Hi! Tony, If it is still weeping, you could try something which has saved a number of human lives.
Common table or cooking salt, when heaped on a bleeding wound and added as required, will stop bleeding and can later be washed away with no harm to the person. I was cruising on a yacht when we were called to help recover some one who had been through the propellor of a high speed boat. There were seven or eight, axe like wounds to the bone in the thigh and lower leg. The wounds were filled with salt and to my surprise, heavy bleeding stopped and I got on the radio and had an ambulance meet the boat at the nearest access point and later talked to the surgeon, who told me that he was surprised to see how much blood the man had, considering the damage. I suggest you place some plastic on the ground to catch any dropped salt and sprinkle salt on the wound and each time more sap surfaces, just add a little more salt until you have a dry layer of salt on the surface and no weeping. If in the unlikely case, you are expecting rain, it should be possible to protect it with some plastic and tape. Gil Tony Nelson-Smith wrote: > Gil - thanks for suggesting wind as a means of drying out the weeping from a > cut walnut limb. Ironically, it was wind which broke the branch that I > trimmed. > > Cheryl - Because of this, I didn't actually choose the time for 'pruning' - > but maybe I should have waited before tidying the break. > Tony N-S. > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus
