The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #103385   Message #2105489
Posted By: M.Ted
17-Jul-07 - 08:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: Help! Finger slammed in door!
Subject: RE: BS: Help! Finger slammed in door!
If you are homeopathically inclined, take some Hypericum orally(you can get it at a heath food store or some such place) and put some arnica on the bruised and painful places, unless the skin is broken, in which case you can put calendula gel/ ointment on it--

Lots of people dismiss homeopathy as quackery, but in the fifteen or so years ago, I smashed my finger, same as you, slapped some arnica on it, took a bit of hypericum and put the ice back in the freezer.   If it was a placebo, it was a better placebo than aspirin with codeine.