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Remedies for Cuts and Grazes |
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Written by Glenn Rosenberg
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Friday, 07 August 2009 |
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Wash cuts and grazes with diluted witch hazel to prevent infections. You can also use friar’s balsam or a few drops of calendula in warm water.
If none of this is to hand, warm, soapy water with a few drops of lemon juice or a teaspoon of salt added will do the trick. If you are in a remote place, then plain saliva can be a great healer. Parsley juice or heavy cream can be placed directly onto a wound and covered with a gauze dressing. Change it every two hours to make sure the wound is cleansed efficiently. Try washing the wound with the water from boiled parsnips and apply the warm pulp as a poultice. Garlic acts as a marvelous natural antiseptic, so make up a mixture of crushed garlic and honey for a healing poultice and apply it directly to cuts and grazes. Use honey neat and cover with a bandage to prevent air or moisture penetrating the wound. For a gravel graze, apply bread mixed with egg yolk and warm milk directly to the graze in order to gently draw out any small pieced of grit. Mash up raw avocado and cover with sterile gauze to prevent infection and promote healing. Honey is particularly effective at drawing out the tiny pieces of gravel that tend to be found in children’s cuts and grazes. Lemon is one of nature’s most powerful astringents, so use it raw on cuts and grazes to stop bleeding. It will sting like mad but it really does the trick. Drinking a cup of peppermint tea will immediately help to clot blood. It is particularly useful for nosebleeds. Garlic wine made from chopped garlic steeped in white wine for several hours will clanse and prevent infections in wounds and cuts. In order to protect the area after cleaning, you should apply a paste of garlic and honey and cover with some fine gauze.
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