Know how badly wounded companion for first aid is important in any case, it is particularly critical in the survival predicament, because there was no medical personnel, and probably in a few weeks or even months are not the treatment of medical staff. Emergency situation including suffocation, bleeding, shock, this situation must be first aid immediately to save lives.
Choking. Any of the following reasons can cause airway obstruction, which make the person suffocate —
When a foreign body in the mouth or throat blocked the trachea.
Low face or neck injury.
Low mouth, throat, trachea inflammation or swelling. Inflammation may be caused by inhaling the fireworks or irritating smoke, it could also be due to food allergies, insect bites, plants, or something else.
Low neck flexion. If you bend forward until the chin on chest, neck throat can form a “knot”, the “knot” prevents air from the mouth or nose into the lungs.
Low loss of consciousness. Loss of consciousness leads to the jaw and tongue muscles relax, if the neck bend forward, chin then prolapse, the tongue back, can stop the air into the lungs.
Here are the symptoms of respiratory tract obstruction —
Patients with low breathing difficulties, exhaled breath.
Low in front of the neck muscles bulge, but did not hear the breath voice, feel with gas from in and out of the mouth or nose.
Low blue skin. Patients with lips, ears, fingers the skin around the bluish or pale, sometimes even whole body skin discoloration.
Whatever the reason, suffocation is very serious. If the lung air supply is insufficient, the resulting is brain damage, and eventually lead to death, this process can only happen in a few minutes. Here, time is the most important. Smooth respiratory tract. To restore and keep respiratory tract unobstructed, the following steps should be taken to —
Note: any one step from the patient’s respiratory tract unobstructed and natural breath, should immediately stop, don’t continue.
Step 1 to clean up the patient’s mouth, fingers dig out patients with any foreign body in the mouth: broken teeth, dentures, sand and so on.
Step 2 to lift the patient’s head, and make it backward.
Adjust the posture of patients, the expanded respiratory capacity: let patients immediately on your face, and lifted his chin. Lift the patient’s head back as far as possible, making his neck tightly stretched straight. Do, forcibly carried, patients with one hand on the neck with one hand on the forehead push back, this movement generally makes the patient’s mouth open.
If there is a bundle of rolls of cloth, poncho, or other similar things, you can pad in patients with shoulder to keep his position, but don’t waste time to get these things.
If raised his head made the airway open, people began to breathe, don’t continue to the following steps, or continue to the third step. For the rest of the all steps to keep patients head leaned back.
Step 3 to force air into the lungs.
Hold the patient’s nose, through his mouth quickly forced two or three breath into his lungs, watch movements, chest to see if air into his lungs. This forced respiration may be enough to make him to restore natural breath, or out of the tiny in the airways obstruction.
Observed in patients with chest to see if the air into the lungs, if chest with forced air on a once, shows that the respiratory tract is unobstructed, if you don’t have to work, continue to step 4.
Step 4 lift the chin.
Strengthen the tight degree of the neck, the tongue is no longer blocked respiratory tract, can any a way to lift the chin using the following:
When the thumb method. Put your thumb on the patient’s mouth, the other four fingers hold the patient’s jaw to elevate. Don’t try
Figure pressure under the tongue.
When both hands together play. Mouth very tight, if patients cannot bring his thumb into his mouth, and then using this method. Both hands along the ear lobe in patients with jaw force to lift, make the patient’s discharge tooth forward beyond race, pushing the thumb in patients with lower lip with both hands, mouth open.
“Once the patient’s tongue enough to the front of the plane, to quickly blowing his mouth, see if his respiratory tract unobstructed, if as the forced breathing, chest of ups and downs, shows that the respiratory tract unobstructed, if not, continue to step 5.
Step 5 to clear the respiratory tract. When to raise her head, force breathing, such as maximum extension chin efforts after the failure, then foreign body may already deep into the patients’ throat, clean up and step 1 quickly without work. Then you need to take the following method to remove the foreign body.
Low fingers dig. With your index finger along on the patients with buccal into this place, the index finger as a hook, the foreign body try to bit by bit to take the bait, hook hand reach position, then remove them.
Low back knocking. Make patients lying sideways, between his shoulder blades hard knock a few times, and then extended index in patients with mouth to check and make sure we had come out foreign bodies.
The low abdominal push. If the patient sitting or standing, you stand behind him, with his arms to encircle his waist, hands fuels, the fist one side of the thumb is located in the patients with chest, between the bottom and the navel, pin, chest then shoved up quickly. Repeat this action if needed.
