Can aloe vera gel really cure frostbite

Frostbite is the most common phenomenon in the cold winter in our lives. It can cause great damage to our skin and even cause us to experience extreme itching, ulceration, redness and swelling. Many people will try different methods to treat and improve after suffering from frostbite. Many people will try to use aloe vera gel for treatment. Let's find out if aloe vera gel can really cure frostbite.

Can aloe vera gel really cure frostbite?

Aloe vera is not very effective in treating frostbite. Chilblains are caused by poor blood circulation due to cold. Generally, they can be treated with traditional Chinese medicine ointments, chilblain creams and other medicines.

How to treat frostbite

1. Choose mature purple garlic, peel it, mash it into paste, expose it to the sun until it is warm, and apply the garlic paste thinly on the parts that are prone to frostbite in winter. Apply 3-5 times a day for 5-7 days.

2. Take 5-7 dried red peppers, add water and boil them into pepper soup. When the water is not hot, soak and wash the parts prone to frostbite. Do this once a day for 5 consecutive days.

3. Take fresh sesame leaves and rub them on the skin with frostbite for 20 minutes. Let the leaf juice remain on the skin, and wash it off with water after 1 hour. Apply several times a day for 1 week.

4. Rub ginger slices on the areas that often suffer from frostbite 1-2 times a day for 1 week.

5. Take 10 grams of safflower and 15 grams of cinnamon twig, decoct the juice and use it to clean the parts prone to frostbite, once a day for 5 consecutive days.

6. Boil 50 grams of fresh eggplant roots in water and use the juice when it is no longer hot to wash and rub the affected area once a day.

How should frostbite be treated?

Physical exercise

Strengthen physical exercises that suit your own conditions, such as practicing qigong, dancing, skipping rope, etc., or use the time between washing your hands, face, and feet every day to gently rub your skin until it is slightly warm, so as to promote blood circulation and eliminate microcirculation disorders to achieve the purpose of "circulating blood".

Temperature difference water bubble method

Take a basin of 15 degrees Celsius water and a basin of 45 degrees Celsius water, soak your hands and feet in the low-temperature water for 5 minutes, and then soak them in the high-temperature water. Repeat this three times a day to exercise the contraction and expansion functions of blood vessels and reduce the occurrence of frostbite.

The above is an introduction to whether aloe vera gel can really cure frostbite. After understanding it, we know that although aloe vera gel can play an anti-inflammatory role, it is not very effective in treating frostbite. If you want to avoid the pain brought by frostbite, you must pay attention to keeping your body warm in winter.