Herbal salves

The elder flower is rather musk-scented. Some feel that its perfume is somewhat psychoactive, and this may be the reason why so much lore and legend surround it. Elder blossoms are often used in herbal salves for tropical application to the skin. Other common herbs included in such salves are comfrey leaves (Symphytum officinale), calendula (Calendula officinalis) blossoms and plantain (Plantago major) leaves. 

Herbal Salves Salves are semisolid fatty preparations such as balms, creams, and ointments. Salves are prepared similarly to herbal oils, except after the herb soaks in oil, melted wax is mixed with the oil. The balm, cream, and ointment are then formed, as when wax cools and hardens. 

Rosemary Gladstar s Herbal Remedies for Children s Health. Learn how popular herbs have been used in different cultures to treat children s illnesses such as colic, fever, stoma distress, and the common cold. Includes dozens of recipes for everything from herbal salves to tinctures to teas, plus a dosage chart and storage instructions. 80 pages. Paperback. ISBN 1-58017-153-2. 

Herbal Antibiotics, by Stephen Harrod Buhner. Also in Storey s Medicinal Herb Guide series, this book presents the reader with all the current information about antibiotic-resistant microbes and the herbs that are most effective in fighting them. Readers will also find detailed, step-by-step instructions for making and using herbal infusions, tinctures, teas, and salves to treat various types of infections. 144 pages. Paperback. ISBN 1-58017-148-6. 

Some wounds do not respond well to a wet dressing like a salve. In that case, I use powdered herbs directly on the wound. Herbal wound powders, ground fine, stop bleeding and facilitate rapid healing while preventing infection. After the wound has begun to heal, switching to a wound salve continues that process. There is probably no more powerful way to treat skin infections than with powdered herbs. I have yet to find a wound infection that will not respond to one. 

The Herbal Home Remedy Book Simple Recipes for Tinctures, Teas, Salves, Tonics, and Syrups, by Joyce A. Wardwell. Discover how to use 25 common herbs to make simple herbal remedies for everything from colds and coughs to joint pain and earaches. Native American legends and folklore are spread throughout the book. 176 pages. Paperback. ISBN 1-58017-016-1. 

The physician also used vegetable oils and animal fats as extractants and salves. Unfortunately knowledge of whatever curative value the herbal remedies may have had is lost because our physician— perhaps constrained by tablet size or the cumbersome nature of the cuneiform script— failed to record what diseases they were used to treat. Some of the therapeutic effects, however, may be surmised. For example, in the twelfth prescription, the physician advises ... 

Red peppers, or the matured fruits of its several varieties, are used as a spice or as a raw material for a spice, such as Shichimi-Togarashi (seven kinds of spices including red pepper) and Ra-yu (its hot oil), in many systems of cooking. It is also used as a hot-taste stomachic salve in Chinese herbal medicine, and the alcoholic extract of red pepper is mixed in a rubefacient. 

Dietary Supplements ealth Foods. Leaves in capsules, teas widely used emollient in salves and ointments (wren) used in Japan in a herbal toothpaste ( Hakobe-salt ). ... 

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