If the patient lying down, want to let him down, back up, and then close to his hips down on their knees, with one hand at the bottom of the palm against his chest, or between the lower end of the sternum and navel, another hand pressure on the hand, then do the push up action quickly. If necessary, repeat the action.
Combine tapping and hand push back, especially when the upper respiratory tract is blocked, combined with the two action is more effective.
Annular thyroid cartilage dissection. If patients with respiratory tract obstruction is very serious, you need to immediately cut circular thyroid cartilage surgery (make an artificial airway), or is likely to be killed. The surgery between the thyroid cartilage and the cricoid cartilage is a small mouth, let air directly into the trachea, not through the trachea or more channels. Surgical operation according to the following steps:
Warning: this operation require specialized knowledge and the training, the amateur staff unless it is in the fight for survival, and have no it method can try this method.
When the patients placed on a flat surface, head back, make the neck stretched straight.
If time permits, and soap wash skin with water, if there is a disinfectant as, put a little on the skin. When confirmed with finger ring of the thyroid cartilage membrane.
Men of the thyroid cartilage that Adam’s apple – is larger.
Cricoid cartilage – as the name suggests is the ring – just below the thyroid cartilage, it has no thyroid cartilage is big, but is almost twice the thyroid cartilage thickness, which forms the rest of the trachea. Membrane between thyroid cartilage and cricoid cartilage, called cricothyroid membrane. In this place, respiratory cricothyroid membrane depends on the layer and the skin is separated from the outside world.
When picked up the cricothyroid membrane on the skin, with a scalpel, knives, knives, or any other sharp tools, in the middle of the skin vertical cut a small opening to a depth of about half an inch.
Open incision with finger, cricothyroid membrane, a cut horizontally, to show the inner wall of the trachea.
After the cricothyroid membrane incision open must keep the opening state, make sure air can move in and out of the trachea, can insert a clean carefully on the cut pipe, such as round pearl ink, but in a time of crisis, anything can make cut open. Pipe, can immediately hear the sound of the air in and out of the incision.
Low protect incision. The inserted after with bandages or cloth tied around his neck, the pipe must be fixed, prevent fall off, or against the inner wall of the trachea.
Openings must be kept until the doctor to take over the patients, or patients recover from is no longer needed this incision (swelling elimination, patients can be normal breathing). Tube removed, the wound will heal, don’t need disinfection and air tight bandage.
The loss of blood. Any parts of the aortic hemorrhage is extremely dangerous. Blood loss 1 quarts (1.1 liters) can lead to light
Degree of shock, blood 2 quarts (2.3 liters) would be severe shock, at this moment is pretty dangerous, blood 3 quarts (3.4 liters) usually will die. In survival plight, once appear serious bleeding, must be controlled immediately, because blood transfusion is often not possible, the patient will die at any time.
External bleeding can according to the source of bleeding into the following several types.
Arterial hemorrhage. The blood from the heart to all parts of the body’s blood vessels called arteries. After artery rupture, bright red blood from the wound clearly spewing out, or with the rhythm of the heart beating out come. Because the artery blood under high pressure, so broken artery may lose a lot of blood in a short time, so the arterial hemorrhage is the most serious type of bleeding, immediately if not controlled, can lead to death.
Venous bleeding. Blood from the back into the heart after the body is called vein. Venous blood loss is characterized by blood red, maroon, or purple, steady blood flow. Venous blood is far below the arterial blood pressure, but also causes a large amount of blood loss, generally speaking, the vein bleeding is easier than arterial bleeding.
Capillary hemorrhage. Capillary is imperceptible blood-vessel connection between arteries and veins. Capillary hemorrhage is usually caused by minor cuts or abrasions, haemorrhage is slow, usually ooze blood, and blood loss will not be huge. Blood capillary bleeding is easy to be controlled, usually automatically setting, will automatically stop the bleeding.
Method to control the external bleeding are: direct pressure, elevation limbs, or use a tourniquet.
Direct pressure. Control the external hemorrhage is the most effective ways to hold the wound directly, press not only to be strong to stop bleeding, and closed to stay long enough to make the wound surface.
Press the measures, the first to hold the bleeding place directly with fingers or the palm of your hand, if you have tried poison or clean bandage, when the press to cover the wound, but don’t waste time looking for these things.
