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69mos0202 · February 20th, 2012, 08:13 AM

Been reading most of your posts here and am impressed with everyone's candor and sharing. New here, so my apologies in creating this remedy here. You've bugged out, either lost, ran out or had no antiseptics..
I'm am ole guy and remember several things my Ogala Sioux grandmother used on us when we had knive cuts, some pretty deep. She also had tons of remedies for all kinds of ailments. Some treated with herbs or plants, etc., most of which have been lost to time. I had an occcasion to reuse one of these once while deep in the bush of "the far east country club". One of my men had slipped and fallen on his KA-BAR. Don't ask me how.....lol. He had quite a deep cut to his forarm. My corpsman had been KIA a few days b4 and as his kit was destroyed along with him, we had no meds or anything. Needless to say, I remembered my grannies remedy. We scouted around and found a bunch of spider webs; about enuff to fill two handfuls. We placed it directly on his wound and bound it tight with strips of cloth pressure bandage til we could get him an extact. The corpsman who looked at him back at the aid sta so happened to be of indian descent and said he hadn't seen that done since he too was a young boy. Spider webs have extreme lb./lb. tensil strength are rich in vitamin K, have great clotting agents and have antispetic properties. Food 4 thought if nothing else. Thx agin all.

8654Maine · February 20th, 2012, 08:21 AM

^^^Great idea. I'd heard that as well.

As for Hydrogen peroxide, here's a zinger:

A guy came in to the ER recently. Had burned his leg about a month ago. Didn't get it checked when it happened.

He came in cause it was still raw and just wasn't healing.

The burn had blistered. He removed the blisters and had been putting hydrogen peroxide on it daily.

Yup, that wound did not heal. You could see the edges were trying to form new tissue (called granulation tissue, i.e. scars) but the wound refused to heal. Also didn't get infected.

So be warned about the peroxide.

Sweets · February 21st, 2012, 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by 69mos0202

Been reading most of your posts here and am impressed with everyone's candor and sharing. New here, so my apologies in creating this remedy here. You've bugged out, either lost, ran out or had no antiseptics..
I'm am ole guy and remember several things my Ogala Sioux grandmother used on us when we had knive cuts, some pretty deep. She also had tons of remedies for all kinds of ailments. Some treated with herbs or plants, etc., most of which have been lost to time. I had an occcasion to reuse one of these once while deep in the bush of "the far east country club". One of my men had slipped and fallen on his KA-BAR. Don't ask me how.....lol. He had quite a deep cut to his forarm. My corpsman had been KIA a few days b4 and as his kit was destroyed along with him, we had no meds or anything. Needless to say, I remembered my grannies remedy. We scouted around and found a bunch of spider webs; about enuff to fill two handfuls. We placed it directly on his wound and bound it tight with strips of cloth pressure bandage til we could get him an extact. The corpsman who looked at him back at the aid sta so happened to be of indian descent and said he hadn't seen that done since he too was a young boy. Spider webs have extreme lb./lb. tensil strength are rich in vitamin K, have great clotting agents and have antispetic properties. Food 4 thought if nothing else. Thx agin all.

The spider web thing is part of the lore way up here in Canada, although I never heard about the anti-clotting or antiseptic part before, which explains a lot of the recommendations. But this isn't Vietnam and I always thought I would be hard pressed to find enough webs to treat anything but a very minor wound.