What natural remedies have excellent results in treating boils?
flavar07 asked: Please share what natural remedies or concoctions you know really work.
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Plenty of B and C vitamins
It is important to have a healthy balanced nutrition plan to avoid them.
If you have one magna plasm will draw out the core in a beutifully clean fashion.
If you do not want to use magna plasm
peel a potatoe and leave it in the fridge over night.
Using a metal dinner fork grate a fine amount a little bulkier than the boil itself.
Gently squeeze out excess juice but it should still be moist. (make sure your hands are thoroughly clean)
place in a plaster and put the plaster on the boil with the grated potatoe in direct contact with the boil
change every 12 hours
It will draw out the core and leave a very clean hole.
This is gentle and relatively painless and great for children.
Another way is to use MANUKA honey 12 plus or more.
heat it on the plaster in a microwave for a few seconds until warm. Not tooo hot as you do not want to burn the skin.
Place on the boil
change every 4 to six hours.
This works faster but you can feel the core being drawn out
Once the core is out and the hole very clean
Keep covered with Lavenser essential oil. 1 drop neat on a plaster. This will encourage healing.
Homeopathic Options
Arsenicum album -
This remedy is useful for deeply infected boils with intensely burning pain and offensive discharge. Warmth and hot applications usually are soothing. The person may feel exhausted and ill, yet anxiety and discomfort also make them restless.
Belladonna -
This remedy is often indicated in early stages of inflammation, before much pus has formed. The area is red, hot, throbbing, and tender, often with intense or stabbing pains. Jarring or touch may increase discomfort. The person may also feel excitable or feverish.
Calendula -
This remedy is often helpful as a topical application for boils and infected sores. It can be used in herbal form or in low dilution as a tincture, ointment, or compress. Taken internally, Calendula can help the body overcome infection.
Echinacea angustifolia -
This well-known herb is often used to help the immune system overcome infection. In homeopathic form, it sometimes helps a person with recurring boils. People who need this remedy typically feel sickly, lethargic, achy, and chilly.
Hepar sulphuris calcareum -
When a boil is extremely tender and sensitive to touch, this remedy can be helpful. A splinter-like sticking pain is often felt. The boil may produce deep pockets of offensive pus or be slow to heal. This remedy is also indicated when boils seem to be spreading. A person who needs this remedy usually is vulnerable and touchy, with extreme sensitivity to cold.
Mercurius solubilis -
This remedy is indicated when boils are very sensitive with advanced development of pus. The person may have moist or greasy-looking skin, with swollen lymph nodes and offensive breath, and be very sensitive to changes in temperature. Warmth may aggravate the pain.
Silicea (also called Silica)-
Boils that form hard lumps and are slow to come to a head and slow to heal suggest a need for this remedy. If many boils form at once, or boils frequently recur, it is often very useful. People who need this remedy are sensitive and nervous, inclined toward colds and swollen glands, and easily fatigued.
Tarentula cubensis-
This remedy may be indicated when a boil is sore and swollen with stinging, burning pain, and purplish or bluish discoloration of surrounding tissues. A person who needs this remedy may also have restless feet and difficulty sleeping.
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Its very simple. This sounds crazy, but it really works. Lay a piece of bacon fat on the boil and cover it with a banadge over night, the next morning clean it very well. The head will be laying on top and it should be almost gone by the afternoon.