"Swingman" wrote in message
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On 2/28/2013 8:24 AM, RonB wrote:
Timely advice for me. I just had a couple of teeth extracted. The
dentist sent me home with a supply of gauze pads to soak up blood and
stop the bleeding. He told me that if the bleeding seemed to persist,
replace the pad with a dampened tea bag inside of gauze, but he didn't
think I would bleed very long.

Long story, short I did continue to bleed into the evening so I tried the
tea bag trick and the bleeding stopped within 20-30 minutes (I skipped
the gauze because even as big as my mouth is, everything didn't fit).
Doesn't taste bad if you like hot tea.

Heard about that, but never tried it. We are not tea drinkers, but have
tea bags for visitors on hand all the time. Based on your above, a few
bags of same are heading out to the shop first aid kit when I finish
typing this. Taking an anti-coagulant and aspirin and have been warned
about the side effects. As well as getting older not being for sissies,
and it also takes more due diligence.

This is something I know about. I used to work with an herbalist and some
alternative docs.

One of the standard treatments for bleeding in folk medicine is stinging
nettle leaf; This stuff is great at stopping bleeding any way you apply it.
You can buy it in capsule form, even concentrated, which is even better.
You just take some whenever bleeding is happening or has the potential to
happen. You can open a capsule and apply the nettle leaf directly to a
wound. I have stopped a number of "bleeders" by doing that. I am sure you
can get it in tea bags as well.

Also, nettle leaf tea is often consumed by folks who are bleeding. Some
bleeding in the mouth? Just take the tea into the mouth and let it sit
there for awhile.

I should point out that there is also nettle root supplements. Although
this has healing qualities, IT IS A BLOOD THINNER!! Not to be taken if
bleeding is a problem.

Many people just take nettle leaf supps every day and load up on them if
there is any bleeding.

Another herb is tien chi or tienchi or tien chi ginseng or noto ginseng.
This is a Chinese herb that is used by their military. The Viet Cong used
it. If they got shot, they put this on the wound and took it internally.
It stopped the bleeding. It is more expensive, but it very effective.

Neither the nettle leaf or the tienchi add to "clotting". Their mechanism
of stopping the bleeding is not understood very well. But it works. And it
does not add to clotting or any kind of arterial blockage. I keep both of
them on the shelf. I have always had chronic nose bleeds and these herbs
keeps it in check.

Any way, if you are interested in this, just drop me an email and we can
talk.