When a person is hurt with a blunted weapon or some blunt object, a contusion appears on the skin. It is of blue color because of the blood which has seeped from the capillaries collects under the skin.

 

Home Remedies for Bruises and Wounds:

 

One gram of Alum should be fried in 40 grams of ghee. The ghee should be used for making a pudding or halwa with wheat flour and sugar. The fried Alum should be wrapped in a little of the halwa and eaten after which the rest of the halwa should be eaten. Twenty-one leaves of the Peepal tree should be ground fine, mixed with 20 grams Jaggery and made into seven pills. One pill taken daily with milk relieves the pain of contusions. Alternatively, three grams of Turmeric Powder should be swallowed with milk to deal with the pain of contusions. Or, old Coconut should be crushed and mixed with an equal amount of Turmeric and bound in a bag. It should be warmed over a hot plate and used for fomenting the contusions.

 

Juice of a Brinjal roasted in hot ashes should be mixed with Jaggery and drunk. It relieves the pain due to hurt or contusions.

 

For wounds, the best remedy is to take 25 grams of Kamila and triturate it in 200 grams of Mustard Oil till the oil acquires a reddish color. The oil will help recovery in case of all types of wounds including those on the surface of the skin of the scalp. Or an ointment should be prepared thus: 200 grams of Sesame Oil should be boiled in an iron pan and 100 grams of Red Lead (Sendur) should be added to it. It should be boiled till it thickens and a drop of it dropped on the ground solidifies. Three grams of finely ground Blue Vitriol should be added to it. The ointment will help cure wounds and foul ulcers.

 

Twenty grams each of the leaves of Indian Wild Pepper (Sambhalu), Tamarish (Farash), Jasmine and Datura are boiled together in 250 ml. of Sesame Oil till they are burnt. The oil helps cure wounds.

 

A quarter litre, of juice of the tender leaves of Castor tree is boiled in an equal quantity of Castor Oil till only the oil is left. Twenty grams of slaked lime should be triturated in the oil to form an ointment. This will help heal even burn wounds.