Bob Harrison Wrote:
"Glad I chose the Ozark remedy! have others on the list heard of using honey
to treat a recluse bite?"
Bob, although I am a classic skeptic, I give a lot of weight to someone’s
first hand experience. A few years ago I had some kind of bite on my leg
that would not heal and the sore just kept getting worse. I was living in
East San Diego County at the time and had traveled up to Espanola, New
Mexico to visit the Sikh community there. They grow a lot of medicinal
herbs in greenhouses. A young American Sikh doctor took a look at my leg
and I seem to remember him saying that it was probably a brown recluse
bite. Anyway he told me to go to the greenhouses and get one of the
attendants there to give me some Plantain leaves. That's a weed that grows
everywhere. He told me to crush the leaves and rub them on the bite area.
I did this and the sore began to heal immediately and was gone in a very
short time. I wouldn't hesitate to use honey on a wound to control the
bacteria, and ever since then I let the plantain weeds grow in my yard even
though we don't have any Brown Recluses up here in Western Washington.
Steve Noble
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