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Natural Home Remedies: How to Treat Burns with Vitamins E and A, Aloe, and Wet Clay

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Here are some natural remedies for treating burns, including simple first aid solutions you can carry with you at all times.

Vitamin E, Aloe Vera, and Comfrey

When you burn yourself, your first line of defense should be vitamin E. It can take away pain and heal wounds. It is certainly the most powerful remedy for the prevention of scarring. It is also very easy to carry around a capsule or two of natural source vitamin E.

In North America, the most widely advertised natural remedy for burns is aloe vera. It comes in two varieties. The large commercially grown plant is tough and has a slightly bitter taste. The smaller plant is grown as a houseplant. It is tender and tastes great.

Eaten like a fruit, it is a great remedy for sores in the mouth and for soothing gastric ulcers. The thick, gooey juice of both plants is effective in soothing and healing burns, and they are much more effective fresh than from a bottle.

Comfrey appears to have many of the same properties as aloe vera and the juicy stems are probably just as effective.

Wet Clay and Chinese Poultice

If vitamin E isn't handy, an application of wet clay is every bit as effective. It is free for the digging in many parts of the world, and certainly all over the prairies of North America. If you don't have clay handy, pick up a handful of soil, wet it, and apply it.

The most powerful Chinese method of dealing with burns and infection is a poultice made of honey and pollen. It is said to even reverse the ravages of gangrene. It would certainly be more expensive than these other methods, and not as handy to carry around.

Natural Remedies for Infected Burns

If the burn has already gone into the infectious stage, use natural vitamin A capsules instead of vitamin E.  Vitamin A+D combination capsules, derived from fish liver oil, can have the same effect as straight vitamin A. You can also try bottled cod liver oil, but it is less strong and needs to be applied repeatedly.

The wet clay poultice and the honey and pollen poultices are also great in treating infection. Use the clay in areas which can be easily covered with wet clay and a piece of plastic, and vitamin A in areas that cannot.