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  • Poison Ivy, Oak, And Sumac

    11 Apr 2021 | Joseph Alton MD
    Poison Ivy, Oak, And Sumac

    Poison Ivy" A common form of contact dermatitis the medic will see in survival scenarios will be[...]

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    Cyclospora Infection

    23 Sep 2020 | Joseph Alton MD
    Cyclospora Infection

    Food contamination is a constant concern in the United States, especially from imported [...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Insomnia, Turmeric, "Tactical" Tampons

    21 Sep 2019 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Insomnia, Turmeric, &quote;Tactical&quote; Tampons

    Just back from a trip to the United Kingdom, Amy Alton ARNP and Joe Alton MD discuss some topics [...]

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    CBD Oil: What You Should Know

    21 Jun 2019 | Joseph Alton MD
    CBD Oil: What You Should Know

    WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CBD OIL CBD Oil is being studied by researchers. Public support for [...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Wound Closure, Natural vs Conventional Therapy, More

    18 May 2019 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Wound Closure, Natural vs Conventional Therapy, More

    SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST with JOE ALTON MD and AMY ALTON ARNP Improvised "butterfly" [...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Tornadoes, Nettles, Expiration Dates, More

    30 Mar 2019 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Tornadoes, Nettles, Expiration Dates, More

    SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST Spring is tornado season, and all up and down Tornado Alley, [...]

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    Food Safety Standards: Clean, Separate, Cook, Chill

    3 Dec 2018 | Joseph Alton MD
    Food Safety Standards: Clean, Separate, Cook, Chill

    FOOD SAFETY: CLEAN, SEPARATE, COOK, CHILL The person that’s responsible for the health of their[...]

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    Multistate Food Poisoning Outbreaks

    26 Nov 2018 | Joseph Alton MD
    Multistate Food Poisoning Outbreaks

    MULTISTATE FOOD POISONING OUTBREAKS An outbreak of food poisoning with Escherischia coli (E. coli) [...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Opioids, Respiratory Infections, More

    5 Oct 2018 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Opioids, Respiratory Infections, More

    SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST It’s important to realize that the majority of respiratory [...]

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    Health Benefits of Turmeric

    24 Jun 2018 | Joseph Alton MD
    Health Benefits of Turmeric

    TURMERIC Conventionally trained physicians like myself receive little education and training in the[...]

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    Video: Lyme Disease

    31 May 2018 | Joseph Alton MD
    Video: Lyme Disease

    VIDEO: LYME DISEASE Summer is upon us, and with school out, families will be out and about in our [...]

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    E. Coli Contamination

    10 May 2018 | Joseph Alton MD
    E. Coli Contamination

    E. COLI CONTAMINATION The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that food poisoning [...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Allergies, More

    6 Apr 2018 | gpldev

    Survival Medicine Hour #385 In certain seasons, like Spring, pollens and other substances are at [...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Pregnancy, Labor and Delivery Off The Grid

    8 Mar 2018 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Pregnancy, Labor and Delivery Off The Grid

    Survival Medicine Hour #378 It may not be the wisest move to be fruitful and multiply in the early [...]

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    Video: Disaster Food Supplies

    1 Mar 2018 | Joseph Alton MD
    Video: Disaster Food Supplies

    VIDEO: Disaster Food Supply Advice In this video, Amy Alton, ARNP, aka Nurse Amy, steps in front of[...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: James Rawles, Staph, Chest Trauma, More

    26 Jan 2018 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: James Rawles, Staph, Chest Trauma, More

    Survival Medicine Hour #373 rib fracture Joe and Amy Alton, aka Dr. Bones and Nurse Amy discuss [...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Mudslides, Antibiotics, EMPs

    13 Jan 2018 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Mudslides, Antibiotics, EMPs

    SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR #372 In this episode of the Survival Medicine Hour, Joe and Amy Alton [...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Cellulitis, Spirituality of and Realities for the Medic, More

    23 Dec 2017 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Cellulitis, Spirituality of and Realities for the Medic, More

    SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR #369 spirituality and survival In this episode of the Survival Medicine [...]

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    Essential Oils As Medical Tools

    11 Dec 2017 | Joseph Alton MD
    Essential Oils As Medical Tools

    ESSENTIAL OILS Recently, I wrote an article about the use of herbal teas for their medicinal [...]

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    Herbal Teas as Medicinal Tools

    5 Dec 2017 | Joseph Alton MD

    HERBAL TEAS herbal teas (image by pixabay) In a long-term disaster setting where you are knocked [...]

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    FDA Tries Again To Ban Natural Pain Herb

    15 Nov 2017 | Joseph Alton MD

    FDA Tries Again To Ban Kratom Last year, I wrote about the Food and Drug Administration’s [...]

