I didn’t feel the bites and I never saw what was biting me. Everybody who saw the ugly progression was horrified and I received plenty of advice about what to do about it.
I used all of the hydrocortisone and antibiotic crème that I had on hand and then spent money on more. I used the Rosita bite crème which had worked so well before. Nothing was making a difference.
Some of the bites were flesh eating. They made craters with a hard volcanic rim. Some were as big as my thumb. Both the bites and the rash itched beyond any discipline I might have had and I’d find myself scratching madly, making it all the worse.
The affected areas were as big as both hands. If you took your hands and placed them at your ankles, then that was how big the area was. It looked like something out of a medical text. I was getting freaked out by last weekend and intended to go to La Loma Luz on Monday.
That was scotched when I found out I had over drafted my account and was in the hole, much less having any extra money to go to the hospital. I knew what the doc was going to say, but I thought maybe a prescription strength hydrocortisone and antibiotic would knock it out and it was out of control.
Simultaneously Ann got a message to use Comfrey on Gene’s blood poisoning. She knew she had brought a gallon jar of Comfrey, but hadn’t seen it and thought it had disappeared into the great void of lost things. The next day she was inspired to clean a storage shelf and came upon a jar of herbs that had molded. She cleared that out and lo and behold there was the Comfrey.
She still had the dregs of bronchitis and Gene still had puffiness from the cellulites, so she brewed up a tea. They had immediate results and Gene was showing me how cleared up his ankle was. Ann and I both snapped that we ought to try it on my legs.
While we soaked my left leg with a poultice Gene told me the story of his infant step-daughter many years ago. The baby developed stuffiness and obstructed breathing at about six months. They went through two years of antibiotics, inhalation treatment, rounds of examinations, but she was failing. They sought out an herbalist and the woman assessed her and said the only message she was getting was Comfrey. Comfrey is very ordinary and is thought of more in relation to sprains, bruises, and healing broken bones, but they bought 50 cents worth and took it home.
Neither of them really knew exactly what to do with it, but the woman had said to make a tea of it, so while Gene was unpacking some boxes his wife brewed up a small bottle worth and gave it to the toddler. They both worked on unpacking and the little girl swigged on the bottle while sitting in her walker. She began to make noises and they saw gobs of what looked like gray play-doh working out of her nose.
His wife began to pull what amounted to a baseball of thick mucus out of the child! They were horrified at the amount and consistency but that was what was happening and that was that. The incident was over; she cleared up, and had no more problems. Fifty cents of Comfrey healed what two years and $10,000 of other treatments didn’t touch.
I woke up Monday morning and checked my legs and My God, it was unbelievable. The angriness was down, the damaged areas were more distinct, there was obvious drying up. The area looked better than it had in weeks. Tuesday, I drove over to show Ann and they were impressed. She needed to go to Belmopan and I went with her.
We stopped by Reimer’s Health Foods in Spanish Lookout and they had Comfrey. I borrowed $10 from Ann and immediately started dosing the legs with poultices.
After five days and about as many treatments, the wounds are practically healing before my eyes. I was getting frightened that this had been going on for six months, it was getting worse, and not only were the nerves and ligaments damaged and I was hobbling around, but the skin was diseased. What was going on!!
I am so hopeful. I’ve been concentrating on getting the skin healed and drunk only a few cups, but starting today I’m going to treat my knee and other joints. I think this is the end of all these miseries.
Some quick references: http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/afcm/comfrey.html
http://www.allotment.org.uk/vegetables_and_herbs/Comfrey_The_Wonder_Plant.php
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