I use to live on 100 acres of the Ozarks, in very remote hardwood mountain land full of rattlesnakes and copperheads. I raised and home schooled three children there without electric or running water although eventually we did get solar power and put in a large lake for water. For 15 years the nearest neighbor or telephone pole was 4 miles down the dirt road. We had dogs and cats rattlesnake bit pretty often but never a person, thankfully.
The driveway into the old homestead.
It was the best I have ever lived although many people would say OMG ! I just smile.
Back to snakes, over those years I had copperheads come slithering in the living room right towards my sleeping child. I had rattlesnakes in the ceiling of the kitchen..oh that was fun getting that 6 ft snake out without the husband shooting a hole in the roof ! ha!
I didn't know rattlers climbed trees either until we saw 8 ft snakes hanging from trees. Yes way to many snakes.
We were told, back in the 1960's or some by gone year the forestry service decided the Buffalo River nation park system needed more snakes to balance out the natural way of things so they flew over the river dropping 100's of snakes out into the woods. Poisonous snakes no less and that was why there are so many snakes in the area.
I practice natural medicine still to this day and then I did a lot of research about snakes. I found the most helpful snake bite remedy I want to share with everybody who lives in snake country or visits the woods for hiking.
This really works. I have used it several times with remarkable results on animals. During my years on the fire dept and county search and rescue team I carried this one ingredient in my bug-out bag or backpack. I keep it in my prepper gear.
I have used it on spider bites, bee stings and tick bite that carry Lyme disease leaving the bulls-eye rash.
This simple healing paste and drink took the Lyme disease rash away within 24 hours after applying. The rash was there 10 days with nothing working until this remedy was tried.
You won't believe what it is but it works.
Look at the grocery store spice rack for Adolf's Meat Tenderizer the Original works best without any added spices. Yes I'm serious.
This common cooking ingredient contains papaya fruit extract which is well known to herbalist as having extracting properties that remove poison and toxic from the skin or body. You can get pure powdered Papaya at herb stores too, it works as well.
To use:
As soon as possible after a snake or bug bite..mix 1 tablespoon of Adolf's or papaya in 8 oz of water, stir and have the person who was bitten sip this or give it to the animal a little at a time every 10 minutes until gone. It should last about a hour.
Also at the same time...make a wet paste of the powdered Adolf's papaya mixed with a few drops of water. It should be thick and sticky.
Place this paste on the bite very thick and let it dry.
The paste will fall off in a few hours.
Reapply for at least 24 hours or until improvement is seen at the bite site.
Good Luck and Be Safe !
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