Natural Medicine
instruction, regulation, insurance, safety, etc
In composing this aspect, we introduce a fictitious character “Aunt Nattie” who:
- Has a rich stock of over-the-counter stuff (very natural)
- Is savvy to google and has opinions on which information on the internet is stupid
- Will pick you up at the hospital and bring you home
- Will wait for you at the hospital when you get treatments
- Will slap that donut out of your pie hole
- Believes deeply in “food as medicine”
- Has a rich collection of simple herbal concoctions she has harvested and prepared herself
- Is ready to administer first aid
- Knows the best technique to pull out a tick
- Has a fresh salve for that scrape
- Sneaks greens into all of your food
- Has heard it all - no need to hold back
- Is passionate about your health
- Can give you a good idea of whether you
should go to the doctor/hospital/naturopath
- Is a great cook
- Insists on organic or better
- Is keen on wildcrafting / foraging
- Has a huge
permaculture garden - with lots of herbs
- Will make sure you do your physical therapy
- Will remind you to take your meds/vitamins/tea/whatever
- Keeps her house spic and span with cleaners you can eat
- Wants you to drink more water, go for a walk and get some sun
These badges are designed to put you on a track to developing the “Aunt Nattie” within you. You will start by building your collection of concoctions and then move into facing the challenges of ailments. As you apply your growing skills you might want to apply them to somebody. From here forward we will call that person your “friend”.
The sand badge is to begin your collection of concoctions.
The
straw badge is to complete your collection of concoctions and begin to help people with ailments.
The
wood badge is purely for helping people with their ailments and the iron badge is even more.
Starting with the straw badge we introduce two lists of ailments:
- the Quinn list is exclusively things for which you can get no more than half a point
- the Watson list is variable points - typically one or more points
There are some small things on the Quinn list for which half a point might seem a bit much. And there are some big things on the Quinn list that seem like they are on the wrong list. With the Watson list, we asked ourselves “What would be a metric we can take a picture of? Something that would prove improvement?” This level of documentation became the primary ingredient for the Watson list. Everything else had to remain on the Quinn list.
Sand badge
Complete the
PEP Sand badge
Straw badge
Complete the
PEP Straw badge
Wood badge
Complete the
PEP Wood badge
Iron badge
Complete the
PEP Iron badge
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