Anonymous 04/25/16 (Mon) 00:48:27 a4d258 No.5807080

>>5806729

here's an fyi on items that are useful for multiple things

baking soda, among its plethora of uses, can be used as tooth paste and shampoo. And apple cider vinegar can be used as hair conditioner.

Coconut oil can also be used for tooth paste and is a pretty good as an antibacterial ointment as well as being used for preparing food.

I don't have the instructions on hand at this moment I think its in the do/k/ument but urine can be used to manufacture ordinance as well as cleaner and frankly the amount of useful shit you can make from your own piss is awe inspiring

Incinerate live wood to make charcoal. Mix it with salt peter from your urine or dirt and you got rudimentary black powder. Mix it with sulfur and you have rudimentary gunpowder.

First aid:

I was a very fucking good combat medic so ask me anything but here's what ill contribute now**

A sam splint is good shit for mending any broken bone in your hands, feet up to and including your knees and elbows. Proper use of on (you just manipulate it so it is formed to fit that body part force it to stay in its natural 'relaxed' position) and ace bandage/duct tape it real good.

Iirc sam splints are retardly expensive for what they are.. all it is is a thin piece of malleable aluminum wrapped in a thin piece of foam. If you take a sheet of aluminum and round all the edges you don't need the foam.. it just makes it much more comfortable.

As far as first aid goes the majority of wounds simply require pressure to facilitate blood clotting. The body is like a motor vehicle… it has all different systems to make it run. The field medic is nothing more than a mechanic for the body. The more you know of anatomy the more successful you will be at healing and in some situations the following advice would be bad but those situations are so rare compared to when it would be good advice that this is what I would teach my dumber Marines: you want to do the least possible to stop the bleeding. Since you guys aren't stupid here's the reason for that advice: the human body is fully equiped to fix itself even in the case of amputations. You want to stop the source of bleeding while allowing blood to continue flowing so that the body can fix itself. Even if the bleeding is internal you want to put all the pressure you can on it for 20 minutes so that a clot can form. Then you want to slowly start lessening the pressure until it is tight but not blood flow stopping tight. After the first 20 you let off the tiniest bit of pressure. If it bleeds you go back on it. If no additional bleeding occurs you wait 20 more minutes and let off a little more. You continue this until it is very tight but the patient has capillary refill squeeze their finger nail, it turns white but goes back to normal color within 15 seconds

The reason for this is if you keep full blood flow stopping pressure like with a tourniquet on… every hour that the pressure is that high the higher the risk of the patient going into irreversible shock and they will die, modern medicine cant even save them at that point. Iirc the magic number is 8 hours any more than that and the risk is near 100%. The reason for this is the cells in the affected limb starve and die, when the pressure is eventually released the blood rushes in and carries the chemical .. begins with an L I forget it though.. that the cells give off when they bust. And it causes a chain reaction to spread. there's more science to it than that but that's the quick and easy of it

The reason for that digression is: for any given medkit all you need is fabric and a means to make it stay tight. To that end I could save a critical patient with my shirt and a stick. So don't get side tracked on all the fancy garbage that comes with 'survival first aid kits' most of it is junk.

Fabric

Some type of cordage

Sticks

Basic antibiotics buy them at a pet store its the same shit just made to southeast asian levels of quality control who cares when society is gone** and you can easily buy it in bulk.

that's all you need anything else is luxury