Home remedies · Skin, wounds & stings
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Rinse with running lukewarm water, dab dry and cover with a suitable dressing — do not let it dry in the air.
Under a moist dressing the skin cells migrate faster; the wound heals more quickly and scars more finely than under a hard crust.
A gaping, deep or heavily bleeding wound needs stitching, gluing or stapling — within a few hours.
Nothing from the kitchen in open wounds: no flour, no oil, no powder, no toothpaste. Bites from people or animals and deep puncture wounds always need looking at.
See a doctor: wounds that gape, bleed heavily or are deep, bite wounds, burns larger than your own palm or with blisters on the face and joints. Likewise redness spreading quickly, especially with fever. And any mole that changes.