Used it as a kid to draw boils to a head and relieve the great red swollen area. Our dad was a cabinet maker so many splinters. Always had several squeeze tubes around the house.

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Originally posted by mark123:
There are a lot of claims about black salve but it's never once worked for me.

You have to prime the area with WD-40. DUH!

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Originally posted by Ironmike57:
L.R., you are supposed to stay away from fireants!

I was attacked by the fargin' bastages at the gun club.

I exchanged email messages with the office manager at my primary doc's office, setting up appointment for next routine visit. I asked, "By the way, what does the doc recommend for fire ant bites? Is there anything better than the OTC 1% hydrocortisone cream that I'm using?"

The reply suggested black drawing salve.

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Originally posted by mark123:
There are a lot of claims about black salve but it's never once worked for me.

Well dayum boy. Ya ain't supposed to eat da stuff! Slather da stuff where yer problem is and cover it up with a bandage.

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Originally posted by bald1:

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Originally posted by mark123:
There are a lot of claims about black salve but it's never once worked for me.

Well dayum boy. Ya ain't supposed to eat da stuff!

You mean it's not like a suppository?

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by bald1:

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Originally posted by mark123:
There are a lot of claims about black salve but it's never once worked for me.

Well dayum boy. Ya ain't supposed to eat da stuff!

You mean it's not like a suppository?

Oh hell I'd answer that but I don't want the thread to get locked! hehehehehehehe

How about some pics of the bites?

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by bald1:

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Originally posted by mark123:
There are a lot of claims about black salve but it's never once worked for me.

Well dayum boy. Ya ain't supposed to eat da stuff!

You mean it's not like a suppository?

You joke; but back in the day, when I worked at Eckerd Drugs, I had more than one person ask if we sold flavored suppositories. It was difficult to keep from laughing at them...

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Originally posted by Anarion:
when I worked at Eckerd Drugs, I had more than one person ask if we sold flavored suppositories. It was difficult to keep from laughing at them...

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by Anarion:
when I worked at Eckerd Drugs, I had more than one person ask if we sold flavored suppositories. It was difficult to keep from laughing at them...

Not a product that we carried some 35-odd years ago...

We also use the drawing salve on the farm when hooved critter get an abcess. It clears it up in no time.

What about wasp stings? Does it work as well as grandpa’s tobacco spit?

When we were kids, my mom always kept something around called Salamanca Herb Salve. Came in a little white glass jar, it was a dark brownish green. Used for drawing out infections and such, worked on poison ivy too.

It was made by the Salamanca indians near where she grew up in Western NY State.

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What about wasp stings? Does it work as well as grandpa’s tobacco spit?

Grandpa spit is powerful medecine. Even works for snake bites.