Swingman wrote in
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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.

... thanks for jogging my memory!

Another use for tea is to use (roomtemperature or colder) strong tea to
tan your hide and partially reverse a sunburn. (there is a lot of tannin
in tea).

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Best regards
Han
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