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Quick fix: bleeding.

Submitted by Blog - Henriette on 27 March, 2006 - 10:00
Blog categories: 
Quick fix
Botanical name: 
Lamium album
Achillea millefolium
Usnea
Capsella bursa-pastoris
Plantago major
Problems: 
Bleeding

Styptics will stop bleeding.

I've given shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris, green parts) to ladies with too heavy menstrual bleeding and it has worked a treat.

I've used Usnea (lichen, tincture) on bleeding fingers and that works nicely, too.

I've picked Lamium album (white deadnettle) flowering tops for years now, but have used it in ladies' troubles and only recently read that it's a styptic, too - but I haven't tried it yet.

Others tell me that they've used yarrow (Achillea millefolium) as a styptic; haven't used it that way myself.

I'm sure there are more plants which are effective and fast styptics.

Comments

Submitted by yael (not verified) on 28 March, 2006 - 04:54.

Cayenne pepper works wonders.

Submitted by suzy (not verified) on 28 March, 2006 - 09:18.

It's a little on the S&M side, but cayenne is very effective.

Submitted by Henriette on 28 March, 2006 - 11:12.

Thanks! I don't know if I'm brave enough to try it, though ...

Submitted by Avi Solomon (not verified) on 28 March, 2006 - 11:59.

Tumeric/Haldi powder (Curcuma Longa) for minor cuts-external application only!

Submitted by Henriette on 28 March, 2006 - 12:03.

Thanks - I'll give that one a twirl, and I might even give it to bleeding clients, when I'm all out of capsella.

Submitted by Kelli (not verified) on 28 March, 2006 - 19:52.

I gave my dad some cayenne tincture that I made from dried habanero peppers (130,000 heat units). He's on coumadin. One day while sitting in a meeting his lip split and he could not get the bleeding to stop - for two plus hours. When he was finally able, he put several drops of the tincture on the split and it stopped bleeding in less than a minute. I've also used it on my children's cuts and scrapes and it stops the bleeding almost immediately - they say it stings a little, but nothing unbearable.

Submitted by Tom Greenthumb (not verified) on 28 March, 2006 - 19:57.

I have used yarrow as a styptic. You have a great blog here.

Submitted by Henriette on 29 March, 2006 - 09:44.

Thanks Kelli - so cayenne doesn't sting then? I'll give that a twirl, too.
Thanks Tom!

Submitted by Kelli (not verified) on 29 March, 2006 - 11:22.

I think it's more the alcohol in the tincture that stings than the cayenne. I've also used the organic dried herb powder to pack a wound, but I prefer the tincture because of the amounts needed and the clean up afterwards is easier. I always keep a small bottle of the tincture with me.

Submitted by Henriette on 29 March, 2006 - 12:16.

OK, thanks!

Submitted by Suzy (not verified) on 30 March, 2006 - 03:51.

Cayenne only leaves me with a nice warm little tingling on the skin. I've only used it a time or two on someone else, though. I also use cayenne in a very effective liniment, it works especially well on sore muscles. My mother is 60 with fibromyalgia and it brings her relief.
Actually, I am curious if someone here knows if fibromyalgia is a "real" pathology. Or is it related to the family of acronym disorders (MCS,CNS) that are of a more social nature? Thanks. :)

Submitted by Rebecca Hartman (not verified) on 30 March, 2006 - 06:57.

I'll put a word in for Yarrow -- the fresh plant is an *excellent* styptic (gets cuts and wounds healing quickly too), and the infusion of the dried plant is great for heavy menstrual bleeding.

Submitted by Henriette on 30 March, 2006 - 08:51.

Thanks Suzy - I've made warming salves (cayenne, mustard, ginger and black pepper), which warm the skin (and muscles) nicely; putting cayenne into an open wound is different, though. Or so I thought, until I got y'all'n's comments ...

Thanks Rebecca, that's what I hear, but haven't had to use it yet, cos the capsella works so nicely.

Submitted by kristine (not verified) on 2 April, 2006 - 01:23.

yarrow and plantain are both excellent stypics. i have used them both with great success on nosebleeds and cut fingers from being over-zealous while cooking.

i powder yarrow as a nose snuff for camping trips (my son used to get nosebleeds daily).

Submitted by Henriette on 2 April, 2006 - 12:34.

Thanks Kristine. Plantain too, eh?

Submitted by helen (not verified) on 15 April, 2006 - 09:47.

I am on coumadin--can i have cayenne pepper? side effects??

Submitted by Henriette on 15 April, 2006 - 14:17.

Dunno. Do you eat thai food? Spicy mexican food? Turkish food? That's cayenne pepper right there.