The reason given for using foil is completely wrong. Aluminum foil reacts with the vinegar in mustard. You could use any "condiment" with vinegar (as long as it also contains less sugars) and this will still work. As the mustard (i.e. vinegar) dissolves the aluminum, a transfer of positive ions flow from the burn away to the foil. Positive ions are a big factor in feeling pain. If you make positive ions from a painful injury flow away...pain decreases. This has been known, and used, since WWII by Japan in the Pacific. They'd get burned and have no bandages (when napalmed by the USA while trapped on little islands)...so they would wrap burned limbs in corrugated roofing material which would react with the oozy burns resulting in just this chemical reaction. AND, a very small electrical charge also occurs which reduces (by a lot) infection setting in...
I use a foil hat, because when carefully crinkled and folded, creates a quantum entanglement field around the brain, causing a disturbance in the fabric of spacetime that confuses any mind-reading technologies. The irregular surface of the foil serves as a diffraction pattern, making it impossible for advanced sensors to distinguish any coherent brainwave signals. It’ ultimate brainwave protection!
YEP! I'm an old lady now and I learned this stuff way back in the day working in diners. A young fella was going through the kitchen putting up dishes and such and he was leaning and slipped a little bit and when he tried to catch himself his hand off the cooking counter and dipped into the deep fryer🤯! Yikes! It was horrible! But an old lady and gentlemen, both cooks in the kitchen, immediately grabbed a big jug of yellow mustard and put his hand all the way in it and then pulled out and loosely wrapped the whole hand in the aluminum foil. It was incredible. We was all freakin' out but those folks knew what to do. They took him to the hospital themselves and later we found from the doctors that the mustard had save his hand 😅 . I NEVER forgot that day, and luckily enough, I've never had to use that method on such a grand scale as that. Important note here: NEVER throw a wet towel on a burning person thinking that the moisture will put the fire out quicker saving the person from damage. The Truth is the moisture steams the flesh burning it several layers deeper than it would if you had used a dry towel. Be careful out there kids! As I always use to tell my youngins; Be Cool, be Kind and be Careful and have a Great Day!🌻🐝🌻
Thank you we need to know as much as possible how to treat all kinds of things. I have bought a medical box and filled it with plasters, bandages etc. I want to get some arnica tablets in it. 👍💜
That's a great tip. I also recently learned, that eating a teaspoon (or 2) of yellow mustard will stop leg cramps almost immediately. I can attest to it working, several times it's worked for me!
When I was a kid, my mom managed a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Nashville, TN. She would take me to work with her when she worked early weekends. Put me to sleep on a 50lb bag of pinto beans. When I got up, I would go help the cooks in the kitchen. I burned myself once when I grabbed a pan of biscuits out of the oven without a mitt. The cook immediately put my hand under cold water to stop the skin from cooking, then applied a nice amount of yellow mustard on my burned fingers. Completely did the trick. Been using the remedy ever since, over 40 years now.
I seriously thought we were about to bring up Brad's wife. It's been a while since I've heard about how she was let go with no explanation after working at Cracker Barrel for 11 years.
Just this week, I saw your video, and I even told a friend about it last night! It must have all been prophetic because this morning, when I was broiling a turkey, I got a burn on my hand from direct contact with the oven heating element...could actually smell burning flesh! I went immediately to the fridge, whipped out the yellow mustard and put some on the burn. Then, I covered it with foil. Left the foil on for about 45 minutes to an hour. I could feel the heat coming from the burn through the foil. Now, about four hours after the burn, there is no heat, no pain and only a small open area, on which I have reapplied the mustard. Thanks for posting this!
It is hard to understand.when for most of my life I've used cool running water from tap or soaked in cold water for minor burns on fingers which had worked fine. With first aid training not to use anything not designed for burns. But having said this I'll give it a try one day.
@@patrickbodine1300is there any reason why it shouldn’t be kept in the fridge? Here in Australia we usually keep mustard in the fridge to prevent it from going moldy in our hot &humid climate (tropical Australia that is)
Been treating burns for years using the age old Mediterranean way…. Tomato purée. As a chef you can’t just sit it out when you get a burn. So, smother immediately with the purée, wrap in kitchen towel, then cling film. By doing this the wound won’t blister or leave a scar. It also cools and cleanses the wound, protecting it from infection.
I think that is because it's rich in vit C. My son was cooking something fatty when he burnt his fingers when picking up something that fell out of the frying pan when flipping the food. There wasn't time to get ice out and treat the burn... he just kept prepping while the food was cooking. He needed sliced tomato and the moment he picked the slice up he noticed instant relief. Since then it's a go to medication in our house. Raw, grated potatoes also helps especially if Aloe Vera gel is mixed with it.
6 years ago, I was making funnel cakes at a big festival and was hurrying and ended up sinking my hand up to my wrist in °400 hot oil. I immediately filled a surgical glove with mustard and put my hand in it and kept it on for at least a half hour. Not only did it kill all the pain, but also ended up with not one blister on my hand. Its maybe not known by lots of people but has been a long time remedy for some!
The old treatment of a mustard plaster put on the chest to facilitate breathing and blood flow when flus and congestion bother us is still an excellent remedy.
You have apparently have never seen what a mustard plaster can do to the skin. Mustard will CAUSE a chemical type burn. We thought the generations using these were more educated today. Sadly, we still get elderly people who come in with skin burns
@@CallmeGNana I’m guessing that just on elderly people. Because people have had many successes with this for generations. Let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water…. Just saying…
Interesting that mustard increases blood flow. My grandad used to regularly soak his feet in warm water and mustard. I thought at the time, it was a bit weird....turns out, old folks are smart, they know stuff!
I was just thinking about my grandmother telling how they would use a "mustard pack" against their chest, under their clothes, when they had a chest cold. I think she said it was to clear up the mucous in the lungs, and to try to prevent it from turning into pneumonia. People died back then from pneumonia. She had a cousin, he was 15 years old and he died from pneumonia. She was born in 1910.
I learned that mustard was good for burns when i was working at mcdonalds. We normally have a certain kind of burn cream, but at the moment we didnt have any, so one of the older workers just grabbed the mustard and put some on my hand where the burn was, and it actually worked better than the burn cream suprisingly enough.
I've known this for years.Almost 40yrs to be exact. I worked at Butger King when I was 16. And when grease would pop on my arms, they told me to put mustard on it. I've had others to do this in the past when they burnt themselves. Thanks for getting it out there.
Ive been a cook for almost 20 years. Mustard works amazingly well for burns, but did you know that pickle chips also help heal burns? We used to tape pickles to burns that we'd get from the griddles. Works just as well as mustard
I was a cook for 20 years and we would use mustard on our burns so we could keep working over the grill without the pain. This is a phenomenal trick to share!!!
My wife is a chef and she has sworn by this trick for years. Thought she was screwing with me. Tried it one day after a BBQ mishap. Works as stated by our friend at WayPoint. Great tip. Thanks.
I worked in a kitchen from the Salvation Army. One of the chefs burned his arm on the flat top. He was fine as being a professional Cheff and had done this hundreds of times as I was. The amateur cooks, also drug addicts, thought he was talking pain meds which are not allowed for anyone living at the ARC. So they got this poor guy fired. Nice. Drug addicts never have anything better to do and are jealous of ANYONE using when they can't...😳
One of the reasons this works well it's that yellow mustard has tumeric in it. Tumeric is has anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties. Growing up, if I sprained my knee or had a muscle ache, my mom made a simple paste using tumeric powder and water. It's applied on as a thick paste and wrapped with a gauze or cloth. Been used in India for hundreds of years as a good home remedy!
I've heard of using yellow mustard on burns and have done it many many times but I was always told to NOT wrap it for at least a few hrs ( I believe it was about 3-4). And then rinse the mustard off and reapply if needed. Then if it needed protection wrap it loosely with a light price of gauze but not tape it down. The yellow mustard ( the vinegar in it) help draw out the heat from the burn. That's the way it's been done in my family for generations. Great video. Thank you for helping so many people.
An other remedi if nothing is at hand dip it in water then cover it with salt generously.Aply water when dried up but not wiping off salt.More water more salt& in 10-15 minutes you're good to go.The salt draws up moister quickly to the burned skin. Also cools fat in the skin.Saliva is very good if lack of water💧 🎉😂❤.Done it many times.Lastly if there's nothing nearby press against a very cold surface like metal...etc & change it to a cold spot after every few seconds to keep skin cool. Being out in the field, a cigarette lighter burned a finger!!!.🔥. If there is no cold surface,then lick your skin & move it around quickly to cool it off. 😅😊
If you don't wrap the area with mustard, how do you keep it on If, say, it's on your hands? Sit still for 3-4 hours, don't touch anything...? I would have mustard everywhere but where it's meant to be, and extra laundry to do to unsuccessfully remove the stains.
It's the vinegar that draws the heat out. Wrapping it, especially with aluminum foil will only keep the heat in. You should let it air dry and rinse it off and reapply if needed.
When my son was younger he worked at McDonald's. He burned his fingers. An older lady that he worked with, who was from Mexico, applied this method and his Burns healed very quickly and his pain level went down immediately. Good stuff!
I’m Mexican, and right away as I was scrolling this caught my eye and I said to myself well I must be special because we grew up doing this if we ever had burns from flipping tortillas, grease splatter from bacon, you name it.
I carry a mustard packet in my first aid kid - and give them to all my Boy Scouts for theirs. Not for burns - never heard that before - but for heat-related illnesses. Last summer, I became hyper-natremic during an off-road race. Drank plenty of water - too much, in fact. I washed all the sodium and electrolytes out of my body. My son is a Corpsman and he carries mustard for his Marines. When someone is hypernatremic, squirt a mustard packet down their throats and they'll being improving almost immediately. I was already home, and seriously considering a trip to the emergency room, when I got that prescription from him. Two mustard sandwiches later and I was fine.
Trust as a USMC veteran it works fast and increases the blood flow and also stops muscle pain/cramps almost immediately.! Thanks for his service Semper fi from Tennessee!
What is Hypernatremia? From Mayo Clinic … “Hyponatremia occurs when the concentration of sodium in your blood is abnormally low. Sodium is an electrolyte, and it helps regulate the amount of water that's in and around your cells. In hyponatremia, one or more factors - ranging from an underlying medical condition to drinking too much water - cause the sodium in your body to become diluted. When this happens, your body's water levels rise, and your cells begin to swell. This swelling can cause many health problems, from mild to life-threatening.”…
@@johnsmith2598 Mayo, Mustard, and Ketchup at the Memorial Day BBQ. One more mockery that people are ignorant to. Thank you for your service. You Are appreciated!
THIS TRULY WORKS!😃🤩💖 While cooking I got a very bad burn on my index finger. A huge blister formed as I was still screaming colorful words! I remembered seeing THIS video and slathered on the mustard & covered it with foil. The intense ongoing burning feeling went away within 2 minutes! I was amazed!😃💖😃 I now include mustard and foil in ALL my first aid kits! Thankyou!
Another little known remedy is ground red pepper. I live near an Amish community and was at a sawmill and noticed a large tin of red pepper. I asked who liked the pepper and they informed me that it was for cuts. A few weeks later I cut across 2 fingers. I cleaned the wounds and applied a triple antibiotic on one finger and ground red pepper on the other one (was concerned about burning but there was none). Three days later I removed the bandages and the antibiotic treated finger looked like a clean almost fresh wound. The peppered finger had knitted back together and was well on its way to being healed. A month or two later the Amish guys brother cut off the tip of his finger in a wood shop. I asked if he put red pepper on it and he said no it was hurting so he used lavender oil and then black pepper. I have not tried this one. If I cut my finger off I plan to go to a doctor, at least for now. Since Covid I have lost confidence in the second oldest profession.
TOTALLY agree with you on trusting the mainstream quacks since the planned-emic. BTW, I'm in healthcare, so I KNOW who have sold out to big pharma and actually don't practice REAL medicine. STAY ALERT AND FREE❤🙏❤
Many years ago my grandad told me when he was a young lad, he had fluid in his lungs. His mum would cover his chest in mustard then cover in brown paper. Overnight it would draw out loads of 'gunk' , like his chest was covered in phlegm. After a week he was back working in the fields.
When my son was 11, he was lighting a propane stove. Apparently, there was a crack in the propane pipe that we were not aware of. When he bent down to light it, the flame engulfed his head. He immediately ran for the bathroom, stopped, and turned around to go back and turn off the propane. As he ran for the bathroom, he wailed to his older sister, "Is my face on fire?" He jumped into the shower on all cold water. I was out making funeral arrangements for his father's burial. My daughter called to tell me what had happened. When I returned home, he was over the kitchen sink pressing his entire face in a container of ice. I took him to the ER, and he kept a gallon bag of ice on his face. When the hospital removed the ice he started screaming for the first time, since it had occired. There were big blisters on his cheeks, ears, lips, and entire face. He had done all of this on his own without anyone telling him what to do, within seconds of it happening. At his father's funeral he had his face covered in a white nitrate cream. One month later we had a family portrait done, and he had absolutely no markings from the extensive burns to his face. I am so glad I taught my kids at an early age first aid, and that at such a young age, he reacted quickly and calmly.
