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How does styptic powder work?

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I would submit that it is a result of one of two mechanisms or possibly a combination of the two.....namely........potent vasoconstriction of cutaneous blood vessels and /or it promotes blood clotting or coagulation of the blood. Allen Duplantis MD

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