Post-apocalyptic Medicine

[wolffhound79]

in the book if remember correctly it was a large town and it was safer to get the meds from the small pet store as the larger big name store were all being looted or already had been looted. I do see your point that the more rural areas may have had time to secure and round up vet supplies and vet stores. My own home town and surrounding farm towns all have multiple vet and equine services. Very important supplies to keep the farms going.

[StainlessSteelCynic]

And I just remembered... there's a good example of humans raiding veterinarian hospitals for medicine in the third Terminator movie.
John Connor, attempting to stay off the grid before Skynet takes over the world, breaks into a vet's to patch himself up after sustaining some injuries.

[Legbreaker]

It's worth mentioned that where I am, animal shelters and veterinarians encourage people to drop off their expired medications for animal use.

Additionally, years ago when I was working for a rather large multinational pharmaceutical company, I learnt that at least in Australia, all medicines must still be fit for human use at least twelve months after the expiry date. This was to account for those who didn't pay much attention to printed dates, or hadn't properly stored the medication.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Boiled cottonwood bark, skim off the scum and dry it = aspirin.

(Better/more accurate description of how to make the distillate here:

https://cedarmountainherbs.com/cotto...ain-relievers/ )

(I am not being snarky, I do not want a discussion on the various merits of any real-world drug situations coming up...with that said...)

Pot grows in most conditions, it is effectively a weed, and has at the very least, palliative effects.

[Olefin]

Boiled cottonwood bark, skim off the scum and dry it = aspirin.

(Better/more accurate description of how to make the distillate here:

https://cedarmountainherbs.com/cotto...ain-relievers/ )

(I am not being snarky, I do not want a discussion on the various merits of any real-world drug situations coming up...with that said...)

Pot grows in most conditions, it is effectively a weed, and has at the very least, palliative effects.

You would be surprised at all the home brewed medicines my grandmother learned from her mother - and one thing they were making was basically aspirin - and various distillations with alcohol, garlic, honey, onions and that home made aspirin that worked wonders on sore throats, colds and other ailments

As for other things - the Germans in WWI were using onions and garlic as antiseptics when they ran out of drugs late in the war - and they worked quite well

attached some research on the effectivity of onions on fighting bacterial infections

[pmulcahy11b]

Isnt "make sure you change your socks" the answer to all medical issues in the military

No, that would be "F**k it, Drive On," or FIDO.

[Raellus]

Leechcraft

I'm reading Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War, by Mary Roach, which includes a full chapter on the use of maggots from filth flies to clean infected tissue and/or debride dead tissue.

And then there's leeches (not mentioned in the book), of which there are medical uses, apparently. The definition of leechcraft is "the art of healing".

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[.45cultist]

Before COVID blew up and my free time went to hell, I was prepping a PC for a PbP game who was basically a walking Foxfire collection. She was a priestess of an Appalachian backwoods syncretic neopagan cult/faith, with a halfway-decent modern education underpinning a lot of folk medicine. I regret not being able to start running her... it would have been interesting to see what I could get away with.

- C.

I hope to stat such a group for both T2K and DC!