Black salve and drawing salve are terms that often refer to purported cancer remedies that frequently contain bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), a small woodland herb that grows in the north-central ...

There are a lot of reasons to love summer, but itchy, swollen bug bites are not one of them. While mosquitoes, bees and other creepy, crawling creatures avoid some people like the plague, the rest of ...

Somehow I managed to pick up a splinter in my left foot recently. It bothered me for several days. After I got tired of limping around on it here in Beautiful Marion County, and after fruitless ...

Q: Recently, you responded to a reader’s question regarding a drawing salve used by her entire family. The product resembled a Tootsie Roll. Your response was that she was likely looking for ...

You can use 8-trek drawing ointment from Clicks - but there is no guarantee that it will work - one will have to be very careful, because glass can break into a million tiny pieces under one's skin.

An Australian man created an inch-wide hole in his head using an ointment he thought would help treat his skin cancer. The 55-year-old entered a Brisbane hospital with a large lesion on his right ...