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.
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- 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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Planetary Herbology
, by Michael Tierra, C.A., N.D., O.M.D., Lotus Press, PO Box 325, Twin Lakes. WI 53181., Copyright 1988, published 1992
The Magic of Herbs, by David Conway, published by Jonathan Cape, Thirty Bedford Square, London, England. (Out of print)
The Herb Book, by John Lust, Bantam Books, 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY. copyright 1974.
The Complete Medicinal Herbal
, by Penelope Ody, Dorling Kindersley, Inc, 232 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, First American Edition, copyright 1993
Indian Herbalogy of North America, by Alma R. Hutchens, Shambala Publications, Inc., Horticultural Hall, 300 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, 1973
Back to Eden, by Jethro Kloss; Back to Eden Publishing Co., Loma Linda, CA 92354, Original copyright 1939, revised edition 1994
The Yoga of Herbs, by Dr. David Frawley & Dr. Vasant Lad, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin, Second edition, 1988.
Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants, by Steven Foster and James A. Duke., Houghton Mifflin Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10000
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