What is in your preparedness medicine cabinet?
This is from Survival Dan.
https://www.survivaldan101.com/when-pharmacies-hospitals-will-be-impossible-to-get-to-what-meds-you-want-in-your-personal-shtf-pharmacy/




Top Five Medications:
1. Antidiarrheal such as Loperamide: In the event that your water purification system fails or is expended, a water-borne disease will be a real life-threatening problem. It’s important to be cautious with the use of any antidiarrheal because it has the potential to cause a rare but serious complication of causing the intestines to be paralyzed. Also, be very cautious using this medication when there is blood in the stool because it can be a sign of a bacterial source (such as Shigella), which sheds a toxin that, in theory, if is kept in the intestines longer by promoting decreased bowel movements, will actually cause a longer duration of diarrhea, and hence more total water losses. If diarrhea sticks around for more than a few days, it’s prudent to start an antibiotic such as levofloxacin or azithromycin.
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2. Antiemetic such as Zofran ODT or Phenergan: Our largest amount of potential water loss is not in urine – it’s in secretions from our GI tract. Luckily our colon when disease-free is efficient and absorbs most of these secretions before they can escape. However, if we’re suffering from some viral illness that’s causing us to vomit, all of the stomach and intestinal secretions will be lost because they never get a chance to reach the colon, hence my choice of an antiemetic for the same reason as the antidiarrheal – just preventing losses from the opposite end. The first line of trying to keep vomiting minimal is diet modification: dry bland foods such as crackers, rice, bananas, toast, in addition to very small portions or sips of electrolyte replacement solutions such as Pedialyte or a homemade solution (1L of water + 6 teaspoons sugar + ½ teaspoon salt, better to make a little more diluted than more concentrated which can be more harm than good). But when dry heaving prevents anything from staying down, I prefer using Zofran oral dissolvable tablets (ODT) which can be absorbed under the tongue, eliminating the need to swallow and keep it down for it to be absorbed. Phenergan is also a very good option if you can keep down a pill.
3. An antihistamine such as Benedryl: Great for multiple scenarios. One it’s great for allergic reactions, insect stings, bites, swelling, whatever type of thing activates an immune response it usually does the trick. It’s also used to help with sedation (which in an SHTF scenario, may prove very useful when trying to calm down enough to get some much-needed sleep). It can also be used to treat vertigo.
4. Antiinflammatory such as Aleve: This is a no-brainer. You’ve got so many potential uses for an NSAID such as this. It’s great as a mild-moderate pain reliever. It can be used to treat sore throats, arthritis, injury pain, and fevers. The reason I chose Aleve instead of Ibuprofen or Tylenol is that you only need to take this once every 12h. The only real downfall of this medication is that since it’s more potent, it is more prone to cause stomach ulcers with prolonged use, and you need to take food with it to minimize that risk. Now when it comes to medications that kids use I’m assuming you always have children’s Tylenol or Motrin on-hand already. Just remember Tylenol is the best for any age, but ibuprofen (Motrin) can only be used if the child is 6 months of age or older. Also, in pregnant patients, you only want to use Tylenol.
5. An antibiotic such as Levofloxacin or Azithromycin: This is a difficult one, but if I had to choose ONE antibiotic for adults it would be Levofloxacin (Levaquin) for its versatility and power. It can treat anything from pneumonia, skin infections, intra-abdominal infections, bacterial diarrhea, urinary tract infections, to anthrax (if god forbid it came down to biological terrorism). It’s a potent drug, and usually is quite safe to use but like any drug has some side effects to watch out for being renal dysfunction (common) and tendon rupture (rare). Azithromycin is an excellent choice as well since it can be used for strep throat, pneumonia, ear infections, mild skin infections, or sɛҳuąƖly transmitted infections. A great strength of this drug is that it usually only requires a few days of treatment (3-5 days), meaning you can store a lot of this and then only need to give someone 3-5 pills to treat their infection, not exhausting your supply. Other antibiotics like amoxicillin are dosed 3 times a day for 10 days (30 pills) which is about 10 times more than you need to store.

We will need to stop relying on BigPharma.

Herbs and spices are convenient to store in their dried form, and let’s not forget honey as an antibiotic and healer.

We will need to stop relying on BigPharma.

Herbs and spices are convenient to store in their dried form, and let’s not forget honey as an antibiotic and healer.

An enthusiastic amen to Nadir's sentence no. 1. What's more, in the list above, Tylenol is a useless drug and Zithromax a pointlessly dangerous one.

It's worth remembering that honey must be raw to serve as an antibiotic and healer. As even inexpensive raw honeys taste better than virtually all the cooked ones, the ubiquity of the latter and the scarcity of the former have long puzzled me.

Cooked honey? I have never heard of it before.

Do you have Golden Blossom brand honey in Oz, Nadir? It's the largest and biggest-selling honey retailer in the USA. All of it has been heated to a point just short of boiling. This has been so for my entire life.

Any honey sold commercially as raw here in the States must be so marked. Until ten years or so ago, no supermarket sold raw honey, and not even many health-food or specialty stores do. Nowadays, a big chain might carry one brand of raw honey along with five to ten kinds of cooked (heated) honey. In health-food and specialty stores it might be 50-50.

Till 2005 or so, I used to buy raw honey from an Amish beekeeper who sold directly on eBay. A friend to whom I gave a jar called it the Platonic form of honey—and it was. He was driven out of business by a coalition of state officials and the US postal system. As he told me, over a three-month period before he closed his business, the postal service managed to "accidentally" break 80 percent of his glass-bottled shipments. He interpreted this as the government's making him an offer he couldn't refuse. Now I buy a brand called Y.S. Eco Bee Farms via Swanson Vitamins, and I recommend it.

Correct me if I am wrong, I was told to keep Tequila in the house, that it can work like anti-biotic.  I can not have penicillin or antibiotics.  I remember that using sulfa when  needed. I use elderberry, silver, oregano when needed. Echichencea (sp)  

Natural source of loperamide!  Use the fresh roots of blackberry bushes.  Chop or grate about a tablespoon’s worth of well-washed blackberry roots.  Place in a tea ball or in cotton cloth.  Steep in cupful of boiling water.  Tea is ready when it looks like used motor oil!  (Reddish brown color). Drink half cup and wait half hour.  Then drink rest.  Repeat by quarter cups after each loose stool.  You can safely drink up to 16 oz. per day.
This horrible tasting medicine worked wonders for me on a trip to Mexico!  At that time, Imodium was available only by prescription.  This is good to know if the shtf!  

Echinacea.

Note that echinacea should not be taken for immune-system support either daily or even several times a week. Instead, echinacea should be taken in concentrated doses when the immune system is under attack from exposure to a cold or flu virus. For daily immune support, take astragalus, which does not lose effectiveness through regular ingestion. What's more, astragalus and echinacea work cooperatively, and so both can be taken without fear of deleterious interaction if you feel yourself getting ill.

Cloves are superior.

 Note for daily immune support, turmeric with black pepper whoops 'em all.