Don’t you hate it when you cut your hand or fingers in the kitchen when you are making dinner for your family. It stinks because you have to stop what you are doing to clean everything up, and get yourself some bandages before you can even finish a preparing for a meal. It stinks even more when you realize that your kids have used all the band-aids and there is no antibiotic cream to be found. Then you realize, “Oh wait, I have that cool Premium Starter Kit from Young Living Essential’s and I can see if any of this will help!”
Yes, that is what happened to me a couple of days ago. I was trying to pry a lid off that was stuck because of a junkie can opener. Ugh, and to make it worse, Bobby had just told me a few minutes prior when we saw me doing the same thing with another can "you are going to slice your hand open if you are not careful!" 
Seriously, why don't we listen and obey that voice of warning the LORD sends. :-(
Seriously, why don't we listen and obey that voice of warning the LORD sends. :-( When I went to a class last fall. I was told a story about a puncture wound that was helped and healed with lavender oil. They said just one drop made a huge difference in the pain level immediately.
I know honestly, my cut was quite painful. It was not childbirth, or a migraine, yet what I was feeling in my hand, was excessively unpleasant. In fact, so much blood was coming out, I was worried I was going to need stiches, and even feeling a little whoosie. I washed my hand out for several seconds under running water, and applied pressure behind the cut to reduce the blood flow slightly. So I covered it with a clean paper towel to slow blood flow, and went for my kit.
I opened the bottle and placed 1 drop of YL Lavender on the cut. Immediately my pain reduced. Not a few minutes later, yes
IMMEDIATELY! (Okay, I have to break in here to say that Lavender is called the "Swiss Army Knife" of oils. LOL, yep a knife to fix the knife cut ) I was quite surprised by
this, but knew pain was not my only concern.
I knew that infection was Highly likely since I had been preparing
supper with the same knife that sliced open my hand.
Now I’m sure some of you are wondering about just how big was the gash anyway? It was actually a filet knife, super sharp, but thank GOD, not very wide. So the cut was actually deeper than it was wider. We looked at the knife and figured from where we could tell the knife went it, it was around 1/2 inch deep at the point, tapering back. Considering it was right between the flesh at the base of two of my fingers, I am just thankful it didn’t hit bone! It was just as concerning, since I knew that any partial of debris or bacteria could have ended up inside my muscle tissue and create a nasty infection. I didn’t want that to happen, so I put away the lavender and went for my next bottle.
I got out the Melaleuca (tea tree oil) that is my little anti-fungal, anti-microbial, antibacterial wonder. This stuff is amazing. There is lots more I have used this for, but now I wanted to see how it would do in the place of antibacterial cream I usually get from the drug store and apply to all my kids scrapes, and cuts, and small wounds. 1 drop is what I placed straight on top of the wound, and pulled the skin apart slightly so that I could make sure it got inside of the flesh as far as it could go.
Now I’m sure some of you are wondering about just how big was the gash anyway? It was actually a filet knife, super sharp, but thank GOD, not very wide. So the cut was actually deeper than it was wider. We looked at the knife and figured from where we could tell the knife went it, it was around 1/2 inch deep at the point, tapering back. Considering it was right between the flesh at the base of two of my fingers, I am just thankful it didn’t hit bone! It was just as concerning, since I knew that any partial of debris or bacteria could have ended up inside my muscle tissue and create a nasty infection. I didn’t want that to happen, so I put away the lavender and went for my next bottle.
I got out the Melaleuca (tea tree oil) that is my little anti-fungal, anti-microbial, antibacterial wonder. This stuff is amazing. There is lots more I have used this for, but now I wanted to see how it would do in the place of antibacterial cream I usually get from the drug store and apply to all my kids scrapes, and cuts, and small wounds. 1 drop is what I placed straight on top of the wound, and pulled the skin apart slightly so that I could make sure it got inside of the flesh as far as it could go.
By this time, my husband had the every trusty band aid ready. I wiped away the extra oil away from sides so the band aid would stick. Suddenly I realized that the Lavender had not only caused my pain to diminish, but it has seemed to help with the coagulation, too. I don’t know, I don’t cut my finger everyday. However, it is definitely something I’ll start asking around about, and seeing if others experienced the same thing.
Anywho, I pulled back the bandage about 3 more times between then and bed to apply 1 drop of Lavender and 1 drop of Melaleuca. I wrapped my hand so it the bandage would stay in place over night. The next morning I was very surprised at what I saw. No redness at all. Not a true scab like I have seen before, but rather it was a small thin line, almost like the skin was just barely sliced with a razor. I saw some blueness underneath the cut, no doubt from where the muscle underneath had been cut and was bruising. I was pleased to see nothing red, and honestly not even pink that even would have hinted to infection. I placed one drop of lavender on then, and a couple of more times whenever I was washing my hands and the bandaid would wet and loosen and needed to have a new one applied.
I wish I had taken a picture from the beginning and through the progress. I know that I will never hesitate to grab the camera next time for sure! However, that being said, here is how my hand looks now…
Pretty healthy looking for a 3 day old cut that could have possibly used a stitch!
Now some of you might be like Gru's mom, you are thinking
"Ey, what's the big deal, I can heal that quick too." Well to me it is a big deal. See I'm a slow healer. My mom is a slow healer, my grandfather is a slower healer, and I hear it said, so was his mom. I know this is the quickest I have ever healed from a cut like this as long as I can remember in my adult life!
I’m sincerely so thankful for these oils. GOD has given me away to help my family get well and stay well without so many trips to the drug store. One more bottle, well actually, one bottle and one tube in my medicine cabinet was replaced by my oils today. I wonder just how many more bottles I’ll replace over the coming months. :-)
And... the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine. Ezekiel 47:12
Now some of you might be like Gru's mom, you are thinking
"Ey, what's the big deal, I can heal that quick too." Well to me it is a big deal. See I'm a slow healer. My mom is a slow healer, my grandfather is a slower healer, and I hear it said, so was his mom. I know this is the quickest I have ever healed from a cut like this as long as I can remember in my adult life!I’m sincerely so thankful for these oils. GOD has given me away to help my family get well and stay well without so many trips to the drug store. One more bottle, well actually, one bottle and one tube in my medicine cabinet was replaced by my oils today. I wonder just how many more bottles I’ll replace over the coming months. :-)
And... the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine. Ezekiel 47:12
