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Pam E. (Riverside Co., California) on 10/09/2023: 
I recently began to apply fresh leaf-gel from a succulent (Bulbine frutescens) in my garden, whose gel is medicinally like that of Aloe vera ... also to blisters.
At least when the blister is new, a leaf sliced open on one side, then opened to form a wider 'poultice', held on the blister for several minutes ... and the blisters have healed.
I break a leaf off, remove enough to cover the blister from its wider end, slice down 1 side of it with thumbnail, lay it open, lacerate the gel some with fingernail, then hold the moist inner leaf against the blister for 20 or so minutes.
So far this has healed the blister, so I can see no sign that it was ever there.... I have yet to use it on an older blister, but feel confident that they may only take longer to heal.
Bulbines natalensis & frutescens Promote Cutaneous Wound Healing
"Histological analysis of the wound tissue in the study indicated earlier wound contraction and collagen deposition ... with re-organisation of the collagen (indicating collagen maturation) evident as early as at day 10.
"The results of this study suggests that the leaf extracts increase tensile strength by increasing fibroplasia, differentiation of fibroblasts into myofibroblasts, and increased collagen deposition and maturation.
"This study further validates use of Bulbine leaf gels for skin wound treatment."
