Wayne, instead of pulling off the scab what about trying iodine soaks right
on it? Apparently it helps stem cell regeneration...
an excerpt from: http://thyroid.about.com/library/derry/bl2a.htm
"My parents generation tended to put tincture of iodine onto a fresh wound
to prevent infection. This turns out to be helpful but not the best way to
use it. Besides it stung badly when applied. It is much more effective (and
doesn't hurt) to apply iodine repeatedly after a scab has been formed. The
iodine put onto the scab helps to organize total repair of the tissue. It is
implied a similar approach could be taken to burns of all depths but at the
same time the physiology of burns suggest there is an acute lack of thyroid
hormone. (3)
All pre-malignant lesions and many other oddities of the skin appear to
respond to this regeneration process triggered by topical iodine. I have
mentioned previously a patient with a biopsy-proven breast cancer lesion
(she refused surgery because of previous cancer treatment) that was strongly
fixed to the skin responding well to topical iodine and ended up being a
dimple on the breast three year later. (6)
It is my belief a water solution of iodine (like Lugol's) is an important
therapeutic agent for skin. Because of its effectiveness and the results,
perhaps many skin diseases are related to local tissue areas of relative
iodine deficiency. Perhaps the most graphic lesions are the "keloid" (worm)
incision scars formed after surgical procedures. If the iodine intake and
tissue levels are adequate, such as in Japan, keloid formation doesn't
happen (7). In addition, iodine's ability to trigger natural cell death
(apoptosis) (5) makes it effective against all pre-cancerous skin lesions
and likely many cancerous lesions. The local site is replaced with normal
skin. However, even lesser doses of topical iodine seem to reverse the
ominous appearance of skin lesions. Because my older brother died of
metastatic melanoma, my chances of getting a malignant melanoma are
increased by 400 times. (8-9) Having grown up in Venezuela near the equator
my sun exposure at a young age was far above normal. So all suspicious
lesions I notice are returned to normal with topical Lugol's.
One of the most famous of documentations of iodine skin therapy to a famous
person occurred in the American Civil War.
"On September 29, 1862, Colonel John B. Gordon held the center of General
Lee's army at the battle of Antietam, or Sharpsburg. The first volley from
the northern lines sent a ball through the calf of Gordon's right leg; soon
after, another went through the muscles of his thigh; a third pierced his
left arm, tearing asunder the tendons and mangling the flesh; a forth ripped
through his shoulder leaving a wad of clothing embedded in its track. Still,
no bones were broken; but, while Gordon lingered in the firing line, "with",
as he says himself, "but little of my usual strength", a fifth ball struck
him squarely in the face.
Dr. Weatherly of the 6th Alabama Regiment, in charge of medical
arrangements, had the Colonel removed to a base hospital, and prescribed
tincture of iodine to be painted on the wounds three or four times a day.
The case was unpromising. Gordon's eyelids were greatly swollen; one eye was
completely closed, the other almost so; his jaw was immovably clenched, and,
to make matters worse, erysipelas (staphylococcus infection of skin) had set
in on the left arm.
Mrs. Gordon, his wife, who nursed him - her name was Fanny, and she was then
a beautiful girl of 25 - put a liberal interpretation on her instructions
and painted the wounds, not three or four times a day, but, as Gordon
himself says: "I think three to four hundred time a day." Fanny's diligence
and devotion were rewarded. Her husband survived, outlived the war, became
the Governor of Georgia, a General, and Commander-in-Chief of the United
Confederate Veterans. He died in 1904." (10)
I think Fanny knew iodine applied often was a more effective way to deliver
iodine to the body especially applied on multiple sites. Likely Gordon's
iodine blood levels and tissue levels rose throughout his body. As iodine is
by far the best antibiotic, antiviral and antiseptic of all time, the
colonel's body defenses were able to gain control of the infections. At the
same time local repeated application to the wound sites caused the skin to
grow up from its bottom where all the cells (Stem cells) that make normal
skin are residing. Likely this minimized or eliminated scar formation. Thus
Nyiris and Jannettis studies confirm why Fannys method of treatment
worked so brilliantly. Some of our recent serious skin diseases such a
"flesh-eating disease" should respond quickly to topical iodine treatment
practiced by Fanny. Or, for another example, iodine put onto a mosquito bite
would kill all bacteria and viruses at the site of the bite within 10-30
seconds making it impossible for any virus or bacteria to multiply and get
started --such as in West Nile Fever. Naturally, this applies to tic bites
(Lyme's disease) as well. For many decades in the 1800s people carried
around little bottles of iodine around their necks to use on all occasions.
People in mosquito and tic infested areas should think of doing this again.
(8) In addition, it has been forgotten vaporized iodine rapidly kills air
borne viruses such as polio and SARS viruses.. Used extensively in the
forties and fifties it may be of use to explore this approach again.
Wayne Fugitt wrote:
The center core is loosening up and looks like it will come out soon.
Should I yank it out with a pair of pliers as one person I know did, or be
patient a day or two longer?
http://www.fugitt.com/files/spid1211/spid1228a.jpg
Wayne
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