BURNS AND SUNBURNS

-Keep an aloe vera plant in the home and when the need arises pick the leaves fresh and squeeze the juice onto the burn as many times as necessary to relieve the dryness or burning.

-Scrape a potato and make a poultice with the mash.

-Treat with full strength apple cider vinegar.

-Burn patients should drink Gatorade or cider vinegar to restore electrolytes.

-Apply honey to relieve discomfort and encourage rapid healing.

Sunburn

-Apply ice cold mashed pumpkin, canned or fresh, to sunburns.

Sunburn poultice- make ointment of glycerine, witch hazel, and sunflower seed oil.

-Spread yogurt on the sunburn and let sit for 20 minutes. Rinse with warm water

-Apply iced tea to a sunburn

- Dab sunburn with a compress of a cool salt solution 1 teaspoon/pint.