flour and cornstarch work as well..We used flour when our weimeraner cut an artery in his foot and we were 60 miles from a vet. Worked quite well.
C. Kehoe ----- Original Message ----- From: "marjie" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 12:29 PM Subject: CS>Stopping bleeding > What we now know as powdered sugar was used during the civil war to stop > bleeding (amputions - legs, arms, hands, gunshots etc.) and to prevent > infections. I keep a small jar full of it when I am chopping onions etc. > and my finger gets in the way. Works quite well - now to figure out how to > keep my fingers from interferring with the knife. CU - Marjie > ******************************************************************** > > > ...I always burned my warts with a soldering iron, then cut them out, > > > before discovering CS. I have found that a styptic pencil can work > quite well > > > to stop the bleeding without creating too much additional dead tissue. > > > > <Shudder> As long as we're talking about styptic pencils and wounds, I > > discovered that plain SALT can stop bleeding as well. Just place it on the > wound > > and let it dry. > > > > Nenah > > > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > >
