Treatment of purulent wounds with folk remedies
Treatment of purulent wounds with lotions and poultices
Purulent wounds must be cleaned and washed. For this, traditional medicine uses a variety of lotions, poultices and rinsing.
1. For irrigation and lotions use aloe juice, which has a strong anti-inflammatory effect. Marsh cranberries are also suitable for this, the juice and gruel from the berries of which have healing properties.
2. Juice of fresh peeled lilac leaves can be moistened with a bandage and applied to purulent wounds for a couple of hours.
3. Grape leaves are capable of stopping bleeding, providing antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects. They need to be crushed so that they start juice. Bandages are made from this gruel, which should be changed a couple of times a day.
4. Blueberry leaves, brewed in boiling water, are used as lotions and irrigation for fresh purulent wounds.
5. Clotted blood and pus from the edges of the wound will help to remove lotions from sauerkraut or brine.
6. Onions contribute to the absorption of purulent abscesses.
7. Steam young plum leaves and periodically apply them to purulent wounds.
8. Fresh crushed buckwheat leaves have a healing effect. They will help with purulent wounds and abscesses.
9. Traditional medicine advises to use grated carrot or its crushed leaves as a lotion for purulent wounds.
10. To soften the purulent wound will help lotions from herbs and roots of sweet clover.
11. Fresh juice and radish pomace are suitable for the treatment and healing of suppuration.
12. Festering wounds can be disinfected with pomace of plantain leaves, burdock, beetroot and alder.
13. You can treat ulcers and purulent wounds with calendula poultices. The broth is prepared as follows: 20 g of flowers are brewed in boiling water (200 ml). The infusion must be aged for at least three hours.
14. A couple of tablespoons of saffron stigmas are poured over a glass of water and boiled for half an hour. With this broth, the surface of purulent wounds is washed and moistened.
15. If the purulent wound does not heal for a long time, use lotions from the leaves of eucalyptus globular. To do this, make a decoction (30 g of leaves per glass of boiling water), cool and strain it. The broth is diluted with water (200 ml of broth / 1 l of water) and used for baths and rinses.
16. Also, alcohol tinctures are used for lotions. Fir can be infused on vodka (100 g of bark per 200 g of vodka; it should be insisted for a week) or stinging nettle (a liter bottle must be filled with peeled nettle leaves and filled with alcohol, and then infused for two weeks in a well-lit place).
17. It is recommended to treat purulent wounds with poultices and lotions from strawberry leaves.
18. Lotions from wormwood juice will help to cleanse the blood and disinfect the purulent wound.
19. Will help in the treatment of purulent wounds lotions from a decoction of wild rose (flowers and fruits). They also have a strong antiseptic effect, which will avoid wound infection.
20. A decoction from the bark of the hornbeam elm is used to wash the wounds, and from it they make lotions for them.
Treatment of purulent wounds with ointments and oils
For the treatment of purulent wounds, there are many alternative methods, among which medicinal ointments occupy an important place. Everyone can cook them. Here are some good recipes.
1. For lubrication and compresses on purulent wounds use a mixture of boiled vegetable oil and lime infusion. You need to combine the components only when the oil becomes barely warm.
2. Mix 80 g of bee honey, 20 g of xeroform and 20 g of fish oil. Pre-clean the purulent wound and apply an ointment with a bandage for a day.
3. An infusion of St. John's wort in olive oil is suitable for lubricating purulent wounds: they heal faster. This medicine can be stored in the refrigerator for a long time.
4. Scepter mullein (5 parts) is combined with butter (10 parts) and purulent wounds and ulcers are lubricated.
5. Dry herb sedum caustic (1 part) must be ground into powder and mixed with butter or petroleum jelly (4 parts).
6. Combine one tablespoon of powder from dried leaves and flowers of a drop cap and nettle, add beeswax (20 g), pine resin (20 g) and one teaspoon of aloe and lycopodium juice. Then add an eighth teaspoon of burnt alum to the mixture and pour the mixture into the boiling chicken fat. You need to cook the medicine for at least an hour and a half over low heat, stirring constantly so that it does not burn. Then the mixture is filtered through cheesecloth and chilled. Apply a thick layer of the drug to a bandage or gauze and apply to a festering wound. You need to repeat the procedure twice a day.
7. A good external folk remedy for the treatment of purulent wounds are ointments based on honey. You can combine honey with lard in a 6: 2 ratio or with fish oil and xeroform in a 8: 2: 2 ratio. The ingredients mix well and are applied with a bandage on a previously cleaned purulent wound. One procedure per day is enough.
8. Here is a recipe for an ointment for large festering wounds. You will need a tablespoon of goat fat, half a tablespoon of salt, and one tablespoon of finely chopped onions. The ingredients are carefully rubbed and ointment is applied to the affected area. A bandage must be applied on top. This medicine cleans up a purulent wound, so do not be afraid of severe pain at first. Until the wound is completely clear, the dressing is changed every day.
Treatment of purulent wounds with powders
1. To make the purulent wound clear and heal faster, it can be sprinkled with the roots of calamus, ground to a powder.
2. It is useful to sprinkle purulent wounds with pine pollen or powder from dried cherry leaves.
3. If you dry the leaves of stinging nettle and grind them into powder, you can cure purulent wounds, ulcers and abscesses. In a similar way, the leaves of the drop cap and the flowers of the bedchamber are used.
4. Another popular remedy that can help in the treatment of purulent wounds is powder from the roots of gentian cross-leaved.
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Source: Newspaper healthy lifestyle, all-Ukrainian newspaper-healer "Babushka"