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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