Calendula eyewash (#337)
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2001 4:30 am
In her heartwarming little book Homeopathy for the First
Aider, Dorothy Shepherd devotes quite a few pages to
Calendula and its use in first aid situations including
for eye injuries. She discusses eye wash with 1 to 25
parts Calendula tincture, also applying Calendula
ointment with a q tip to the lid after and Calendula
dressings over the eye. This little book is full of
delightful first aid stories. Grow the plant at home,
then you can make the succus (pure juice of the plant)
and use it without alcohol (for a short time). Germs do
not grow in Calendula thus sterilization is unnecessary
in using it topically but don't take it from me -- read
her accounting of it with her decades of experience and
her humor. Good surgery stories about Calendula in
Carleton's book Homeopathy in Medicine and Surgery (B.
Jain). Dr. Peter Hoyle's use of Calendula in his French
field hospital in WWI is mentioned by several authors
with 5 full pages in Homoeopathic Therapeutics of
Traumatic Diseases and their Sequelae by Dr.
Lakshminarayanan. There is also a little booklet
Calendula by Mindy Green (www.keats.com)giving
instructions on making the tincture, infused oil,
lotions, suppositories not to mention ice cream, soup
and custard for Calendula used to be a common food
article in Europe in the 17th century. Carbon Dioxide
extract is more potent than the other preparations and
may be obtained from some aromatherapy manufacturers-
here are the phone numbers of 3 that sell it in the USA:
(415)-455-0956, (415) 459-3998, (510) 886-7729.Butter
used to be colored with it and what is why people would
say put butter on burns, only nowadays other colorants
are used so it doesn't work. I just love calendula and I
can talk about it for an hour but I won't! Remember the
other acute eye remedies like aconite and symphytum if
indicated. I treated a little girl who was scratched by
a cat in the right eye on September 11 of all days and
it was feared the eye might be lost. She was still in an
aconite state 10 days and 5 surgeries later when the
case was referred to me and 1 dose of 200 C was
sufficient. I'll shut up now!:-) Bye, Nancy Tichenor.
Aider, Dorothy Shepherd devotes quite a few pages to
Calendula and its use in first aid situations including
for eye injuries. She discusses eye wash with 1 to 25
parts Calendula tincture, also applying Calendula
ointment with a q tip to the lid after and Calendula
dressings over the eye. This little book is full of
delightful first aid stories. Grow the plant at home,
then you can make the succus (pure juice of the plant)
and use it without alcohol (for a short time). Germs do
not grow in Calendula thus sterilization is unnecessary
in using it topically but don't take it from me -- read
her accounting of it with her decades of experience and
her humor. Good surgery stories about Calendula in
Carleton's book Homeopathy in Medicine and Surgery (B.
Jain). Dr. Peter Hoyle's use of Calendula in his French
field hospital in WWI is mentioned by several authors
with 5 full pages in Homoeopathic Therapeutics of
Traumatic Diseases and their Sequelae by Dr.
Lakshminarayanan. There is also a little booklet
Calendula by Mindy Green (www.keats.com)giving
instructions on making the tincture, infused oil,
lotions, suppositories not to mention ice cream, soup
and custard for Calendula used to be a common food
article in Europe in the 17th century. Carbon Dioxide
extract is more potent than the other preparations and
may be obtained from some aromatherapy manufacturers-
here are the phone numbers of 3 that sell it in the USA:
(415)-455-0956, (415) 459-3998, (510) 886-7729.Butter
used to be colored with it and what is why people would
say put butter on burns, only nowadays other colorants
are used so it doesn't work. I just love calendula and I
can talk about it for an hour but I won't! Remember the
other acute eye remedies like aconite and symphytum if
indicated. I treated a little girl who was scratched by
a cat in the right eye on September 11 of all days and
it was feared the eye might be lost. She was still in an
aconite state 10 days and 5 surgeries later when the
case was referred to me and 1 dose of 200 C was
sufficient. I'll shut up now!:-) Bye, Nancy Tichenor.