First Aid & Survival Kits

[DBake]

Do you buy or build your first aid/survival kits?

What make/model and what does it consist of?

[Slider]

Cheyenne Pepper,10 feet of duct tape rolled onto half of a pencil,super glue,finger nail clippers!!!

[EMPyre]

I gotta ask... Cayenne Pepper?  The other things I could find uses for, and I like a spicy steak, but in your first aid kit, why?

[WAcoyotehunter]

Lots of different band-aids and some of the disposable first aid ointments.  Also an assortment of OTC painpills in a little bottle- It's never happened to me, but I have nightmares of a terrible toothache in the woods. 

[MikeWalking]

Duct tape.  Gauze, Ace Bandages, lots of little band aids. 550 cord. 3 types of fire; lighters, windproof matches + one of those magnesium/flint blocks and a baggie of Vaseline soaked cotton balls (they burn like napalm) Space blanket extra doses of my diabetes meds.

Plus, thanks to a Great MD (you rock DR Fein ) some antibiotics+painkillers.

[bowhuntin]

My survival kit consists of...

Knife
Bandages
Matches
Band aids
Rope
Poncho
Space Blanket
Water purification tablets
Aspirin
Compass
Compact saw
Signal Mirror
First Aid Kit with the works
Fire starting material

You can probably google this topic and find a list and then make your own, it can be cheaper than buying one that is already assembled but it may be more work than you want to do

[MikeWalking]

Oh that's right I need to figure out where my saw went. Already have more knives than fingers to cut

A loud a** whistle is good too.

New research reveals the best thing to have in your emergency/survival kit  A DECK  OF CARDS!!

Yep, When you can't get a cell signal, to cloudy for a mirror, flares fizzle and all else fails...

Start a game of Solitaire!  In no time at all someone will be at your side to point out your errors

[Slider]

Cayenne pepper will stop bleeding in 15 seconds!!! You can either put it directly on a cut or wound or put a table spoon in water and drink it to stop bleeding. It will also reverse the effects of frostbite!!! If you are an Archery hunter I wouldn't be caught Dead without it!!! Her is a true story!!!

One of my favorite cayenne testimonies comes from a student of Dr. Christopher who had recently learned from the good doctor the value of cayenne as a styptic or herb that equalizes the blood pressure
and effectively stops hemorrhaging or excessive bleeding.
She was home when she heard the sound of a gun next door and panicked when she
realized that two young boys were over there alone. She ran next door to find that her
neighbor's boy had gotten into his father's guns and had accidently shot his playmate.
There he lay in a pool of blood. She impulsively searched the spice cabinet for cayenne
pepper, found it, and poured most of the contents into the wound
before calling 911. When the ambulance arrived, the paramedics asked what in the world
was in the wound, thinking she could have made the injury worse. When she told them it was
cayenne, they truly thought she was crazy, and berated her for believing herbal folklore would help such a severe wound. Later that day, after the boy had been safely transported to the hospital, the paramedic called her and apologized. While in the ambulance and after taking the boy's vital stats, he and his partner realized that this boy would have lost too much blood and been dead before they arrived as it were not for the cayenne pepper. It was reported that for several years after this incident, the paramedics of Provo, Utah always carried cayenne pepper with them along with their other emergency supplies.
Our family uses cayenne on all our cuts and wounds to not only stop the bleeding but to insure against infection. But to me one of the most valuable aspects of cayenne to know about, especially if you live up north where it gets cold, is its ability to reverse frostbite, even the most severe kinds where the doctors of today see amputation as the only remedy

[edmondshunter]

Survival kit

3 days food
water pure tabs
3 fire's (LOVE THE COTTON W/ VASALINE)
small amount of cedar tinder
space blanket
mylar lined tarp 8x10 makes a good shelter
meds asprin ect.
first aid kit
parachute cord 20+ ft
pic of my family This is the most important   gives you something to fight for
signal mirror
whistle
flaging tape hot pink
small knife
Mastick tape
Used to carry fifty cents, now a dollar in quarters  Phone call

[bowhuntin]

Putting cayenne pepper on an open wound sounds like it wouldn't be to much fun. Have you actually used this method for reversing frostbite, it sounds a little far fetched

[mossback91]

how do you use it to reverse frostbite??Like how is it applied??

[Slider]

Google ceyenne pepper. Yes I have used it to stop bleeding. To reverse frostbite you mix it with water and drink it.It will stop a heart attack!!!Drinking it will also stop internal bleeding!!!

Reduces weight by improving metabolism
Fantastic for the heart and venous structure
Eliminates plaque from the arteries
Helps heal ulcers
It is healing to the entire circulatory system
Aids the peristaltic action in the intestines
Frostbite - it actually helps warm the entire body and can rebuild the flesh harmed from frostbite
Migraines - cayenne pepper is a godsend for those who suffer from migraines. Once cayenne is in the system, it immediately goes to work in your system. (I know this is personally true.)
It can stop heart attacks. Famed herbalist Dr. John Christopher said if he could get a patient to drink a glass of warm cayenne pepper water (the preferred way to take it actually) it would literally immediately stop the heart attack. Why? Because it immediately equalizes the blood pressure and feeds the heart with the nutrients it needs to function properly. Cayenne pepper and heart health should be something everyone over 50 should know about.