Emergency planning Kit

There are a lot of things going on all at once with emergency preparedness. Sometimes that makes the things we need to do seem daunting or we don't even know where to begin, or how to "eat the elephant one bite at a time."
 Bekah at the blog - Pinch a little Save a Lot has a free family emergency planning kit that you can download to make organizing things, and knowing what you have versus what you need a little easier to manage. You can visit her blog and download the free printable here: Family Emergency Plan Printable

Herbs in an Emergency

The Scriptures tell us in multiple places that the herbs of the fields and the plants are for our use and benefit. It is important to learn about herbs now, their uses, what they look like, how to plant them and preserve them for use and how to use them, so during times of emergency when medical aid may be unavailable you may have the knowledge handy that may save lives, or at the very least keep people comfortable when colds, allergies, bites and stings occur.

Emergency Herbs

• Plant usable herbs in your yard in case of emergency
• Top 6 useful herbs – all can be used as teas
• Eccenicia – helps increase white blood cell count
• Mint (peppermint) – stimulant good for colds, nausea – use as a cover for bad tasting herbs
• dandelions – good for liver, and the lymph system (eat young dandelions) the root is best
• Yarrow – good for fever – pick in the fall to dry or make tinctures
• Comfrey – Salves and poultices – use 1 part honey, 1 part comfrey, 1 part vitamin E oil to use on burns, comfrey is known for knitting bone and flesh together again
• Red Raspberry leaves (or any berry) – good for colds, keeps the bowels free and open, cleans out mucus, esp. good for pregnancy
• When drying red raspberry leaves be sure and keep each leaf separate, let them loosely dry
• Lung problems – use lecithin – also good for allergies and asthma
• Chapperael – blood purifier
• Nuclear:
• Transformative iodine- good for small children – fills thyroid with good iodine
• Bentoine clay – 1 tsp. In water absorbs radioactive stuff to get it out of your body
• Black Charcoal- can also be used to get rid of radioactive material- put ¾ tsp. In juice to help fight off jaundice in infants
• Boron – Good to use for radioactive fall out, so is wheat grass
• Viro skin salve – helps with growths (prostate and cancer)
• Mullien – great for lungs and respiratory system – hard to grow and can only harvest leaves for the first 2 years – the mullien flowers are good for ear problems, and also good in salves
• Plague buster – garlic and cayenne pepper
• Tinctures
• Cut up herb in blender
• use alcohol such as everclear or vodka – add to blender
• put in mason jar for 2 weeks and shake jar daily
• Use cheese cloth to strain – put remaining liquid in jar or bottle with eyedropper – will keep for up to 50 years
• ALWAYS do each herb separate then combine as tinctures to get the right and full maximum effect of each herb
• For dry herbs – use 1 part herb, glycerin and water – 60-70 % alcohol