WOW! What a horrible story but a GREAT HAPPY ENDING. I'm relieved to hear your brave little boy had no facial scarring! I wish you'd included his age at the time.
Great video (from someone with the proper letters behind their name). One point of correction -- 3:15 "first degree burns, even the ones with minor blistering" Medical tidbit -- "blistering" is a second degree burn. If there are a few scattered blisters, then it is a mild second degree with surrounding first degree. There is never only a second degree or only a third degree anyway. The reason it should be used with caution in second degree burns is the increased chance of infection with broken skin. While the vinegar does help this, the sugar and other non-sterility of the technique can promote it. Whenever you are doing this, every time you remove it, even if putting on another layer, wash it with soap and water very thoroughly. (If you don't have soap in your first aid kit, don't call it a first aid kit.)
… I had a 2nd degree burn on top of my hand. I put hemp oil and propolis. It healed up and NO SCARS propolis has antibiotic properties (prevents infection) and can be used topically or internally. Remedy from Eastern Europe
Yep thanks for reminding everyone the value of a good wash with soap and water😉 When covid hit so many people had to learn to properly wash their hands or that you need to wash them throughout the day. The education system needs help.
When you cut off oxygen to the nerves that is what stops the pain. Mustard appears to be similar to turmeric which is an anti inflammatory. You could also keep mustard seeds or powder and mix with water which causes the chemical reaction. If able to keep Saran Wrap it will work as well. Blisters are formed due to the depth of the burn not lack of oxygen, as one posted below. Blisters are your bodies own Saran Wrap so to speak! If you haven’t looked into honey doing the same or more it is amazing. It never expires, even though they post use by dates, that is because they can crystallize, just stir or heat up. Honey is natures miracle, could save a diabetic in low blood sugar, is anti inflammatory on wounds, and anti microbial. In veterinary medicine we put it on de-gloving wounds and the results are amazing! The attributes of honey is endless. It does not need to be Manuka honey or a medicinal honey , it can be any kind. It should be unpasteurized, or gamma zapped if worried about botulism, but do your own research. If you had to choose between mustard and honey, I personally would choose honey, since it is a sugar as well as a wound dressing, more uses. Studies revealed that the healing effect of honey could be classified by its antibacterial, antiviral, anti- inflammatory and antioxidant properties of its components. Read this and do your own research. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3941901/
Ive read some honeys at supermarkets are mostly sugar. I prefer to buy local honey. They say it’s much better for us to buy honey from our local bee hives.
@@OldVillagePaint honey IS sugar, fructose and sucrose to be exact, but yes some have been adding corn syrup for some un known reason, I would stick with unpasteurized and organic, or like you said local that you know is pure honey. Good point you had! Store bought apparently is slow to crystallize which is another bad sign. Honey doesn’t expire, but they put expiration dates on it, probably because of the unknown things they add or do to it! Remember crystallize honey doesn’t mean it’s bad, but honey can be contaminated. It will hinder most from growing, but not if care isn’t taken. Honey is effective in killing certain types of bacteria which why it’s used on burn wounds and ulcers to prevent and treat infections
Good tip and easily added to any kit. Here's another one. Tea bags, several of them in your kit for bee stings. When stung, soak a tea bag with water and press onto the sting. Hold for 5 minutes or so and by then the sting should subside. The tannic acid in tea neutralizes the venom. It will feel as if you hadn't been stung.
Black tea bags (the usual "iced tea" kind), wet and warm, are my go-to for "there's something in my eye/or maybe it's allergies" feeling. Make a cup of tea, let the bag cool a little, gently squeeze into your eye to rinse it out. You'd think it would sting but it doesn't and even seems to reduce the redness. My stepdad was told to rinse with and drink strong black tea after having his teeth pulled to make way for dentures and for a wonder he listened and was amazed at how quickly he felt better. Not a doc/not medical advice/blah blah don't sue me.
Tea also works for sunburn to prevent peeling, from the same tannic acid. Get a jar of Lipton's, dissolve it in the tub and not only will you be less red after a soothing bath, the tea will have tanned your skin!
Good info. Prepared mustard also has vinegar in it. Vinegar helps to limit the growth of pathogens. So it sounds like your first aid tip may be beneficial in several different ways.
Mustard is also very good for cramps from dehydration. I carry several packets in the console of my work truck. The vinegar contains magnesium and potassium that helps with cramps.
@@barbarahamilton8792 as someone who gets sunburn bad, I can say soaking coffee filters or paper towels in apple cider vinegar is best thing I've found.
The trauma center where we used to drop a lot of patients had a 5 gallon tub of mayonnaise on hold in the cafeteria in the event we brought them a patient with asphalt burns. Apparently applying it to an asphalt burn allows the asphalt to be removed without further damage to skin. Also, there’s a Chinese burn salve called Ching wan hung that is absolutely miraculous when used in the treatment of burns and soft tissue injuries. 25 years as a paramedic and having people telling me to never to put anything on a burn and I watch this stuff stop scarring and pain on second degree burns.
@@WayPointSurvival Yeah. Imagine my surprise when we brought in a guy who got sprayed by the oil truck and the nurse yells out, “Call the cafeteria and have them get the reserve mayo.” Apparently the fat “emulsifies?” The asphalt and allows it to effectively fall off the skin without the patient having to suffer the ubiquitous debridement that follows such events.
Great reply! Thanks for reminding me about the Chinese burn salve. I used it in Hong Kong in the early 90's and can confirm that it's the dog's bollocks ( ie great)
@@mikekelly5869 and it’s great for soft tissue injuries as well….I can neither confirm nor deny the efficacy of treatment on dogs’ bollocks but that would make an awesome article for JAMA! Oh just the TV ads (we foolishly allow pharma companies to advertise on tv here in the US) would be priceless! “Is your dog’s genital licking creating problems at home?” “Honey! He’s at it again!” “Try Ching Wan Hung. Its patented blend of herbs in a soothing salve will quell the demons of even the most itchy of dog’s bollocks!” Then cut to a dog holding a tub of CWH smiling and have a sparkle in the smile…..cut! I should’ve been in advertising.
A mustard plaster is a poultice of mustard seed powder spread inside a protective dressing and applied to the body to stimulate healing. It can be used to warm muscle tissues and for chronic aches and pains. It was once part of conventional medical treatment, and available in prepared versions in pharmacies.
yep, plasters and poultices were standard in every home when I was a kid. all gone now. entirely. people don't even know the concept. reliance on modern medicine has weakened them. and when you think of it: has weakened our doctors, too. which might explain why they didn't have the guts to stand up for IVM and HCQ during covid.
Regular yellow mustard is great for relieving muscle cramps! I keep a squeeze bottle of mustard in my truck and boat. Whenever my leg or thigh cramps up, I immediately swallow 2 to 3 tablespoons and soon the cramps are gone! My first choice for severe cramps is 3 gulps of dill pickle juice/liquid, it works quicker!
I was going to comment the very same thing. Lavender essential oil is something I’d definitely carry in my first aid kit, along with tea tree oil and oil of oregano 🌿
Makes sense in the fact that the mustard is sterile (has to be to last in the packaging) and it’s an isotonic solution that will draw fluids out of the burned area. This is one of those cool things that has either been forgotten or ignored because it’s “folk medicine”. Friendly hint, folk medicine is generally in existence because it works. There are certainly cases where it doesn’t, but the majority of it does. Thanks for the awesome video!
@@WayPointSurvival isn't it incredibly hot? or all this is about mild mustard? if all you have is hot mustard I suppose the point is to get the mustard into you so if you wrap it in lots of bread or something that'd be okay?
I remember a coworker started to cramp up while we were pouring concrete. Homeowner came outside and brought him a spoonful of mustard and told him that it would help. It surprisingly worked within 10 minutes or so.
Lots of good information in the comments list. I was told by an ER doctor after a bad cut to my fingers, whereby I had lost so much blood because I don’t coagulate very well. I’d been out bush and they had to drive me in. He told me, in future to find a new clean spiders web, and lay it over the cut, the blood will react to the stickiness of the web and coagulate around it, thus stopping the bleeding, it also has antiseptic and anti fungal properties. Good one to know, as with the mustard for burns.
Blacksorrento, You are so right! The comment section is an underutilized (by many) goldmine of valuable info, that needs to be preserved, by incorporating it into our daily lives and sharing it. By the way, Powdered Cayenne Pepper poured onto a bleeding wound, will start Coagulating the Blood Immediately. Dump a small capsule of cayenne under your tongue, to Stop A Heart Attack. Both my Aunt and Uncle used cayenne in this way, several times, with instant success, extending their lives by decades, I'm glad to say.
Hi I’ve been wanting paramedic firefighter for 44 years and I’ve actually heard of this. However in your description you call it a packet of yellow Heinz ketchup. It’s yellow Heinz mustard. Just thought you might want to modify that explanation. You guys do a great job I enjoy watching your videos. Thank you
Thank you for demonstrating this first aid trick! This first aid trick reminded me of another one. My Father had a friend that swore by using the original yellow Cepacol Mouthwash to treat a sunburn. Many years ago I got a sunburn on my shoulders while at the beach, so I decided to try it out for myself. I can attest, it worked wonders for the acute pain! After a few days, it got better, but I did continue to use it until I felt better. Just throwing this out there for anyone who may have, or get a sunburn. 😎✌️
When I was little I once saw where a farmer had a sick horse that was fevering really bad and wouldn’t get up from laying down in its stall. He took a bunch of mustard and coated its whole side and stomach with it then layed burlap sacks over it. The next day the horses fever was gone and it was like it was never sick. I never forgot that. The mustard had drawn the fever out of the horse.
I learned that there is no difference between the shiny and dull, it's just that they piece the foil together with 2 very thin sheets and during that part of manufacturing, one side is contacting the roller so it just creates a more dull appearance. I hope that helps anyone. :D
Shiny side is supposed to reflect where the frosty side absorbs, when wrapping potatoes for baking you can guess which side faces the tater. Hint, you want to make the tater hot.
Regardless of how it's made, turning your foil the wrong way on a pie WILL burn your crust: Protect the edges of the crust from burning by covering the edges of the pie and tin with foil, shiny side OUT. Believe me, turning the shiny side in ruins the effect!
Speaking of condiments, my Dad is an old fisherman and taught to carry pepper as pepper will stop bleeding. I’ve seen him doing it tens of times over the years.
@@CorgiCorner ground black pepper, if it’s a finger (usually) I fill a shot glass with the pepper and stick my finger into it. If on the arm, mound up the pepper and hold close to the wound. A few years ago I had a cut that should have been stitched up, and after lots of research on the internet, I found the pepper idea. It doesn’t burn as I supposed it would. I’ve even put pepper on a small cut, then topped with a bandaid.
Former US Navy ICE & cook. This is exactly what we used in the galley and I use at home. Yes, I cook a LOT! Mustard is good for the body inside and out. Continued success and safety.
Thank you for sharing this. I would like to add something. You might consider changing the mustard for honey. My wife is beekeeper and judge in beeproducts. She attended a course on apitherapy whitch is based on the benefits of honey, propolis and other beeproducts. Honey is besides other very affective as a medicin against burns. I poured half a liter of boiling water over my wrist. We covered the burned spot (about 5 x 5 cm ) almost immediatly after with honey and covered it up with bandage. Normally such a spot will be irritated and tense like tearing. The honey cooled and the enzymes in the honey did its curing work. Two weeks afterwards nothing was to bee seen from the burned spot. I heared storys about jam and ketchup but they for sure are not that healthy and would not recommend those. Nice addition is the aluminium foil!
I’ve found this out from a paramedic we hopped on a motorcycle and I burnt my leg on the exhaust pipe , my friend the paramedic ran in the house and grabbed mustard and put it on the burn. Not only did it not hurt it did not blister and there was no scar. Amazing
Awesome! Yellow mustard also contains turmeric; an effective natural anti-inflammatory which may also aid in swelling, especially if the burn is on a joint. Though topical application isn't as effective, you can simply consume the unused portion of the pack to help in that way.
Interesting and a great share, thank you. Wife was listening in, and it brought back a memory of a horse care manual she read years ago (she wanted to be a veterinarian) where they had a little foal having difficulty and they made a mustard based rub for its chest to help facilitate its circulation. I'm a volunteer on my company's medical response team and will share this. :)
Sounds good. Just prepare yourself for some raised eyebrows and perhaps some ridicule. Everyone always asks for professional papers or peer-reviewed studies on it, however, no pharmaceutical company is going to do research on something like mustard which they can't patent and make money on. Thanks for watching!
As a child When I had a cold and chest congestion dad would make a mustard plaster and apply it in a clean dish cloth after rubbing Vicks to the chest. Was quite warm and comforting
Thanks,.... Most Yellow Mustard sauces also contain turmeric, which is anti inflammatory. We Asians use it for wounds, blisters and also as a beauty enhancement. Even mustard seeds are commonly used on daily life. But i will now carry mustard sauce along with foil in my handbag from now on. 😊❤👍
Hey James, I knew about the mustard, but I didn't know about the the foil. Years ago I was working in a deli. I was pulling a cart of bread out of an industrial size oven, when one of the pans slid off and landed on the bend of my elbow. Just past the oven mitts. My coworkers started freaking out. I told them to go get me some mustard. They looked at me like I had lost my mind. But anyway, I put the mustard on the burn,then a few minutes later the pain was gone. A few days later, I still had the redness but no pain. Thanks for the tip on the foil.
