[Sca-cooks] Trying again

[Nick Sasso]

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From: "Maggie MacDonald" <maggie5 at cox.net>
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> Did you ever read the Mother Earth News article where they discussed
> natural remedies for first aid? I especially remember one where they
told
> you if you had a cut on your finger, to put it in your mouth and suck
on
> it. You removed foreign bodies from the cut, and gave yourself a
shortcut
> to working on resistance to whatever ickies were in it. After that,
if
> there was an issue, for some reason i seem to recall they
recommended
> dressing it with honey (which is .. anerobic? antimicrobial?
something)
> Regards, Maggie

One reason may be that the only way to clean the inside of a cut
without serious irrigation and scrubbing is to make it bleed.  Great
cleaner of wounds is blood.  It is also a good indicator that things are
generally in working order apart . . . from the obvious injury, that is.


If it ain't bleeding, then I make it bleed a little (for small wounds,
anyway) before cleaning and dressing as per First Aid.  Head trauma and
thoracic traumas would be different story than my usual thumb cut in the
kitchen.

pacem et bonum,
niccolo difrancesco