Dealing with severe burns & wounds without medical help

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(21 July 2023, 16:36)bigpaul Wrote: I have consulted my first aid manual and it says you should not break the burnt area.medics may laugh at some of the old treatments but they wont be around post SHTF .
before we had big pharma all we had were natural remedies and will again.
many modern treatments are based on these old treatments. willow bark for pain relief instead of aspirin for instance.

I read ... I forget ... but something sciency ... written when antibiotics were still rare on the use of anti-septics. The author was against their use. Apparently they got better results by letting the natural bacteria come in to protect the wound. It's probably how the old fashioned remedies worked ... they encouraged the good bacteria which stopped the harmful ones.