Eytons' Earth: Natural & Alternative Medicine

[chris]

Hi, I'm pretty much a beginner at clay, and while your website was veryhelpful, I can't find what materials you can recommend for covering clay pack or poultices (which you DO recommend!). I was thinking food wrap, but the clay will probably pull softeners and other chemicals out of that? Would paper towels work, or are they too permeable? I dread the whole 'linen or cotton thing", how do you get them clean and hygienic after use?

[eytonsearth]

Greetings Chris!

White paper towels are sufficient.

However, I prefer white pure cotton, thinly woven "rags". I have about 100 of them that I use with clay. When I wash them, I use hot water and absolutely no soap. I let them soak about 15 minutes before running the wash cycle.

I then dry them in a standard dryer, on the hottest setting.

I don't use any sort of chemical containing plastic material unless I have to.

If one is dealing with a medical condition that requires a measure of pre-sterilization, then pure bleach can be used in the washer.

However, after washing and drying, then the material should be soaked in clay water for about 30 minutes, then well rinsed prior to use.

Kind Regards,

[chris]

Thanks! I'll be tearing up old bedsheets then. One more question, please:
Yesterday I put a clay pack on an old (2 months) wire cut wound that is healing badly/slowly. The new skin/scab still ooozes now and then, and there is lots of swelling around it. As I came to take the clay off after an hour (covered, still all moist) the wound had started to bleed again, as the clay had apparently taken off what little scab/skin there was, making me feel guilty and Skipper sore. (This is a horse, btw.). What to do? Clay just AROUND the wound? Or just go through with daily applications? How long? And how cleanly do I have to remove it? The scraping/washing seemed to remove the tender new skin? (Although it DID bleed before I started to take it off).

[eytonsearth]

Hi Chris!

This is to be expected. In my early years of independent research, I purposefully contaminated a small wound on my hand with Staph, and ( since my healing capability was quite good ), kept irritating the wound with industrial chemicals so that the wound would close, but the infection would remain ( please don't try this at home, folks, you could easily lose a finger if you don't know what you are doing! )

When the wound closed, and swelling and irritation increased, I would apply the clay poultice. Each and every time I did this, the clay would always completely irrigate, even debride, the wound.

All APPARENT healing would be erased. The infection would clear, leaving a perfectly "ready to heal" wound.

My advice is to continue to apply the clay, one poultice after another, until all bleeding stops and the swelling is reduced. Since you do not know how deep the infection is in this case, it is hard to say how quickly it will respond.

When I finally finished with my personal experiment, clay use resulted in very rapid healing with no scar tissue. Again, I made absolutely certain that the infection was maintained at the surface tissues, and did not spread to any ligaments or the bone.

When cleaning an open wound, do it very carefully. You can conform to medical standards, using sterile saline solution at room temperature, and keep rinsing...

You should be able to tell when the infection is truly cleared; if not with this experience, then after this one.

I strongly advice mixing your clay with at least 25% electrically isolated silver.

Kind Regards,