Home Health Care : Chilblain

Chilblain is inflammation or injury caused by cold. It is similar to frostbite, but without the freezing of tissue beneath the skin.

• Rub a slice of lemon dipped in coarse sea salt on unbroken affected skin.
• Rub with a cut onion dipped in salt 2x daily.
• To speed up healing, apply aloe vera gel.
• To speed up healing, take rose hip tea for the vitamin C, or take foods rich in vitamin C or in supplement form.
• Drink 1 teaspoon horsetail tea in 1 cup boiling water 3x daily.
• Take ginger, or ginger tea to stimulate circulation and help blood flow to the surface.

Cold Hands and Feet

• Roast over a fire 7 cloves of garlic and a thumb-sized ginger until yellowed. Cut the ginger into 7 pieces and take one of each every day.
• Take spinach juice for cold feet.
• Take vitamin E foods: (avocadoes, wheat germ), niacin (brown rice, milk, poultry) and vitamin C foods to stimulate the circulation and relieve cold feet.

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