Crusting, Hard Coating of the Skin.

Do not apply to broken skin.

Topical use only.

Herbal remedies can be used for a wide range of ailments that are amenable to self-medication. For thousands of years, humans have used plants to treat skin irritations, wounds, and insect and snakebites.  In prehistoric times, herbs were cooked in a vat of goose or bear fat, lard, or some vegetable oils and then cooled in order to make salves, balms, and ointments.  There is a great diversity and richness in the various herbal traditions of the world, most of which still thrive today.

Herb Base:

Chaparral - Strong antioxidant, painkiller and antiseptic.  Tones the system, rebuilds tissues and is a very effective healer.

Chickweed - Used externally for any skin problem including boils, burns, and sores in the mouth and throat.  Has been used on tumors.  Blood poisoning.  Used for its soothing affect on the body.

Comfrey - Called the knitter and healer.  Stimulates new cell growth, which increases cell production and thus supports more rapid healing.  Aids in soothing inflammation.

Common Plantain - Useful to stop bleeding and to promote the healing of wounds and injuries.  Excellent remedy for cuts, skin infections and chronic skin problems.

Echinacea Angustifolia –-Has antibiotic, anti viral and anti-inflammatory properties.  Activates the body’s defense system against all outside influences and inflammatory conditions.

Goldenseal - Valuable for chronic inflammation.  Effective treatment for cracks in the skin and fissures.  Acts as an antiseptic and can be used to cleanse boils, wounds, and ulcers.  Natural antibiotic.

Lomatium – Used for centuries to treat a wide range of infections.  Acts as an antibacterial to candida, salmonella, staph aureaus, streptococcus and several other infectious agents.

Poke Root - Especially good for dissolving tumors by cleansing the tissues through the blood vascular and lymphatic systems.  Will also result in the cleansing and removing of boils, sores, etc.

Red Clover - Aids in cleansing the system of impurities and helps retard the spread of infection.  An alterative agent for counter-acting scrofulous and skin diseases.  Has been used for cancerous growths.

Homeopathics:

Arsenicum Album - Ulcers, chronic with burning, cutting pain and bloody offensive discharge.  Malignant pustules.  Poisoned wounds.

Bufo Rana - Red streaks under skin.  Pustules, suppuration from every slight injury.  Yellowish, corrosive fluid oozes out.  Itching and burning.

Lachesis Mutus - Boils, carbuncles, ulcers with bluish, purple surroundings.  Bedsores with black edges.  Cellulitis. 

Lycopodium Clavatum - Psoriasis.  Hives.  Fissured eruptions.  Boils, remain blue.  Abscesses beneath skin.

Offensive secretions.  Ulcers fistulous.

Sepia - Skin is blotched, raw, rough, hard or cracked, worse flexures.  Boils in axilla.  Itching vesicles.

Silicea - Felons, abscesses, boils, old scars, ulcers.  Carbuncles.  Boils and pustules everywhere.  Indurated tumors.  Abscesses after vaccination.

Thuja Occidentalis - Eruptions itch or burn violently.  Eruptions only on covered parts, worse after scratching.  Polyps.  Warts.  Herpetic eruptions.  Foul pustules with sunken apices.

References:

Jack Ritchason, N.D.; The Little Herb Encyclopedia                     Robin Murphy; Homeopathic Remedy Guide

The Burton Goldberg Group; Alternative Medicine The Definitive Guide                     www.chiroweb.com