The Traveler's Natural Medicine Kit by Pamela Hirsch

Author:Pamela Hirsch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Company
Published: 2012-03-13T16:00:00+00:00

BURN SALVE

⅓ cup fresh plantain

⅓ cup calendula

⅙ cup chamomile

⅓ cup lavender buds

⅙ cup rosebuds

⅓ cup comfrey leaf

2½ cups olive oil

2 ounces beeswax

1 tablespoon lavender essential oil

Make an herbal oil with the herbs. After straining, add the beeswax to the warm oil (you may have to reheat the oil a little so that the beeswax can melt—or, if you’re using melted beeswax, so that it doesn’t curdle). Once you have tested for the correct consistency, add the lavender essential oil, stir well, and pour the mixture into little jars.

If you don’t want to make your own salve, there are many on the market that are similar to the one above. Look for plantain (Plantago spp.), calendula (Calendula officinalis), St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum), aloe, and comfrey (Symphytum officinale) as ingredients. You don’t need them all—just a few.

St. John’s wort oil is an effective treatment for burns once the heat has subsided, especially combined with an herbal oil of dandelion blossoms. The common dandelion blossom (Taraxacum officinale) is an excellent anodyne, bringing pain relief. Next time, pick your dandelion blossoms for medicine rather than cursing and spraying them!

Believe it or not, another great remedy for burns is cold black tea. My great-aunt Mollie, a nurse in the Philippines in the early 1920s, learned about ice tea and burns while on duty there. I got to try it out when I singed my calf on the exhaust pipe of a motorcycle. We happened to be at a burger joint, so I got a large glass of iced tea and poured it slowly over the burn, which was about the size of a silver dollar. I don’t necessarily recommend this, but the nurse in the emergency room did say that the burn looked clean and was healing very nicely. It appears that the tannic acid in black tea restores the acid balance of the skin while helping the proteins in the top layers of the skin form a kind of protective covering.

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