FROSTBITES
Frostbites are produced by the cold and can get more complicated through infections; their consequences can be severe: mutilation, arrterits and functional impotence of the extremities.
Depending on their gravity, frostbites are divided as follows:
- I grade: redness of the skin, swellings, lack of sensitivity;
- II grade: erythema, swellings, blisters who are liquid filled;
- III grades: blisters who are sanguinolent liquid filled;
- IV grade: injuries which affect the muscles, tendons and bones.
Other signs of frostbites: excessive perspiration, hyperemia (fierce redness of the areas affected), bluish spots or discoloration of the teguments, gangrene, necrosis of teguments. Take local baths for slight frostbites, compresses, without clutching it with a bandage as this would restraint the blood circulation.
Treatments:
- marigold (Flores Calendulae); infusion from 30 grams per liter, for baths or cataplasms.
Concentrated infusion from two teaspoons of flowers, pour a cup of boiled water over it, leave it covered for a quarter hour, strain it and apply compresses.
10 milliliters tincture into 100 milliliters boiled and then cooled water. The tincture is prepared by maceration, for a week; 20 grams of plant into 100 milliliters alcohol, for compresses.
- wild celery (Apium graveolens); cut the leaves finely and boil a celery in two liters water for 30 minutes. Keep the benumbed parts in a very hot decoction. This can be used three times per day, if reheated. The treatment lasts four or five days.
- balm-of
- autumn crocus (colchicum autumnale); infusion from a teaspoon of dried and bucked leaves, pour 200 milliliters boiled water, leave it covered for a quarter hour, strain it and apply compresses on the affected area.
- blessed thistle herb (Herba Cnici); local baths or compresses with the infusion from 30 grams of plant into a liter water, infuse for half an hour, strain it and bathe the benumbed area.