Don’t Believe All These Old Wives’ Tales About Easy Bruising Remedies!
An amusing thing about old wives’ tales is that they are actually sometimes true. As an example, it wasn’t that long ago, that we had no idea about how good things like blueberries and apple cider vinegar could be for us. However, the opposite can also be true, and you’ll find out that there are a host of old wives’ tales around that get passed around as fact, particularly when we are talking about natural situations like being prone to easy bruising.
Bruises are present for different lengths of time for each of us, and it is too easy to accept that someone has found a magic cure for bruising when truth of the matter might just be the existence of a unusually strong immune system. Take enough time to ponder how to weed out any of these unproven cures that might have been relayed to you as the finest bruise treatment ever. You may just discover that there are no silver bullets.
Applying Massage to the Bruise: Even though massaging a bruise can help dissolve the blood clot, massaging the bruise is tricky in that you are only going to soothe the area if it is done lightly, or aggravation of the area will occur if done too roughly. While a properly done massage can be very gentle, you’ll determine that it increases the flow of blood into the area. Since you are dealing with seeping blood vessels, this is not a process that you wish to advance at this point. If you do decide to massage the area, do it oh, so gently, and understand that you may be going to make the bruise discoloration worse.
Grated Black Pepper: I’ve heard an old wives’ tales about how pepper can actually make the blood leave the bruise location. Pepper may contain substances in it that can ease the pain a small amount, but if the truth be known, the application of pepper onto your bruise is probably just going to make a mess. There are other cures that do the exact same thing and do it in a much better way, so just leave the pepper in its shaker.
Baking Soda: We are now getting to remedies that may help out a little bit, but probably not nearly as well as people say. Baking soda may be very helpful when you’re trying to calm down irritated (as in burned) skin, and it might actually soothe part of the inflammation out of a bruise, but the truth of the matter is that it will not help with a bruise that is overly dark, and it is not going to make the bruise heal any faster than it otherwise would.
Raw Meat: We’ve all heard this one, and a lot of us have seen, or perhaps we have even experienced it, but raw meat, no matter how expensive the cut, is unable to help you cure the bruise. I’ve listened to plenty of discussions over what variety of meat is best suited for the job, and the simple fact is that they are all similar. The only benefit for putting raw meat against a bruise is that it presumably just came out of the freezer or refrigerator, and the coldness may help reduce swelling. The meat should be on your dinner plate, not on a bruise.
Take some time to sort out which, if any, of these old wives’ tales are going to do well by you, and which ones are just a lot of bunk. Find a remedy that really works, and leave these old, unproven remedies alone.
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