Bug Bites Plantain Salve, 1 oz

Description

What is so special about Bug Bite Plantain Salve?

This particular salve contains several well-researched ingredients that are healing for the skin. Many of these ingredients have been used for thousands of years by medicine women and men, including Cherokee healers. Today, researchers around the globe are publishing findings on many wonderful plants and other natural substances.

Plantago lanceolata and Plantago major

Plantago grows just about everywhere and is one of the best wound plants. It can stop bleeding and heal bruises, is good to use for puncture wounds, bug bites, and insect stings. Plantain has an intense drawing ability. It can draw out the poison from snake bites, animal bites, insect bites, bee stings, wasp stings and nettle stings. Because of this action it can also help with splinter removal. It contains allantoin – a powerful skin soothing agent that encourages cell growth. Other skin things to consider it for include sunburn, acne and rosacea. When making tincture, salve, oil, compresses, and other first-aid preparations from plantain it’s best to use the fresh leaf, which also makes a wonderful infusion. This herb is also known as Cuckoo’s Bread, Doorweed, Dooryard Plantain, Englishman’s Foot, Great Plantain, Ripple Grass, Roundleaf Plantain, Snake Plant, Snakeweed, Waybread, Waybroad, Whiteman’s Foot.

Calendula officinalis flowers

A type of marigold, this plant is a very easy herb to grow on your own. The most common use for this is as a poultice for skin that has been wounded, burned, cut or otherwise damaged. Research has established that this herb can help wounds heal faster, improves skin hydration and firmness and helps prevent dermatitis or skin inflammation during radiation therapy.

Organic olive oil

Well known for its health benefits when used as a food, topical olive oil has medicinal actions as well. When used topically, olive oil can help skin wounds heal faster. It is also hydrating and soothing.

Bee wax

Research can easily be found for the healing benefits of bee wax including wound healing, pain management, antiseptic properties, hydrating and conditioning and so much more. It is truly medicine of the earth.

Vitamin E

Used topically, Vitamin E has been shown to speed wound healing and has an anti-inflammatory action on the skin. It is an antoxidant and therefore protects against free radical damage.

Essential oil of clove

Used in part for it aroma, clove does have antiseptic properties. There is not enough in this formula to use it in that way.

There are no harsh chemicals to irritate skin or toxins to overload the system. This is one of our favorite salves! We hope you love it too.

We use the same salves we make for you.  Quality and  health are important to us, so we prepare everything from scratch in our kitchens. Long Shadows Ranch uses natural, non-GMO and organic ingredients. We’re not organic certified, but we don’t use pesticides or other chemical agents on our ranch. All staple ingredients we purchase to prepare salves are certified organic.

References

Adom, M.B., Taher, M., Mutalabisin, M.F., Amri, M.S., Abdul Kudos, M.B., Wan Sulaiman, M.W.A.,… Susanti, D. (2017). Chemical constituents and medical benefits of Plantago major. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 96, 348–360. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopha.2017.09.152

Plantain – Health Information Library | PeaceHealth. https://www.peacehealth.org/medical-topics/id/hn-2148003. Accessed 8 June 2024.

“Plantain Benefits.” Indigo Herbs, https://www.indigo-herbs.co.uk/natural-health-guide/benefits/plantain. Accessed 8 June 2024.

Najafian Y, Hamedi SS, Farshchi MK, Feyzabadi Z. Plantago major in Traditional Persian Medicine and modern phytotherapy: a narrative review. Electron Physician. 2018;10(2):6390-6399. Published 2018 Feb 25. doi:10.19082/6390