Later on, years have passed until people discovered how to get the right strain of penicillium and extract the appropriate parts from it to make penicillin out of Penicillium mold. Throughout the History of Fungi-Growing Now you have one more survival skill. The penicillin of your own making should be made only for health benefits in case you are in a survival situation or an SHTF case. Most infections surely can be cured with antibiotics, but there are some antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The infections with such bacteria should be cured under the doctor’s observation. Another thing to mention is that most professionals will not write prescriptions for antibiotics ‘just in case’, as they are not really affordable and are only required in extra cases. But one can substitute the antibiotics with fish antibiotics, which can be bought with no prescriptions. Alexander Fleming and the discoverers of other antibiotics deserve all the credit they have won. But their work would have remained on the laboratory shelf if not for the development of deep-tank fermentation. As David Wilson wrote in his book In Search of Penicillin (Knopf, 1976), “It is the biggest single failing of the myth about penicillin that it ignores the technological breakthrough of deep fermentation, a breakthrough that was every bit as vital to the successful development of penicillin as any of the more dramatic laboratory work.”

Now add distilled water into the mixture until the full volume of all the combined ingredients is approximately 1 liter. Next, pour your broth into shallow containers that have resealable lids. You’re aiming for something that resembles a petri dish – like the kind you see in movies, or that you might have used in chemistry or biology when in school. If you don’t have any of those, shallow bowls, small plates, or shallow tupperware will also work. If using a regular plate or bowl, you’ll have to use cling film to seal your “petri dishes”. Be sure that you cover the dishes immediately so that nothing in the air can get to it. Step 3: Grow Your Cultures When bacteria multiply, their cellular division causes small holes to open up. Newly released peptidoglycans work to reconstruct the walls. Moreover, the penicillin-making process will require the strangest ingredients. They can not be easily found in the grocery store, so be prepared. Instructions on How to Make Your Own Penicillin Strain the penicillin liquid through a coffee filter or sterilized cheesecloth. Catch the liquid in a sterile container.Fleming was working with a plate of bacteria, and suddenly his nose dripped right into them. The bacteria around the dripping died off. That is how he came to the idea the human body can work in the same way and could internally hold some substance that could kill bacteria. Making penicillin is not hard, but can take some time. Below is a summary of the steps that preppers need to do to produce penicillin.

Then, combine a teaspoon of sugar, milk powder, citric acid, sea salt, and yeast into your graduated cylinder. Fill it with distilled water until you’re able to reach 100ml. Apart from penicillin, molds create other things to kill off bacteria. Most of them aren’t safe for humans. Once you covered the last step of the third phase, you are almost done. Now, when we have succeeded in making penicillin, we should extract the penicillin that is in the fluid. The third phase goes as per the following: To “jump-start” the growth process, place your fruit culture in a closed (but not airtight) container. A large mason jar with one or two oranges works just fine. Cover the container but allow some airflow (we recommend aluminum foil). Place some drops of water inside the container to aid in growth. The container should be placed in a dark place with a consistent temperature of approximately 70 degrees. Prepare the needed materials, the covered growth media, and the moldy fruit or bread. Make sure everything is within reach.Add 20g of agar to the broth. Plain gelatin (not Jello) will work if you don’t have agar. Note that the agar isn’t going to dissolve completely. That’s okay. If you’ve successfully produced penicillin, you’ll be able to see it in the liquid part of the solution you’ve made. Use a piece of cloth to filter it. Your mold will first turn gray, then it will begin turning bright blue/green. Once it has become a nice shade of blue-green, you need to cut the bread into chunks and then put those chunks inside of a pre-sterilized container of some sort. Keep the bread pieces incubated inside of the container for another full week in the exact same conditions. The container should be covered but not air tight. First chill your ethyl acetate inside a freezer. Then, mix your chilled ethyl acetate with the penicillin liquid inside of your separator funnel. You will need to shake these two ingredients together for about half a minute, then let them separate. The ethyl acetate will float to the bottom, carrying with it the purified penicillin and leaving everything else separate.

During the summer of 1940, their experiments centered on a group of 50 mice that they had infected with deadly streptococcus. Half the mice died miserable deaths from overwhelming sepsis. The others, which received penicillin injections, survived. Yes, it is totally possible to make penicillin at home. The only thing that might stop you from making it is that the process of making antibiotics and drugs is illegal in most places. So, you should make it only in case of survival mode. For example, you have strep throat, and there are no medicines, the world is falling apart. That is when you should make some penicillin. Can you make penicillin from moldy fruit? Secrets of Survival has been around since 2002 (almost 20 years) and our survival knowledge is the real deal. We were writing and discussing survival and prepping before people even knew what the word “prepping” meant. We also preceded the trendiness of survival media nowadays… for example, we were arround before Bear Grylls filmed his first episode of Man vs Wild.To be clear, penicillin will not treat any sort of viral infection. Penicillin can treat a broad range of common and serious bacterial infections: