Healing
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Gor is a dangerous place and people often get hurt, sometimes severely. Learn as much as possible about how to heal wounds and possibly save the life of those of your home.
•Reducing Pain•
1. Do not give paga or other alcoholic drinks for pain if the victim is bleeding badly, it will thin the blood and make it flow more freely.
2. Do not give kanda leaf for pain, it is hallucinogenic and addictive.
3. Give willow bark for pain, it is not hallucinogenic or addictive. It can be chewed raw or more ideally, if time permits, brewed into a tea.
•First Aid for Bleeding•
1. Try to calm and reassure the vitim. A smile and kind word goes far to help an injured victim. Don't put the victim into shock by reacting to their wounds with terror or disgust.
2. Determine the most serious injuries and treat those first. If you don't know what the injuries are and how bad they are, ask the victim where they are hurt. If they are unconcious, ask them ooc in pm, so you know what to treat.
3. Make sure they're comfortable. If the wounds are severe, lay them down. This will reduce the chances of fainting by increasing the blood flow to the brain.
4. Help them out of any clothing to check the wound, or cut it away (ask for use of a knife). If you are caring for a FW remember to make sure She is left with some modesty permitted ny Her station.
5. Remove loose debris and dirt from the wound. However, do not remove any objects impaled in the victim yet.
6. Put pressure directly on an external wound with a sterile bandage, clean rep cloth, or even a piece of clothing. If nothing else is available, use your hand. Direct pressure is usually best for external bleeding, except for an eye injury, on a wound that contains an embedded object, or on a head injury if there is a possibility of a fractured skull.
7. Clean and disinfect the wound with saline solution applied with a sterile rep cloth. However, don't wash a wound that is deep or bleeding profusely.
8. When the bleeding has subsided, even if the wound is still oozing, place a clean dressing over the wound.
9. Maintain pressure until the bleeding stops. When it does, bind the wound dressing by tying it off with the strips available in the med kit, but not so tightly that the victim's skin becomes pale and cool. This indicates the circulation is cut off. Dressings should be large enough to extend at least 1 inch beyond the edges of the wound.
10. If bleeding continues and seeps through the material being held on the wound, do not remove it. Simply place another cloth over the first one.
11. If the bleeding doesn't stop after 15 minutes of direct pressure or if the wound is too extensive to cover effectively, use pressure-point bleeding control. For example, in the case of a wound on the hand or lower arm, for example, squeeze the main artery in the upper arm against the bone. Keep your fingers flat; with the other hand, continue to exert pressure on the wound itself.
12. If the bleeding is severe, take steps to prevent shock. Immobilize the injured body part. Lay the victim flat, raise the feet about 12 inches, and cover the victim with a coat or blanket. However, do not place the victim in this position if there has been a head, neck, back, or leg injury or if the position makes the victim uncomfortable.
•Stitching•
1. Thoroughly clean the wound and stop the bleeding as described above.
2. Be sure all foreign objects are removed. Take a rep cloth or item of clothing to remove weapons from the wound. Do not touch the weapon with your hands. An arrow should be broken off and pushed through. Do not pull it out.
3. Inspect the wound to be sure no fragments are embedded. Use sterile tweezers to remove fragments if necessary.
4. Numb the outer edges of the wound where you will be stitching by applying blue grass salve.
5. Remove any loose flaps of flesh before you stitch using safety tipped scissors.
6. Push the wound together making sure it is even. Use a pre-threaded sterile curved needle and pick up the skin from the closest end, bring the needle through and catch the other parallel side. Each stitch is singular. Stitching human flesh differs from sewing clothes. After each stitch, tie it off and knot the thread. Cut excess thread if necessary after tying. Continue with as many individual stitches as needed. Med kits contain pre-threaded sterile needles. Using these saves time. In the event you require more than is in the med kit, additional thread is available in the med kit as well. Use heavy thread for tendons and muscles or a bending body part. Use regular gut for light stitching. Use small, even stitches in a herringbone pattern to draw the flesh edges together in a smooth line.
7. Apply a thick layer of agrimony salve as an antibiotic.
8. Cover with a rep cloth bandage as described above.
•Cauterizing a Wound•
1. If an artery is bleeding, the artery needs to be carefully stitched first, with a very fine needle and fine gut thread.
2. Wash the wound with sterile water.
3. Heat an iron in the fire until it glows white.
4. Press the iron to the wound quickly and hold it firmly for a count of 5 seconds.
5. Remove the iron and be sure the wound is sealed thoroughly.
6. Apply a thick layer of agrimony salve as an antibiotic.
7. Wrap with fresh bandages as described above.
•Poisoning•
Strong herbal emetics should be administered along with large doses of verr or bosk milk and honey till the poison is brought up; then the antidote (vials of antidote in med. bag also) is to be given.
•Branding, Whipping and Piercing Wounds•
Branding:
Offer willow bark to chew for the pain, if the Free allows, as you apply ice wrapped in a rep cloth on and off for 20 minutes, at 5 minute intervals. Use cool sterile water if ice is not available. Cover the wound with special fast healing cream. Use creams rather than salve or ointments here. Salves and ointments are thick and will stop the air flow and cause burns to become worse just like butter does.
Whipping:
Pat the lash marks with cool sterile water and wipe away all the blood. Check if there is any silk, leather or other material in the open wounds. Apply agrimony salve to the wounds. Check the wounds daily and apply more salve if needed until healed. Unless wounds are serious and severe, whip wounds should remain open to the air. Only bandage whip wounds if stitches are required.
Piercings:
Be sure to keep the pierced areas clean and free from infection. Apply agrimony salve to the jewelry and rotate through the pierced area daily for two weeks. Do not add decorative jewelry for at least 3 weeks. Use only simple rings and such during this time.
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