A Little Known Herbal Healing Salve for Wounds

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This post was written by: Carol Webb

Wounded Fingers
One of my children is a sculptor, she hews rock with very sharp chisels, bangs at it with funny shaped hammers and files it with vicious looking bars with huge teeth. Thankfully there is usually something good to look at and run your fingers over when she’s done…and speaking of fingers.

You guessed it, the wound was nearly down to the bone. The traumatised teacher had wrapped the wound in a clean towel and dropped her outside Accident and Emergency where it was considered that she would receive adequate treatment. 4 hours later I was summoned to fetch her, the hospital was teeming with wounded from a road pile up on a nearby motorway. They had managed to bandage the two fingers together, and the bleeding had stopped, and that was it. Come back tomorrow.

Healing Abilities
My daughter has great faith in my healing abilities, which comes with the mother territory I suppose, and flatly refused to consider visiting that hospital again, I was going to heal it or no-one was. She was a teenager at the time, and had her own ideas about everything.

**She had been looked at to check if there was any tendon damage, and so thankfully we were only dealing with a flesh wound.**

Dehydrated and Shocked
She’d had nothing to drink at the hospital and was extremely dehydrated, that was the first thing that needed addressing. My daughter is stoic, but looked very pale skinned, some shock was setting in. To combat this I added drops of “Bach Rescue Remedy” to the spring water, which she sipped continuously. The wounds were now starting to throb.

Running Healing Energy
She lay on the sofa with her bandaged hand resting on the softest pillow I could find, and as she closed her eyes, I started to run healing energy into her hand. Everyone can do this, it’s just an extension of kissing a child better, and after about 30 minutes the pain had gone down to bearable, and she fell asleep.

I usually keep a pot of ready made up Calendula cream for dealing with small crises, and thankfully I had a small amount left which would begin the healing process, but not enough, and no Calendula flowering in the garden, I needed inspiration. I knew that the fingers would heal, but I didn’t want them to scar and Calendula is so good for that.

The word “Crusade” came into my head, of course the Crusaders, had used the humble Daisy to heal bruises, broken bones and wounds. That’s why its Latin name is Bellis Perrenis, the perennial battle herb.

While she slept I made the salve:
Ingredients

1. 31/2 tablespoons St. John’s Wort (Hypericum Perfoliatum) infused sunflower oil
2. 31/2 tablespoons Daisy Leaf Tincture (Tea infused for 20 mins.) Strain before use.
3. 1/2 oz Beeswax
4. 1/4 teaspoon Borax

My Method:

1. Using 2 small saucepans heat herbal tincture in one and oils in the other. Heat until the Beeswax is dissolved…do not boil.
2. Add the Borax to the herbal tincture, dissolve and stir well.
3. Keep your mixing basin and balloon whisk (cosmetic size) in warm water.
4. Test your temperatures by feeling the pans, if they burn they’re too hot.
5. Put your liquid oil into the warm basin.
6. Very slowly pour the tincture into the oils whisking all the time. (Mayonnaise style)
7. You will see the colour change, it will become creamy.
8. Pour into a small jar and leave to set on windowsill.

I used Hypericum oil because it is a pain herb and works on nerve endings. I make a large jar using Hypericum that I grow in the garden, this is also a Crusade herb. Substitute Almond Oil if you don’t have any Hypericum.

Applying Herbal Healing Salve
After a good sleep we gingerly un-bandaged her fingers, keeping everything sterile, and applied the cream generously. Re-bandaged with sterile bandages using soft cotton as a buffer between cream and bandage. There was no bleeding or pain overnight.

We kept this routine up for a week until plaster size had been reached, and then the wounds just ‘healed’. No scarring, a little red mark that soon faded to fresh skin.

The Crusaders (1095-1291 A.D.) obviously learned a thing or two!

This post was written by:Carol Webb