poultice

Bandage a wound, put a poultice on it and sing a song, so the spirits will make it heal.

Local doctor who will put a $1 poultice on your skin cancer, no AC, no car, 10 to a house.

It contains some accounts of the root being used to make poultices for rheumatism and arthritis.

I'm sure someone somewhere would be annoyed you don't know how to make a poultice to apply to an infected wound, or don't actively grind your own wheat.

He claims this is bad because "doctors, whatever their errors, seem to do better with most illnesses than faith healers or your Aunt Ginny and her special chicken gut poultice.

Interestingly, the local indigenous human population also use a poultice of these leaves for the relief of body pains.

Thanks for all the downvotes, aggressive trolling, comments on "pixie dust", "spirit of the planet", "poultices" etc., very constructive discussion, very scientific...

Contrast this with the ancient Egyptian "medical" practices of applying human waste poultices to open wounds, and the practice of open defecation common in many parts of the world even now.

Anecdotally, I'm reminded that for constipation, Gandhi followed Adolf Just’s prescription of applying to the abdomen a bandage of clean earth moistened with cold water and spread like a poultice on fine linen.