Wound healing is an excellent example of the contrast between allopathic and holistic healing methods.
Blinkered Approach
Your GP will advise you about sterilization to avoid infection. They will then give you an anti-tetanus shot and an antibiotic. Then they will call in the next patient.
The big problem is that more and more bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics, and the original penicillin is suitable for a museum exhibit because the bugs ignore it. That means that allopaths will soon be helpless to heal a wound.
Be Prepared
A better attitude is to look at the whole mind and body and be prepared. My parents knew that I would get wounds because I was a very naughty child. Once at an idle moment I started counting the scratches on my body. I got up to two hundred on my arms, and was interrupted before I counted any further.
I often dug holes in the ground using my hands. Every time I hit a piece of broken glass my hands were cut. I threw the glass aside and continued to dig with my hands. One day a piraña bit off the tip of one of my toes. I stumbled out of the water and one of the locals showed me how to kick my toes in the dirt to form mud that would stop the bleeding.
My brother had his face ripped open by a dog. Homeopathy prevented infection. Getting back to my own experience, I was continually getting dirt laden with tetanus into my wounds. As far as I know, nobody has ever tested this, but the only way I can explain my freedom from infection and lockjaw is that I gave my immune system such a workout that it had lots of practice and could eat any bugs that came handy.
Of course, my father might have been a little less complacent if he hadn't had a good collection of homeopathic remedies, and the knowledge of how to use them. What was our attitude to sterilization of wounds? What attitude? If you are healthy you don't need sterile conditions.
We were sent along to visit people as soon as my parents heard that they had measles, mumps, whooping-cough or any other childhood disease. I caught measles, chicken-pox, scarlet fever and whooping -cough but never had the chance to catch mumps, so I am still unprotected against it.
It wasn't until my teens that I discovered that these diseases can be serious if not treated with homeopathy. They were only an excuse for me to stay off school and read books at home.
Severe Wound Healing
If a wound is serious enough to need stitching, wash out the worst of the dirt so that it can be sewn up without lumps of sand in it. Bacteria that invade a wound put out a chemical messenger saying "I'm a friend, leave me alone" as a defence against your immune system.
Damping down your wound with a liquid extract of Echinacea angustifolia will prevent the bugs masquerading as friends and your wound healing can proceed as your white cells gobble down the invaders. Use Aloe Vera and Comfrey to cure your wounds if you are impatient, or even just to have less pain.
Of course, if you have lived with sterilization of your surroundings all your life and never given your immune system any practice, and are deficient in vitamin C and... your natural ability to heal yourself doesn't stand a chance. You will have to visit a doctor and hope that you don't have any fungi invading your wound, because antibiotics only work on bacteria. After curing your wound, don't forget to take probiotics to counteract the devastation wrought by antibiotics.
Localized Heal Wound Treatments
Well, there are alternative treatments that don't aim to protect the whole body. Garlic is a powerful bactericide and also kills molds (fungi). Colloidal silver kills more bugs than antibiotics.
Coconut oil, tea-tree oil, oregano oil can all play their part in killing bugs. Warm them for a few minutes with crushed garlic then squeeze the garlic pulp and strain it out. The resulting liquid is great for wound healing. It will soon go bad, but you should be building up the resistance of your whole body and learning how to heal before you need treatment again.
