Herbal Action: Vulnerary

wound healing

Vulnerary herbs heal fractures, cuts, wounds, and burns, protect against infection, and stimulate new cell growth both internal and external.They assist the body in its own wound-healing process.

What they do

• Heal fractures, cuts, wounds, and burns

• Protect against infection

• Stimulate new cell growth

• Promote wound healing

• Assist the body's own healing process

• Coat and sooth inflamed internal tissue

How they're used:

Use internally as tea, extracts, and capsules for digestive lining, stomach and gut issues. Externally in salves, poultice, and compress.

When to consider them:

First aid, wounds, burns, skin conditions of all types, but bites and stings, fractures, trauma, recovery from surgery, stomach ulcers, gut health, inflamed tissue in mouth, throat, stomach and bowels.

Herbs

• Calendula

• Comfrey

• Lavender

• Plantain

• Yarrow

• Aloe vera

• Arnica (external only)

• Bayberry

• Benzoin

• Bilberry

• Black walnut

• Bladderwrack

• Blessed thistle

• Bugle

• Chamomile

• Carrot

• Cayenne

• Chickweed

• Cleavers

• Copaiba

• Daisy leaves

• Echinacea

• Elder

• Elecampane

• Fenugreek

• Garlic

• Goldenseal

• Gotu kola

• Hollyhock

• Honey

• Horsetail

• Hyssop

• Lungwort

• Marshmallow

• Mullein

• Myrrh

• Rosemary

• Self heal

• Slippery elm

• St. John's wort

• White oak

Other Vulneraries

• Flaxseed

• Olive oil

• Witch hazel