Remedy
Cuts, scrapes, cracked hands
Wash first. Then plantain, yarrow, or calendula. Herbs do not replace irrigation.
- Clean water, a lot of it. Soap around, not packed in a hole. See Wounds.
- Plantain or yarrow poultice on a shallow clean cut. Yarrow if it still oozes.
- Calendula salve once it is clean and closing, or on winter-cracked hands.
- Leave bites and punctures open.
Pumping blood, red streaks, fever around a wound: first aid and the med chest, not salve.