Making an herbal heal-all salve

Thanks everyone for all of this great information, I'm just getting started. Anyone making salves with rose petals or violet leaves? I'm starting out with plantain, calendula and lemon balm. Will the violet and or rose add anything these don't already provide?

Jill, Violet has use as an antiseptic, Rose as an astringent.  Plus both will often make one smile!

My all around, go to for everything boo-boo salve was Arnica, Calndula and Thyme.  One ounce of bees wax per cup of infused oil.

Peace

I forgot to tell you the amount of each dry herb, I used +/- one third cup of each, more or less.  I guess that I used more of the calendula than the other two, because when you buy calendula you recieve the whole dried flower head and I feel that the healing power was in the petals.

Place everything in a clean old half gallon mason jar and let it sit in a dark cabinet for a full cycle of the moon.

Peace

@HeatherSharpe "I just made a new blend of plantain, goldenrod and mullein and am quite pleased with that."

Are you using mullein leaf, root, or flower infused oil here?

All of you seem to go to an extraordinary effort to get the job done. I just pull out a bandaid, slather some honey on it, and stick it on the wound. It is amazing how quickly a wound will heal with that.

And, YES, I also use other things besides honey. It depends on how big and bad the wound is.

Calendula tincture, diluted with clean water, 1:20 (one drop of tincture to 20 drops of water)
Store it in a jar with a lid and dip in a cotton ball to apply it to any skin wound - abrasion, cut, etc.
This stuff is simple and amazing.

S Windlass wrote:Calendula tincture, diluted with clean water, 1:20 (one drop of tincture to 20 drops of water)
Store it in a jar with a lid and dip in a cotton ball to apply it to any skin wound - abrasion, cut, etc.
This stuff is simple and amazing.

I tried growing Calendula last year with not much luck. I did get flowers but not like all of the catalogs show.
I did buy more seed and will try again this year and grow in different spots in the garden to see what happens.
IF I can get some nice healthy flowering I will try the tincture.

For those who don't want to use beeswax to make an ointment,  which by definition is a thickened oil-based product, try using the solid-at-room-temp coconut oil, mango or shea butter, or other solid fats that melt with applied heat.

I use liquid oils like olive because they impart their own benefits to the finished product. And allow for use in a roller-style applicator!

I've found that just a few calendula plants can produce enough flowers (the medicinal part) over the summer to make plenty of medicine/1st aid. I pluck daily and lay them in a shallow box (soda pop case box) in a warm and dry place. In southern California that was just a shaded spot outside.  In WV i have to bring it in because we have lots of wind strong enough to blow it all to the next county, and frequent rain.

And I'll chime in in agreement with not using comfrey as a first deep wound remedy for the same reasons that it works too fast to heal and can capture infection.