SAS 160 – Natural Medicine

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SAS 160 - Natural Medicine

SAS 160 – Natural Medicine

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SAS 047 - Seaweed & Animal Tracking
Seaweeds occur anchored tot bottom in shallow waters, or floating on open sea. Coastal weeds are often stratified: green forms grow in surface waters, red in shallow water, brown a little deeper. Wash seaweeds in freshwater before eating, to remove salt. If you can read the subtle signs that animals leave, you will know what hunting/trapping methods to use. Only large, powerful mammals ventur...
Healing Bullet Wounds
Stop the bleeding by applying pressure directly to the wound with any available clean cloth. If the bullet has exited the body, apply pressure to both puncture areas. Remove the bullet, if it's still inside the body, with a pair of sterlized hemostats, Most of the bullet fragment upon impact to ensure that all bullet fragments are removed.
PS Family Disaster Plan (2)
To be on a safer side, keep enough supplies in your home to help for no less than several days. Amass a fiasco Supplies unit with things you might need in a clearing. Store the aforementioned supplies in inquiry, effortless to convey holders for instance rucksacks, duffel packs or secured waste compartments. 
SAS 143 - First Aid, CPR & Bleeding
Arterial bleeding: Speed is vital in stopping blood spurting from an artery. Compress the artery at pressure points where it runs ear the surface over a bone. Watch the wound: if blood flow does not lessen, move your fingers until it does.
SAS 123 - Sea Survival
Swim slowly and steadily. If abandoning a sinking boat or aircraft get upwind and stay clear of it. Keep away from any fuel slick. If forced to swim through flames, jump in feet first and up wind. Swim into the wind using breast stroke. Splash flames away from head to make breathing holes.
SAS 011 - Water
Water can also be obtained from animal eyes which can be extracted by sucking them.All fish contain a drinkable fluid. Large fish, in particular, have a reservoir of fresh water along the spine. Tap it by gutting the fish and, keeping the fish flat, remove the backbone, being careful not to spill the liquid, and then drink it. 
SAS 038 - Trees
Fungi should be emphatically distinguished before consuming. No reliable edibility tests exist – lethal sorts don't taste obnoxious and no side effects may show up for certain hours in the wake of consuming. There is no truth in people tales that a growth is not noxious once peeled or cooked, or that harmful sorts update colour when cooked. 
SAS 096 - Camp Tools & Animal Products
Skins and Furs: Properly prepared skins ae supple, strong, and resist tearing. They have good thermal insulation, and are permeable to air and water vapour. For moccasins, shelters, laces, thongs, water bags or canoes, the fur is removed, but for warm clothing, bedding or a good insulating groundsheet is should be left on.
SAS 068 - Fishing
Using the floats and weights in hunting is very important. A small floating object attached to the line, visible from the bank, will show you when you have a bit. Small weights between float and hook stop the line trailing along the water or too near the surface, while leaving the hook itself in movement.
SAS 165 - Poisonous Snakes
Poisonous snakes: Safety rules Don't methodology, incite or handle snakes – regardless of the fact that they appear to be dead. Some just move to strike when prey is close-and they can strike speedier than you can. 
SAS 023 - Arid Regions
An area is arid  when it is described by a severe absence of good to go water, to the degree of ruining or anticipating the development and growth of plant and creature existence. Domains subject to bone-dry atmospheres will consistently absence vegetation and are called xeric or desertic. 
SAS 133 - Rescue & Signalling
Rag Signals: Tie a flag or a piece of bright - coloured clothing to a pole. Move it left for dashes and right for dots. Exaggerate with a figure of eight movement.
SAS 130 - Rescue & Signalling
Siting the signals: Take account of the terrain. Choose high points for light signals. Erect an unusual silhouette or a ridge to attract attention. Planes fly over hilly territory from the lower to the higher ridges, so slopes behind ridges may be hidden as the plan approaches. Signals near tops of ridges should be seen from any direction.
SAS 014 - Clothing & Shelter
Severe biting stops uncovered substance in moments. Blanket each part of the figure. External Garments ought to be windproof, at the same time not waterproof. Get out of the wind ! Search for typical haven to upgrade, at the same time evade destinations where a snowdrift, torrential slide or shake fall may cover you. 
SAS 117 - Moving
Always move in formation. This will make it easy to check that no stragglers have been left behind. Have a briefing before setting out to discuss the route and to designate rallying points at which to regroup.
SAS 162 - Medicinal Plants
Intestinal problems can be permanently eradicated by Mountain avens, Balm, Water mint, Elm, Cleavers, Agrimony, Lesser celandine and solomon's seal.
SAS 113 - Reading Weather with Clouds
Clouds are the most reliable of weather signs. There are ten main types of cloud formation. Approximate altitudes are given for each type. THe same shapes occur at lower altitutudes in polar regions.
SAS 025 - Tropical Regions
Along river banks and the edges of the bush daylight does enter to the ground surface and development is productive. Undergrowth achieves statures of 3m in a year. Moving is abate, blazing work, hacking a course with a parang or cleaver.