Great info! I've also found that if I put coconut oil immediately on a kitchen burn, it will take the sting away, and the next day feels, and looks, like I wasn't burned at all.
Good info. I have seen fresh sliced tomato work very well on a burn also. The pain instantly goes away, but comes back as soon as you take the tomato off of the burn.
I learned about this when I was five through experimentation. Pickles also work, as well as certain spices, though I cant remember all of them. I got in a fair bit of trouble when my mother saw how I had destroyed the kitchen in the process of curing my burn.
I’m 70 years old and my dad always treated any minor burns in the family with yellow mustard. Not sure how he learned that old trick but he knew all the old ways of doing things. He didn’t use the aluminum foil but that is a great idea. Without the foil it’s difficult to keep from wiping the mustard off the burn place. Thanks for the lesson.
My wife and I have been using HONEY for years. It started when I applied it to my right thumb, which had been condemned to amputation when it became gangrenous after a bite from a cobra. After three weeks of failed hospital treatment, it took FOUR DAYS for the honey to reverse the process, turning the sickly grey digit into a healthy, pink one. The prof in charge of my case was impressed that she decided to experiment with it - and has used it as her first line ever since. We use it on all open injuries, even fully repairing my wife's right forefinger when it suffered a third degree burn right down to the bone. All the flesh was missing, but it grew back and full mobility returned. Honey releases hydrogen peroxide, which your body uses in its battles against pathogens.
Honey might work, but it sure is expensive. $21 for a large coffee cans sized container. Mustard is free at all fast food places and he wants to try to heat up honey when you need it now and it's crystallized. Also, small packets are much better for preparation
@@mopar_dude9227 This is a typical response from someone who has has never stepped out of the mainstream and is too terrified to try anything that goes against the accepted narrative. If you are not going to try it, you'll never know, so pull your head back into your shell and live your life according to the accepted practices. One day, when all else has failed and you're desperate, with nowhere else to turn, perhaps you'll remember this and give it a try out of sheer desperation. When you discover just how effective this treatment actually is, think back on your comment and wonder why it took you so long to wake up.
Used this tip today after burning my wrist on engine manifold, while repairing car! I must thank you for this mustard tip, as it really worked well taking the pain out!
I learned from my grandmother that spiderweb stops bleeding. Not arterial bleeding of course. My son cut his finger and it wasn't a cut that could be stitched because it was the end of his finger. I got some spider web, as clean as possible. Put it on his thumb, had him hold pressure and put it above heart. It worked. Super glue can also work in a pinch if you do need stitches.
You can also use it to help with pain. You just have to eat it. We use it a lot to help with headaches and other types of pain. But I didn't know about burns. Great info. Thanks
manuka honey they say you should use.in new zealand where this honey comes from it is used in main stream medicen for wound infections...It is expensive honey 60 quid but well worth it,i use it for chest infection and honestly 24 hours and it gone....
Thanks for sharing your knowledge! I’d never heard about mustard for headaches, which I get fairly often. How much do you eat -and do you eat it on its own, or with other food?
@@curiositydrawsme9180 We use a tea spoon to a table spoon it depends upon how bad the pain is. And take it by itself. Just be sure not to take to much a a time. Do to the vinegar may be strong.
Wow. This is good to know. My brother and I suffer from migraines. He gets them way more often then I do. I feel so bad for him. He suffers a lot. Nothing works to relieve that pain. I'm will have to let him know about mustard. It's worth a try.
I have memory of when I was pregnant and be getting a migraine, my friend, Stella, giving me a glass of water with something in it that turned it yellow that tasted like mustard, weakly. She never told me what it was but it took away the pain slowly maybe it really was mustard water. I still get horrendous migraines but I takes drugs for them because Stella took this remedy with her when she died 34 years ago. I will try this to see if it helps.
For sure it was turmeric té. The turmeric is antii flamatory, anticoagulant. So if drank the té in helped to desinflamated the brain and it help with pain. Turmeric a pinch of very little spoon, some drops of 🍋 lemon and sweet as you like with 🍯 honey. Honey is Triple antibiotics.
I have known this since I was a kid and fell into a warm morning stove, burning my hands badly. This was what the pharmacist told my parents to use. I'm old now and i don't have any scarring. I work as a welder in a factory and always carried mustard with me. It helped a lot of my co-workers....
The turmeric in the yellow mustard is an anti-inflammatory. It also stains organic fibers and gives the skin that "healthy glow" color. I have no cartilage left in my hip from an injury I received while I was in the Navy. Turmeric helps make my life tolerable. I've found that in combination with krill oil, they are slightly better than naproxen at relieving the pain with none of the side effects of an NSAID. Unfortunately, the time where that was enough to deal with my pain is over 5 years behind me now. Still it helps and, like I said, it's better than using more NSAIDS.
I wanted to suggest trying amanita muscaria topically for pain, it's been amazing for me, my back can go out and I don't feel it. It's also legal and not addictive, doesn't have to be used daily and gives instant relief without a high or drowsiness, you don't need a lot. I also take akuamma seed tincture, it's similar to kratom in pain relief, only it doesn't cause a high, is legal and non addictive. Sorry for the pain you're in, I'm glad turmeric helps, if you have days that are worse than others, maybe what helps me will help you.
@@prettywoman7776 I usually take daily Krill oil and turmeric made by Sports Research which I used to buy through Amazon. I'm also experimenting with golden milk to see if there is a blend of spices that I like.
@@trplankowner3323 Hello there, I hope you are well, and I hope you don't mind me asking if you use the Black Pepper with the Tumeric?! I'm pretty sure that you will probably be aware that the Piperine (I think that's how it is spelled?!) Gets the Tumeric across the Blood/Brain barrier, Much more effectively, and also has Anti - Inflammatory, pain relieving qualities of its own.. I'm just beginning to use these, due to a chronic pain condition, and the usual lumps and bumps that I received from an active life, and Time!! Kind Regards, Andrea, Jasper and the Pigeons. XxX
That pack of mustard will cut your heartburn, I carried one around when I had heartburn/GERD. Didn't know about the burns though, great tip ! Gonna get extras at my fast food place. 😁
There use to be a ointment that we have used as kids, my mom put it on us, it was called musteraul. It had very strong mustard smell. It worked for burns, for cuts & for congestion. It really helped if your nose was all plugged up. It would really help your breathing. But you cant buy it anymore. It stunk but really worked. Something stupid I did was burn my hand with my flat iron. It was about 370 degrees. I immediately soaked a papertowel in alovera gel & wrapped my affected areas, left it on for like 3 hours. The blisters I had were really deep. But I kept putting on the alovera on everyday. Those blisters healed up & never came to th he surface. It totally amazed me & helped me realize what a powerful tool it is for burns.
I burned my right leg on an motor cycle tail pipe...it was bad the only water around was the Caribbean and before I thought it out i stepped right...my lord the burn. i had seared the skin to the point that some was gone and it really really hurt....went to the doctor and he told me to go get some alone and put it on thick and cover..it healed but left a dark colored scar like a sunburn....the aloe did sooth it and I believe kept it clean.
Mustard is also a quick relief for leg cramps. Now I have a new use for the packet I carry in my purse. The turmeric in mustard is amazing! Thanks for the info.
@@WayPointSurvival Thanks. You did a beauty with this vid. Best thing I've seen in a long time especially when taken with the hundreds of comments. It's kinda like a whole lesson session and friendly gabfest too. :)
Interesting! Knew about mustard packs on the chest because of personal experience…but didn’t know about it for burns. This would be harder to do out in the field, but if at home, coconut oil is incredible for burns. Several years ago I was making a thermos of tea. As I was pouring hot boiling water into the thermos, I slipped and it nailed me in the web of my left hand (between the thumb and index finger). I immediately got it under the cold running water for as long as I could stand it (it was winter time in Montana). When I couldn’t take the cold water any longer, I immediately started applying the coconut oil. As soon as it soaked in, I added more to the area. Did that the remainder of the day. By that night, the redness and soreness was gone. The next day, just to make sure, I put the coconut oil on probably 4/5 times throughout the day. No peeling, no scar…no indication that I had poured boiling hot water on that area.
Awesome. Everybody mess around with me because of potatoes. My hubby accidentally rub his fingers into his eyes after cutting chillies.. I was busy cutting potatoes. Grab 2 pieces and told him to lay down. On goes potatoes. His eyes was blood red. After a few min, new potatoes pieces. I think within 10mins or so, he was fine and all the hurt and redness was gone.
I always carry a roll of plastic food wrap in my car first aid kit for covering burns. It is pretty sterile and will help prevent fluid loss in bad burns and protect the wound from infection after the wound has been cooled with water.
Great idea! I wonder if Policemen carried it in their cars for people in wrecks, gun shots, would help until medical help arrived?? May help to slow the bleeding.
This is known more than you think. I was told over 10 years ago while working at McDonalds to put mustard on my burn. I was told to leave it on, that the mustard would dry out and fall off. When it does, you will be good to go with no scaring. She was an older Mexican lady who i worked with.
Mustard poultice is a long standing old school remedy. Strains, rashes, infections as well. Humans and livestock. Amazing how the old becomes new and the young are amazed that “old folks” actually were smart even though smart phones weren’t even an idea yet.
When working in the food service industry I found mustard to be a fry cooks best friend. Once after splashing hot oil over my hand I wore a rubber glove I filled with mustard I was very surprised to find that after a few hours the pain was all but gone and had minimal blistering.
Try a fresh cut onion next time. The only problem is you have to hold it in place for about 30 minutes. But, this has been found to take the burn almost away. It does work really well for bad kitchen burns. I love the mustard and going to try this too... with the onion on a different spot to see which one works better next time. I loved the foil wrap idea and this makes sense to me and will be adding this to my kit too. Keep comfrey oil in your kitchen. If you didn't get to the burn fast enough.. use this to heal the wound in half the time. Just a few drops. Always seek professional help if possible. Nice to know alternatives just in case help isn't available. I have had deep cuts from accidents and used the comfrey and it healed my wounds almost overnight. Also, oregano oil is great for infections. This works better then triple antibiotic cream. Hope this helps. Love his videos.. always nice to learn something new.
I wish I had known that trick years ago. We had a fish and chip shop and once I accidently dipped my fingers in the oil. My skin just melted off and the pain was horrible. I had to keep my hand in cold ice water for 2 days.
Thank you and all the commenters. I never knew this about mustard, did know about honey for burns and insect bites. Once while outside talking to my neighbor my arm was resting on something and suddenly I felt pain and there were dozens of ants biting me. I ran inside the house and poured honey all over my arm. It was painful but within 15 minutes the pain gone, no redness or inflammation and couldn’t tell that I had been bitten. It was just gone! My neighbor couldn’t believe it.
When I had double pneumonia my grandmother ground up fresh ginger, garlic, and mustard. Some other stuff I have no clue was also added. She rubbed my feet and covered them in it. She'd then wrap them in a cheese cloth or plastic wrap depending where we were. I'd say maybe 2-3 days would pass and I was 100% better and my pneumonia systems would be gone.
JUST as you were saying you learned this from an EMT friend I was typing that I am a NP (Nurse Practitioner) and have worked on 3 Continents and in 11 Countries, most of them 3rd world. THIS was one of MANY things I LEARNED from those I was there to teach and serve…..there is never a time in my life that I have EVER thought my education taught me “everything”…..I learned MORE from people with ZERO “formal” education than I feel that I did obtaining my Masters Degree. You NAILED it Brother! Mustard is a natural pain killer and being a vasodilator, it also brings down a fever which most of us remember our parents or grandparents telling us they were about to put a “poultice” on and before we could ask “WHAT is a Poultice?” in our fevered stupor, we were usually losing consciousness from the smell of the Mustard Poultice LOL! I am SOOOO glad I stumbled across your channel (or rather that YT’s algorithm worked for the FIRST time in a LONG time because I REALLY do NOT want to see a load of junk about how to make a wreath out of plastic flowers or braid my dang hair one more time!!!🙄) as I had forgotten about this one and it a GREAT item to put in your “Go Bag” or “SHTF Bag” as my Hubby calls it. Remember to add a few packages and CHECK THE EXPIRY DATE on these (they are usually on the crimp so grab that magnifying glass!) and to also add a couple pairs of rubber gloves (one for the person applying it and one for the unfortunate patient if it is a hand injury) as it will help to keep it as clean as possible depending on where you are. Also add some sterile water to rinse the area first as removing ANY dirt is imperative to the mustard reaching the highest efficacy (the best ones for a ‘go bag’ are those single use sterile eye drops that come in a pack of 10 with the tear off tops.) and also some sterile 2x2’s or 4x4’ and a roll of sterile gauze and tape. ALL of which should be in your “go bag” too (or your trailer if you are camping). THANK YOU so much for sharing this as I had forgotten about it and it WORKS! One of my ER docs is Ice Climber addict and he got an “ice burn” (look it up, they HURT much like a steam burn they burn twice, once when the ice/steam goes IN and again when it comes/melts out.) and he immediately grabbed this out of his waist bag and used it and he said it saved a large part of his hand. He took biopsies of the skin each time he changed the ‘dressing’ and that IS absolutely a pun…which he said from his personal findings and what he saw under the microscope for bacteria counts, that it would be best to change it every 12 hours if possible. Just an FYI as most people will react in different ways to mustard and some people it is completely ineffective on so if you want to know if mustard will work for you or not, the next time you get a paper cut (shiver), put some mustard on it and then a bandaid so your wife doesn’t kill you for leaving yellow all over the house, and change the bandaid and mustard every 12 hours and see how it heals but most importantly, you SHOULD know if it does work for you within the first hour because of the pain killing factors of yellow mustard, if that paper cut (shiver) doesn’t hurt after an hour, you are most likely a good candidate for this treatment if the chips are down (again, pun intended lol) if the mustard takes the pain away in the first hour or less of application of the mustard. GREAT JOB!!! (And new sub!!! We can NEVER stop learning or what’s the point in living?!❤🙏🏻).
