Other Names:
Septicemia

Symptoms:
Swelling, severe localized pain, discoloration, red streaks from the wound up the veins toward the heart, and sores that do not heal.

Cause:
Whenever a sore, cut, or abrasion becomes red and infected, it could produce blood poisoning.

Treatment:
• Apply two hot fomentations and then one cold towel over the affected area. Continue this alternate application until the red lines disappear.

• Apply a poultice of lemons or charcoal. Or crush one or more of the herbs listed later in this article.

• Take a high enema.

• Drink as many cups of echinacea tea a day as possible.

• Keep the temperature evenly warm, have enough air, and give a little cayenne in water when he feels chilly.

• Drink charcoal water.

• Wash wound thoroughly with boric solution. If discharge from the wound is thin, apply powdered 50-50 myrrh and goldenseal directly to the wound.

• Go on a cleansing program of juice fasting for a time, followed by rebuilding on a good, nourishing diet.

• Drink tea of chickweed, plantain, goldenseal, and myrrh.