3 teaspoons of dried Marigold flowers (Calendula officinalis)
1 cup boiled water
Directions:
Allow the flower heads to steep in the hot water for 5 minutes. Strain. Allow to cool. Wipe the bruised area with the decoction, then cover with a bandage.
2.Gently wipe the bruised area with rubbing alcohol. (Works well with small bruises).
3.Apply cold water or ice to bruises to reduce inital swelling.
4.Steep mullein flowers in olive oil and apply to bruises as an ointment.
5.Apply a tea of: comfrey, hops, hyssop, white oak bark, aor St.-John's-wort.
6.Take lobelia and comfrey in capsules to help heal a bruise.
7.To prevent from bruising easily, take a bioflavanoid supplement.
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