Bunty (South Africa) on 07/24/2024
Better But With Side Effects
I had a dark patch on my arm that became lumpy and itchy, so I applied Black Salve and went through the process of removing several small tumors. Because I have tried several times over the years to remove that mark, there is quite a bit of scar tissue. The crater where the lumps came out is surrounded by dead necrotic tissue, and I'm concerned that it won't heal and fill in properly with all that dead tissue in there. How can I get rid of it without resorting to surgery? I've heard there are enzymatic creams, but I don't have a doctor to prescribe it for me. Any advice welcome!
Betsy K. (Fremont, CA) on 08/01/2021
You scratch the mole with sandpaper or a needle until it bleeds just a little. Apply the bloodroot to the mole only and tape it up. Apply again everyday for a few more days, then stop. A blister or a blood blister forms around the mole and the area turns red and irritated. Eventually, a scab forms and it drops off. You're left with a crater, but that's good, it shows the root was removed. I have no scars at all from this, though it took a month or two so for the crater to fill in and for the pinkness to turn a normal color. I used this on my face and neck and it was fine.
Geoffrey (PA) on 05/27/2021
made a paste of bloodroot around five years ago, I had tumors in my chest, and one in my arm. I applied it on my skin where there was no tumors for close to 20 hours, and nothing happened. I put my homemade paste over my tumors and felt a tingling sensation, so I left it on and covered it with tape. It was painful by the second day, but in two weeks most of my tumors erupted slowly, the largest one, took a month and had two vessels attached, but the paste had caused them to become necrotic. To this day, I believe it saved my life. Prior to doing this, I watched many videos. I added chaparral, and a few other herbs. I would not advise anyone else to do this.
Geoffrey (PA) on 05/27/2021
When I first tested the salve I made, I put it over normal skin, for 20 hours, and nothing happened, but when placed over the tumors, I at first felt a tingling sensation. A good salve will not immediately go after normal tissue, a bad salve recipe will go after the good tissue. I honestly believe to this day, it saved my life.
Barbara (England) on 03/08/2021
After I was left with a pink mark and eventually a whitish scar but looks better than the mole. If anybody can find just the pure powder please let me know. I think they took it off the net.
Meu (Sacramento) on 06/27/2019
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Ida (Poplar, Mt ) on 09/17/2018
I used it for wart removal and skin tags before. It is long past expiration date - 1997.
Charlett (Queensland) on 01/03/2018
Schreck (Pa) on 10/14/2015
Dr. Ed Group of Global Healing Center, his dad was the co-inventor of Saran Wrap and he said it is poison. That stuff is all estrogen mimickers.
But on a positive note, I used the bloodroot in the past to get rid of facial cysts with minimal scarring.
But a couple years ago a 20 year old cold sore on my cheek started to erupt and the bloodroot took it out but left a spade shaped scar. It went after the virus but took a large area away and did not fill in as well as I had hoped. But once healed gentle massaging has minimized the scar and the pores are seeming more normal but still noticeable.
Now two years after that, a zit that did not seem normal from the start did not heal right away. I tried a bandaid with super nano-silver (one-sol) that did pull out more pus, but did not heal as the constant squeezing brought the clear liquid of a cold sore/herpes to the surface. So I tried the bloodroot again, but a very small dab. The bloodroot once again went after the virus and is about to fall out. I hope this hole heals/fills in much better this time as it is much smaller. Last time I kept the thing covered the entire time. This time I kept it uncovered after the first day and it is separating from the good tissue nicely. The previous one still had a root that did not want to release on its own.
I am not convinced that petroleum jelly (neo-sporin) is a good thing. It seems all oil based pharma is bad since petro-chemical medicines are based off of toxic sludge from the oil industry.
Lynn (Richland, Wa) on 09/28/2015
I used her product and teeny dab on a mole I'd had under my right armpit. It had started changing color and shape. Her instructions were one dab ONCE and only ONCE. I was instructed to put a bandage on top of it and leave it that way for one day only. Each day, after the first day, I was to wash it many times a day (and with the reactions one would see why) with H2O2.
The BR was obviously breaking down the mole's tissue and pulling out pus and dead stuff. It was a mess. In the end when all the "reaction" was done, I was left with a huge "pit" scar, like a smooth round crater. My mother an RN told me it would fill in with new tissue (not scar tissue) and it did. All during this time I kept using H2O2.
Now I cannot find any trace nor remember exactly where this mole was. (I had no idea they had such deep roots! )
Then I tried on a teeeeeny type of a red "mole" (typical of Finnish people and all over but hard to spot).
Did not care about these but wanted to see how another person's instructions would work (Famous MD with many books out).
He used it on his dog - OUCH, poor dog, DAILY and even said the dog was crying from the pain. I did as well and the pain was unbelievable! But I kept putting it on for almost a week daily.
There was no use of H2O2 and in the end I was left with Keloid scarring almost a rough inch round. Raised, painful, itchy (later calmed down) and very obvious.
When I went back to my hometown I looked up the Master herbalist and told her about this experience. She said NEVER apply bloodroot more then ONCE a week! It is very powerful and will do its job, just needs time (a bandage on top of paste).
She said the H2O2 was to not only cleanse the pus and debris from the breakdown and death of the mole material, but to stop scarring.
I see on this forum there are many other herbs that can be used as well along with the bloodroot but my experience was with that herb and H2O2 only.
(I have a background in holistic healing therapies, studies in herbs, and many things but not all at a Master level). Background in biochemistry and chemistry of arts, health fields as well.
Wolvesbane (Fort Smith, Arkansas) on 07/14/2015
I have used castor oil on skin tags and white moles to some success, and it has improved the condition of several old scars.
Yse topically, directly on wound, liberally.
You do not get the same effect taking it internally.
Judy (Australia Qld) on 07/03/2015
Better But With Side Effects
Yes its painful, but it beats a mastectomy. My mother has had both her breasts removed with cancer so it is genetic.
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blessings, david
