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This post was WAY fun to make! When considering how to participate in @naturalmedicine's contest about survival medicines, we scratched our heads a bit. What more realistic survival situation than a zombie attack that forces you to flee your home?!?

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The challenges asks us,

What if there was a zombie apocalpyse, and you had to grab a backpack with a handful of your favourite natural medicines? What if you were lost in the wild and were dreaming of the medicines that could save you? What if you were going to a desert island, and some nasty person only let you take 3 medicines? What natural remedies would you take?

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In this challenge, we recreate a VERY realistic scenario where we are being descended upon by flesh eating zombies and we have to grab a few key medicines.

Ini fell! The zombies can smell his blood!!!

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Make sure to watch the video!!

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So what 3 herbs do we choose?

• Comfrey
• Yarrow
• Ashwagandha

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These herbs are very useful medicines that we wouldn't live without.

Zombies or not these are essential for a natural medicine survival kit. Pixabay

All these herbs grow readily on our property and we use them regularly. In survival situations, the potential for wounds, injuries and stress is greatly increased.

• Yarrow

Named after Achilles whose mother healed his wounds after dipping him in the river styx. Its astringent property helps stop bleeding and the salicylic acid can help relieve pain from wounds. I have used it to staunch large wounds (past name was woundwort or battlewort) and am always amazed at how quickly is stops bleeding and how cooling of an effect it has. It could also be useful as a febrifuge if a fever showed up. This is an herb everyone should know as it grows readily wild all over the world! Probably in your backyard!

• Comfrey

Another amazing herb that is sometimes called boneset because of its incredibility to knit bones back together. The mucilaginous leaves and/or roots can be used externally or internally in cases of bone break, strains and sprains. I have had great success with reducing swelling and bruising on major shin knockers. Be warned that if used on a deep wounds such as lacerations, the outer layer of flesh may heal before the deeper wounds have a chance to heal.

• Ashwagandha

We chose this herb because of it's adaptogenic and relaxant qualities. While we have the fresh herb in the ground, we selected a tincture (alcohol extract) for our survival kit. Ashwagandha can help the body deal with stress and adapt to changing conditions. In a survival situation with high stress and many variables, having this herb on hand to give you the strength of a horse (harkening to its name which roughly translates as "sweat of a horse") and help your body's natural resilience mechanisms to work at peak condition.

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Did we survive? What do you think? Pixabay

While we hope a zombie apocalypse complete with flesh-eaters and those who sniff out blood to prey on humans, we know we're in good hands with these 3 plants.

Don't leave home without em!

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