Must be forcibly hold, although is directly on the wound, will pushing to stop bleeding. In the process, it is best not to loosen the hand to check if the blood had stopped. Firm pressure for 30 minutes, and then loosen the hand to check. Typically, 30 minutes is enough blood stopped.
If 30 minutes of pressure can’t stop bleeding, it needs to make a compress oppression (). Compress consisting of thick gauze or other suitable material, include apply directly on the wound and then bandage firmly tied down. Bandage around the wound pressure to stop bleeding. Compress should be tied than usual bandage tightly, but not to harm the rest body blood circulation. If it is found that the following situation, means the bandage too tight: touch pulse, nails and skin turned purple, bandage near body has hurt or pain.
Compress once tied to it don’t get it, even if bleeding continues. If bandages are soaked with blood, and cannot produce enough pressure to stop bleeding, then need to increase the pressure, can be tied a bandage to cover in the original compress it. When tied to another piece of compress need to raise the injured limb, finger pressure wound at the same time.
Compress need to keep 1 to 2 days, after in a smaller piece of compress afresh. During these two days, often need to check the compress and wound, see if bleeding has stopped, blood circulation is smooth, if there is any infection. If you don’t do this, blood circulation, is likely to lead to gangrene or are damaged, causing limb necrosis.
Raise the body. Try to raise the injured limb, higher than the heart, it can help blood flow to the heart, blood pressure and reducing the wound, thereby reducing bleeding. But simply raise the body is not completely stopped bleeding, must also apply pressure at the same time.
A tourniquet. Only when the direct pressure and elevation when the body has failed to stop the bleeding, only need to use a tourniquet. Direct pressure is a very effective measures, so a tourniquet usually rarely used, and for the following reasons, generally do not recommend the use of a tourniquet:
Low tourniquet if tied to correctly, can prevent a tourniquet in limb blood flow, damage the body organization. If the time is too long, a tourniquet tied to damage will gradually serious, lead to gangrene, finally make the limb necrosis.
Low a tourniquet may prevent venous blood circulation, but can’t prevent arterial blood circulation, leading to arterial hemorrhage is worse than before with a tourniquet.
Together a tourniquet if were not correct, can lead to binding site of permanent damage to nerves and other groups. If you must use a tourniquet, you can use strong, soft material, such as gauze, large handkerchief, triangular bandages, towels and other material temporarily do a tourniquet. In order to put the damage to the nerves, blood vessels and other subcutaneous tissue was reduced to a minimum, a tourniquet before bandaging it is best to 3 to 4 inches (8 ~ 10 centimeters) wide, bandaging after at least 1 inch (2.5)
Cm) wide. According to the following steps to bind a tourniquet:
In between the wounds of the limbs and body, located above the wound 2 to 4 inches (5 ~ 10 cm) around a tourniquet. Don’t put a tourniquet directly on the wound or fractures.
Low to a tourniquet around the body twice, make a knot and a half, and then put a short stick or similar things on the knot, then make a double knot fixed.
Low with the bat as a handle, tighten the tourniquet, tight enough to stop bleeding. Tied a tourniquet before, if we can touch the pulse of the limbs, so tied after the check, if you do not touch the pulse, the tourniquet has tied tight enough.
After low fasten a tourniquet, the short rod at the other end of the fixed on the body, to prevent loosening.
Low fixed short stick, after cleaning, the wound.
If you are alone, tie up a tourniquet don’t loosen it.
Shock. Shock is not a disease itself, it is only a symptom, or a series of comprehensive symptoms. The cause of the symptoms is the insufficient blood flow in the body, the body is trying to compensate the shortage.
Symptoms. Early symptoms of shock is —
Low pale skin.
Low pulse beat fast.
Low limbs chills.
Low thirst.
Low chapped lips.
Common symptoms of shock for —
Dizziness, not bian direction, or strange restlessness.
Low weak, weak, trembling.
Low sweats.
When urinating.
If the shock is more and more serious, will produce the following symptoms —
Rapid, weak pulse, or no pulse.
Low irregular pant.
Dilated pupils, a tin ear for the light.
Low, intoxication eventually coma and death.
Complications. If the shock is not correctly treat may lead to death, although cause shock trauma may not be serious to death. In fact, people even without any damage will be entered into a state of shock.
Heal. Injured people are likely to shock. Injured person with or without symptoms of shock, should accept the following treatment to prevent or control the shock.
