Survival Penicillin

In a survival situation where doctors and pharmacies are not an option and will not be an option for a long time, medicines will be of prime importance for long-term survival. Please note that what I am about to describe should never be done as a test or an exercise of your survivalist abilities. Other skills should be tested but this one is best left for a SHTF situation only.

You can find a whole host of articles on how to make Penicillin when modern life is no longer reality. I laugh and scoff at their advice. These articles are usually useless. They talk about using a whole host of chemicals such as Zinc Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Lactose Monohydrate and many others. Well instead of all that crap why not just buy some penicillin instead? In a SHTF survival situation you are not going to be able to get your hands on all that crap. So that knowledge is useless. Here, we will teach you how to make your own without all the ingredients that you almost certainly aren't going to have just laying around.

All you will need to make Penicillin is some bread or an orange. If you haven't advanced enough to make your own bread yet, and you don't live in a tropical environment neither of these may be available to you. But don't worry. You can just as easily use trifoliate orange to do the same thing and it is a cold hardy wild plant. It grows from Texas to Pennsylvania.

Here is some info on Trifoliate orange. Trifoliate orange

You can use any fruit that grows naturally in your area to grow Penicillin. So don't despair if you don't live where tropical fruits are available. Cheese is also another option.

Now, on to the very simple process of growing mold, which penicillin is. Yes, Penicillin is nothing more than mold. Step one is to take your bread or fruit and place it into a bag or container of some sort. Just let it sit and do its thing. Over time you will see mold starting to decompose the bread/fruit. After you have noticed a significant portion of the bread/fruit covered in mold give it a little water. Ideally you want to hit it with a light mist. You do not want to drench it. It only takes a little.

Reseal after and wait some more. The mold will first be white, then it will turn to blue and finally to green. The green mold is what you want. Remove the green mold being careful to not cut/scrape away any mold that isn't green.

That is it. The green mold can be eaten, mixed with water and drank or applied topically to a wound. It is unlikely that you will have 100% penicillin and nothing else. That is why the taking of homemade penicillin should not be done except in dire situations. It is not uncommon to actually get a stomach ache and probably have diarrhea. However, that is the price you will have to pay to potentially save your life should you be cut or injured.