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Potato Poultice for Topical Infections/Slivers Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 raw potato, red or white
Directions:
Directions:
Wash potato in warm soapy water, rinse.
Cut about an inch from one end. With sterile knife blade make a cross- hatch in the end you cut off. With knife tip, scoop the crushed potato out and apply to a sterile Band-Aid [for small areas].
Put Band-Aid poultice over a stubborn sliver or an area infected by a sliver or other foreign matter.
Apply fresh poultice 2 to 3 times a day until redness is gone a sliver drawn out by the drying starch of the potato.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Way back in 1970s I learned this trick. On one of my trips back to the River [ranch], Mom had had an infection in her leg - shin - for about three weeks. Dr. T had no luck removing a wild rose thorn and Mom's leg had an angry red infection. I got out a potato and started preparing it...she thought I was a little crazy! But in three days the sliver was out and the infection diminishing a great deal. She went to Dr. T, was too embarrassed to tell him that I had applied potato, but she told me he said, " Well whatever your doing is working, Mary, so keep doing it!"
I really wish she HAD told Dr. T what I had been doing with her leg! :)

 

 

 

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