Sentences with phrase «as a poultice»

I usually pick and dry my own leaves and it works much better for use as a poultice than any I have purchased..

When mixed with water, it forms a mucilaginous (gel - like) consistency that soothes throat, digestive tract, and urinary tract irritation, and is also traditionally used externally as a poultice for minor burns and wounds.

The Native American Cree (whose westward migration was tied strongly to their hunting and furtrading) recommended that the scent sacs be boiled and applied as a poultice to wounds, to stanch bleeding and prevent infection.

Aside from picking the fruit as a food source, Native Americans used stolons for tying and binding, applied dried and powdered leaves to open sores as disinfectant, made the leaves into a medicinal tea for relieving diarrhea and dysentery, chewed and applied the leaves as a poultice to burns, and used the dried leaves for softening and removing tartar and dental plaque off teeth.

Perhaps someone will pick you up and see Those qualities your owners didn't notice: Your hunchbacked stoop, your gnarled and knobby knee; Your bloblike squat, as dumpy as a poultice.

A plaster of cayenne is more efficient in relieving internal inflammation, than a fly blister ever was, yet I never knew it to produce the slightest vesication, though I have often bound it thick as a poultice, on the tenderest flesh, to relieve rheumatism, pleurisy, etc., which, by the aid of an emetic, an enema and sudorifics, it is sure to do.

Why do chile leaves work as a poultice to combat back pain in Trinidad?

In Bolivia, freshly ground locoto or rocoto chiles are mixed with the bark of uña de gato, or cat claw (probably an Acacia species) and used as a poultice on the afflicted area.

Doctors were antagonistic to rubber pants because they believed that the rubber would act as a poultice and damage the baby's skin.

Apply the hot (fresh) parsley as a poultice or use the (dried) herb still tied in the diaper as a compress to ease swollen and painful breasts.

First the patient should be bled in the arm, or leeches may be applied to the inflamed parts; afterwards take a handful of green rue, bruise it, and put it to the part affected; or take marshmallows a handful, camomile a handful, make a decoction in a pint of water, pour the liquor from the herbs, add two drams of the tincture of opium, bathe the part; afterwards apply the herbs as a poultice, or make a poultice of oatmeal and vinegar with a little sweet oil in it.

Of cabbage, Cato the Elder claimed many uses: in the treatment of digestive disorders and colic, as well as arthritis, ulcers, nasal polyps, deafness and tumors, and applied topically as a poultice for wounds, sores and infection.

In traditional Chinese medicine, rhubarb is hailed for soothing stomach ailments and relieving constipation, and is also used as a poultice to reduce fevers and swelling.

Externally, the whole ground herb can be applied as a poultice, or just the gel can be used.

I give it to all my animals (sheep, goats, horses, donkeys and cats) as a natural de-wormer, I mix with Elixir for a refreshing facial mask, as a poultice for bug bites, stings and poison oak, internally for any digestive issue or ulcer condition... the uses are endless!

Hispanics in California split a long chile pod, boil it and use it as a poultice for swollen glands or to draw out pus from a tumor.

Swollen glands in throat are treated by boiling a dry red chile until soft, then applying it as a poultice in northern New Mexico.

Similarly, in the Philippines, chile leaves are pounded with lime juice and used as a poultice to reduce swelling and to cure skin ulcers.

Most people know it as a digestive aid or have used it as a poultice because of its mucilaginous properties; however it is a well - known popular herb for increasing milk supply, because of the hormonal precursors it contains.

Fenugreek is sometimes used as a poultice.

The components of the plant can be crushed and applied topically, as a poultice or wash, to relieve inflamed skin and itches.

Cabbage is effective in clearing skin irritations such as acne, rashes, eczema, psoriasis, and more when used as a poultice.

Its flour is used for its resolutive, emollient and calming properties and treats, as a poultice, abscesses and boils.

How to Use This Product: Apply as a poultice, mixing the dry powder with a tiny amount of water to make a paste.

Turmeric can also be used as a poultice (cloth with herbs soaked in hot water) for use as a topical compress to help relieve joint pain or muscle strains.

More than three hundred years before the invention of anything remotely resembling either modern refrigeration or miracle drugs, the humble fruit, dried and grated, was prized (correctly) for keeping meat from rotting, and (wrongly but understandably) as a poultice for warding off the Plague, a.k.a. the Black Death, which had wiped out a full third of Europe's population and was still at its deadly work.

It may also be used as a poultice to help with skin infections and wounds.