Heather Davis wrote:My favorite approach to wound and burn healing is... raw honey and/or raw steak. Here are some photos of a dog bite that we treated with raw steak and raw honey and it healed in 2 weeks with no infection. 1/8-1/4" of raw steak, not previously frozen, large enough to cover the area. We used about 1/4 tsp of raw honey and then covered it with steak and bandaged the hand to keep the steak in place. We changed the steak, rinsed the area with a damp washcloth and then reapplied fresh honey and steak only once every 24 hours. The steak and honey kept the wound moist. The tooth made a jagged wound that angled under the skin to the fat layer, but not through the muscle, as far as I could see. It healed up so nicely!
I've also applied steak to an existing infected paper cut and a broken blood blister. The infected paper cut was about the size of a pencil eraser and under the pad of my friend's thumb. It healed in 24 hours. The puss was gone and there was no more soreness. The blood blister had ruptured (with a bit of flesh sticking out of the hole) and was about 1/2" in diameter. The steak cleaned out all the old blood out of the wound in 24 hours and it never got infected.
Has anyone else used steak on a wound? I should probably move this post to a non-herbal medicine centric thread. I'm enthusiastic about treating infections naturally, when at all possible. I got inspired by all the horrible photos of infections on Marjorie's video, haha!
I used local raw honey for a full-on, four-fang cat bite hope to stave off infection. Unfortunately, after two days I had to throw in the towel and visit the local Urgent Care for antibiotics to treat the very swollen, very painful infection. I was very disappointed.
However, I had great success using a lavender essential oil / tea tree essential oil / grapeseed carrier oil pack on a nasty outbreak of shingles that worked very, very well. It kept the shingles from spreading and healed it within a week or so. I slathered on the oil mixture and kept it wrapped with a bandage - changing it every 4 hours or so. I would also 'rinse' it periodically with organic ACV. That, too, was quite painful, so I was thankful that I was able to avoid standard medical (pharmaceutical) intervention there.