If the patient is awake, he placed on a flat surface, lower limb raised 15 to 20 cm (6 to 8 inches).
If the patient has lost consciousness, let him lie on your side or face down, head tilted to one side, to prevent his blood, vomit, choking or other liquid.
If not sure use what position, just put the patients. If the patient into a state of shock, do not move him.
Low temperature keep patients, in some cases, need to provide the heat from the outside to patients.
If patients with soaking wet, took off his wet clothes as soon as possible, changing into dry clothes.
With clothes, parachutes, branches, or other possible mat in the patients body, make the sum of the ground. A makeshift a body place make patients is separated with the outside world.
From external provides patients with low quantity of heat can be used the following way: hot food or drink; Preheat the sleeping bag; Others body temperature; Pot of hot water; Encase with clothes hot stones; Or in patients on both sides of the fire. However, only when patients awake can feed his hot drinks or food.
If the patient awake, small mouth to feed his hot brine. Broth, tea, or other hot drinks will be better.
If the patient loses consciousness, or injured, don’t drink anything for him.
Patients with low must rest for at least 24 hours.
If you are alone, you should find a place to lie down, depression, or other can avoid the wind under a tree
The rain place, want to make the head is lower than the feet. To maintain the body temperature, and rest for at least 24 hours.
Other health risks
Insect bites, animal bites, exposed wound, skin infections, intestinal parasites is only you in survival environment encountered in some health hazard. To learn how to prevent these risks (see chapter 13, chapter 16), and how to heal myself when these problems.
Insect bites. In a survival situation, insect pest and related health hazard, not only because they bite itself bring uncomfortable, but also because of some insects will carry germs, some will cause a severe allergic reaction. In other parts of the world, you may encounter in the United States have never encountered serious or even fatal disease. Such as —
“Mosquitoes might carry diseases such as malaria, dengue fever.
Flies can spread by contact with the virus, they might be the source of narcolepsy, typhoid fever, cholera, sometimes diarrhea with the virus.
“The flea can spread the plague.
Low lice can epidemic typhus and relapsing fever.
Low ticks may also carry and spread disease, such as the rocky mountain spotted fever, this is very common in many areas in the United States. Low bees and wasps venom is very dangerous for those people who are allergic, may even be deadly.
If the insect bites, don’t catch, because may cause infection.
Body check at least once a day, look to whether have insect bites in the body, if found with a tick, use substances such as petroleum jelly, heavy oil, or SAP daub on them, which will cut off their air source, tick will loose open, this time you can get them from you. Attention to the whole tick off, and if so, you can use tweezers, hold it ding live the mouth part of your skin, but not to crush it. After the catch the ticks to wash his hands, because of their body fluids may carry germs. Wash every day until the wound healing.
If you’re in qiang mite infested areas with soap and water to thoroughly clean the skin, wash a few times more.
If you are bitten by bees and wasps, to get rid of them immediately, if there is a poison sac residues in the skin, or with his nails blade scraped off. Don’t pinch either by hand or with forceps or squeeze them, because of the pinch it will only put poison into the wound. Clean with soap and water bites, reduce the chance of secondary infection, with ice or a cold compress apply is on the wound.
If you know or suspect you allergic to bug bites, then to carry items for the prevention and control of insect bites. You can apply the following things in insect bite wound with itching and prevent other discomfort: cold compress, silt and plant ash mixture of paste, dandelion SAP, coconut, or mashed garlic juice.
Other dangerous insects and spiders, centipedes, scorpions and ants. Some spider venoms cause pain and hornet stings cause pain, after the centipede bite pain just like wasps, too. The scorpion differ according to different kinds and toxic, some might make you uncomfortable, some might make you die. Bite of ants may make some people uncomfortable, produce strong allergic reactions. After being bitten by a spider, or scorpion, want to wash cut very carefully, suck out or out toxins, if there is a tobacco, chew, apply the wound, can relieve the pain. Treatment of bite like trauma as seriously.
Animal bites. Though bitten by animals likely to be less than the possibility of insect bites, but know how to treat animal bites is very important. If there is no way to determine if animals carry rabies, then assume that it have rabies, if there are serum, must be injected. The wound should be cleaned carefully, handling of the wound with external injury treatment.
Note: you can refer to the local people how to heal a spider and animal bites, but be careful.
