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.
Apply a cool, damp cloth or rinse with cold water; keep nails short, thin cotton gloves at night.
Cold and itch travel the same nerve pathways — cooling drowns out the signal. Scratching relieves briefly and then makes it worse.
It breaks the loop but does not clarify where the itch comes from.
Itching all over without a rash, lasting weeks, with weight loss or night sweats needs assessment.
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.