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Home Remedies For Bruises

By Deepa Ranganathan

If you have not had a single bruise in your entire life, you have not had a worthy life! Yes, its true that bruises are needed to make your life happening. Bruises could be as simple as a blood clot to something really bad as a hurt knee that's oozing lot of blood. Either ways, there
are home remedies for bruises that help you heel that hurt.

You would have come across a lot of home remedies that can be done using basic ingredients and, will cure you immediately. Yes, most of you do clean the wound with disinfectant and, then wrap it with a bandage. But,
there are many bruises that cannot be cured using disinfectant and bandages. For that, you need some alternate remedies.

The basic way you may handle these other types of bruises would be by ignoring them. But, this won't help you in the long run. You might just worsen the place where the wound occurred. So, it is better if you can heal the wound or get rid bruises. All you need is some basic ingredients to create home remedies for bruises and wounds. Your home
remedies would give you instant relief and, would heal the wounds immediately.

Here are a few tips that includes ingredients you can avail any time. Follow them and heal your wounds easily.

Use Vitamins

Use Vitamins

Did you know that lack of Vitamin K in the body may lead to bruises? Your daily diet should be rich in Vitamin K else you would never be able to get rid bruises. Inclusion of Vitamin K helps heal the bruise and, in fact prevents bruises also.

Ice Pack

Ice Pack

Injuries and bruises can be best cured using ice packs. The easily available ice packs would help heal the area and would prevent blood from clotting or, flowing to another end. This is the best home remedies bruises.

Heal With Vinegar

Heal With Vinegar

You can even mix vinegar with warm water to get good home remedies bruises. With the help of vinegar blood flow near the skin surface increases and, the blood near the bruise may dissipate.

Fresh Parsley Leaves Trick

Fresh Parsley Leaves Trick

Some home remedies bruises include applying crushed parsley leaves along the bruised area and wrap it with some bandage. Parsley reduces pain, inflammation and, can fade the bruise with immediate effect.

Enzyme Effect

Enzyme Effect

Bromelain is an enzyme that's found in pineapple. This enzyme is absolutely good in controlling and healing the bruise. If your knee or any body part is bruised, consume this enzyme till your bruise fades away. One of the good home remedies bruises.

Arnica Way

Arnica Way

Arnica, a herb contains a compound that reduces inflammation and swelling. You can apply this herb in the form of a gel to heal the bruise.

Heat it Away

Heat it Away

There are many bruises like swelling which can be easily cured using the heating technique. All you need is some boiling water and, a cloth. Dip the cloth in the water and, press it on the bruised area. This would lessen the swelling and, swallow the pain away.

Turmeric Way

Turmeric Way

Hurt in the knee can be cured using turmeric treatment. All you need to do is heat turmeric paste on a pan and, apply it on the wound. This technique will heal the wound.

Story first published: Friday, November 29, 2013, 23:05 [IST]
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