No matter how priceless the ancestral experience of our ancestors in the treatment of burn wounds was, one should take into account the fact that modern treatment options for them did not exist.
Treatment of burns with folk remedies
The first thing to consider before treating a burn with folk remedies: with burns with deep damage to the skin and subcutaneous layers, there is a high risk of infection, as well as aggravation of the burn wound, and the remedies used by our ancestors have far from sterile properties. Therefore, only minor injuries with a small swelling and reddening of the skin of a small area of the body can be treated with folk remedies against burns. In this case, first aid for any burn is cooling. And best of all in the role of a cooling agent can only be flowing cool water. It is important to remember that even with a mild (1st degree) burn of large parts of the body, you need to seek medical help. Infringement of a thermoregulation of a body, and also a painful shock which can develop as a result of a burn of the big percent of a skin, threaten infringement of cardiac activity of an organism.
Traditional methods of treating burns help to quickly remove pain, eliminate swelling, remove intense redness of the skin. Treatment of burn injuries in folk medicine depends on the origin of the burn:
- Excellent folk remedy for burning with boiling water - toothpaste. On the burn site immediately after cooling with water, a copious amount of toothpaste is applied. It acts as an anesthetic and swelling remedy, prevents the loss of skin moisture and the formation of blisters. After 1.5-2 hours, the paste should be washed off with water.
- Folk remedies for burns with oil, hot surfaces - yolk ointments. They can be prepared from raw eggs: yolks of several eggs (depending on the required amount, in particular, on the size of the burn) to mix with honey and apply to the burned skin. Boiled yolks, fried in a frying pan until a dark paste, have miraculous properties for burns.
- The folk remedy for a steam burn is whipped egg white. It should be applied to the burn site and washed off before the protein dries. Repeat the procedure several times.
- The most popular folk remedies for sunburn are sour-milk products. Sour sour cream, curdled milk, whey - all these products help the skin overheated in the sun. Also well-proven cucumber masks and compresses of aloe juice. It is better to take plants grown in the shade. In this case, the flesh of the cucumber or the cut aloe leaf can be applied directly to the skin, and gauze compresses can be used. Proven means after too intense sunburn: a cool shower, then - alcoholic lotions. For the procedure, you can simply moisten your palms in alcohol or vodka and easily, without rubbing, apply liquid to the skin.
- The burn, obtained as a result of contact with the jellyfish, is well treated with a lemon or tomato cut into rings.
Here are some more folk methods from burns:
- potatoes with carrots grate on a shallow grater, apply on the burned surface in a cooled form;
- powdered with charcoal to sprinkle the burn;
- put the honey on the burn place, leave for a few hours;
- moistened in the juice of chokeberry, the tissue is applied to the burn, often moistening the tissue in the juice.