Wisdom of Healing

A few weeks ago, I got a call from my dear friend, Clarissa. She had been burned on the back of the knee two weeks before and the pain had been nearly unbearable every day and night since. Now, it seemed to be getting more inflamed and feeling worse. Clarissa didn’t have insurance, so she hadn’t gone to the doctor’s or emergency room when it first happened.

Now, it was getting redder and was slightly oozing puss. Her daughter, Kara, who is currently taking an anatomy and physiology course, came by for a visit. “Mom, that looks BAD. Burns that serious become infected easily, and yours looks infected already. It can’t get better without medicine and a skin graft. You HAVE to go to the doctor!”

Clarissa researched skin grafts and then called me immediately. She knew the story of my daughter, Kaia and I getting burned and she wanted to know what that oil was that we used. I let her know that we had used Herb Pharm’s St. John’s Wort Oil, available at most health food stores.

Most people have heard of St. John’s wort for depression, but it has been used for centuries for many injuries and conditions to help the body repair nerve damage. When a significant area of the skin is burned, millions of nerves become damaged, making St. John’s wort a specific herbal remedy according to ancient healers and Eclectic doctors to support regeneration of the damaged tissue.

She told me that the pain had nearly prevented her from being able to walk since it happened, since it stretched the burned area when her knee bent, even a little bit. We said goodbye, and she immediately visited her local Whole Foods, found the St. John’s wort oil and sat down right there in the store and applied it to her painful, inflamed burned knee. She called me directly from the store. I answered and she squealed “That’s AMAZING! The pain is nearly gone. I’m sure some of it will come back after awhile, but it’s GONE NOW! Thank you! Thank you!”

Over the next two days, Clarissa applied the St. John’s wort oil liberally to her burned knee several times. By the third day, it looked so much better and so she used the oil only a couple of times that day. Her daughter, Kara, came by before her class and was astounded to see that her Mom’s leg was nearly healed.

Clarissa finished up the bottle of St. John’s wort oil over the next week. By then, nobody could tell where the burn had been. Her skin healed without the skin graft and without scarring. Herbs rock!

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