The snake bites. If you are familiar with kinds of snakes and living habits, so was bitten by the snake probability is very small, but as long as there is the possibility of a bite, you should know how to cure snake bites. Was bitten by a snake won’t poisoning victims of more than half, only a quarter of the people there will be a physiological reaction of poisoning. Anyway, the possibility of survival when bitten by the snake can affect morale, and if no preventive measures are taken, or bite after failing to heal, can cause don’t have to
To the tragedy.
No matter what type of animal bite, the wound may be animals in the oral mucous bacterial infection, no poisonous snake bites is the same, this kind of local infection is a major cause of the damage. , after being bitten by the snake panic will also affect recovery. Excitement, hysteria and panic will accelerate the blood circulation, so that the body absorbs toxins more quickly.
If you can get fast and appropriate treatment, few are bitten by the snake can lead to death or permanent disability.
Before treating snake bites, to figure out bite you or not poisonous snakes are poisonous. If you don’t see the snake look like, you can be judged by the wound snakes are poisonous.
All snakes have several rows of teeth, but some snakes have a pair or more than a pair of fangs (groove or hollow fangs), they are through the teeth to bite inject venom, all long fanged snake is considered to be poisonous.
If you have antivenoms and determine your allergic to serum no, then you should receive the serum.
If there is someone with training in medical (busboy or doctor) is present, he will first give the injured 0.1 cc serum test, if they have allergic reaction, but can be intravenous fluids, should connect two iv, a blood transfusion, a lose 1-1000 scale adrenaline 0.4 to 1 cc (only when the injured allergic to serum need losing adrenaline). If needed, repeat every 5 to 10 minutes, keep clear of the iv.
If the injured against snake venom serum allergy, and could not be intravenous fluids, so should divide the serum into partial using small doses.
Warning: under the condition of survival and opportunities for the obtaining of antivenoms is small.
If a patient is allergic to the serum, then one or two small doses of serum could not help, harmful. For an adult snake venom injection, need 15 to 20 small bottle of serum will work.
Injured for the above after the rescue measures, you also need to take the following measures to make snake venom’s impact on local tissue is reduced to a minimum:
Low removal of necrotic tissue.
“Beware of infection.
If the infection, and keep the wound open and clean, if necessary, to remove the decay of the necrotic tissue. Swab if unable to remove necrotic tissue clean, infection is more and more serious, can consider maggot therapy.
Can be sterilized, or as a clean cloth on the wound, as lead constantly guide the pus out.
Low water every day or wash cut with just discharge of urine (don’t store urine standby).
24 to 48 hours after infection, can use the method of wound heat to prevent the spread of local infection. Low with a dry sterile gauze bandaging the wound.
Let the injured drinking lots of water, until the elimination of infection.
Trauma. In a survival situation, all the injuries are serious, not just because of trauma, can make the tissue damage or loss of blood, but also because of the wound could be infected. Wounded you object bacteria, or your bacteria on skin, clothing, bacteria, or other things, if the wound may cause infection.
To correct the wound can reduce the pollution of the wound and speed healing. To clean the wound as soon as possible after the injury:
“Take off or cut the clothes around the wound.
When the surrounding skin thoroughly clean the wound.
Low with plenty of water, rinse with clean water, as far as possible (do not scrub) wound, if there is no water, can use fresh urine, fresh urine has the disinfection effect.
Warning: remember that don’t put the common disinfectants, such as iodine, thimerosal, a mercury merbromin without dilution will apply to the wound. The solution will lead to further damage skin tissue, they can only be used on the intact skin intact.
Warning: do not attempt to suture the wound or similar measures, let the wound open, so, pus or infected material can flow out.
Low with a clean piece of compress apply is on the wound and bandage.
Change compress daily, check whether the wound infection.
In the process of survival, a certain degree of wound infection is almost inevitable. Wound infection occurs after the following symptoms: wound pain, redness and swelling; A high body temperature. The wound or compress with pus.
You can take the following measures to treat wound infections —
Low a damp heat cloth apply on the wound, replace when cooled after compress, apply a total of 30 minutes or so, apply 3 to 4 times a day.
Low abscess. With sterilized instruments (knife, glass, or other similar instruments) carefully open wound, to let the pus out, be careful or removal of scabby pus block.
When apply the compress and bandaging the wound.
“Drink plenty of water.
Repeat the above measures every day, until the infection.
