Yesterday I had a wedding to attend, a couple of hours before I had to start getting ready I picked up my cat to give him a hug. The problem occurred when he smelled my newly painted nails, my cat hates strong smells. He couldn't get away from me fast enough, he pushed off my arm with his back claws and one snagged me good.
I immediately started bleeding profusely, the first thing I thought of was OMG this is going to show and it's gonna look awful so I jumped in the shower hoping it would stop bleeding but it didn't so when I got out of the shower I got out my cayenne powder and put it all over the cut and covered it with a band-aid. I needed to get it cleared up as fast as I could and time was limited.
By the time I got ready to leave the house to go to the wedding it looked like a fresh scratch and didn't look that bad, I figured it hadn't had time to get all red and swollen up yet.
Here's the deal, if you've got cats you know that if you get scratched by them the scratch always and I do mean always gets really red and swollen all around the scratch site and usually stays that way for days. I took a picture of my scratch (24 hrs. later) to show that not only is the area surrounding the scratch NOT red, it's not puffy either and NEVER was!
Cayenne is a POWERFUL healing herb!
Stay tuned for the rest of the story.........yep, there IS more, the day just got better and better lol!
Blessings of health,
Willow
Very very cool. Amazing stuff. Thank you for sharing Willow!
Boy howdy, I know how bad cat scratches can be. I always (back when i had a cat) used tea tree oil to clear up the infection, which it did... It's interesting. This is an indication that cayenne must be doing more than just stopping the bleeding/speeding healing. Maybe??
Bodily Influences of Cayenne: Antibacterial, antipyretic, antiseptic, antispasmodic, aperitive, aromatic, astringent, blood thinner, haemostatic, hypertensive, hypotensive, rubefacient, stimulant, stomachic, tonic-general, vulnerary.
If you don't know what the various terms mean, just go to Google and type in (no quotes), the word "define" followed by a colon, a space and then the 'unknown term', like this:
define: haemostatic
...and you'll get this in return:
Definitions of haemostatic on the Web: