Tuesday afternoon, I was working at the homestead, and while unloading the truck; I stress fractured the bone supporting my right pinkie finger!
When I got home, my hand was swelling, and I couldn't move my pinkie finger. The pain was bad enough that I couldn't sleep. It was late enough, that I decided to medicate it myself with herbals, and see the doctor the next day.
So I put a wet pad of comfrey tincture on it:
This is the tincture in a roller bottle.
After applying it I also sealed it so it wouldn't dry out. This is called a fomentation, and is similar to a poltice.
Comfrey contains a compound called Allentoin, which draws in haluronic acid; which is the mortar the body uses to hold cells together! This causes the body to heal ten times faster than normal.
On Wednesday, most of the pain was gone; and I decided to avoid the extra doctor's visit. Wendesday night I added another fomentation, assuming simple muscle damage.
Today I found my finger was working again, and the pain was 90% better!
With careful inspection, I found a knit line on the long bone where the stress (green stick) fracture occurred. The area is still tender, but it is mostly healed, after Two days!
After these two days, the outer edge of my hand is quite brown stained (not a bruise):
As you can see, the swelling is gone, under the brown!
Here was my surprise, knowing that comfrey is a healing accelerator, that used to be called knit bone; I didn't expect that much healing in two days! When I did the math, two days under comfrey tincture is the same as three weeks of normal healing.
I plan to do another couple of days on fomentation, to fully heal the bone in question! I admit, it surprised me by working so fast.
This should be in Every prepping or homestead first aid kit! It does an amazing job on bones. It's also good for rattlesnake bites, brown spider bites, and hobo spider bites!
It's a great add to any first-aid kit, especially when the system collapse happens, which is bound to occurr! It will be awfully good to have at that time....