natural wound/incision healing remedies

[hunybee]

long story short, i had surgery. i need as many different homemade herbal/natural remedies or creams or oils or whatever to help in the healing of the incisions and scarring.


if you know of any, please list them


thank you so much

[packyderms_wife]

long story short, i had surgery. i need as many different homemade herbal/natural remedies or creams or oils or whatever to help in the healing of the incisions and scarring.


if you know of any, please list them


thank you so much

I used Vitamin E, with the blessing of my plastic surgeon, when I had surgery on my face. It healed up very nicely in short order and you can barely see the scar now. I applied it liberally once a day right before bed and rubbed it in, the plastic surgeon told me that massaging the area would help the scar to break down and sure enough he was right. Just once a day don't get carried away, is what he told me. Have you talked to your doc about this yet? (time on massaging the area was less than five minutes, btw this was my tear duct down onto my nose so it was oober sensitive)

K-

[hunybee]

yah. the suggestion was to use the scar creams over the counter. i don't like using them because so many times i am either allergic to one of the ingredients, or my skin is so sensitive that i get a rash. thus the desire for the recipes to make my own.

the vitamin e is a good one. my doctor did caution me to be sure about the vitamin e though as many companies are also putting selenium (i think that was the one) in with the vitamin e and that causes skin discoloration (which obviously i want to avoid LOL). they said to make sure i knew the source and double checked it

[Summerthyme]

Pure Vitamin E oil is probably the best. If you have access to comfrey, blending some up with a bit of water and applying it like a poultice to the scar area will help a lot... it contains allantoin, which is a skin cell rebuilder. It works! (hubby uses a comfrey salve I make up for cows who have sliced or otherwise damaged teats badly- he says he wouldn't farm without it)

Basically, tincture of time will solve most of it...

Summerthyme

[minnie]

Bentonite Clay!

[hunybee]

Pure Vitamin E oil is probably the best. If you have access to comfrey, blending some up with a bit of water and applying it like a poultice to the scar area will help a lot... it contains allantoin, which is a skin cell rebuilder. It works! (hubby uses a comfrey salve I make up for cows who have sliced or otherwise damaged teats badly- he says he wouldn't farm without it)

Basically, tincture of time will solve most of it...

Summerthyme

do you mean comfrey leaves or oil or tincure?

and can they be combined (the vit e oil and comfrey)?

[hunybee]

also, what about coconut oil? i have cold pressed, raw, unfiltered coconut oil. i also have all natural red palm oil as well. would these be helpful?