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Science of Survival: Jungle survival
Cold and wet and lost in the jungle? Here are some survival tips that could save your life
In the jungle, in a rainy season, you’re gonna get wet. You don’t stop and dry yourself off, you could end up with some weather injuries. Like immersion foot, also known as trench foot or jungle rots.
If your feet are constantly soaked, then you could be in big trouble. Your skin will tear and let in some ugly fungal and bacteria infections. If you’ve been walking for a while, your body will have trouble pumping blood to them with anti-bodies that could fight infections. In short, they’ll start rotting away.
Now right now, my boots are wet, and I’ve been walking a while. But my feet are just fine. I was taught a trick by the Vietnam vets, stop a few times a day, and air out your feet, and ditch your socks.
This will keep your feet as dry as possible, and could save you from trench foot. But even in the jungle, there are ways to stay healthy.
Walking through the jungle can be a lot like taking a trip down to the farms if you know what you are looking for.
In the jungle rich in plant life, Mike’s memorized distinguishing features on every useful plant, he has ever been shown to help him recognized them again. This is besmear angostura known to the locals as pitcherina. But Mike recognizes it by the thick red veins in its leaves.
This tree right here I like to call the iodine tree. And it’s pretty easy to use, you simply pull off one of the leaves and just put iodine right there, on all your little scratches. And it will help fight infection and it’s a good way to help take care of yourself when you are on the bush.
This is vigas antihomantica, the ohia tree. Used by the locals for treating sicknesses like fever, and diarrhea.
The way they do it, is they pull it up by the root and then they scrape off the root into some water and just let it set for a minute and they just drink it straight, you don’t even have to boil it. So it is real handy for a survivor who doesn’t have much.
And this one is Croupade guy anansis. But the locals just call it the cannon ball tree. They use its flesh to keep bugs away.
I see why. That’s an insect repellence, stinks. Basically, most of that thing that can kill you, are the diseases that you can get from the mosquito. So if you can prevent mosquito bites in the first place, you get half about one.
Even with no tools or weapons, Mike knows how to find much needed protein to add to his fruit diet and keep starvation at bay. The secret is the root of a plant, the locals call arbasco.
Now, just been out in the woods gathering some roots then you use them as a technique for fishing without a hook or net. You smash these off, you put them on a stick, you stir a part of the stream, and there is a toxin in the root that will make the fish broke to the top, stab them with a little spear, bring them home.
