In a message dated 6/10/2011 11:44:32 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Get 2 buckets. Fill one with as hot water as the person can stand, and keep a kettle of hot water close by to add as the water cools. Fill the other with ice water, and leave ice cubes floating in it. I had a bite or something on the side of my foot a few years back. It became so painful I couldn't put weight on it and noticed a red streak starting to run up to my ankle. I did the ice water/ hot water rotations. The hot is so hot it hurts, then you plunge it into the ice water and it's so cold it hurts...then after a couple of those, you can't wait to get out of the hot into the cold because it feels so good then you can't wait to get out of the cold into the hot because that feels so good so after awhile it is not uncomfortable at all. Anyway, after 3 days of these, my foot was completely well. Also we have done the same thing using 2 cups Epsom salt and hydrogen peroxide in the hot water tub when my grandson developed a problem where his toes were kind of rotting away from the foot from wearing boots to work in the hot summer. Three days, he was good to go. Amazing, this hydro therapy stuff. Edith
