Quick fix: bleeding.

Styptics will stop bleeding.

I've given shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris, green parts) to ladies with too heavy menstrual bleeding and it has worked a treat.

I've used Usnea (lichen, tincture) on bleeding fingers and that works nicely, too.

I've picked Lamium album (white deadnettle) flowering tops for years now, but have used it in ladies' troubles and only recently read that it's a styptic, too - but I haven't tried it yet.

Others tell me that they've used yarrow (Achillea millefolium) as a styptic; haven't used it that way myself.

I'm sure there are more plants which are effective and fast styptics.

Thanks! I don't know if I'm

Thanks! I don't know if I'm brave enough to try it, though ...

Thanks - I'll give that one

Thanks - I'll give that one a twirl, and I might even give it to bleeding clients, when I'm all out of capsella.

Thanks Kelli - so cayenne

Thanks Kelli - so cayenne doesn't sting then? I'll give that a twirl, too.
Thanks Tom!

OK, thanks!

OK, thanks!

Thanks Suzy - I've made

Thanks Suzy - I've made warming salves (cayenne, mustard, ginger and black pepper), which warm the skin (and muscles) nicely; putting cayenne into an open wound is different, though. Or so I thought, until I got y'all'n's comments ...

Thanks Rebecca, that's what I hear, but haven't had to use it yet, cos the capsella works so nicely.

Thanks Kristine. Plantain

Thanks Kristine. Plantain too, eh?

Dunno. Do you eat thai food?

Dunno. Do you eat thai food? Spicy mexican food? Turkish food? That's cayenne pepper right there.