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Coconut Oil, Cayenne, Turmeric
Posted by Pam (Wildlands, Wyoming) on 01/10/2010
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My husband has frostbite on the last 3 toes of both feet. The pinkie toe is more affected than the others, but they are all starting to blister and are a reddish color with a slight violet hue. We have tried foot massage with coconut oil to increase circulation and also cayenne and tumeric internally but it is still very painfull. Does anyone know of anything else that can be done to heal frostbite?
DMSO
Posted by Bunny (Santa Ana, Ca) on 01/11/2010
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For frostbite, I read something about DMSO once that said soaking the affected body part in 60% solution within a couple of hours of exposure would prevent tissue loss.
Hot Peppers
Posted by Brenda (Concho AZ) on 02/05/2021
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My husband got frost bite on his middle finger about a week ago. The tip had a definite purple line. We didn't do anything until the next day when we realized how bad it was. We followed the paste of bentonite mixed with hot pepper flakes as posted here. We applied it overnight. It wasn't completely gone in the morning, but it was better.
He is an acupuncturist so he dry needled the area the next 2 evenings and also started taking 1.1 grams of ginger and 2 grams of vitamin C a day and is still taking it daily. Also he is keeping olive oil on the area. And keeping it warm by wearing gloves when it is cold. It has been 10 days now and the color is normal and it just has a hard spot on the very tip of the finger that is getting smaller each day. He has complete feeling back in the finger.
Thank you Earth Clinic!
Replied by Brenda
(Concho, AZ)
02/13/2021
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Hot Peppers
Posted by Duppy (Virginia) on 08/07/2015
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Thank you for posting about hot peppers for frostbite.
I was doing cryotherapy for fat loss on my stomach. I noticed some blisters, swelling, redness that wouldn't go away, and numbness. The fat was frozen alright, but....it seemed like it was dead/dying tissue. It scared the heck out of me! I don't trust doctors unless I need surgery so I came here first.
I mixed some clay I use for my skin with water and dried chili peppers. I applied Saran Wrap over it and around me like a big belt so it would stay secure and wouldn't rub off on my clothes. In 20 minutes I can already feel some circulation (warmth) come back to the area.
One emergency room visit for the beginnings of an ulcer cost over 3k, so I'm not doing that again.
I hope this works!
Hot Peppers
Posted by Sjt (Saitama, Kanto Japan) on 02/03/2012
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Hot pepper works! My son went skiing and came back with frostbite on his toe. I looked here for help, but didn`t know how to make a paste out of pepper so I took hot, crushed red pepper from my spice cabinet & mixed it with a little bentonite clay to make a thick paste. I put it on his toe that was all deep purple and hurting. Actually he didn`t show it to me for several days so it had been this way for some days. I put the paste on his toe, then softly wrapped a cotton square around it to keep it in place and then secured it with bandaids to hold it in place. I did that before he went to bed.
The next morning, the bandage had turned all black but his toe had completely healed except for a pen dot size blue dot. I was amazed at the quick effectiveness.
Hot Peppers
Posted by Glenda (Christiansted, Us Virgin Islands) on 10/15/2010
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I read that cayenne pepper is good to treat frost bitten toes. Please explain.
Hot Peppers
Posted by Laura (Myrtle Creek, Oregon) on 01/15/2010
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My husband had frostbite for 13 yrs., we made a paste of jalapeno, habanero peppers, put it on the area, covered it to hold in place. We left it on for several hours, he hasn't had problem since. The capiscan in the peppers brings the blood to the area and gets it circulating again. Sorry i dont have measurements, just make enough to cover the areas. Hope this helps, worked for us. By the way he had third degree, toes were black.
Iodine
Posted by Nichole (Middletown, Ohio, Usa) on 01/29/2012
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Topical iodine in the form of Betadine works wonders on wounds that require tissue deep repair, my goat got his foot tangled and was stuck outside for two days in the snow like that ( I was in bed with the flu for a week and could barely breathe when I got out of bed) anyways, his foot had swelled from the circulation being cut off and then froze solid. We brought him in and kept him in the bathroom while his foot thawed, I was unsure what to do with him at the time and gave him lots of colloidal silver to drink and soaked a bandage in it and wrapped it on his foot, I waited two weeks and saw no real improvement (the flesh on his foot was solid as a rock and he could not flex it or move it in any way but it had heat) so I tried iodine, wrapped his foot in iodine soaked gauze and then wrapped it in duct tape (thanks to the advice of a friend) to form a boot to keep it protected and allow the iodine to absorb and not dissipate. After ONE week I took the bandage off and the swelling was completely gone and his foot was no longer solid, I could move it and flex his hooves, something I could not in any way do before. The skin didn't look pretty though the layers of skin and fur were coming off in patches and I was worried about it being gangrene at first, but I wrapped it again and left it for another week. This time when I took it off nearly all the old skin and fur were off and new skin was in its place with new fur sprouting out! Again I wrapped it and left it for another week, at this point the fur was fully grown in and you couldn't tell it had been so severely damaged just 3 weeks earlier. At about 4 or 5 weeks I then noticed that he was growing a whole new hoof, complete healing, amazing!
