Black Drawing Salve

This drawing salve is a  powerful natural remedy for your home first aid kit. Drawing salves use certain ingredients to draw toxins, infections, and foreign substances up and out of a wound. They are a wonderful traditional remedy and have been used for many years.

Deeper wounds that involve dirt, splinters, infections, or even stings, respond really well to a drawing salve. The powerful drawing action pulls the dirt and infection up to the surface. That way, the wound can be clean and healed properly.

Drawing salve is perfect for those pesky splinters that hide out under the skin, out of the reach of tweezers. It will pull the splinter up to the surface so that it can be removed.

This is a great thing to keep on hand for bee and wasp stings, too. The ingredients in black salve draw the venom up and out of stings so that relief and healing can occur.

People have even successfully used drawing salve to treat boils and other skin infections. It draws the infection up to the surface so that it can heal.

Ingredients include tallow that has its own antibacterial and skin-healing properties. the other two main drawing ingredients in this salve are activated charcoal and bentonite clay. Activated charcoal is well known for its effectiveness in pulling out and absorbing toxins and poisons. Bentonite clay is powerful at both cleansing and drawing out infections and toxins. Tea tree and lavender essential oils help with infection-fighting and wound healing.

How to use it:

Clean the wound with soap and warm water, then gently dry the wound, and apply a generous, thick layer of drawing salve. After that, cover the wound with a bandage and let the salve do its work. Right before bed is a great time to put the black salve on a wound. Ensure that the wound is bandaged well because the salve can stain clothing.

After the salve has been on the wound for several hours or more. remove the bandage and carefully clean away the salve and anything that the salve has drawn out. A second application is recommended to complete healing, I put more salve and a clean bandage on, and let it sit some more. Once the wound looks cleanI expose it to the air and let it finish healing. The rest of the healing usually happens very quickly at this point.