If there is an opening or scab on the infected area this will work. The tea bag must have contact with the opening or scab. Use a regular black tea, tea bag to make tea as you wish. When tea bag is cool squeeze some of the tea out. Then tape the tea bag to the infected area of body. Leave on for 12 hours. Remove. You will see much of the redness gone from the infected area and puss will be on the tea bag. Use a new bag and epeat till infection is gone.
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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.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!
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.
I have a leg ulcer. I also have poor circulation in this leg and it takes sores or leg ulcers a long time to heal. I was wondering if I can use these tea bags, they are decaffeinated, that's what I drink.
Can I use them on my leg ulcer for the infection in the leg and to help it heal faster and better?The only mention of teabags I can find in healing ulcers is maggot tea-bags, under professional supervision only. I think you might risk infecting your ulcer with used teabags. Honey has often been recommended; it won't introduce bacteria and provides a second skin for the wound to heal under.
If you are seeking the most beneficial way to heal this, contact webmd.com
I know I am not suppose to link to a website but I strongly feel you are not giving your leg the proper treatment if you don't know what you are doing. That is not to be critical but you could be counting on a remedy that doesn't work as fast or at all. These are nothing to mess around with.
My sister developed a staff infection simply by picking a sore too long. She was so sick we had to call an ambulance by the time she used home treatments that didn't work.
Please PLEASE...seek medical help. On line if fine as long as you can trust the site. Webmd.com is set up and monitored by doctors.
I hope this helped. Sandi/PBP
This is one time being frugal is not an option. If you have ulcers on your leg you need to seek medical help. If you are a diabetic you need to have your glucose levels checked to see if that is causing the ulcers. Please do not use home remedies in this case. The only other thing that might be safe until you see a doctor is something like Neosporin.
My mother suffered from leg ulcers that would not heal. Went to a Wound Care Clinic, and after several weeks of following treatment. Her leg wounds disappeared. Gently clean ulcerated area with salt solution. Wet a piece of saline strip in solution, coat it with silvadene or silver solution gel and pack wound well. Wet a piece of gauze place over pack, follow with dry gauze and hold in place. Change daily. Wet pack with saline solution before removing from wound. Follow same steps above. All items may be purchased otc, or you may make your own saline solution. Blessings
as a medic, I will say you need to see a doctor. Wrong treatments can cause you to use your leg, or your life.
