FROM THE WILDERNESS
The Badly Needed Emetic
By James Strauss
Most people don’t know that Ipecac can’t be purchased over the counter in the United States anymore. That syrup was plentiful for most of my life, as it was used as something that was ingested, usually by a child, that required vomiting back up in as immediate a timespan as could be accomplished. Ingesting a poison easily found around residences, like antifreeze, gasoline, or even household cleaners like ammonia and bleach, can kill a human long before they can get to an emergency room to get a stomach pumped out. Today, charcoal is often suggested to be kept on hand for such an emergency use but it’s not nearly as effective as Ipecac. What else might be on hand and readily available? How tough are you? How badly do you want to potentially save someone who has ingested poison orally?
Started this once and got sidetracked; the general theme of violence is the US does seem to be a shift from our America the chosen! But most other places in the world it is just a sign of active conflict vs pending!
Here we seem to need to create turmoil because we really don’t have a worry!
That is except for our need to correct everyone else. We hate things the do not claim us! Men; abortion, Rural Midwest, Imagrants,
We seem to need someone or something else to hate!
Think we look for everyone else to ingest blood; not “us” That is gross!
There is never enough to accumulate through life and there’s an unending supply of fear, not matter how secure
the area, the people and the situation. Thanks for reading so deeply and commenting like you usually do,
in depth, care and surprise!
Semper fi, my great friend,
Jim