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Help with Cut - PEP BB medicine.straw.cut

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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP Curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the straw badge in Natural Medicine.

Here's a video that has a few ideas which may or may not be applicable to your friend's issue:


Minimum requirements:
  - Help your friend with their Cut problem
  - Refer to them by a number or pseudonym that you will continue to use for that friend throughout the Natural Medicine badge

To document completion of the BB, provide the following:
  - Your friend's pseudonym
  - Describe the issue your friend is struggling with
      - Symptoms
      - Duration
      - Severity
      - Medical diagnosis (if any)
 - Your suggestions for relief (including, but not limited to)
     - Behavioral
     - Food as medicine
     - Concoctions  
 - Description of success (including, but not limited to)
     - What your friend actually did
     - How well it worked
     - How long it took to see results
 - Picture of you with friend on the first meeting
 - Picture of you with friend (giving a thumbs up) on your last meeting
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Here is my submission for the Natural Medicine Aspect - Straw - Quinn List - Help with a Cut BB.

M06 (pseudonym) was trapped in a burning house decades ago and still suffers from the wounds and scars from then.   The scar tissue on her hands is very delicate and tends to break down (her words) which happens throughout the year and is worse in winter.  I often see what look like cuts near the joints and while this is not a traditional knife cut it is a similar wound but is more difficult to treat/heal due to the scar tissue on her hands.  

Recommendations:
    - Behavioral: wear gloves when washing dishes or outside in dry weather (winter & summer)
    - Food as medicine: no recommendations
    - Concoctions: two salves that I made
            -  "wound" salve is a blended salve using burdock, comfrey, and mint/tea tree
            -  comfrey salve

On February 10, she had one large cut/break at the joint of her right pointer finger and many smaller breaks in the scar tissue.  M06 tested two salves for comfort and redness.  She experienced no redness after applying either salve (no allergic reaction).  She used the would salve (burdock, comfrey, mint, and tea tree) and comfrey salve for about one week when the large cut had healed.  She continues to use the salves to prevent such serious damage (in photos below).

She wrote this today, "great success with the ointment I was privileged to use.   Thank you for letting me be a part of this trial. My hands haven’t been this good all winter. My hands have healed so much I’m able to use hand cream again. I was only using the ointments. The wound ointment healed the worst of the breakdowns. I had five on my right hand for a while. Only two on the left hand. My concern was right hand middle finger had just grown back from a breakdown last winter. Now I had two nail beds that had major cracks that easily turn into lost fingernails  The wound ointment works wonders to heal open areas. The comfrey heals in cracks and red areas. "

To document the completion of the BB, I have provided the following photos to supplement the above information:
  - Your friend's pseudonym: M06
 - Picture of you with friend on the first meeting
 - Picture of you with friend (giving a thumbs up) on your last meeting
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Me and M06
Me and M06
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Cut on right pointer finger
Cut on right pointer finger
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healed in about 10 days using my salves
healed in about 10 days using my salves
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Thumbs up
Thumbs up
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Nicole Alderman approved this submission.
Note: I hereby certify that this badge bit is complete!

 
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Natural Medicine - Straw - Cut

I was pulling grass out of the garden beds and noticed my knuckle was bleeding. A blister had formed and popped and a blade of grass had cut my finger.
Off I went to harvest a Comfrey and put half a leaf in my mouth to masticate, didn't taste bad but didn't like the texture.  Spit it out on my booboo, added a few drops of my homemade Fire Cider, and wrapped my finger with the rest of the leaf.  Tied with cotton string for gardening and left it on until morning.

The comfrey paste went on green, fire cider was almost clear, but just look at that stain!  3 days later, with handwashing and showers, the stain is still vibrant.


To document completion of the BB, provide the following:
- Your friend's pseudonym  Me
- Describe the issue your friend is struggling with
    - Symptoms bleeding
    - Duration 5+ mins
    - Severity no professional medical aid needed
    - Medical diagnosis (if any) a cut
- Your suggestions for relief (including, but not limited to)
   - Behavioral Wash hands before adding compress
   - Food as medicine
   - Concoctions  Chewed comfrey leaf and homemade Fire cider
- Description of success (including, but not limited to)
   - What your friend actually did Poultice of comfrey and fire cider, wrapped in comfrey leaf, and tied with cotton string.
   - How well it worked  Wonderfully
   - How long it took to see results: Next morning the cut was sealed with no flap of loose skin.
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Ingredients
Ingredients
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Applied chewed comfrey, applied a few drops of fire cider, covered with comfrey leaf and tied with cotton string.
Applied chewed comfrey, applied a few drops of fire cider, covered with comfrey leaf and tied with cotton string.
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The next morning the cut was sealed, no loose flap of skin.
The next morning the cut was sealed, no loose flap of skin.
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Someone flagged this submission as not complete.
BBV price: 1
Note: Look at that color!! Great job using a comfrey poultice. I'm sorry that I can't certify it, but you can't get credit for doing Quinn BBs on yourself. Quote from the Straw badge requirements: "Complete 10 different BBs from the Quinn list   - At least 5 different times your concoctions were part of the solution   - You can't get credit for doing Quinn BBs on yourself"

 
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Pseudonym: SF

SF cut his leg while doing home maintenance. He has a fairly high pain tolerance and doesn't like to wear bandages. He showed it to me about 5 hours after he'd gotten hurt and after he'd cleaned it. It still looked raw when I saw it, so SF agreed to a poultice.

Treatment: I picked fresh plantain, yarrow, and a little tulsi and ground them in a mortar and pestle. I applied the poultice to his cut and wrapped it up.

Result: When SF removed the bandage and poultice that evening, he was surprised and said, "it looks a lot better already!" He was happy with the results and wanted to let the rest heal by itself.
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Meeting when SF showed me his cut
Meeting when SF showed me his cut
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The cut on SF's leg
The cut on SF's leg
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Applying the poultice
Applying the poultice
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All wrapped up
All wrapped up
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The next day, happy with the results
The next day, happy with the results
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Healing in progress
Healing in progress
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Mike Barkley approved this submission.

 
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This is Ancalagon. The black. While flying and terrorizing innocent people, he clothes lined himself. Flew right into a bridge during aerial combat. Professional medics gave him 6 stiches. In one week, when we had a family medic remove the stiches, she was impressed at how much was already healed. A very small mark is all that is left.
Despite black wires sticking out of his hide, I still goobered him up with my favorite healing salve. Comfrey, yarrow, calendula, lavender, and cottonwood bud are the herbs I use in my "Owie salve;" capable of healing bobos and great battle wounds of all tedious sorts.  We pasted his snout each day, twice a day, with my salve. The original scar is barely visible in one spot near his eye.
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Ancalagon recites the tale of woe
Ancalagon recites the tale of woe
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in the dire moment
in the dire moment
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the wound is sorted.
the wound is sorted.
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Nikki Roche approved this submission.
Note: The healing looks good!

 
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