Wounds and Cuts
Treatment
If the body is in a healthy condition, a wound or cut will heal readily.
Tie a bandage or tourniquet on the wound to stop bleeding. Wash the
cut or wound with a solution of powdered golden seal and myrrh, made
by steeping a heaping tsp. of each in a pint of boiling water for
twenty minutes. If the cut is large and gaps open, place it in the
golden seal and myrrh solution as hot as can be borne. Continue this
until the wound closes. When the wound is practically closed, press
it together, sprinkle a little powdered golden seal on the outside
and bandage, using strips of adhesive tape to hold the skin edges
together. If redness occurs around wound, sprinkle burnt alum directly
on the wound. Wood sage is an excellent remedy for old wounds or inflamed
wounds. Use as a poultice.
Herbs
TB
- Chickweed
- Echinacea
- Elm, slippery
- Golden seal
- Myrrh
Effective as poultices and/or washes:
- Adder's tongue
- Agrimony
- Aloe
- Alum, wild, root
- Angelica
- Arnica
- Ash, prickly, bark
- Astragalus (yellow vetch)
- Balm of Gilead
- Balsam fir
- Barberry
- Bayberry
- Beech
- Bilberry
- Birch
- Bistort root
- Boneset
- Burdock
- Burnet
- Butternut
- Cactus, prickly-pear
- Carrot (poultice)
- Catalpa
- Cicely, sweet
- Cinquefoil, tall
- Chamomile
- Comfrey
- Corn silk
- Cotton root
- Cranesbill
- Dock, yellow
- Echinacea
- Elderberry
- Elecampane
- Eryngo
- Eucalyptus
- Fenugreek
- Fever weed
- Flag, blue
- Flag, sweet
- Fringetree
- Ginseng, Tienchi (even in gunshot wounds)
- Goldenrod
- Golden seal
- Ground-cherry
- Gumweed (rosinweed)
- Hazelnut, American
- Horseradish
- Horsetail, field
- Hound's tongue
- Hyssop
- Indian corn, pale
- Indian hemp, black
- Indigo, wild
- Ivy, ground
- Labrador tea
- Lady fern
- Lady's mantle
- Life root
- Loosestrife, purple or spike
- Lungwort
- Magnolia
- Mallow
- Mugwort
- Mullein
- Myrrh
- Nettle
- Oak
- Onion
- Pilewort
- Pimpernel
- Pine, white
- Plantain
- Poplar
- Poppy, prickly
- Raspberry leaves
- Sage, wood
- St. John's wort
- Sanicle, wood
- Sarsaparilla
- Sea lavender
- Self-seal
- Shepherd's purse
- Shinleaf, wild
- Solomon's seal
- Stoneroot (horse-balm)
- Sumach
- Sweetgum
- Turmeric
- Vervain
- Walnut, black
- Water-plantain
- White pond lily
- White willow
- Winter cress
- Witch hazel
- Wood lily
- Woundwort
- Yarrow
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