Treating cuts, abrasions, and minor wounds

What are your favorite foods and remedies for treating cuts, abrasions, and minor wounds and helping them heal?

so this has helped me in a pinch.

Licking the wound, continue periodically licking it until it begins to clot. Than apply douglas fir pitch/sap to the wound. try and put a bandage on it. tape seems to help it stay on.

Leave it like this for a few days and after about 3 days it seems to be well on its way to healing! Now remove the bandage/tape and inspect it. reapply clean bandage/tape as necessary.

Jennifer Richardson wrote:What are your favorite foods and remedies for treating cuts, abrasions, and minor wounds and helping them heal?

Raw honey covered with a cotton sock or bandage overnight.

If it's really minor, I often do nothing either intentionally or out of forgetfulness. If it's a little more severe or if it starts turning red or inflamed like it may get infected, I often rinse with a simple infusion of some plant like plantain, chamomile, yarrow, etc., whatever's handy.

For small cuts and abrasions, my go to is a home-made mixture of calendula, hypericum, echinecea and golden seal tincture in a small spray bottle. Spraying the wound several times a day is easy and good enough for me. If the cuts are deeper and bleeding, I've been known to chuck some golden seal or turmeric powder on the wound.  Should it get infected and oozing then cabbage leaves to the rescue.

I've found that most minor wounds just require the injury site to be cleaned and the area protected from further irritation.

If it is located somewhere that is difficult to keep clean, a barrier such as clean cotton bandaging might be utilized.

It depends on where it is, what type of wound, how bad, what I feel is actually needed, and what I have on hand. I make & keep several different types of remedies in first aid kits in the bathrooms, cars, motorcycles, on the tractor, in my edc, the goat barn & the chicken coop (it's walk-in/people sized, with storage space) - all are based on likely injuries for their locations. There is a drawing salve, a salve for open wounds, a salve for deep-tissue problems like sprains, strains, bad bruises, etc. I have plantain & calendula spray for cleaning wounds, yarrow for stopping bleeding... I even have suture needles, scalpels, forceps, super glue (one of my more frequently used items), and other tools. The most important thing though is knowing how & when to use them all - or not to use them, at all.

Yarrow is great for cuts and wounds.

I mostly neglect these minor wounds unless it's producing so much blood that it's getting in the way or making a mess. If it is, then I spray it out with water, dry it, and if it's small enough, apply a commercial bandaid to hold it shut. If it's a long, shallow cut, I might use a gauze bandage and tape -- I can never find first aid tape, but duct tape works fine. And if it's gaping enough that I'm not sure it'll heal right, I'll pinch it and hit it with superglue. Theoretically, I'd go to the ER for stitches if it were worse than that, but I haven't ever had to. After a day or two, or after the red-heat goes away, I'll hit it with comfrey salve to speed healing. I've used a garlic/arbor vitae tincture when it was red and angry, and it got better, but they also get better when I do nothing, so I'm not sure on that.