Back to the First Aid Emergency remedies, with Wan Hua Oil… ‘Traumatic Injury Ten-Thousand Flowers Oil’. (Pronounce the Chinese name like this: dee-ay dah wan wah oil.)
Its name references the fact that several of the ingredients are flowers (hua in Chinese). Or perhaps it suggests there are “thousands” of possible applications for this wonderful oil. Whichever it may be, Die Da Wan Hua Oil MUST be in your Green First Aid Kit.
Wan Hua Oil is one of the few Chinese patent first aid medicines that can be used on an open wound. Most of our topicals are liniments that contain alcohol and would cause burning and pain if applied to an open wound. Wan Hua Oil is the exception. It contains no alcohol – and, it works wonders to close and heal wounds.
Once bleeding has been stopped, apply Wan Hua Oil to an open cut or wound. Dress the wound to protect from the elements and to allow for complete healing. As with any wound, a daily re-dressing is likely necessary. Wan Hua Oil will reduce swelling and help regenerate skin that has been burnt or scalded. It will protect against infection and soften hardening skin around a wound that is beginning to scar.
Do not be stingy with your application of Wan Hua Oil and especially do not be stingy with time. Continue to apply and re-apply to your wound, burn or scar for several weeks, as long as it takes for the scar to fully heal and/or disappear. Wan Hua will immediately stop stinging and burning and itching and then, day by day, it will completely heal your injury. Just don’t be stingy. Use it often. Use it liberally. Use it for the duration. This goes for applications of any and all liniments and ointments we include in our First Aid Kits.
A few applications for Wan Hua Oil:
• Burn Care: Effective for healing burns and preventing scars.
• Ear Care: For ear infections and swimmers ear. To prevent swimmer’s ear, 1-2 drops directly in the ear. Tilt head, ear toward ceiling, massaging the oil inside ear with fingers, all around ear and especially working the tragus (the cartilage that covers the opening of the ear.)
• Wound Care: Use on any kind of wound: a cut, a scrape or an abrasion, even a surgical incision, to heal, and help prevent scarring. Once the skin at the sight of the wound or incision has closed, massage Die Da Wan Hua Oil directly into the skin once or twice a day. Subsequent scarring can be virtually undetectable visually and to the touch.
• Dry Skin: Apply Wan Hua on any dry or over-exposed skin. A sore, raw, reddened nose – from ‘over-blowing’ – or chapped lips from cold weather or common cold can be soothed with Wan Hua Oil. Taking a cotton swab soaked a bit with Wan Hua to the inside and around the nostril will do the trick.