Would, could, that really work? I'm not a doctor or even a nurse. This topic isn't about anything else but just the stated.
Moss to a wound. "What the hell are you doing" was my initial expression but then again I am no man of medicine so I wouldn't know.
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That was total BS, you'd have a much better chance using maggots.
shareCenturies ago, they did use moss for wounds, but usually mixed with other medicinal plants. Today, you'd just get a raging infection doing that. You can slowdown or stop bleeding with it, but you would die of infection. You can't just grab stuff like that when who knows what crawled or crapped on it and put it on an open wound.
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Actually, just the fact that these folks are able to drink water from a stream or puddle shows that they have built up a lot of immunity that we, as "modern folks" have lost. If I were to go camping and didn't take water along or have a method to purify the water, I'd be turned inside out because I've lost any immunity to even the simple bacteria that would be in a running stream. I never even let my dog drink out of a lake or river because all that she's accustomed to anymore is filtered or purified water.
It doesn't seem reasonable for us to even want to drink water out of most natural sources anymore because there are so many toxins in it that never used to be there from all the pollution and all the waste that we don't dispose of properly.
So, I guess it's showing that without all the jets flying and cars/trucks idling on the freeways during drive time, the factories being shut down and without the trash and left over medications of more than 7 billion people all assaulting the environment, maybe water is not only getting cleaner, but the surviving humans and animals are once again developing immunity to the simple germs and bacteria that they have to contend with minus the really nasty toxins.
Therefore, the moss is probably not full of toxins either and is once again useful as a bandage. Even though such medicines have not been used in the U.S. for around a hundred or more years, that's not true for many other countries around the world. Without the developed and modern countries using all sorts of anti-bacterial products to kill off the good bacteria along with the bad, who knows maybe our simple antibiotics will become useful again as the super, indestructible bacteria dies off. Now that would be a good thing!
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It's white moss. It's used to dry out the wound and stop bleeding. It's actually what you are supposed to do if you don't have modern medicine at hand.
It's been used all the way back to the vikings. Since 10K is a survivalist, he would know what to use.
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