Another benefit to using foil is that it blocks air flow. I have found that mild burns are more painful when left exposed to air. I keep a burn covered only until the pain becomes tolerable. If I were out in the wild, I would consider covering the foil with a glove to help hold the foil in place and protect it from damage if I need to keep using that hand.
I’ve actually known this for over 25 years. I actually learned it from Native Americans. Mustard seed and vinegar was a great healer. I can tell you from personal experience I dropped my left hand into fryer grease. Then dunked it into a huge jar of mustard. My job was willing to let me use. Not only did I not scar. It never blistered. You never know looking at my hand today that I had such a severed burn.
They learned to use it after it was brought to North America, if what you say is true, and was used for a lot of things in Europe and Asia, long before it ever came to North America. Mustard poultices go way way back, maybe one of the first medicines ever used by 'humans'.
:54 "I carry a pack of yellow Heinz catsup" lol. I had to replay it to make sure I heard it right and then quit laughing to finish the rest of your very helpful video. Thanks too for the laugh!
NPR a few weeks ago had an article about treatments used in 3rd world country hospitals that don't have modern equipment. For 2nd and 3rd degree burns, they apply fish skin and leave it on until the burn heals. Our hospitals apply bandages and remove them daily and apply fresh bandages. This is extremely painful and actually tears the new skin which slows healing. The skin heals more quickly with less trauma under the fish skin which also protects from infection.
As soon as I heard you mention it I knew it had to work. Almost nothing dissipates heat like aluminum. There are so many forgotten old time remedies. Excellent video, keep them coming.
@@helpdeskjnp that actually sounds like a neat experiment. I would think the foil would keep it warmer longer than if it wasn't wrapped. But I wonder which hot dog would cool faster, a wrapped and unwrapped hot dog.
@Jeffrey Whitlatch As soon as I get my thermal camera back I will be testing it. Probably this weekend and I will let you know. We usually have hotdogs for lunch at the airsoft game I play at. And they wrap the whole thing bun and all in foil. We shall see. I will let you know what I find. Thanks!
@@helpdeskjnp I sure like the way you think. I think there would be a difference of the shiny side of foil facing the hot dog versus the dull side facing the hot dog. I think the shiny side will retain more heat in the wrap then the dull side facing the hot dog .👍
When we were teenagers and our friend was working at a hot dog stand we learned about the yellow mustard for burns ! Adding the foil really makes this even better, thank you 👍
NOTE: I misspoke when I called it ketchup. I said the word Heinz and ketchup just automatically followed, lol. Anyway, here is a little known first aid trick that I wanted to pass along to you. I know the title is a bit hyperbole, but I think it is appropriate for the most part as there are many who are unaware of the advantages to having these couple of simple first aid items in their kit. Thanks for watching and give me a thumbs up (or a thumbs down 🙂) if you wish!
Very informative, thank you. FYI honey is also a great condiment to keep around. I used it on a infected cut and within half an hour the swelling and redness had gone down considerably. I had been using a triple antibiotic cream to no effect and gave honey a try as a last resort before going to the hospital.
Honey is a great antibiotic but so is sugar of any kind! I use either granulated sugar, honey or almost any source of sugar. In a pinch, a hard candy like a fruit flavored Lifesaver works great; just pop it in your mouth for a moment or two to get it ready. Add a Bandaid to keep it clean… Done!
When I was a young boy, we always spent the weekends at granny's house. I had a cold, and granny put a mustard pack on my chest and told the other kids she was going to eat me. They all ran outside and hid in the field across the road. Granny and I had a real good laugh about that. It does work. I can remember it made my breathing easier.
@Larry Clarke: You're talking about a mustard poultice for your chest to ease the effects of a cold. Your Grandma obviously knew how to heal without modern medicine. My own Grandma was born in the Indian Territories of what is now Oklahoma in 1899. Grandma knew every plant, herb, tree, bark, or root with healing properties. She could make tinctures, salves, poultices, powder, teas, or dried herbs & root to heal about anything.
@@nerblebun WoW.. My gramma was born On the Thessalon Indian Reserve near Thunder Bay Ontario Canada in 1986.. She was full blood.. my mom second gen and I am third Generation Ojibwa... I am Caucasian . I am trying to get my Indian status.. lots of paper work..
@@larryclarke2872: My Grandfather was also born in Indian Territory on an Osage Reservation in 1900. Grandma was Caucasian of French decent, last name LaRoe. My biological father, as far as I know, is Scotch/Irish. Didn't meet him til I had a family of my own & don't know much about his side of the family. I'm a mutt. Best of luck in your efforts obtaining Indian status.
@@larryclarke2872 your grandmother was born in 1986? That would make her about 35 yrs old, your mom might be about 20 if she was born when your granny was 15, and that would make you about 5 years old if your mother had you at 15. Did you have help responding to this video? LOL... I'm just messing with you. But seriously I think you misplaced your finger when you were responding to the feller you were talking to...
@@ThePatrick42044 Ha Ha Ha I'm sorry…that should have said 1886... My mistake.... now I feel silly, and the whole world can see... Thank you for pointing this out to me… Gee! What a dweb I can be... bet you had a good laugh ... Thank you, Patrick
I actually knew the mustard burn trick but I always thought it was because it had vinegar in it! Had no idea that mustard was that interesting. I will have to try the tinfoil thing next time I get a burn 🔥 Great video!
When I worked with a blowtorch and melted glass I would sometimes get a bad burn. I used the oil squeezed out of vitamin E capsules on the burns and cover the burn with a bandaid that had the gauze pad soaked in the vitamin E. The next day there was no pain and no blister. And no scarring. These were no first degree burns. It also works on burns from cooking.( for some reason I burned myself more in the kitchen and with the torch) It also works amazingly on sunburns. My son, a redhead, once got a nasty sunburn at the beach that covered him in blisters before we even left the beach. Put the E on him as soon as we got home and the next day he had no pain and no blisters and the peeling was minimal. I used to suffer from the pain of sunburn for days until I started using vitamin E. I found out about the usefulness of vitamin E on burns from a study in Canada of using it on burn patients.
@@Amares69 I did not mention vitamin D. Vitamin D was not the vitamin mentioned in the Canadian study of the effect of vitamin E on burns, so I wouldn't have even thought of using vitamin D. Did you just think I grabbed the nearest vitamin container and start slathering it on my son? Nope. I knew it worked because I had tried it on my own sunburn before that. And when I accidentally put my hand in the blowtorch flame and got second degree burns (I assume they were second degree since my skin looked like cooked meat) it worked on that too with no scarring. It works better than aloe vera and tea compresses because by the next day there is no pain and it heals fast. That other stuff just makes it feel better for a little while and the pain returns. I hate burns and I prefer to use something that heals and stops pain. Anything else is a waste of time.
@@erad67 that's nice to know. Since it works so well on burns and makes them heal up fast it should work on other skin injuries. I was thinking of using it on my skin for injuries just the other day. I didn't have any injuries but if I did get some I was going to try it. I am glad it worked well for you. I haven't heard of any doctors using it for anything. Wonder why.
I have found that putting plain whole milk yoghurt onto a burn, then rinsing it off after a few minutes is wonderful. This even helps to prevent scarring. Once, years ago, when I was camping, and did not have access to a number of things that might have been nice to have, I burned my hand in the fire I had made to cook supper. There were a number of maple trees nearby, and I just wanted something cool to wrap the burn in, so that I could continue to put our meal together, so I took a few leaves and wrapped my hand in them. They were surprisingly soothing.
I've tried telling everyone about this mustard "hack" for at least 20 years and most people blow it off until I asked them to at least try it. Then they were like, I can't believe this works. So, thank you for posting this video, at least now I have proof. :)
I've always used a rubber glove and it's worked well withlut any lost of the mustard. The additionial moisture helps the mustard permeate into the wound much better than foil
My mother shared this tip with me years ago. We did it a little differently by caking a good bit of mustard on the burn. By the time the mustard dries over and starts to separate or crack it can be washed off and feels better. I will try the aluminum foil with it next time, because there’s always a next time with burns.
Thanks for this video, as I was one of the people who "didn't know" about this. And I love mustard and aluminum foil, so I will always have this at home. If someone doesn't have these at home, but has pure honey (made in the U.S.), this can help "band aid" the burn while drawing out the heat (or something like that). I accidently poured boiling water on my thumb and forefinger and after an argument with my roommate regarding which methods are best for this (between honey and professionally produced burn spray medicine), I applied honey to one half of the burn, and the spray to the other. The honey half experienced more pain while the heat was drawn out of it (or something like that), BUT it healed about twice as fast as the burn spray side. Next time I accidentally burn myself again like that, I will use honey on one side, and mustard/aluminum foil on the other and see which works best. Thanks again.
My grandmother used to use mustard powder and make a paste. When I had a cough, she would spread the paste on a cheese cloth and lay it on my chest to heat it and draw out any infection. Also breathing it helped. The over the counter alternative for this was Vicks vapor rub. I hated doing it, but it was effective.
Blain is right... but he should not have said "another way" mustard does not pull heat out from a burn. Butter does not pull heat out from a burn. Nothing "pulls" heat out from a burn. A burn is the same as grilling meat. Putting mustard, butter or whatever on hot flesh is just basting it. The goal is to reduce the temperature of the flesh as fast as possible. Ice bath, cold water, whatever you have to reduce the temperature of the burned tissue and stop the damage (cooking) from continuing.
The same musterd is great for heart burn. Another tip is tea bags on a sunburn after tea is cooled. The tea seems to neutralize the burn sensation and feels soothing. Add if you have a cramp, just pinch your hair lip under your nose and this releases the cramp...this is acupressure that powers over the cramp.
Cool! We use unsweetened applesauce. My husband got a second degree burn from touching the side of his hand on a very hot pan - immediate large blister. We dumped a mini- carton of unsweetened applesauce on it, loosely wrapped his hand in gauze to hold the applesauce in place, and covered it with a plastic bag taped in place further up his arm. Two days later, we removed it all, washed it off, and presto - no more burn, no more blister - his former burn wasn't even pink. My husband’s father from Amsterdam was an engineer on a cargo ship. He accidentally cut off the end of a finger while operating machinery in the 1920’s. The ship’s Chinese cook/medical officer put warm olive oil un the ends of the finger & severed piece of the finger (no bone involved), pressed the severed part back in place, slipped a brass bushing over his finger, wrapped it up, left it for a few days, and his finger was mended.
Can't preach about this one enought...My best friend taught me this when we first met 25 years ago working at a restaurant (though I never used foil; just mustard). EVERYBODY in my universe throughout the years have thought me bananas... until they get a burn. In 25 years, I have never gotten a burn scar. I once stuck my ENTIRE HAND in a DEEP FRYER! By the time the paramedics got there, my entire hand was encased after dunking it into one of those restaurant sized mustard vats. The paramedics were like, "WTF are you doing?!" Couple hours later... no pain, no burn... I think I had two or three tiny blisters... and my hand was stained for a couple of days.
Angela come on, you never stuck your entire hand in a deep fryer and didn't have any pain or burn. That is just a plain lie. I get your point but let's not be ridiculous.
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The reason given for using foil is completely wrong. Aluminum foil reacts with the vinegar in mustard. You could use any "condiment" with vinegar (as long as it also contains less sugars) and this will still work. As the mustard (i.e. vinegar) dissolves the aluminum, a transfer of positive ions flow from the burn away to the foil. Positive ions are a big factor in feeling pain. If you make positive ions from a painful injury flow away...pain decreases. This has been known, and used, since WWII by Japan in the Pacific. They'd get burned and have no bandages (when napalmed by the USA while trapped on little islands)...so they would wrap burned limbs in corrugated roofing material which would react with the oozy burns resulting in just this chemical reaction. AND, a very small electrical charge also occurs which reduces (by a lot) infection setting in...
Excellent! Thanks so much for the in-depth explanation!
So for menstrual pains, could you spread a condiment on your tummy and put a piece of foil on it? What about migraines? That's very interesting
I use a foil hat, because when carefully crinkled and folded, creates a quantum entanglement field around the brain, causing a disturbance in the fabric of spacetime that confuses any mind-reading technologies. The irregular surface of the foil serves as a diffraction pattern, making it impossible for advanced sensors to distinguish any coherent brainwave signals. It’ ultimate brainwave protection!
