Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. 'Welcome :) I did pack it with cayenne about 12:30 but it continued to throb and burn Yep, any deep wound is going to throb for hours...sometimes it'll "burn" too, even without the cayenne.  For the most part/most people (for some odd reason), packing cayenne into a fresh open wound doesn't seem to cause burning - but we're all different.   that I took off the band-aid about 20 minutes ago thinking I could perhaps use slippery elm instead. Well as soon as I wiped off the cayenne the blood started flowing as bad as it was at first. Well yeah, if a wound has stopped bleeding and you disturb it like that, it's always going start bleeding again. Guess I learned my lesson! Yep, guess so.  I put cayenne all over it again and got a band-aid on it real tight but with just the cayenne it never seemed to stop bleeding. It did not stop really until the band-aid was on applying pressure. I am basically just putting cayenne on top of the wound is that right?

Applying pressure is a good way to stop or lessen bleeding, but keeping a bandage tight increases the throbbing (and you don't want to cut off circulation).   You pack the cayenne powder (or a blend of cayenne & slippery elm - see my edit in first post) INTO the wound.  I'm not sure what you mean by "on top of the wound", but It doesn't do any good to put it on the skin that's not wounded.  You have to hold the wound open and pack the powder directly into the cut (pack in as much as you can pack in there) then wrap the band-aid around it (but not too tight).    Since we learned about cayenne/bleeding, there's never been a case when cayenne tincture internally didn't stop the bleeding long enough for us to pack the wound with cayenne (or a blend of cayenne/slippery elm), to ensure the bleeding stays stopped...but of course, the effects of the internal tincture won't last 'forever', and that's where the cayenne (or cayenne/slippery elm) powders come in.

If it's still bleeding, just start over like it's a new wound.  Let it bleed to wash out any debris, then take 2-4 droppersful of cayenne tincture, then get a good-sized pinch of powder and be sure you pack it into the wound...then wrap 'er up - all done but the throbbing/stinging.

Blessings,

Uny

I tried to add slippery elm on top of the cayenne but it did not stick. Just want to make sure I am doing this right. It is burning pretty intensely. Weirdly enough it is burning on my nail bed when the wound is on the other side of my finger

I also took some white willow bark and some more cayenne tincture to see if that would help.