I mean for dealing with worm parasites in the field, given limited supplies and (I'm assuming) this being a pretty old manual, this isn't too bad.
Basically instructions for forcing out the entire contents of your stomach or using something that is probably handy to kill them before they do too much damage to you.
You can drop a lit cigarette in kerosene and it will just put the cigarette out. You can also so that with diesel. You cannot, however, do that with gasoline.
I mean, nicotine is a natural pesticide made by tobacco plants. It's kinda the same with capsaicin and humans love that shit. Plus inducing vomiting could potentially get those lil' critters outta there. In a life or death situation this would probably be preferable to dying, at least.
Realistically this is probably an older manual and shouldn't be followed to the letter. You should not be eating less than 2 cigarettes a day.
Vomiting won't get them out. If when you vomit you're bringing up matter from where they live then you've got much bigger problems than just a worms infection.
This is field survival manual, meant as a last resort for situations when youβre miles from civilization and neither a pharmacy nor a medic are available.
Eating a cigarette isn't going to outright kill you, some worm having a happy meal in your stomach might, or at least incapacitate you enough to get killed by something - or someone.
There's lots of things in life that you shouldn't do, but can help you in an emergency. There's chlorine tablets - not exactly healthy, but can help with gut bacteria in a pinch. Cauterizing a wound is fucking painful and is not recommended by modern physicians - but it beats bleeding out or dying to an infection.
Keep in mind that those are not "DIY at home" kind of tips, but "You got shot in the middle of nowhere and you'r close to dying. You will also find similar tips in most other army handbooks.
Many years ago we had a terrier dog that got shot by a neighbor in her right hip. Thankfully it only went under the skin and came back out like 3 inches away, so no serious internal damages, but the dog's wounds kept bleeding and bleeding..
Dad couldn't afford a vet, but I wasn't gonna just let the dog bleed out either. I got out my soldering iron and cauterized the wounds myself until she quit bleeding. Yeah the dog didn't like it much, nor did she like me very much afterwards, but I successfully stopped the bleeding and she ended up fully healing up with no problems.
I doubt you're ingesting much of any of it, it's being absorbed directly into your bloodstream through your gums. Actually eating it would have a totally different effect on intestinal parasites.
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