@@pianissimo369
Are you soo stupid that you couldn't comprehend that simple explanation ?
@@JTSunriseMusic
You definitelly need to protect head from yourself.
YEP! I'm an old lady now and I learned this stuff way back in the day working in diners. A young fella was going through the kitchen putting up dishes and such and he was leaning and slipped a little bit and when he tried to catch himself his hand off the cooking counter and dipped into the deep fryer🤯! Yikes! It was horrible! But an old lady and gentlemen, both cooks in the kitchen, immediately grabbed a big jug of yellow mustard and put his hand all the way in it and then pulled out and loosely wrapped the whole hand in the aluminum foil. It was incredible. We was all freakin' out but those folks knew what to do. They took him to the hospital themselves and later we found from the doctors that the mustard had save his hand 😅 . I NEVER forgot that day, and luckily enough, I've never had to use that method on such a grand scale as that. Important note here: NEVER throw a wet towel on a burning person thinking that the moisture will put the fire out quicker saving the person from damage. The Truth is the moisture steams the flesh burning it several layers deeper than it would if you had used a dry towel. Be careful out there kids! As I always use to tell my youngins; Be Cool, be Kind and be Careful and have a Great Day!🌻🐝🌻
Great points, thank you for sharing the personal story and experiences!
I loved your comment 😊🎉❤thanks for the info.
Great comment!
Thank you we need to know as much as possible how to treat all kinds of things. I have bought a medical box and filled it with plasters, bandages etc. I want to get some arnica tablets in it. 👍💜
As an active duty EMT, I've been doing the same thing whenever I burn my hotdogs at the family barbeque.
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Same here and just an old guy
yummmmmmmmmmm
I’ve stopped using the Ali foil though, it tastes funny.
@@jamesmaybury7452 and ends up in-between your teeth.
That's a great tip. I also recently learned, that eating a teaspoon (or 2) of yellow mustard will stop leg cramps almost immediately. I can attest to it working, several times it's worked for me!
Yes indeed. Thanks for watching.
You can also drink pickle juice for cramps.
Good to know 👍
Magnesium for leg cramps.
Leg cramps means low potassium. If on bp pills...u should supplement add potassium vitamin
When I was a kid, my mom managed a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Nashville, TN. She would take me to work with her when she worked early weekends. Put me to sleep on a 50lb bag of pinto beans. When I got up, I would go help the cooks in the kitchen. I burned myself once when I grabbed a pan of biscuits out of the oven without a mitt. The cook immediately put my hand under cold water to stop the skin from cooking, then applied a nice amount of yellow mustard on my burned fingers. Completely did the trick. Been using the remedy ever since, over 40 years now.
Mom Makin the bacon
Cracker Barrel is so strict with their employees. No way they would allow that now. You were taken care of , that's so sweet though. Good memories. 👍
You didn't know things coming out of the oven were hot?
Someone should have called CPS.
I seriously thought we were about to bring up Brad's wife. It's been a while since I've heard about how she was let go with no explanation after working at Cracker Barrel for 11 years.
Love those biscuits
Just this week, I saw your video, and I even told a friend about it last night! It must have all been prophetic because this morning, when I was broiling a turkey, I got a burn on my hand from direct contact with the oven heating element...could actually smell burning flesh! I went immediately to the fridge, whipped out the yellow mustard and put some on the burn. Then, I covered it with foil. Left the foil on for about 45 minutes to an hour. I could feel the heat coming from the burn through the foil. Now, about four hours after the burn, there is no heat, no pain and only a small open area, on which I have reapplied the mustard. Thanks for posting this!
Great, sorry that you burnt yourself but glad that you found the information useful!
Damn you just be broiling turkeys randomly that awesome, you single? I don't even care if you're not female lol
It is hard to understand.when for most of my life I've used cool running water from tap or soaked in cold water for minor burns on fingers which had worked fine.
With first aid training not to use anything not designed for burns. But having said this I'll give it a try one day.
Common prepared mustard does not need to be refrigerated.
Do your research.
@@patrickbodine1300is there any reason why it shouldn’t be kept in the fridge? Here in Australia we usually keep mustard in the fridge to prevent it from going moldy in our hot &humid climate (tropical Australia that is)
Been treating burns for years using the age old Mediterranean way…. Tomato purée. As a chef you can’t just sit it out when you get a burn. So, smother immediately with the purée, wrap in kitchen towel, then cling film. By doing this the wound won’t blister or leave a scar. It also cools and cleanses the wound, protecting it from infection.
I think that is because it's rich in vit C. My son was cooking something fatty when he burnt his fingers when picking up something that fell out of the frying pan when flipping the food. There wasn't time to get ice out and treat the burn... he just kept prepping while the food was cooking. He needed sliced tomato and the moment he picked the slice up he noticed instant relief. Since then it's a go to medication in our house. Raw, grated potatoes also helps especially if Aloe Vera gel is mixed with it.
@@clematisscholes8068all are heat sinks that cool the burn
Mayonnaise (& dill pickle juice) also is good on burns* stops pain
6 years ago, I was making funnel cakes at a big festival and was hurrying and ended up sinking my hand up to my wrist in °400 hot oil. I immediately filled a surgical glove with mustard and put my hand in it and kept it on for at least a half hour. Not only did it kill all the pain, but also ended up with not one blister on my hand. Its maybe not known by lots of people but has been a long time remedy for some!
Yes, thank you for watching!
If you cut off oxygen that will stop the blistering. As a professional chef I always use cling wrap 😎
Wow, I had no clue!!! Mustard.ok, who would have thought...
@@dusk7919 True as a Chef myself!
@@johnsmith2598 😎🙏
The old treatment of a mustard plaster put on the chest to facilitate breathing and blood flow when flus and congestion bother us is still an excellent remedy.
Wow I just said the same thing I read about it in old pioneer histories 🥰
You have apparently have never seen what a mustard plaster can do to the skin. Mustard will CAUSE a chemical type burn. We thought the generations using these were more educated today. Sadly, we still get elderly people who come in with skin burns
@@CallmeGNana in stead of mustard plasters mom would make ginger plasters does the same thing but doesn't burn.
@@CallmeGNana I’m guessing that just on elderly people. Because people have had many successes with this for generations. Let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water…. Just saying…
Add fried onions and make a poltice to apply to your chest draws the bad stuff out
Interesting that mustard increases blood flow. My grandad used to regularly soak his feet in warm water and mustard. I thought at the time, it was a bit weird....turns out, old folks are smart, they know stuff!
Yes indeed. It's so sad that too few people are willing to listen to them these days.
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Yes we do, Thanks be to Almighty God for His Wisdom and Knowledge !!!
I was just thinking about my grandmother telling how they would use a "mustard pack" against their chest, under their clothes, when they had a chest cold. I think she said it was to clear up the mucous in the lungs, and to try to prevent it from turning into pneumonia. People died back then from pneumonia. She had a cousin, he was 15 years old and he died from pneumonia. She was born in 1910.
Just to let you know edge shaving cream. Actually works just as well with aluminum just as well
I learned that mustard was good for burns when i was working at mcdonalds. We normally have a certain kind of burn cream, but at the moment we didnt have any, so one of the older workers just grabbed the mustard and put some on my hand where the burn was, and it actually worked better than the burn cream suprisingly enough.
I've known this for years.Almost 40yrs to be exact. I worked at Butger King when I was 16. And when grease would pop on my arms, they told me to put mustard on it. I've had others to do this in the past when they burnt themselves. Thanks for getting it out there.
You're welcome!
Ive been a cook for almost 20 years. Mustard works amazingly well for burns, but did you know that pickle chips also help heal burns? We used to tape pickles to burns that we'd get from the griddles. Works just as well as mustard
Virgin coconut oil also takes the sting away.
I'm trying to picture someone with pickles taped to their hands. 🤣
It's because of the vinegar
@@KasandraHope came to same conclusion because I used to soak a piece of cotton with wine vinegar to apply on burns
Same ingredients.. vinegar, turmeric, mustard seeds
I was a cook for 20 years and we would use mustard on our burns so we could keep working over the grill without the pain. This is a phenomenal trick to share!!!
I like that! Thanks!
My wife is a chef and she has sworn by this trick for years. Thought she was screwing with me. Tried it one day after a BBQ mishap. Works as stated by our friend at WayPoint. Great tip. Thanks.
@@tommyboy6267 she definitely knows what she is talking about
I worked in a kitchen from the Salvation Army. One of the chefs burned his arm on the flat top. He was fine as being a professional Cheff and had done this hundreds of times as I was. The amateur cooks, also drug addicts, thought he was talking pain meds which are not allowed for anyone living at the ARC. So they got this poor guy fired. Nice. Drug addicts never have anything better to do and are jealous of ANYONE using when they can't...😳
I always used pickles or pickle juice. Dont know if it helped or just was cold.
One of the reasons this works well it's that yellow mustard has tumeric in it. Tumeric is has anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties. Growing up, if I sprained my knee or had a muscle ache, my mom made a simple paste using tumeric powder and water. It's applied on as a thick paste and wrapped with a gauze or cloth. Been used in India for hundreds of years as a good home remedy!
Awesome, was waiting for this to be added to the info!
Thank you
I've heard of using yellow mustard on burns and have done it many many times but I was always told to NOT wrap it for at least a few hrs ( I believe it was about 3-4). And then rinse the mustard off and reapply if needed. Then if it needed protection wrap it loosely with a light price of gauze but not tape it down. The yellow mustard ( the vinegar in it) help draw out the heat from the burn. That's the way it's been done in my family for generations. Great video. Thank you for helping so many people.
Thanks for watching. The aluminum helps pull the heat out of the burn.
An other remedi if nothing is at hand dip it in water then cover it with salt generously.Aply water when dried up but not wiping off salt.More water more salt& in 10-15 minutes you're good to go.The salt draws up moister quickly to the burned skin.
Also cools fat in the skin.Saliva is very good if lack of water💧 🎉😂❤.Done it many times.Lastly if there's nothing nearby press against a very cold surface like metal...etc & change it to a cold spot after every few seconds to keep skin cool. Being out in the field, a cigarette lighter burned a finger!!!.🔥. If there is no cold surface,then lick your skin & move it around quickly to cool it off. 😅😊
If you don't wrap the area with mustard, how do you keep it on If, say, it's on your hands? Sit still for 3-4 hours, don't touch anything...? I would have mustard everywhere but where it's meant to be, and extra laundry to do to unsuccessfully remove the stains.
It's the vinegar that draws the heat out. Wrapping it, especially with aluminum foil will only keep the heat in. You should let it air dry and rinse it off and reapply if needed.
When my son was younger he worked at McDonald's. He burned his fingers. An older lady that he worked with, who was from Mexico, applied this method and his Burns healed very quickly and his pain level went down immediately. Good stuff!
I’m Mexican, and right away as I was scrolling this caught my eye and I said to myself well I must be special because we grew up doing this if we ever had burns from flipping tortillas, grease splatter from bacon, you name it.
I carry a mustard packet in my first aid kid - and give them to all my Boy Scouts for theirs. Not for burns - never heard that before - but for heat-related illnesses. Last summer, I became hyper-natremic during an off-road race. Drank plenty of water - too much, in fact. I washed all the sodium and electrolytes out of my body. My son is a Corpsman and he carries mustard for his Marines. When someone is hypernatremic, squirt a mustard packet down their throats and they'll being improving almost immediately. I was already home, and seriously considering a trip to the emergency room, when I got that prescription from him. Two mustard sandwiches later and I was fine.
Trust as a USMC veteran it works fast and increases the blood flow and also stops muscle pain/cramps almost immediately.! Thanks for his service Semper fi from Tennessee!
What is Hypernatremia?
From Mayo Clinic … “Hyponatremia occurs when the concentration of sodium in your blood is abnormally low. Sodium is an electrolyte, and it helps regulate the amount of water that's in and around your cells.
In hyponatremia, one or more factors - ranging from an underlying medical condition to drinking too much water - cause the sodium in your body to become diluted. When this happens, your body's water levels rise, and your cells begin to swell. This swelling can cause many health problems, from mild to life-threatening.”…
@@johnsmith2598
Mayo, Mustard, and Ketchup at the Memorial Day BBQ.
One more mockery that people are ignorant to.
Thank you for your service. You Are appreciated!
I do enjoy a good mustard sandwich 👍👍😉. But for me I was taught it's good for an upset stomach.
Grew up in mustard sandwiches not because of sickness (unless mom knew something) but because we were poor
You should always keep at least one sachet of English Mustard for emergencies: like when the shop only has plain ham sandwiches left.
And a mini bottle of Tabasco
Indeed. It has many uses!
LOL!
Particularly, Grey poupon, Oui? JA? Da !
Why'd it gotta be English? Why not Irish? I'm kidding...
THIS TRULY WORKS!😃🤩💖 While cooking I got a very bad burn on my index finger. A huge blister formed as I was still screaming colorful words! I remembered seeing THIS video and slathered on the mustard & covered it with foil. The intense ongoing burning feeling went away within 2 minutes! I was amazed!😃💖😃 I now include mustard and foil in ALL my first aid kits! Thankyou!
Excellent! So glad that you found the video useful and that it worked well for you!
