Herbs are “Mother’s Nature Pharmacy” and important to have on hand in an emergency. They can come to your rescue if medicine is short. You can take them in gelatine capsules or make tea out of the leaves. Dried herbs store nicely in small jars or bags. You can dry your own in a dehydrator or make tinctures out of them.
When it comes to an emergency such as insect bite and stings your best course of action is to make a compress out of charcoal and lobelia. This can be immediately applied to the bite or sting to help reduce inflammation. Keep some charcoal and lobelia in your bomb shelter for this purpose.
You can also buy calendula ointment in natural health food stores to soothe stings and bug bites. Goldenseal and tea tree oil are natural insecticides. Pennyroyal oil is also an insecticide.
Probably the most effective herbal treatment for sunburn is aloe vera, which is a remarkably great treatment for any kind of burn. You can simply take pulp from the fresh plant and apply it as needed. Growing and aloe vera plant and taking a limb or two of the plant with you (just put it in a baggie in your bug out bag) is a good idea.
Add one drop of chamomile oil or lavender oil to water and rub gently on skin to soothe sunburned skin. You can buy a package of gotu kola tea and use the damp teabags to reduce the inflammation from sunburn.
During a disaster you may have no way of seeing a dentist. However there are a few herbal remedies that can be helpful for the pain and inflammation in the meantime.
Calendula, chamomile, peppermint and yarrow are all natural anti-inflammatory so rinsing your mouth with the tinctures or teas of these herbs may help.
Clove oil is helpful for toothache pain. Apply one or two drops with a cotton swab as needed.
Alcohol free goldenseal extract can be used as an antibacterial mouthwash until life after a disaster returns too normal you can get to the dentist.
Don’t forget that you can also find some of these herbs in the wild but the best thing for you to do is have a collection of dried herbs on hand so you can use them immediately in the case of an emergency. Simply store the herbs in jars and keep them on hand.