Add new comment

Unless you've been living in a cave or social media for years, you should know that you can spare the effort of getting half of this stuff by getting a multitool (Leatherman, Gerber or even a Swiss knife with enough tools) and a travel medic kit.

This is all useful for urban environments. There's a bunch of things you can also get from the forest that will do the same, for obvious firestarting purposes but also for treating/healing wounds (fir resin, extracted from the bubbles in the bark) and other aspects of hygiene. Clay-ish mud you find on river banks makes for a good "soap". I heard native people used to be treating their teeth with different things ranging from yellow birch branches (broken, then used as "brush") to coniferous tree resins, even tho their precolombian diet musta been not too damaging for the teeth. Burdock roots (eaten raw or cooked) are great for detox. Etc. A book could be written about it...