Guest guest Posted March 6, 2001 Report Share Posted March 6, 2001 Looks good, but I'd add Comfrey. . . . <grin> Heather - Penny Khaled Dear Herbalists; and wonder ifany of youse who make salves think I should try to be simple and makeit?Echinacea Salve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 7, 2001 Report Share Posted March 7, 2001 Penny, My vote is NO. I know how successful and workable your past salve making has been so I wouldn't change. Did you cook the oil for 5 hours at 125 degrees? I've made wonderful salves and never gotten that involved. I do the simple new moon - full moon soak the herbs in the oil and then heat the oil to 120 degrees and the bees wax to 140 -147 degrees using 4 oz beeswax per quart of oil (approx). I add the beeswax slowly and put drops on a surface to cool and take my finger to test the consistency and when I think it is not to thin and not too thick I pour the salve into the individual bottles. Next I think there are much better herbs for wounds than echinacea. Fresh aloe vera is excellent, excellent!! or I'd do a poultice of 4 parts slippery elm bark, 2 parts powdered plantain leaf, 1 part goldenseal root, 1 part powdered comfrey root and a dash of cayenne pepper. This is Dr. Schulze's Herbal Healing Poultice It can be sprinkled directly into a wet or bloody wound in order to regrow new tissue or it can be mixed with warm water and applied to the area. Here's a quote from There Are No Incurable Diseases by Dr. Richard Schulze "Generally, once a poultice has dried on a wound, I consider it part of the body. Just like a scab, it will come off in its own time. A good example of this happened many years ago when I was with a woman who cut the tip of her finger entirely off. The figer was bleeding profusely, so I dumped a handful of cayenne pepper on it. When the bleeding stopped, (in about 2 seconds,) I put her fingertip on top of the cayenne pepper and just stuck it to the rest of her finger. I covered the whole area with an herbal poultice made of mainly comfrey leaf and root, garlic, slippery em and a few other herbs. After adding more of the poultice in the next few hours, I finally wrapped gauze around the whole area. The next morning, we realized that the poultice had dried hard with the gauze and she now had a rock hard herbal cast on her finger. I said not to worry. In about 3 days it worked itself off and we found a beautifully healed finger. The fingertip was reconnected with the finger. There was only slight redness around the cut area, but we could see lots of cayenne peppper under the new skin between the fingertip and the finger. I assured her that the body would digest the cayenne pepper over a few weeks. A month later, there was not even a scar." Now this is dramatic to say the least and what I would expect seeing the herbs that were chosen for use. Now for burns this story says it all as far as I'm concerned. Penny, you received this in one in our newsletters but I don't know if it has been posted on Herbal Remedies before but if so it is worth repeating. BURN PASTEOne of ole Doc Christopher’s most dramatic cases of skin regeneration involved two ten-year-old boys who were playing with matches and gasoline, when the gas burst into flame. "Both boys were severely burned. The surgeon at the hospital said that the hands would either have to be amputated at the wrist and iron claws attached to both arms, or the boys could endure several years of painful skin graft surgeries. After years of such surgery, the boys would have nothing better than mummified claws which could never move like fingers. One set of parents told the surgeon to begin operations; the other set of parents took their child to Dr. Christopher. He cringed at the badly scarred skin, tendons, muscles and nerves. He gave the parents a salve made of Comfrey, Honey, and Wheatgerm oil. He told the parents to keep a thick layer of this burn ointment on the area at all times. Within a week, the parents took their son to see the surgeon, who was dumfounded. The burns had healed from third-degree to first-degree. "What on earth have you been using?’ he asked. The parents just said, "An old-fashioned remedy." "Whatever it is, keep on using it. I don’t think there’s need for surgery now. I can’t believe it. But these hands are going to heal without scar tissue." A year after the burn, the first boy remained in the hospital. The parents had invested hundreds of thousands of dollars on the surgery and skin grafting, but the boy ended up with stiff, unbending claws that the boy hid with gloves. The other boy, whose parents had applied the herbal salve, healed completely. The tendons, nerves, muscles and flesh were all renewed, with no scar tissue. Even the fingernails grew back. The family’s total investment was less than twenty dollars for the herbal salve." "The School of Natural Healing" by Dr. John R. Christopher N.D. M.H. I thought you would enjoy having this information. I have had personal experience with using the oil in a vitamin E capsule and the fresh gel from Aloe Vera on burns and these also greatly aid in healing without scars. I really go carried away on this one Penny but for me these herbs make a lot more sense than echinacea but if you try it I'd like to know how it works. Goodnight! ML, Valorie - Penny Khaled herbal remedies Tuesday, March 06, 2001 9:55 AM [herbal remedies] Echinacea Salve Dear Herbalists, With my propensity for adding a little bit here and there, I havenever made a salve with a Single Herb. I came across the following Salve in The Secrets of Echinacea byWinifred Conkling (an excellent little book by the way).., and wonder ifany of youse who make salves think I should try to be simple and makeit?Echinacea Salve5 ozs of dried herbs in 1 cup of coconut oil (or olive oil) in anuncovered cooking crock and bake at 125 degrees for three to five hours. Stir every 30 minutes to ensure it doesn't burn. Strain into a saucepan. For every cup of oil infusion, add approx 1 ounce of shavedbeeswax(melted) and 2 capsules of Vitamin E (to preserve the salve) Pour into small jars and cool. ..what do you think, Herbalists?. Winifred reckons this can be used on burns, wounds and many skinirritations.................Love PennyFederal Law requires that we warn you of the following: 1. Natural methods can sometimes backfire. 2. If you are pregnant, consult your physician before using any natural remedy. 3. The Constitution guarantees you the right to be your own physician and toprescribe for your own health. We are not medical doctors although MDs are welcome to post here as long as they behave themselves. Any opinions put forth by the list members are exactly that, and any person following the advice of anyone posting here does so at their own risk. It is up to you to educate yourself. 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