Home-Brewed First Aid Remedies

Home-Brewed First Aid Remedies FARM HOME Health 30-1-30 Harry Scott of Walsenburg, Colo., recently emailed FARM SHOW with some unique but practical home remedies. "No matter how safety conscious we are, accidents do happen and we should always have first aid materials within easy reach," he says. "Anyone who works with machinery will suffer some sort of injury, whether it's a burn, cut, or heavy bruise. My grandparents showed me how to do quick fixes on such injuries using stuff right out of the kitchen." For cuts and abrasions, he just applies pure honey and an appropriate protective bandage. "I try to leave the bandage on for at least four days. The injury will never scab over and the honey acts as an antibiotic. The worst injury I've ever treated this way was when an 8-in. grinder touched my left knee. It cut a groove about 1/4 in. deep and 2 3/4 in. long. It never bled much, which helped. (Had it bled a lot, cayenne pepper would have been used to stop the bleeding). I didn't even have to stop what I was doing. I use this honey application on all my injuries, even if the injury is only bandaid size." For burns, he uses plain old Arm and Hammer baking soda and vinegar.á "WhereáIácan use some sort of pan or dish to put under the burn, I apply the baking powder directly on the burn. Then I pour or spray the vinegar on the baking soda. I keep applying vinegar until the fizzing subsides.á Then I apply more baking soda and then more vinegar again.á I keep this up until the pain subsides.á When I apply this method soon enough after the burn,á it never forms a blister.á If it's a deep burn, then after the soda and vinegar treatmentáI apply the honey bandage." á For bruises and muscle stiffness, he just gives the sore areaáa squirt of WD-40 penetrating oil.á "It usually relieves the problem in less than a minute.á And for my aching back, I take up to four brewers yeast tablets three or four times a day whenever my work requires a lot of back work." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Harry Scott, P.O. Box 1265, Walsenburg, Colo. 81089 (ph 719 738-3847; rockworm80@msn.com).

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