I've been looking up herbs and supplements to help my leg ulcer heal faster. So far I've found garlic, vitamin C, and tea bags. So if you know what other herbs and supplements would help, please let me know.
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Essential oil of tea tree, as well as eucalyptus, are very healing to the skin but do not use full strength. Use 1 part to 5 parts EVOO or coconut oil.
I've heard that honey helps in just such cases. I wouldn't use stinging oils like teatree on an open ulcer, you want something to help the tissues regrow. Honey is so sweet it doesn't carry bacteria; it forms a healing layer on top so the skin underneath can reform.
Use an aloe plant! Split open a succulent leaf and spread the gel directly on the wound and cover it. It will work much faster than any supplements!
using honey or sugar on ulcer wounds stings like a sun of a beatch
Please do not fool around with something like a leg ulcer! Get professional wound care at a hospital if you can. A doctor will refer you. This could be very serious!
Look into red light therapy. Units for personal home use are available online. You can use them to speed healing. There are also reviews of people who have benefited from light therapy.
Comfrey is well known as a healing herb as it contains allantoin. Also some say that urine can heal. Most people would find the concept of putting urine on a wound gross. I personally would look into this more closely first and want to sterilise it first if I tried it. There are however many skin healing ointments containing uric acid on the market.
From the dictionary:
An ulcer on the leg is an open wound that has difficulty healing and is recurring. Causes of leg ulcers include poor circulation and diabetes, as well as valve and circulatory dysfunction.
Medical suggestions should only be tried after discussing these treatments with a physician as leg ulcers can be a very serious condition.
It appears recommendations from all sources stress seeing a physician before starting home treatment, especially if the person has diabetes.
Her explanation:
Sugar works mainly by drawing excess moisture out of infected wounds. Once sugar is sprinkled on a weeping wound, it starts to absorb excess water.
She said honey could be used and may cause less of a discomfort. Sugar did not bother my husband but it seems it may have a burning sensation to others.
Procedure we used:
Smeared a ring of Vaseline around the lesion to keep the sugar (or honey) contained, then sprinkled between ½ a teaspoon and one teaspoon on the lesion.
We toped the ulcer with a patch containing iodine (if not available, use a regular patch), dressed with a light, comfortable bandage, then left it on for almost a week. (Try not to get bandage wet.)
Removed after 6 days and applied a new dressing/bandage.
First and second weeks did generally look better - oozing pus and blood was gone but the ulcer was still red/raw looking. We had to continue this treatment for 4 weeks before the ulcer showed a complete healing.
Doctor recommended Compression stockings and we found a variety at Wal-Mart and Walgreens. These helped to reduce swelling in his feet. Also, several times a day, he elevated legs to help decrease fluid buildup in the legs and feet.
There are times and circumstances that being frugal could be hazardous to your health. Leg ulcers are a result of poor circulation or diabetes. The risk of infection runs pretty high by using anything other than medications recommended by your doctor. It's not worth taking a chance on and I would suggest a visit to your doctor or clinic if money is an issue. Not worth losing a limb over by not treating it medically.
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