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    8 Health Benefits of Cloves

    11 Oct 2017 | Joseph Alton MD

    Health Benefits of Clove Our readers often ask us to comment on various natural remedies. Face it, [...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Off-Grid Pregnancy Care, Cloves, Bleeding Kits

    7 Oct 2017 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Off-Grid Pregnancy Care, Cloves, Bleeding Kits

    The Survival Medicine Hour Podcast #357 off-grid pregnancy care What if you had [...]

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    Herbal Teas from Medicinal Gardens

    31 Aug 2017 | Joseph Alton MD
    Herbal Teas from Medicinal Gardens

    HERBAL TEAS IN AUSTERE SETTINGS Herbal Products as Medicine In long-term disaster settings, even [...]

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    Poison Ivy, Oak, and Others

    27 Jul 2017 | Joseph Alton MD

    POISON IVY AND SIMILAR PLANTS From Left: Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, Poison Sumac, Poisonwood (UFAS) [...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Shock, Triage, Mosquito Plants

    9 Jun 2017 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Shock, Triage, Mosquito Plants

    Survival Medicine Hour #341 Citronella In this episode of the Survival Medicine Hour with [...]

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    Video: Using Plants for Natural Mosquito Control

    5 Jun 2017 | Joseph Alton MD

    Video: Natural Mosquito Control Summer is upon us, and mosquitoes are part and parcel of warm [...]

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    Guest Article: Homeopathy and Preparedness

    2 Feb 2017 | Joseph Alton MD

    Nurse Amy and I are conventionally trained medical professionals that incorporate an integrative [...]

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    Medical Supplies for the Homestead

    6 Nov 2016 | Joseph Alton MD

    image by pixabay.com If you’re a homesteader, you’ll want to be ready for any eventuality. In a[...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Ron Melchiore on 36 Years of Living Off the Grid

    28 Oct 2016 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Ron Melchiore on 36 Years of Living Off the Grid

    Survival Medicine Hour In this episode of the Survival Medicine Hour, Nurse Amy Alton interviews [...]

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    Kratom, Natural Pain Reliever, Lost to FDA Actions

    21 Sep 2016 | Joseph Alton MD

    One of the questions we’re often asked is what to do about chronic pain and drug addiction if some[...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Kratom Ban, Dental Trauma, Medical Uses for Rosemary

    15 Sep 2016 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Kratom Ban, Dental Trauma, Medical Uses for Rosemary

    In this episode of the Survival Medicine Hour with Dr. Bones and Nurse Amy (Joe Alton MD and Amy [...]

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    Save the Whales, I Mean, Bees

    3 Aug 2016 | Joseph Alton MD
    Save the Whales, I Mean, Bees

    You may or may not be an environmentalist, but a part of nature that everyone should support is the [...]

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    Video: All About Botulism

    13 Jun 2016 | Joseph Alton MD

      Some members of the preparedness and homesteading community have learned an important skill:[...]

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    Video: Brown Recluse Spider Bites

    9 Apr 2016 | Joseph Alton MD
    Video: Brown Recluse Spider Bites

    In this companion video to the article on the same subject, Joe Alton, MD discusses what he believes[...]

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    Brown Recluse Spider Bites

    4 Apr 2016 | Joseph Alton MD
    Brown Recluse Spider Bites

    You might have seen our articles and videos on snakebite, but in a survival scenario, and really, [...]

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    Food Wastage in Modern Times

    15 Mar 2016 | Joseph Alton MD

    Title images: pdpic.com, pixabay.com In a survival scenario, when you’re struggling just to make [...]

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    Video: Container Eggplants with Nurse Amy

    9 Mar 2016 | Joseph Alton MD
    Video: Container Eggplants with Nurse Amy

    You know us from our writings on medical preparedness, but we are dedicated survival gardeners [...]

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    Antioxidants and Survival, Part 1

    5 Mar 2016 | Joseph Alton MD
    Antioxidants and Survival, Part 1

    Keeping healthy and fighting disease is what your body’s immune system is all about. What does [...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: GMO Salmon, Medical Emergencies

    23 Nov 2015 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: GMO Salmon, Medical Emergencies

    What's for dinner? Well, it could be Frankenfish, as the FDA gives final approval for  genetically [...]

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    Video: Organic Container Tomatoes

    8 Feb 2015 | Joseph Alton MD
    Video: Organic Container Tomatoes

    You may know that Nurse Amy and I write about survival medicine, but did you know that we are avid [...]

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    What "Organic" Really Means

    18 Dec 2013 | Joseph Alton MD

    As crisis medicine professionals, we usually discuss issues like bleeding wounds and broken bones, [...]