During the first world war, maggots were used to treat wound infections. But before you decide use maggots before eating infected necrotic tissue need to pay attention to the following:
When you have to expose the wound attract flies to bring maggots. But because flies dirty habits, they are likely to bring other bacteria that can cause more complications.
If decay necrotic tissue to deplete or unable to provide normal supply, maggots erodes fresh, healthy tissue.
If you really have no antibiotics, and wound infection has been very serious, unhealed, cannot normal rot debridement to clear the wound tissue, then you should consider the maggot therapy.
Maggot therapy steps are as follows:
Infections of the skin. Although scabies, fungal infections, and heat rash, rarely cause serious health problems, but they will make you uncomfortable, you should heal them.
Scabies. Apply with hot cloth on the scabies, pus, head length, and then with sterile knife, wires, needles, or similar object to pick pus head open. Dropped the pus thoroughly clean with soap and water, and then wrap the wound, regular check, ensure no further infection.
Fungal infection. Maintain skin cleanness dry, infected part exposed to the sun as much as possible, don’t grasp, don’t use heavy drugs, such as iodine, alcohol, you can’t get fungus “burn”.
Heat rash. Keep dry and cleaning on the born prickly heat place. If you have, you can use the talcum powder. Cold compress can also
To help relieve itching.
Intestinal parasites. If preventive measures are properly, can usually avoid worms or other intestinal parasites. For example, never bare feet. The best way to prevent intestinal parasites is: don’t eat uncooked meat, don’t eat raw vegetables, because they are more likely to be raw sewage or human waste (night) fertilizer pollution. If you are long intestinal parasites, and lack of necessary medicines, so you can try the following method some soil, but remember, these methods are not without risk. The following methods most role is to change the environment of intestines and stomach.
Salt water. Four tablespoons salt mixed with 1 quarts (1.1 liters) of water, then drink it. Don’t repeat use this method.
Tobacco. Smoke one to one and a half. The nicotine in cigarettes can kill worms, or make them faint long enough, then they are discharged. If the situation is severe, within 24 hours to 48 hours, repeat the treatment measures, and don’t too fast to repeat.
Kerosene. Drink two tablespoons of kerosene, don’t drink too much. If required, within 24 hours to 48 hours to repeat the treatment measures, but also the repeat too fast.
Hot pepper. Only when the pepper is part of your diet, it will work. You can eat or directly into the soup, rice, or meat dishes to eat.
Diarrhea. This is common, let a person a weak little problem, it may be caused by the following some reason: the water; Drink the polluted water; Eating bad food. Fatigue; Or use the dirty dishes. If you have diarrhea, and without any antidiarrheal, you can try any of the following measures:
Low limit liquid diets intake in 24 hours.
When to drink a cup of strong tea every two hours until reduce the frequency of diarrhea or stop. The inside of the tea tannin can effectively stop diarrhea. Are also found in broadleaf wood bark tannin, will cook more than two hours, the bark will release tannin, although the liquid form is very bad, very hard to drink, but in most cases it can be effective
Stop diarrhea.
With a lime, or a pair of ashes, ashes or dry, add made from treated water mixture (mixture must achieve the concentration of the pectic acid), if there is a apple paste, or the peel of citrus fruit, by the same add to the mixture ratio, will be more effective. Take two tablespoons every two hours, until diarrhea frequency to reduce or stop. You must drink lots of water added body moisture loss.
Burns. Burns caused by the following measures can be appropriately reduced pain, there may be help to cure, also can protect the wound from infection.
Low to compress or clean cloth into the boiling tannin solution (tea, or hardwood tree bark boiled solution) soak for 10 minutes.
Low compress or clean cloth after cooling, apply is in the wound.
Warning: do not burn place daub grease.
herbs
In today’s society, there are a variety of therapeutic drugs, sophisticated equipment and equipment, and the treatment of the ancient “country doctor” method, treatment method for determination of, common sense and some of the original – has long been forgotten. But in many other parts of the world, people still depend on the local shaman or warlock cure. Many herbs (plant) was just as effective as medicine and modern medicine. In fact, modern medicine, many from improvement of herbs. Orange lining, for example, white filaments and apple after squeeze the juice of the fruit (apple paste) containing pectin. The orange peel or apple paste and mixed with lime, you will get the original pectic acid.
But you still want to use herbal medicine is very carefully, only when you lack the drugs to try to herbs. Some herbal medicine is very dangerous, could lead to further damage and even death.
