• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
permaculture forums growies critters building homesteading energy monies kitchen purity ungarbage community wilderness fiber arts art permaculture artisans regional education skip experiences global resources cider press projects digital market permies.com pie forums private forums all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
master stewards:
  • Carla Burke
  • r ranson
  • John F Dean
  • Nancy Reading
  • Timothy Norton
  • paul wheaton
  • Jay Angler
stewards:
  • Nicole Alderman
  • Pearl Sutton
  • Anne Miller
master gardeners:
  • Christopher Weeks
gardeners:
  • Jeremy VanGelder
  • Matt McSpadden
  • M Ljin

Looking for triple antibiotic salve recipe

 
pollinator
Posts: 239
Location: Salado, Texas
50
hugelkultur forest garden fungi foraging medical herbs ungarbage
  • Likes 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I cut and scrape myself all the time and so I go thru a lot of CVS tripple antibiotic cream.

I'd love to have a homemade version that I can trust to really work.

Last summer I failed to treat a simple scrape on my leg, and I still have a scar from it ...almost had to go to a Dr. because it got infected.

Does anybody make and use their own with good success?   What's your recipe?
 
Rusticator
Posts: 9173
Location: Missouri Ozarks
4950
7
personal care gear foraging hunting rabbit chicken cooking food preservation fiber arts medical herbs homestead
  • Likes 14
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
This is not my personal recipe, (I found it years ago, and don't recall where, sorry) and I'm not sure where I put mine - but this is what I based mine off of. If I can find mine, I'll share it, too.
1 cup olive oil
1/2 oz. fresh, chopped plantain
1/2 oz. dried calendula flowers
1/2 oz. dried comfrey leaf
4 oz. beeswax
1 teaspoon vitamin E oil
In a large, heavy, nonreactive saucepan, warm the olive oil over very low heat. Add the herbs and stir; do not allow the herbs to sizzle. Heat for at least 30 minutes, continuing to stir. Strain out the herbs; return the mixture to the saucepan.
Grate the beeswax; add to the oil. Warm the mixture, again over very low heat, stirring constantly. When the beeswax is melted, add the vitamin E, stir, and pour the salve into clean jars. Allow to cool completely, then seal the jars. Label with the ingredients and the date.
 
pollinator
Posts: 196
Location: Oh-Hi-Oh to New Mexico (soon)
52
  • Likes 10
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
What about raw honey.
I recently used some in lieu of 3antibio. on a face cut and it was kind of itchy...I saw that as a good thing, as in probably stimulating regrowth of tissue, worked great.


"Indeed, medicinal importance of honey has been documented in the world's oldest medical literatures, and since the ancient times, it has been known to possess antimicrobial property as well as wound-healing activity. The healing property of honey is due to the fact that it offers antibacterial activity, maintains a moist wound condition, and its high viscosity helps to provide a protective barrier to prevent infection. Its immunomodulatory property is relevant to wound repair too. The antimicrobial activity in most honeys is due to the enzymatic production of hydrogen peroxide. However, another kind of honey, called non-peroxide honey (viz., manuka honey), displays significant antibacterial effects even when the hydrogen peroxide activity is blocked. Its mechanism may be related to the low pH level of honey and its high sugar content (high osmolarity) that is enough to hinder the growth of microbes. The medical grade honeys have potent in vitro bactericidal activity against antibiotic-resistant bacteria causing several life-threatening infections to humans. "

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3609166/
 
master pollinator
Posts: 5199
Location: Due to winter mortality, I stubbornly state, zone 7a Tennessee
2199
7
forest garden foraging books food preservation cooking fiber arts bee medical herbs
  • Likes 7
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Uhuh, yup. Listen to Carla.

Myself, I've only gotten comfrey to establish. Plantain is a yard weed so I have plenty of that. Those are the only herbs in my current antibiotic salve. I haven't bought Neosporin in 19 years. This stuff is so much better.
 
Joylynn Hardesty
master pollinator
Posts: 5199
Location: Due to winter mortality, I stubbornly state, zone 7a Tennessee
2199
7
forest garden foraging books food preservation cooking fiber arts bee medical herbs
  • Likes 7
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I've become somewhat careless since I began making this stuff. I had a cut a couple years ago, that I kinda ignored. Among other things, it got automotive grease in it. (SAAB) It took my friend pointing it out, it could be a problem. Took a good look at it. Yup. It was going bad. This salve for a couple days, and I was well on the way to recovery. I do pay closer attention to sore cuts now. I'm getting older, and cuts and abrasions are more frequent. The curse of thinning skin. Sigh.
 
