. This distinctive book will assist providers in performing procedures commonly done in these settings. This user-friendly, easy to understand, procedurally focused resource offers the necessary background information, illustrations, and step-by-step instructions for providing safe and efficient treatment to patients in these care settings not only the novice, but for experts in emergent and urgent care.
Herbal First Aid and Health Care - The concepts and practices taught in this volume are presented as educational material which can be used in case of emergency when help is on the way as well as when no immediate help is available. This book contains many unconventional practices and concepts.
Prescription for Herbal Healing - Prescription for Herbal Healing is a collection of herbal treatments that are reliable and understood in scientific terms. It offers precise herbal “prescriptions” that can
be used to treat an array of health conditions. It lists herbs and formulas that can amplify the benefits of a healthy diet, nutritional supplementation, and natural healing techniques.
Primary Surgery - The first edition of this work by Maurice King appeared in 1990 and has established itself as the gold standard of do-it-yourself guides to surgery in the up-country hospital. Some 50000 hours of work went into compiling the mass of expert contributions from many varied and far-flung individuals, all enthusiasts with a first hand indigenous experience of the developing world. Here you are, one of our readers, faced with the difficult problem of knowing what you do to help a patient in all these fields, and unable to refer him to an expert. Reading from the top left in a clockwise direction you may need to be: a plastic surgeon, a neurosurgeon, a thoracic surgeon, a GI surgeon, an ENT surgeon, a vascular surgeon, a paediatric surgeon, an obstetrician and gynaecologist, a urologist, a proctologist, an orthopaedic surgeon, a maxillofacial surgeon, and a burns surgeon. We hope these manuals will help you in some of these varied and exacting tasks. Remember though the famous wise words of the London surgeon, Sir Astley Cooper: “A surgeon should have an eagle’s eye, a lady’s hands and a lion’s heart”.
Special Operations Forces Medical Handbook - Special Operations Forces Medical Handbook, 2001, is the first edition of a comprehensive medical reference resource designed for Special Operations Forces (SOF) medics. This “single-source” reference provides many revolutionary approaches to accessing medical information, such as a treatment hierarchy based on available medical resources and mission circumstances commonly facing the SOF Medic. The Special Operations Forces Medical Handbook is an innovative achievement in military medical knowledge, with contributions by over 80 medical specialists organized into a problem-oriented template for reference to diagnoses and treatments.
Survival Medicine - There are very few books aimed at the “Practicing Medicine after the End of the World As We Know It” market – which is hardly surprising! So we hope this book fills a void. We also hope it will be useful for those people delivering health care in remote or austere environments. It is not designed as a “how to do x” reference – although there is some of that. There are plenty of books which tell you how to practice medicine. It is designed to provide some answers to commonly asked questions relating to survival/preparedness medicine and to provide relevant information not commonly found in traditional texts or direct you to that information.
Healing Intelligence of Essential Oils - This book offers a unique approach by providing the vital context for the use of essential oils revealed by the new insights about aromatherapy arising today, mainly from the different branches of biology.
The Survival Medicine Handbook - We hope that this book will serve as a useful reference to the average family. The person that will accept responsibility for their family’s medical well-being in uncertain times is a very special person. We hope that we have provided a tool for their goal: To succeed, even if everything else fails.
Where There Is No Doctor - This book was written for the health worker in the larger sense. It is for anyone who wants to know and do more for his own, his family's or his people's well-being.
Where There Is No Dentist - Where There Is No Dentist is a book about what people can do for themselves and each other to care for their gums and teeth.
Wounds and Lacerations Emergency Care and Closure - Although this text originated from practices in the emergency department, it is clear that wound care crosses many specialties and disciplines. Wound care can take place in emergency departments, clinics, practitioners’ offices, aid stations, and even in the field. Where this text is used and who uses it have no limits. If it can benefit one patient, under whatever circumstance, then it is a success.
Take care, Fortunateson
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Post by fortunateson on Jan 18, 2015 1:37:36 GMT
Dear Naturopathic friends, In studying herbal first aid, I was disappointed by what appears to be the great number of emergency conditions that could not be treated by natural methods. Heart disease, cancer and stroke being the big three. The number one killers:  “The basic causes of heart diseases are wrong dietary habits, faulty style of living and various stresses. The famous Framingham Heart Study of the National Heart and Lung Institute identified seven major risk factors in coronary heart disease. These are: (i) elevated blood levels of cholesterol, triglycerides and other fatty substances (ii) elevated blood pressure (iii) elevated blood uric acid levels (mainly caused by high protein diet), (iv) certain metabolic disorders, notably diabetes, (v) obesity, (vi) smoking, and (vii) lack of physical exercise. Each or a combination of these risk factors can contribute to heart disease. Most of them are of dietary origin. These risk factors can be controlled by changing one’s life style and readjusting the diet.” [1] The M.D. who said he would not recommend eating more broccoli to the person suffering from a heart attack was perhaps being disingenuous. He's right eating more broccoli is not the correct answer in an emergency situation but it is part of the solution. The correct answer is using the life saving, natural remedies like those summarized in the following book. According to the authors, these methods can address even acute cases. These methods work fast and offer an alternative to surgery and the dreaded chemotherapy.  morgellonsdiseaseawareness.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Cancer-Free_4th_Edition.6264839.pdfCayenne Pepper“Dr. John Christopher declared: "In 35 years of practice, and working with the people and teaching, I have never on house calls lost one heart attack patient and the reason is, whenever I go in--if they are still breathing--I pour down them a cup of cayenne tea (a teaspoon of cayenne in a cup of hot water, and within minutes they are up and around)." First the Cayenne pepper must be at least 90,000 heat units or 90,000(H.U.) to be able to stop a heart attack. If the cayenne is at least 90,000 H.U. and the person is still conscious, the recommendation is to mix 1 teaspoon of cayenne powder in a glass of warm water (this is essentially a "cayenne tea"), and give it to the person to drink. If the person is unconscious then the recommendation is to use a cayenne tincture or extract, again of at least 90,000 H.U., and put a couple of full droppers underneath their tongue full strength.” [2] The Budwig DietIn 1967, Dr. Budwig broadcast the following sentence during an interview over the South German Radio Network, describing her incoming patients with failed operations and x-ray (radiation) therapy: 'Even in these cases it is possible to restore health in a few months at most, I would truly say 90% of the time.'www.budwigcenter.com/As for Dr. Budwig herself, she lived until 2003, when she passed away at 94. She had continued lecturing all over Europe through 1999. She had been nominated for seven Nobel prizes during her 50 plus years of advocacy about oils in the human body and treatment of patients with cancer. Influential members of the allopathic medical community and the food (particularly margarine) processors always blocked her award of that well-deserved honor. Dr. Matthias Rath – Lysine/Proline - Vitamin CThe next treatment that address heart disease and cancer regimen t is a mixture of Vitamin C, l-Lysine and l-Proline. This combination was discovered by Dr. Matthias Rath and Nobel Prize winner Dr. Linus Pauling in 1984. Get his book at: www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/pdf-files/cancer_book.pdf  Fortunateson [1] Complete Handbook of Nature Cure, Shri H. K. Bakhru, page 270-272 [2] Natural News, Cayenne Pepper - Stop a heart attack fast Tuesday, November 30, 2010 by: Keith M. Henry, N.D. |
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