Another little known remedy is ground red pepper. I live near an Amish community and was at a sawmill and noticed a large tin of red pepper. I asked who liked the pepper and they informed me that it was for cuts. A few weeks later I cut across 2 fingers. I cleaned the wounds and applied a triple antibiotic on one finger and ground red pepper on the other one (was concerned about burning but there was none). Three days later I removed the bandages and the antibiotic treated finger looked like a clean almost fresh wound. The peppered finger had knitted back together and was well on its way to being healed.
A month or two later the Amish guys brother cut off the tip of his finger in a wood shop. I asked if he put red pepper on it and he said no it was hurting so he used lavender oil and then black pepper. I have not tried this one. If I cut my finger off I plan to go to a doctor, at least for now. Since Covid I have lost confidence in the second oldest profession.
I am 64, look like I'm 38, and red pepper is my fave spice I use daily. I also use turmeric. Ps103:5
Cayennes great to thin blood and help with strokes.
TOTALLY agree with you on trusting the mainstream quacks since the planned-emic.
BTW, I'm in healthcare, so I KNOW who have sold out to big pharma and actually don't practice REAL medicine. STAY ALERT AND FREE❤🙏❤
Told my Doctor that I needed a second opinion and would be calling my congressman. Found out he lacks a sense of humor.
@Mike This is an underrated comment.
Many years ago my grandad told me when he was a young lad, he had fluid in his lungs. His mum would cover his chest in mustard then cover in brown paper.
Overnight it would draw out loads of 'gunk' , like his chest was covered in phlegm. After a week he was back working in the fields.
Yes, many of those old home remedies were valid. Thank you for watching.
@@WayPointSurvival Thank you. It made me remember.
Called "Mustard Packs" (Paks?).
Wow
Very interesting
I didn’t know
I’m going to use it
Thank you for sharing!
From Anaheim California USA 🇺🇸
Hey James just a heads up yellow mustard also works great on bee, yellow jacket and hornet stings. It relieves the pain quite quickly.
I did not know that, so thank you for the information!
So does chewing tobacco.
@@jeffd1919 just don't swallow the juice... lol
When my son was 11, he was lighting a propane stove. Apparently, there was a crack in the propane pipe that we were not aware of. When he bent down to light it, the flame engulfed his head. He immediately ran for the bathroom, stopped, and turned around to go back and turn off the propane. As he ran for the bathroom, he wailed to his older sister, "Is my face on fire?" He jumped into the shower on all cold water. I was out making funeral arrangements for his father's burial. My daughter called to tell me what had happened. When I returned home, he was over the kitchen sink pressing his entire face in a container of ice. I took him to the ER, and he kept a gallon bag of ice on his face. When the hospital removed the ice he started screaming for the first time, since it had occired. There were big blisters on his cheeks, ears, lips, and entire face. He had done all of this on his own without anyone telling him what to do, within seconds of it happening. At his father's funeral he had his face covered in a white nitrate cream. One month later we had a family portrait done, and he had absolutely no markings from the extensive burns to his face.
I am so glad I taught my kids at an early age first aid, and that at such a young age, he reacted quickly and calmly.
WOW! What a horrible story but a GREAT HAPPY ENDING. I'm relieved to hear your brave little boy had no facial scarring! I wish you'd included his age at the time.
Great video (from someone with the proper letters behind their name). One point of correction --
3:15 "first degree burns, even the ones with minor blistering"
Medical tidbit -- "blistering" is a second degree burn. If there are a few scattered blisters, then it is a mild second degree with surrounding first degree. There is never only a second degree or only a third degree anyway.
The reason it should be used with caution in second degree burns is the increased chance of infection with broken skin. While the vinegar does help this, the sugar and other non-sterility of the technique can promote it. Whenever you are doing this, every time you remove it, even if putting on another layer, wash it with soap and water very thoroughly.
(If you don't have soap in your first aid kit, don't call it a first aid kit.)
Thank you for watching.
… I had a 2nd degree burn on top of my hand. I put hemp oil and propolis. It healed up and NO SCARS propolis has antibiotic properties (prevents infection) and can be used topically or internally. Remedy from Eastern Europe
So would you sayNOT to use on skin if broken or blistering?
Yep thanks for reminding everyone the value of a good wash with soap and water😉 When covid hit so many people had to learn to properly wash their hands or that you need to wash them throughout the day. The education system needs help.
When you cut off oxygen to the nerves that is what stops the pain. Mustard appears to be similar to turmeric which is an anti inflammatory. You could also keep mustard seeds or powder and mix with water which causes the chemical reaction. If able to keep Saran Wrap it will work as well. Blisters are formed due to the depth of the burn not lack of oxygen, as one posted below. Blisters are your bodies own Saran Wrap so to speak! If you haven’t looked into honey doing the same or more it is amazing. It never expires, even though they post use by dates, that is because they can crystallize, just stir or heat up. Honey is natures miracle, could save a diabetic in low blood sugar, is anti inflammatory on wounds, and anti microbial. In veterinary medicine we put it on de-gloving wounds and the results are amazing! The attributes of honey is endless. It does not need to be Manuka honey or a medicinal honey , it can be any kind. It should be unpasteurized, or gamma zapped if worried about botulism, but do your own research. If you had to choose between mustard and honey, I personally would choose honey, since it is a sugar as well as a wound dressing, more uses. Studies revealed that the healing effect of honey could be classified by its antibacterial, antiviral, anti- inflammatory and antioxidant properties of its components. Read this and do your own research. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3941901/
Ive read some honeys at supermarkets are mostly sugar. I prefer to buy local honey. They say it’s much better for us to buy honey from our local bee hives.
mustard contains turmeric
@@melinda6024 yes, mustard the condiment has turmeric, but mustard seed just has similar properties.
@@OldVillagePaint honey IS sugar, fructose and sucrose to be exact, but yes some have been adding corn syrup for some un known reason, I would stick with unpasteurized and organic, or like you said local that you know is pure honey. Good point you had! Store bought apparently is slow to crystallize which is another bad sign. Honey doesn’t expire, but they put expiration dates on it, probably because of the unknown things they add or do to it! Remember crystallize honey doesn’t mean it’s bad, but honey can be contaminated. It will hinder most from growing, but not if care isn’t taken. Honey is effective in killing certain types of bacteria which why it’s used on burn wounds and ulcers to prevent and treat infections
Mustard has turmeric in it
Good tip and easily added to any kit.
Here's another one. Tea bags, several of them in your kit for bee stings. When stung, soak a tea bag with water and press onto the sting. Hold for 5 minutes or so and by then the sting should subside.
The tannic acid in tea neutralizes the venom.
It will feel as if you hadn't been stung.
Black tea bags (the usual "iced tea" kind), wet and warm, are my go-to for "there's something in my eye/or maybe it's allergies" feeling. Make a cup of tea, let the bag cool a little, gently squeeze into your eye to rinse it out. You'd think it would sting but it doesn't and even seems to reduce the redness. My stepdad was told to rinse with and drink strong black tea after having his teeth pulled to make way for dentures and for a wonder he listened and was amazed at how quickly he felt better. Not a doc/not medical advice/blah blah don't sue me.
Tea also works for sunburn to prevent peeling, from the same tannic acid. Get a jar of Lipton's, dissolve it in the tub and not only will you be less red after a soothing bath, the tea will have tanned your skin!
i used toothpaste when i got stung by 3 yellow jackets 🐝 on my arm. thr toothpaste helped cooled the bee sting.
Who is worried about a bee sting?
Some people have a bad to severe allergic reaction to bee stings. Also children or others who do not handle pain well could use this tip.
Good info. Prepared mustard also has vinegar in it. Vinegar helps to limit the growth of pathogens. So it sounds like your first aid tip may be beneficial in several different ways.
Yes there are some amazing substances in mustard that even seem to have some anti-cancer properties.
Mustard is also very good for cramps from dehydration. I carry several packets in the console of my work truck. The vinegar contains magnesium and potassium that helps with cramps.
You might smell like a pickle, but you can also apply vinegar to a sunburn... just by dabbing it on will relieve the sting.
Vinager is good for jellyfish stings
@@barbarahamilton8792 as someone who gets sunburn bad, I can say soaking coffee filters or paper towels in apple cider vinegar is best thing I've found.
The trauma center where we used to drop a lot of patients had a 5 gallon tub of mayonnaise on hold in the cafeteria in the event we brought them a patient with asphalt burns. Apparently applying it to an asphalt burn allows the asphalt to be removed without further damage to skin. Also, there’s a Chinese burn salve called Ching wan hung that is absolutely miraculous when used in the treatment of burns and soft tissue injuries. 25 years as a paramedic and having people telling me to never to put anything on a burn and I watch this stuff stop scarring and pain on second degree burns.
That's absolutely amazing! Thanks for the heads up on that!
@@WayPointSurvival Yeah. Imagine my surprise when we brought in a guy who got sprayed by the oil truck and the nurse yells out, “Call the cafeteria and have them get the reserve mayo.” Apparently the fat “emulsifies?” The asphalt and allows it to effectively fall off the skin without the patient having to suffer the ubiquitous debridement that follows such events.
Great reply! Thanks for reminding me about the Chinese burn salve. I used it in Hong Kong in the early 90's and can confirm that it's the dog's bollocks ( ie great)
@@mikekelly5869 and it’s great for soft tissue injuries as well….I can neither confirm nor deny the efficacy of treatment on dogs’ bollocks but that would make an awesome article for JAMA! Oh just the TV ads (we foolishly allow pharma companies to advertise on tv here in the US) would be priceless! “Is your dog’s genital licking creating problems at home?” “Honey! He’s at it again!” “Try Ching Wan Hung. Its patented blend of herbs in a soothing salve will quell the demons of even the most itchy of dog’s bollocks!” Then cut to a dog holding a tub of CWH smiling and have a sparkle in the smile…..cut! I should’ve been in advertising.
I can only imagine what would come up if I tried to Google chin wang hung
A mustard plaster is a poultice of mustard seed powder spread inside a protective dressing and applied to the body to stimulate healing. It can be used to warm muscle tissues and for chronic aches and pains. It was once part of conventional medical treatment, and available in prepared versions in pharmacies.
Ojibou would use wild mustard and hemp tea for arthritis for thousands of years . A paste .
My mother would lay a mustard plaster on our chests, as kids, to relieve a cold.
@@alanmctavish3628 dad would tell me if I was to sick for school then I'd be too sick to go fishing and I would somehow get better enuff to go .
Just don’t put it on your eyes. Could blind you.
yep, plasters and poultices were standard in every home when I was a kid. all gone now. entirely. people don't even know the concept. reliance on modern medicine has weakened them. and when you think of it: has weakened our doctors, too. which might explain why they didn't have the guts to stand up for IVM and HCQ during covid.
Regular yellow mustard is great for relieving muscle cramps! I keep a squeeze bottle of mustard in my truck and boat. Whenever my leg or thigh cramps up, I immediately swallow 2 to 3 tablespoons and soon the cramps are gone! My first choice for severe cramps is 3 gulps of dill pickle juice/liquid, it works quicker!
Lavender oil is also very good for burns it stops the stinging and aid healing apply as needed,😊
Lavender oil works for me also. Speeds healing and minimizes scars. Unfortunately some are allergic to it, like my son.
I was going to comment the very same thing. Lavender essential oil is something I’d definitely carry in my first aid kit, along with tea tree oil and oil of oregano 🌿
@@Rosesraspberries72I'm curious, what is tea tree and oregano used for? Thanks for sharing.
@@erichandyauto antibacterial and anti fungal
@@JustinaJayne Thank you
Makes sense in the fact that the mustard is sterile (has to be to last in the packaging) and it’s an isotonic solution that will draw fluids out of the burned area. This is one of those cool things that has either been forgotten or ignored because it’s “folk medicine”. Friendly hint, folk medicine is generally in existence because it works. There are certainly cases where it doesn’t, but the majority of it does. Thanks for the awesome video!
Indeed. Thanks for watching!
It’s not sterile, it’s just full of preservatives
Mustard is magnesium. Its like a mini Epsom salts bath. Many runners carry mustard packs because it helps with cramping legs!
Also high in potassium
Do they eat it or smear it?
You would eat it for leg cramps.
ffs only a moron would say Mustard is magnesium - and any mg in mustard wouldnt be worth a mention
@@WayPointSurvival isn't it incredibly hot? or all this is about mild mustard? if all you have is hot mustard I suppose the point is to get the mustard into you so if you wrap it in lots of bread or something that'd be okay?
I remember a coworker started to cramp up while we were pouring concrete. Homeowner came outside and brought him a spoonful of mustard and told him that it would help. It surprisingly worked within 10 minutes or so.
So do you eat the mustard or apply over cramped area?
Eat the mustard for cramps. vinegar will do the same thing, vinegar relieves cramps in 20 seconds.also works for bell's palsy and other stuck nerves.
@@jamessheehan2694WHAT KIND OF VINEGAR? WHITE? APPLE CIDER? DOES IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE? WHICH IS BEST?? 🤔
@@jamessheehan2694 i like the vinegar idea much better. just drink some vinegar? how much?
Lots of good information in the comments list. I was told by an ER doctor after a bad cut to my fingers, whereby I had lost so much blood because I don’t coagulate very well. I’d been out bush and they had to drive me in. He told me, in future to find a new clean spiders web, and lay it over the cut, the blood will react to the stickiness of the web and coagulate around it, thus stopping the bleeding, it also has antiseptic and anti fungal properties. Good one to know, as with the mustard for burns.