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    Don't Skimp On The Cranberries

    30 Nov 2013 | Joseph Alton MD

    Did you miss having cranberry sauce this Thanksgiving? Well, that’s okay, because there’s always[...]

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    Survival Gardening Tips

    2 Apr 2013 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Gardening Tips

    Spring is upon us! Let the gardening begin! Starting a survival garden is one of the crucial [...]

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    The Medicinal Garden

    30 Jan 2013 | Joseph Alton MD
    The Medicinal Garden

    (Dr. Bones says: We are obliged to say that essential oils are not proven treatments, according to [...]

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    How to Grow Horseradish by Nurse Amy

    3 Jan 2013 | Joseph Alton MD

    Hi All! Here is a new video I made about how to grow horseradish! So easy and so delicious! [...]

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    All About Essential Oils

    8 Aug 2012 | Joseph Alton MD

    As a medical doctor/registered nurse practitioner team, we received conventional medical training [...]

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    Successful Container Gardening: Getting Started

    24 May 2012 | Joseph Alton MD

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    Ginger , More Than A Gastronomical Success

    2 Jan 2012 | Joseph Alton MD

    During the recent holiday season the over-indulgence in culinary delights led to numerous "tummy" [...]

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    Garlic as An Antibiotic

    13 Dec 2011 | Joseph Alton MD

    Garlic and Collapse Medicine   In a collapse situation, it stands to reason [...]

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    Nurse Amy's Survival Pond (new videos)

    4 Sep 2011 | Joseph Alton MD

    I just put up 2 videos (part 1 and part 2) on putting together your survival pond on Youtube.  [...]

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    About "Organic" Gardening

    11 Aug 2011 | Joseph Alton MD

    Organic Gardening Hey Preppers, Who doesn't think that natural and holistic methods of growing [...]

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    Survival Garden 101

    2 Aug 2011 | Joseph Alton MD

      Why Should I Start a Survival Garden? Beginning a survival garden is one of the crucial steps [...]

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    My Medicinal Garden Part 4/What Isn't Growing!

    6 Jul 2011 | Joseph Alton MD

    Medical Preparedness and Medicinal Plants I wanted to share some more medicinal plants that I have[...]

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    Container Peppers New Video

    12 Jun 2011 | Joseph Alton MD

    Hi! I just made a new video about container peppers which is now on Youtube at: [...]

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    My Medicinal Garden Part 3 / Principles of Herbal Healing

    11 Jun 2011 | Joseph Alton MD

    Medicinal Garden Plants and Herbal Healing I wanted to provide you with some principles of herbal [...]

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    Local Seeds: Farmer's Market Source

    7 Jun 2011 | Joseph Alton MD

    Get Locally Grown Plants for Your Survival Garden Sunday we went to our local farmer's market for [...]

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    My Medicinal Garden Part 2

    5 Jun 2011 | Joseph Alton MD

    My Medicinal Garden Part 2: More Medicinal Plants This is a continuing list of my medicinal garden [...]

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    My Medicinal Garden Part 1

    4 Jun 2011 | Joseph Alton MD

    Natural Remedies My background and education, Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner, Certified [...]

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    Organic Garden "NO Spray" Pest Control

    2 Apr 2011 | Joseph Alton MD

    Garden Pest Control Millions of google search results exist for garden pest control, but I did not[...]

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    Dehydrating Apple Rings

    25 Mar 2011 | Joseph Alton MD

    Recently I posted about dehydrating apples. In that post I peeled the apples and used a salad [...]

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    Potato Harvest part 2

    25 Mar 2011 | Joseph Alton MD

    Just harvested potatoes Survival Garden:  Our Potato Harvest Well these are the potatoes I [...]

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    Potato Harvest

    24 Mar 2011 | Joseph Alton MD

    Potatoes and dehydrated chips Prepper Gardening and Harvesting Potatoes Well these are the [...]

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    Apple Dehydrating

    6 Mar 2011 | Joseph Alton MD

    Today I dehydrated apples. The picture shows the granny smith apples. I purchased an electric [...]

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    Save the Herbs

    22 Feb 2011 | Joseph Alton MD

    Growing your own food is only one step towards becoming a prepper. Now you have food, but how do you[...]

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    Secrets of Healthy Soil

    11 Feb 2011 | Joseph Alton MD

    The Importance of Mycorrhizae Research over the years has supported the fact that cultivated or [...]

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    Patio Container Gardening

    9 Jan 2011 | Joseph Alton MD

     Here's a sample of what a suburban homestead can grow. We have potatoes in the growbags, two [...]

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    How to Grow Potatoes in Grow Bags!

    8 Jan 2011 | Joseph Alton MD

      Sometimes things do workout in the world of gardening. In the summer I planted "seed" potatoes in[...]

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