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Remedy

Cuts, scrapes, cracked hands

Wash first. Then plantain, yarrow, or calendula. Herbs do not replace irrigation.

  1. Clean water, a lot of it. Soap around, not packed in a hole. See Wounds.
  2. Plantain or yarrow poultice on a shallow clean cut. Yarrow if it still oozes.
  3. Calendula salve once it is clean and closing, or on winter-cracked hands.
  4. Leave bites and punctures open.

Pumping blood, red streaks, fever around a wound: first aid and the med chest, not salve.