Herbal First Aid Kit

A couple of weeks ago I put together an herbal first aid kit for my backpacking trip with my daughters. I was excited to grab things I had already made and realize that with the exception of band-aids I had made every item in the kit myself! Here is a rundown of what was in the kit

Pine Salve: natures neosporin. It is anti-viral and anti-bacterial

Anti-itch stick: this is a calendula/plantain salve for rashes and bugbites that contains essential oils as well and reduces inflamation, promotes wound healing and helps kill the itch. I put it in a chapstick containter for easier application.

Bug Spray: I used a variety of essential oils in an olive oil base and it felt good on my skin. It also worked pretty well and kept me from getting eaten alive by mosquitos. It also kept those pesky gnats away.

Sunburn relief: just a simple rose hydrosol,

Headache and muscle tension pain roller with essential oils (this came in very handy and really helped with muscle aches)

I also brought some loose herbs:

Fennel to calm upset stomach

Yellow dock and red raspberry leaf in case we encountered a diarrhea situation (we didn’t end up needing this, whew!)

Yarrow as a styptic and wound healer if we ended up with cuts (we also didn’t need this, fortunately.)

I posted about it on my tik tok channel and got over 10K views! I truly believe this past year has opened people’s eyes to the fragility and ineffectual nature of our modern healthcare system and many people are turning to alternatives to modern mainstream medicine. Over the next month or so I’ll be teaching a class on how to assemble an herbal first aid kit (if you are local I’d love to have you come!), I’ll be creating my own herbal first aid kit for sale in my etsy shop: Thorncraft Apothecary, (some of the items I put in my kit are also available in my shop right now) and putting together a PDF file of items to include if you want to make your own Herbal First Aid Kit!

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