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== == * Epsom Salts is the best thing one can have in their medicine cabinet. It isn't like regular salt and will not sting. Depending on where the wound is with the puss fill a bath tub with body temperature water and use two cups of Epsom Salts and some boiling water added to it to dissolve the crystals and add to the bath water making sure you stir it through the bath water. Soak for a good half hour. Then pat dry and use an antibiotic cream that YOU SHOULD get from your doctor with a bandage to protect it. Repeat. If it's the hands or feet then you can use a basin and add 1/2 - 1 cup of Epsom Salts and use the above directions as you would for a bath. Please see your doctor even though it may appear to be clearing up. Antibiotic cream is needed! * If you have a boil or abscess, the ultimate treatment is drainage. The abscess may start draining on its own after warm compresses or epsom salt soaks. If the area does not appear to be getting better, see your doctor. If the boil is over a joint, on the face, or on the palm of the hand be ready to go to the doctor sooner rather than later. Topical creams will not help a non-draining pus collection. Family medicine / primary care doctors or an NP/PA should be able to treat this with in-office procedures. Silicea, a homoeopathic medicine, when taken extracts puss. * A boil or abscess is highly indicative of Staphylococcus aureus. Staph 30c will clear it up. Generally the following remedies are easily found and can be used: Arnica, Calendula, Mercurius sol., Hepar Sul, Phosphorus, Silicea. There are many others that can be indicated on a more particular basis.

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