Emergency kit - was Perfect Potency

[d_rona2000]

I would love to hear what others include in their emergency kits.
Which remedies have you found the most effective and the most important
to keep in that kit? What type of emergencies have they seen you
through? What remedies that are not found in the standard 'commercial'
emergency kit has you found essential? How many remedies do you carry?

I started out with a tackle box (standard fishing box) in a lightweight
plastic - but it did not hold enough - and finally the handle and latch
both broke in transporting from place to place - so now I use a canvas
messenger bag with a few small clear zipper bags - so the remedies are
visible without rifling through everything. I tried the 'bullet box'
but nothing stayed 'straight' after the mad rush of working fast and
mostly in the dark after hurricanes, so I gave that one up.

The next item I will definately put in the kit is a lighted magnifying
glass - those remedy labels just get smaller and smaller.

Would love to hear what others are using.

Donna

[Luise Kunkle]

Hi Dona,

I do not have an "emergency kit" - but I have a travel kit in which I
have practically all the more common remedies.It is only the size of
about a thick paperback cut in half. And it is very lightweight.

I have only a relatively small amount of globules each remedy (which
would still be around 50 or so), each remedy in a tiny plastic bag,
sort of like the freezer bags, only really small. They sorted by
alphabet. A diaper pin stuck through them at one upper corner of the
bag holds them in place (well, actually it needs three pins to get
them all hung up).

Regards

Luise
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So definitely know what's true:
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[Shannon Nelson]

That's elegant! Where do you get the tiny plastic bags?

[Ellen Madono]

Hi,

I know this is very off the wall, but this is the way I do it.

My emergency kits are all remedies in small jewelry bags. Recently they sell 4mm thick plastic bags. These new bags are easy to open too. Everything is alphabetized. I put smaller bags in larger bags representing a-b, all c remedies.... I also give the remedies in those bags so I carry labeling stuff too. My big kit contains a small alcohol bottle and blank pellets for splicing remedies. You want to be sure your bags don't get crushed and that they stay dry. They will take quite a bit of pressure (in a backpack).

Some of my remedies in those kits are remedies that I made by putting a drop of alcohol in a bad with a couple remedy pellets and then adding blank sugar pellets. Then letting those bags dry. The alcohol has to be the highest proof. Messy, but when I don't want to distribute remedies because I don't have much, that's what I do. That's what I am calling splicing, but there is a better name that I can't think of. The idea is I have to carry everything (no car) on the train or just walking. I give away arnica and hypericum left and right so it is practical to splice it. At one point, I taught classes giving students a similar starter remedy kits. I had those spliced remedies in bottles and I just shared them in Jewelry bags. My old kits had instruction materials with them. I wish I knew how to make instructions water proof. I probably taught 30 people that way and got 5 students converted (to my knowledge, there are probably more) to homeopathy just because they had some basic remedies and I continued to help them because I later did their cases. They all bought their own remedy kits in bottles so I don't think I did a dis-service to the homeopathic pharmacies. Spreading homeopathy is at this point in my life like guerrilla warefare. The Japanese are not very interested. I think it is a result of socialized medicine. They are happy with alopathy?? So my kit is for me.

I don't have it, but I think that Boger's Boenninghausen's A Systematic Alphabetic Repertory of Homeopathic Remedies is what I want to try next as my walking rep. What do others use that is small and light weight.

Best,
Ellen

[Rochelle]

I take with me A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica - Boger, which has a rep in it as well. Small and reasonably light. I also have about 100 remedies in alphabetical order in those little clear jewellery bags (they are what I dispense remedies to patients in anyway) in a small cardboard gift box secured with a elastic band. Had this for years and has passed through various countries and x - rays and they still work!!
Rochelle
Registered Homeopath
EFT(Advanced) Practitioner
www.southporthomeopathy.co.uk

[Luise Kunkle]

Hi Shannon,
That's a good question:-)

I got them at the time from a friend - and I have run out. I have to
find out from her where to get them, because they are so useful.

I'll let you know.

Regards

Luise

--
One thought to all who, free of doubt,
So definitely know what's true:
2 and 2 is 22 -
and 2 times 2 is 2:-)
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[Shannon Nelson]

Hi Ellen,
I do like the idea of the bags! I'v been using little paper coin
envelopes sometimes, and I sort of like the idea of paper better than
plastic, but I can see for traveling that plastic has an advantage!

I think the word you want, instead of "splice", is "graft"?

For making instructions waterproof--how about transparent contact
paper? I've used that as a cheap-and-easy version of laminating. It's
*much* trickier with large and flexible things, such as an entire sheet
of typing paper, but still do-able; better with practice!

Shannon

[d_rona2000]

It is interesting to hear so many of you use plastic bags. I have
avoided them in the past, thinking their plastic molecules would be
more reasily migrating to the remedy then the hard plastic of the
commercial packaging or glass bottles. I use paper coin envelopes
for very short term transport. The small jewelry size plastic bags
are not certified for ANY foodstuff (some indication of their
petrochemical content) - and I've never seen anything about their
safety. Have you looked into this at all? It certainly sounds
convenient to use them for short trips - but I try to keep my
emergency kit 'on the ready' and don't think about preparing/renewing
it very often.

Donna

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[Kathy]

No plastic for me (smile) I sell boiron so I use an empty travel zipper container and filled it with my “essentials” in the original glass bottles. Kathy
Kathleen Ramsey M.C.S. D.D.

Naturopath, Flower Essence Practitioner, Master Herbalist

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It is interesting to hear so many of you use plastic bags. I have
avoided them in the past, thinking their plastic molecules would be
more reasily migrating to the remedy then the hard plastic of the
commercial packaging or glass bottles. I use paper coin envelopes
for very short term transport. The small jewelry size plastic bags
are not certified for ANY foodstuff (some indication of their
petrochemical content) - and I've never seen anything about their
safety. Have you looked into this at all? It certainly sounds
convenient to use them for short trips - but I try to keep my
emergency kit 'on the ready' and don't think about preparing/renewing
it very often.

Donna

D C Rona, PhD, ND, DHM
Stress Repertory: Signs and Symptoms of Stress Induced Nutrient
Depletion
http://stores.lulu.com/drrona
also available at bookstores and online booksellers
New series - Health and Healing Journals - just released!

[Sue Boyle]

Shannon,
Any craft store in the States, Michael's JoAnn's etc , they come in a variety of "Small " sizes.

Sue