Carla Burke
Rusticator
Posts: 9173
Location: Missouri Ozarks
4950
7
personal care gear foraging hunting rabbit chicken cooking food preservation fiber arts medical herbs homestead
  • Likes 7
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Honey is good, too - but if you have the option, go with mānuka honey. The stuff is amazing, and it's perfect in situations like burns, where an oil/ wax based product is ill-advised. In fact, I'm using it on a burn, right now.
 
James Bradford
pollinator
Posts: 239
Location: Salado, Texas
50
hugelkultur forest garden fungi foraging medical herbs ungarbage
  • Likes 3
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Sweet, I like how easy the honey option is ...could have tested it yesterday if I read these sooner ...or put gloves on b4 handling broken glass.  I will report back on honey after next incident.
 
James Bradford
pollinator
Posts: 239
Location: Salado, Texas
50
hugelkultur forest garden fungi foraging medical herbs ungarbage
  • Likes 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Comfrey and calendula are both on my wanted list.  Plantain grows here in my place but I need to figure out a plan for drying and storing and making fresh salves at least every 6 months I guess.  What is shelf life of yall's salves?
 
pollinator
Posts: 3909
Location: Kent, UK - Zone 8
717
books composting toilet bee rocket stoves wood heat homestead
  • Likes 1
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Can I suggest that we are careful about the use of the medical term "antibiotic" when what I think you are talking about is "antiseptic". They act very differently and are used for different things.

Personally, my go to for treating superficial cuts and scrapes is a tincture of propolis, dissolved in alcohol. It has strong antiseptic properties and as the alcohol evaporates leaves a very fine skin of propolis over the scrape. It will burn like hell over open wound though, so best to use standard wound cleaning and dressings at least initially.
 
pollinator
Posts: 538
Location: Louisville, MS. Flirting with 8B
101
homeschooling kids rabbit tiny house books chicken composting toilet medical herbs composting homestead
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Carla Burke wrote:Honey is good, too - but if you have the option, go with mānuka honey. The stuff is amazing, and it's perfect in situations like burns, where an oil/ wax based product is ill-advised. In fact, I'm using it on a burn, right now.



Carla, I did not know that the oil/wax products were not good for burns. I tried google to see why, no success. Can you elaborate on why for me please?

I would like to know why and share that info when it comes up.
 
Carla Burke
Rusticator
Posts: 9173
Location: Missouri Ozarks
4950
7
personal care gear foraging hunting rabbit chicken cooking food preservation fiber arts medical herbs homestead
  • Likes 3
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
They (2nd degree, anyway) need to be allowed ventilation, and to weep, because the damage is deeper than just the surface of the injury. I actually did try the healing ointment on this burn (it was a nasty, 1.5"×1" rectangle, 2nd degree burn from contacting the door on the woodstove, as I was loading it,  that ruptured within minutes of blistering). I left it alone, but for cold water, for the first few hours, but as soon as I put on the ointment, the pain was intensified and lasted. When I switched, a week later, to the mānuka honey, the pain only intensified with the dressing change, then eased almost completely, even with the contact of the bandage. It also began healing much faster, and the color improved dramatically, within the first several hours.

There was an old wives tale, that one ought to immediately treat a burn with butter or lard, which has since been proven to exacerbate the damage, essentially the 'proof' claims that the oil seals in the heat, in the deeper tissues. I don't know the veracity of that, but I know what I've experienced, this month.
 
Josh Hoffman
pollinator
Posts: 538
Location: Louisville, MS. Flirting with 8B
101
homeschooling kids rabbit tiny house books chicken composting toilet medical herbs composting homestead
  • Likes 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Carla Burke wrote:They (2nd degree, anyway) need to be allowed ventilation, and to weep, because the damage is deeper than just the surface of the injury. I actually did try the healing ointment on this burn (it was a nasty, 1.5"×1" rectangle, 2nd degree burn from contacting the door on the woodstove, as I was loading it,  that ruptured within minutes of blistering). I left it alone, but for cold water, for the first few hours, but as soon as I put on the ointment, the pain was intensified and lasted. When I switched, a week later, to the mānuka honey, the pain only intensified with the dressing change, then eased almost completely, even with the contact of the bandage. It also began healing much faster, and the color improved dramatically, within the first several hours.

There was an old wives tale, that one ought to immediately treat a burn with butter or lard, which has since been proven to exacerbate the damage, essentially the 'proof' claims that the oil seals in the heat, in the deeper tissues. I don't know the veracity of that, but I know what I've experienced, this month.



Thank you for explaining! Very helpful.
 
Put the moon back where you found it! We need it for tides and poetry and stuff. Like this tiny ad:
Learn Permaculture through a little hard work
https://wheaton-labs.com/bootcamp
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic