Plantain (or self-heal) poultice

2 minutes · One dressing

1. Pick a clean leaf from a path you do not spray. Rinse if you can.
2. Chew until wet and broken, or mash with a clean knife. Yarrow if it is bleeding; plantain if it is a sting or splinter; jewelweed if it is ivy.
3. Tape or cloth it on. Change when it dries, a few times the first day.

Dose

As needed on intact or shallow broken skin you have already rinsed.

Store

Does not store. Pick it when you need it. Dry leaf can be crumbled into a little hot water to reconstitute.

Not on a deep hole, a sucking chest wound, or a bite you should leave open and washing. See Wounds.