One of my children has the same problem, used a web, another child saw and grew to love spiders.
Blacksorrento, You are so right! The comment section is an underutilized (by many) goldmine of valuable info, that needs to be preserved, by incorporating it into our daily lives and sharing it. By the way, Powdered Cayenne Pepper poured onto a bleeding wound, will start Coagulating the Blood Immediately. Dump a small capsule of cayenne under your tongue, to Stop A Heart Attack. Both my Aunt and Uncle used cayenne in this way, several times, with instant success, extending their lives by decades, I'm glad to say.
Gut out an aloe vera plant and put that sticky pulp on the cut. Also stops bleeding and helps to heal.
Great tip right here. 👍
I grew up in a farm.
Cobwebs were never destroyed, they were our bandages.
Hi I’ve been wanting paramedic firefighter for 44 years and I’ve actually heard of this. However in your description you call it a packet of yellow Heinz ketchup. It’s yellow Heinz mustard. Just thought you might want to modify that explanation. You guys do a great job I enjoy watching your videos. Thank you
Yes, I misspoke. I put the word mustard on the screen during the editing process but I guess most people aren't seeing that. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for demonstrating this first aid trick! This first aid trick reminded me of another one. My Father had a friend that swore by using the original yellow Cepacol Mouthwash to treat a sunburn. Many years ago I got a sunburn on my shoulders while at the beach, so I decided to try it out for myself. I can attest, it worked wonders for the acute pain! After a few days, it got better, but I did continue to use it until I felt better. Just throwing this out there for anyone who may have, or get a sunburn. 😎✌️
Thank you for watching.
GREAT TIP.
When I was little I once saw where a farmer had a sick horse that was fevering really bad and wouldn’t get up from laying down in its stall. He took a bunch of mustard and coated its whole side and stomach with it then layed burlap sacks over it. The next day the horses fever was gone and it was like it was never sick. I never forgot that. The mustard had drawn the fever out of the horse.
Excellent story, thanks!
Wow! That is cool
That was used on humans too. I had mustard packs put on with some wash cloths over it. Next day my fever had broke and I was much less congested .
Omg that is freakin awesome!!!
@@lynnpayne9519 or, you could have gotten better the next day,.....
I learned that there is no difference between the shiny and dull, it's just that they piece the foil together with 2 very thin sheets and during that part of manufacturing, one side is contacting the roller so it just creates a more dull appearance. I hope that helps anyone. :D
I saw that too. Lol endless knowledge at our fingers tips
Shiny side is supposed to reflect where the frosty side absorbs, when wrapping potatoes for baking you can guess which side faces the tater.
Hint, you want to make the tater hot.
@@stvsmith1791 I always thought that too until I saw the short documentary on how stuff is made....
@@ace18music32 Agreed!! Lol
Regardless of how it's made, turning your foil the wrong way on a pie WILL burn your crust: Protect the edges of the crust from burning by covering the edges of the pie and tin with foil, shiny side OUT. Believe me, turning the shiny side in ruins the effect!
I'm a welder and I never knew about this I'm glad I ran across this video I definitely will be tying this thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Mustard really helps with welding burns.
Speaking of condiments, my Dad is an old fisherman and taught to carry pepper as pepper will stop bleeding. I’ve seen him doing it tens of times over the years.
Black pepper? Chili pepper? Be specific
I know for a fact black pepper works, it’s helped me when nothing else stopped the bleed.
@@IMOO1896 how did you apply the pepper? Was it whole or ground? Also what type of wound?
@@CorgiCorner ground black pepper, if it’s a finger (usually) I fill a shot glass with the pepper and stick my finger into it. If on the arm, mound up the pepper and hold close to the wound. A few years ago I had a cut that should have been stitched up, and after lots of research on the internet, I found the pepper idea. It doesn’t burn as I supposed it would. I’ve even put pepper on a small cut, then topped with a bandaid.
@@IMOO1896 noice. Yeah i usually cut my finger once or twice a year. Thats good to know. I also heard black pepper helps with anxiety too.
Former US Navy ICE & cook. This is exactly what we used in the galley and I use at home. Yes, I cook a LOT! Mustard is good for the body inside and out. Continued success and safety.
But nobody knows this hack ! How could you know ? lol.
Thank you for this, for 20 years my family has thought I'm crazy for doing this.
Well, anecdotal evidence says that it truly works! Thanks for watching!
Thank you for sharing this. I would like to add something. You might consider changing the mustard for honey. My wife is beekeeper and judge in beeproducts. She attended a course on apitherapy whitch is based on the benefits of honey, propolis and other beeproducts. Honey is besides other very affective as a medicin against burns. I poured half a liter of boiling water over my wrist. We covered the burned spot (about 5 x 5 cm ) almost immediatly after with honey and covered it up with bandage. Normally such a spot will be irritated and tense like tearing. The honey cooled and the enzymes in the honey did its curing work. Two weeks afterwards nothing was to bee seen from the burned spot. I heared storys about jam and ketchup but they for sure are not that healthy and would not recommend those. Nice addition is the aluminium foil!
Thanks for watching. Mustard has been used in ancient times for burns and honey is a great salve as well.
The honey needs to be raw.
when I was fighting MRSA after an implant, they used honey to treat it along with a vacuum pump, it was 8mo of literal hell on earth but effective!
Honey mustard 😎
@@genesispuredeaf2390 Ba-dish!
I’ve found this out from a paramedic we hopped on a motorcycle and I burnt my leg on the exhaust pipe , my friend the paramedic ran in the house and grabbed mustard and put it on the burn. Not only did it not hurt it did not blister and there was no scar. Amazing
Awesome!
Yellow mustard also contains turmeric; an effective natural anti-inflammatory which may also aid in swelling, especially if the burn is on a joint. Though topical application isn't as effective, you can simply consume the unused portion of the pack to help in that way.
Interesting and a great share, thank you. Wife was listening in, and it brought back a memory of a horse care manual she read years ago (she wanted to be a veterinarian) where they had a little foal having difficulty and they made a mustard based rub for its chest to help facilitate its circulation. I'm a volunteer on my company's medical response team and will share this. :)
Sounds good. Just prepare yourself for some raised eyebrows and perhaps some ridicule. Everyone always asks for professional papers or peer-reviewed studies on it, however, no pharmaceutical company is going to do research on something like mustard which they can't patent and make money on. Thanks for watching!
As a child When I had a cold and chest congestion dad would make a mustard plaster and apply it in a clean dish cloth after rubbing Vicks to the chest. Was quite warm and comforting
Thanks,.... Most Yellow Mustard sauces also contain turmeric, which is anti inflammatory. We Asians use it for wounds, blisters and also as a beauty enhancement. Even mustard seeds are commonly used on daily life. But i will now carry mustard sauce along with foil in my handbag from now on. 😊❤👍
Excellent!
when you use turmeric you have to make a paste of it first? we have turmeric always but it is powder
Hey James, I knew about the mustard, but I didn't know about the the foil. Years ago I was working in a deli. I was pulling a cart of bread out of an industrial size oven, when one of the pans slid off and landed on the bend of my elbow. Just past the oven mitts. My coworkers started freaking out. I told them to go get me some mustard. They looked at me like I had lost my mind. But anyway, I put the mustard on the burn,then a few minutes later the pain was gone. A few days later, I still had the redness but no pain. Thanks for the tip on the foil.
The exact same thing happened to me but I didn't know about the mustard! I still have a nasty scar from it.
Foil does nothing more than keep the mustard from being wiped away. it is not a heat diffuser, and I bet ANYTHING would work better.
@@HappyBuddhaBoyd Experiment and post it or stay relegated to the depths of obscurity
@@virtuerse Nay sayers never show proof only state their opinions as fact
@@HappyBuddhaBoyd actually it does do something, it diffuses electrons and stops as many cells from dying
Great info! I've also found that if I put coconut oil immediately on a kitchen burn, it will take the sting away, and the next day feels, and looks, like I wasn't burned at all.
Saw a y.t.vid warning against putting coconut oil down drain!!!? Sets like concrete they said😵
@@terywetherlow7970 yes, but it turns liquid at 72 degrees, so I would think you could wash it away with hot water...
Good info. I have seen fresh sliced tomato work very well on a burn also. The pain instantly goes away, but comes back as soon as you take the tomato off of the burn.
Also sliced potato 👌
I learned about this when I was five through experimentation. Pickles also work, as well as certain spices, though I cant remember all of them. I got in a fair bit of trouble when my mother saw how I had destroyed the kitchen in the process of curing my burn.
I’m 70 years old and my dad always treated any minor burns in the family with yellow mustard. Not sure how he learned that old trick but he knew all the old ways of doing things. He didn’t use the aluminum foil but that is a great idea. Without the foil it’s difficult to keep from wiping the mustard off the burn place. Thanks for the lesson.
Excellent, those old timers sure knew a lot of home remedies that worked quite well. Thank you for watching.
My wife and I have been using HONEY for years. It started when I applied it to my right thumb, which had been condemned to amputation when it became gangrenous after a bite from a cobra. After three weeks of failed hospital treatment, it took FOUR DAYS for the honey to reverse the process, turning the sickly grey digit into a healthy, pink one. The prof in charge of my case was impressed that she decided to experiment with it - and has used it as her first line ever since. We use it on all open injuries, even fully repairing my wife's right forefinger when it suffered a third degree burn right down to the bone. All the flesh was missing, but it grew back and full mobility returned. Honey releases hydrogen peroxide, which your body uses in its battles against pathogens.
Yes, it is an amazing substance!
Honey might work, but it sure is expensive. $21 for a large coffee cans sized container. Mustard is free at all fast food places and he wants to try to heat up honey when you need it now and it's crystallized. Also, small packets are much better for preparation
I call BS on all of that.
@@mopar_dude9227 This is a typical response from someone who has has never stepped out of the mainstream and is too terrified to try anything that goes against the accepted narrative. If you are not going to try it, you'll never know, so pull your head back into your shell and live your life according to the accepted practices. One day, when all else has failed and you're desperate, with nowhere else to turn, perhaps you'll remember this and give it a try out of sheer desperation. When you discover just how effective this treatment actually is, think back on your comment and wonder why it took you so long to wake up.
@@mopar_dude9227 Don’t knock it till you’ve tried the raw honey route. The North American Indians have used this method for centuries 😎
Used this tip today after burning my wrist on engine manifold, while repairing car! I must thank you for this mustard tip, as it really worked well taking the pain out!
Great, sorry you burned yourself but glad you were able to put it into use!
@@WayPointSurvival thank you sir! Just recently found your site, and will be searching through the archives!
When I was a forest firefighter we used to carry mustard as an electrolite, it helped me alot when I was starting to feel uneasy !
Yes, it also works well to relieve muscle cramps.
I learned from my grandmother that spiderweb stops bleeding. Not arterial bleeding of course. My son cut his finger and it wasn't a cut that could be stitched because it was the end of his finger. I got some spider web, as clean as possible. Put it on his thumb, had him hold pressure and put it above heart. It worked.
Super glue can also work in a pinch if you do need stitches.
Yes indeed, that's another effective old remedy. Thanks for watching.
Cut my foot riding my bike barefoot. My granny put eggshell skin, spider webs and salve on the cut. Worked well.
Regular black pepper works great to stop bleeding- with no burn as might be expected. I’ve used it several times and it never fails.
Yarrow leaf is also great at stopping bleeding
You can also use it to help with pain. You just have to eat it. We use it a lot to help with headaches and other types of pain. But I didn't know about burns. Great info. Thanks
manuka honey they say you should use.in new zealand where this honey comes from it is used in main stream medicen for wound infections...It is expensive honey 60 quid but well worth it,i use it for chest infection and honestly 24 hours and it gone....
Thanks for sharing your knowledge! I’d never heard about mustard for headaches, which I get fairly often. How much do you eat -and do you eat it on its own, or with other food?
@@curiositydrawsme9180 We use a tea spoon to a table spoon it depends upon how bad the pain is. And take it by itself. Just be sure not to take to much a a time. Do to the vinegar may be strong.
Wow. This is good to know. My brother and I suffer from migraines. He gets them way more often then I do. I feel so bad for him. He suffers a lot. Nothing works to relieve that pain. I'm will have to let him know about mustard. It's worth a try.
I have memory of when I was pregnant and be getting a migraine, my friend, Stella, giving me a glass of water with something in it that turned it yellow that tasted like mustard, weakly. She never told me what it was but it took away the pain slowly maybe it really was mustard water. I still get horrendous migraines but I takes drugs for them because Stella took this remedy with her when she died 34 years ago. I will try this to see if it helps.
It probably was turmeric powder. It's a natural pain killer.
For sure it was turmeric té. The turmeric is antii flamatory, anticoagulant. So if drank the té in helped to desinflamated the brain and it help with pain. Turmeric a pinch of very little spoon, some drops of 🍋 lemon and sweet as you like with 🍯 honey. Honey is Triple antibiotics.
