hey everyone,

of all the bizarre accidents, while opening a plastic container of sprouts, I cut my thumb on the edge. Plastic!  Awful feeling of oh-no slice; and that it happened so easily, like a knife through butter, maybe some reflection of the very hot weather currently: the body seems to be more open somehow--It's not the heat, it's the humidity (or humility, as the old joke goes). And naturally, the thumb symbolizing the will, and me having a slightly willful thought at that very moment...I did see it: but never mind all that.

Anyway, it was bleeding well, so I instantly dipped it into some ground cayenne, and gave it a little  'hood'. Then kept it up, while rolling salad rolls with one/other hand.

Later, having forgotten a small bit remains where the slice was--where it's looking very assimilated, and the cut sealed, I rubbed my eye. yes, the same as the thumb, the left. hmmm.

Oh--it's like Schulz's and Christopher's eye wash! But before I ever had the guts to try the eyewash, I remember that I once rubbed my eye after cutting jalapenos... and I learned that one survives it, and moreso, my eyes haven't been red as they used to often be prone to, since a course of that eyewash, after a fast.

So, my advice: best thing is NOT to scrunch the eyelid, as one tends to, but try to let it be open, and just let it run. (for a few minutes. Don't rub it,or even put pressure on it. As always, the more we fight something, the more it fights us.

so, naturally, a while later, the eye is bright and white and clear, and I'd have to say, feels as if all the minute muscles in it have had a nice, sensible, not crazy- workout. really--Try it sometime!

And remember, cayenne is something to always have 'on hand'. :-) (and you don't need mace)

All thanks to the lineage of genuinely helpful herbalists and truth-tellers.

note: "beware" only means be aware. Funny how it's often sounding so threatening eh?