I have known this since I was a kid and fell into a warm morning stove, burning my hands badly. This was what the pharmacist told my parents to use. I'm old now and i don't have any scarring. I work as a welder in a factory and always carried mustard with me. It helped a lot of my co-workers....
Indeed. It's a great old home remedy that works quite well despite the naysayers.
The turmeric in the yellow mustard is an anti-inflammatory. It also stains organic fibers and gives the skin that "healthy glow" color. I have no cartilage left in my hip from an injury I received while I was in the Navy. Turmeric helps make my life tolerable. I've found that in combination with krill oil, they are slightly better than naproxen at relieving the pain with none of the side effects of an NSAID. Unfortunately, the time where that was enough to deal with my pain is over 5 years behind me now. Still it helps and, like I said, it's better than using more NSAIDS.
What brand of krill oil do you use? Also do you use a powdered organic turmeric and mix it in liquid? Just curious how you take it.
I wanted to suggest trying amanita muscaria topically for pain, it's been amazing for me, my back can go out and I don't feel it. It's also legal and not addictive, doesn't have to be used daily and gives instant relief without a high or drowsiness, you don't need a lot. I also take akuamma seed tincture, it's similar to kratom in pain relief, only it doesn't cause a high, is legal and non addictive. Sorry for the pain you're in, I'm glad turmeric helps, if you have days that are worse than others, maybe what helps me will help you.
@@prettywoman7776 I usually take daily Krill oil and turmeric made by Sports Research which I used to buy through Amazon. I'm also experimenting with golden milk to see if there is a blend of spices that I like.
@@queenieburgers50 Thank you for the suggestions. I will look into them.
@@trplankowner3323 Hello there, I hope you are well, and I hope you don't mind me asking if you use the Black Pepper with the Tumeric?!
I'm pretty sure that you will probably be aware that the Piperine
(I think that's how it is spelled?!)
Gets the Tumeric across the
Blood/Brain barrier,
Much more effectively, and also has Anti - Inflammatory, pain relieving qualities of its own..
I'm just beginning to use these, due to a chronic pain condition, and the usual lumps and bumps that I received from an active life, and Time!!
Kind Regards,
Andrea, Jasper and the Pigeons. XxX
That pack of mustard will cut your heartburn, I carried one around when I had heartburn/GERD. Didn't know about the burns though, great tip ! Gonna get extras at my fast food place. 😁
Excellent. Thank you for watching!
Really? Is it really good for heartburn?
Brings your ph level to normal.
@@jonlanier_ 👍💯
Veterans know these things Semper fi from Tennessee!
There use to be a ointment that we have used as kids, my mom put it on us, it was called musteraul. It had very strong mustard smell. It worked for burns, for cuts & for congestion. It really helped if your nose was all plugged up. It would really help your breathing. But you cant buy it anymore. It stunk but really worked. Something stupid I did was burn my hand with my flat iron. It was about 370 degrees. I immediately soaked a papertowel in alovera gel & wrapped my affected areas, left it on for like 3 hours. The blisters I had were really deep. But I kept putting on the alovera on everyday. Those blisters healed up & never came to th he surface. It totally amazed me & helped me realize what a powerful tool it is for burns.
I burned my right leg on an motor cycle tail pipe...it was bad the only water around was the Caribbean and before I thought it out i stepped right...my lord the burn.
i had seared the skin to the point that some was gone and it really really hurt....went to the doctor and he told me to go get some alone and put it on thick and cover..it healed but left a dark colored scar like a sunburn....the aloe did sooth it and I believe kept it clean.
Musterole us still available on Amazon! Small small jar! But I love the stuff!
I remember it well!
Mustard is also a quick relief for leg cramps. Now I have a new use for the packet I carry in my purse. The turmeric in mustard is amazing! Thanks for the info.
You're welcome!
i get leg cramps. what must we do - smear mustard paste all over the leg? can't use mustard powder I assume. just mix with water?
@abrogard142 You eat a tablespoon or two.
@@WayPointSurvival Thanks. You did a beauty with this vid. Best thing I've seen in a long time especially when taken with the hundreds of comments. It's kinda like a whole lesson session and friendly gabfest too. :)
Interesting! Knew about mustard packs on the chest because of personal experience…but didn’t know about it for burns. This would be harder to do out in the field, but if at home, coconut oil is incredible for burns. Several years ago I was making a thermos of tea. As I was pouring hot boiling water into the thermos, I slipped and it nailed me in the web of my left hand (between the thumb and index finger). I immediately got it under the cold running water for as long as I could stand it (it was winter time in Montana). When I couldn’t take the cold water any longer, I immediately started applying the coconut oil. As soon as it soaked in, I added more to the area. Did that the remainder of the day. By that night, the redness and soreness was gone. The next day, just to make sure, I put the coconut oil on probably 4/5 times throughout the day. No peeling, no scar…no indication that I had poured boiling hot water on that area.
I put a drop of 75% DMSO on small burns, cuts, and infections. Immediately kills pain, aids healing, prevents peeling/blisters
For Burns on the body, use shreaded potatoes. Overnight it removes the actual burning sensation as well as numbs the burn during the day.
Awesome. Everybody mess around with me because of potatoes. My hubby accidentally rub his fingers into his eyes after cutting chillies.. I was busy cutting potatoes. Grab 2 pieces and told him to lay down. On goes potatoes. His eyes was blood red. After a few min, new potatoes pieces. I think within 10mins or so, he was fine and all the hurt and redness was gone.
I always carry a roll of plastic food wrap in my car first aid kit for covering burns. It is pretty sterile and will help prevent fluid loss in bad burns and protect the wound from infection after the wound has been cooled with water.
That's a good resource also, as long as you take it off consistently enough to let it breathe and not build up bacteria.
Great idea! I wonder if Policemen carried it in their cars for people in wrecks, gun shots, would help until medical help arrived?? May help to slow the bleeding.
Saran/plastic wrap and tape can seal a sucking chest wound (like a stab wound to a lung causing it to collapse) until emts arrive.
This is known more than you think. I was told over 10 years ago while working at McDonalds to put mustard on my burn. I was told to leave it on, that the mustard would dry out and fall off. When it does, you will be good to go with no scaring. She was an older Mexican lady who i worked with.
Mustard poultice is a long standing old school remedy. Strains, rashes, infections as well. Humans and livestock. Amazing how the old becomes new and the young are amazed that “old folks” actually were smart even though smart phones weren’t even an idea yet.
When working in the food service industry I found mustard to be a fry cooks best friend. Once after splashing hot oil over my hand I wore a rubber glove I filled with mustard I was very surprised to find that after a few hours the pain was all but gone and had minimal blistering.
Yes, thanks for watching!
Try a fresh cut onion next time. The only problem is you have to hold it in place for about 30 minutes. But, this has been found to take the burn almost away. It does work really well for bad kitchen burns. I love the mustard and going to try this too... with the onion on a different spot to see which one works better next time. I loved the foil wrap idea and this makes sense to me and will be adding this to my kit too. Keep comfrey oil in your kitchen. If you didn't get to the burn fast enough.. use this to heal the wound in half the time. Just a few drops. Always seek professional help if possible. Nice to know alternatives just in case help isn't available. I have had deep cuts from accidents and used the comfrey and it healed my wounds almost overnight. Also, oregano oil is great for infections. This works better then triple antibiotic cream. Hope this helps. Love his videos.. always nice to learn something new.
I put honey on a burn and I didn't even get a birthday
I wish I had known that trick years ago. We had a fish and chip shop and once I accidently dipped my fingers in the oil. My skin just melted off and the pain was horrible. I had to keep my hand in cold ice water for 2 days.
@Puddles - He said only first degree burns.
this is the type of show I love watching , I love learning survival tips , and knowledge is power thanks WayPoint Survival
Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for watching.
Thank you and all the commenters. I never knew this about mustard, did know about honey for burns and insect bites. Once while outside talking to my neighbor my arm was resting on something and suddenly I felt pain and there were dozens of ants biting me. I ran inside the house and poured honey all over my arm. It was painful but within 15 minutes the pain gone, no redness or inflammation and couldn’t tell that I had been bitten. It was just gone! My neighbor couldn’t believe it.
Ive done this for years, little known trick in the food industry.
"Burn meat, cover in condiment, wrap leftovers in foil to save for later" lol
When I had double pneumonia my grandmother ground up fresh ginger, garlic, and mustard. Some other stuff I have no clue was also added. She rubbed my feet and covered them in it. She'd then wrap them in a cheese cloth or plastic wrap depending where we were. I'd say maybe 2-3 days would pass and I was 100% better and my pneumonia systems would be gone.
JUST as you were saying you learned this from an EMT friend I was typing that I am a NP (Nurse Practitioner) and have worked on 3 Continents and in 11 Countries, most of them 3rd world. THIS was one of MANY things I LEARNED from those I was there to teach and serve…..there is never a time in my life that I have EVER thought my education taught me “everything”…..I learned MORE from people with ZERO “formal” education than I feel that I did obtaining my Masters Degree.
You NAILED it Brother! Mustard is a natural pain killer and being a vasodilator, it also brings down a fever which most of us remember our parents or grandparents telling us they were about to put a “poultice” on and before we could ask “WHAT is a Poultice?” in our fevered stupor, we were usually losing consciousness from the smell of the Mustard Poultice LOL!
I am SOOOO glad I stumbled across your channel (or rather that YT’s algorithm worked for the FIRST time in a LONG time because I REALLY do NOT want to see a load of junk about how to make a wreath out of plastic flowers or braid my dang hair one more time!!!🙄) as I had forgotten about this one and it a GREAT item to put in your “Go Bag” or “SHTF Bag” as my Hubby calls it. Remember to add a few packages and CHECK THE EXPIRY DATE on these (they are usually on the crimp so grab that magnifying glass!) and to also add a couple pairs of rubber gloves (one for the person applying it and one for the unfortunate patient if it is a hand injury) as it will help to keep it as clean as possible depending on where you are. Also add some sterile water to rinse the area first as removing ANY dirt is imperative to the mustard reaching the highest efficacy (the best ones for a ‘go bag’ are those single use sterile eye drops that come in a pack of 10 with the tear off tops.) and also some sterile 2x2’s or 4x4’ and a roll of sterile gauze and tape. ALL of which should be in your “go bag” too (or your trailer if you are camping).
THANK YOU so much for sharing this as I had forgotten about it and it WORKS! One of my ER docs is Ice Climber addict and he got an “ice burn” (look it up, they HURT much like a steam burn they burn twice, once when the ice/steam goes IN and again when it comes/melts out.) and he immediately grabbed this out of his waist bag and used it and he said it saved a large part of his hand. He took biopsies of the skin each time he changed the ‘dressing’ and that IS absolutely a pun…which he said from his personal findings and what he saw under the microscope for bacteria counts, that it would be best to change it every 12 hours if possible. Just an FYI as most people will react in different ways to mustard and some people it is completely ineffective on so if you want to know if mustard will work for you or not, the next time you get a paper cut (shiver), put some mustard on it and then a bandaid so your wife doesn’t kill you for leaving yellow all over the house, and change the bandaid and mustard every 12 hours and see how it heals but most importantly, you SHOULD know if it does work for you within the first hour because of the pain killing factors of yellow mustard, if that paper cut (shiver) doesn’t hurt after an hour, you are most likely a good candidate for this treatment if the chips are down (again, pun intended lol) if the mustard takes the pain away in the first hour or less of application of the mustard.
GREAT JOB!!! (And new sub!!! We can NEVER stop learning or what’s the point in living?!❤🙏🏻).
Thank you so much for the wonderful comment and the great information! Also, thanks for subscribing and welcome aboard!
Another benefit to using foil is that it blocks air flow. I have found that mild burns are more painful when left exposed to air. I keep a burn covered only until the pain becomes tolerable. If I were out in the wild, I would consider covering the foil with a glove to help hold the foil in place and protect it from damage if I need to keep using that hand.
I’ve actually known this for over 25 years. I actually learned it from Native Americans. Mustard seed and vinegar was a great healer. I can tell you from personal experience I dropped my left hand into fryer grease. Then dunked it into a huge jar of mustard. My job was willing to let me use. Not only did I not scar. It never blistered. You never know looking at my hand today that I had such a severed burn.
They learned to use it after it was brought to North America, if what you say is true, and was used for a lot of things in Europe and Asia, long before it ever came to North America. Mustard poultices go way way back, maybe one of the first medicines ever used by 'humans'.
Did it ease the pain also or was it just healing effect?
Thank you. My wife has been doing the mustard thing for at LEAST 30 years. Point of fact, I learned it from her. No blisters, no scars, nothing.
@@c.rogers4394 complete bull shit
@@TomRedFM I'd ask how you got it but I'm fairly certain that I do NOT want to know.
:54 "I carry a pack of yellow Heinz catsup" lol. I had to replay it to make sure I heard it right and then quit laughing to finish the rest of your very helpful video. Thanks too for the laugh!
Yes, I definitely misspoke when I said ketchup. After I said the word heinz, my mind and mouth just went into autopilot, LOL.
NPR a few weeks ago had an article about treatments used in 3rd world country hospitals that don't have modern equipment. For 2nd and 3rd degree burns, they apply fish skin and leave it on until the burn heals. Our hospitals apply bandages and remove them daily and apply fresh bandages. This is extremely painful and actually tears the new skin which slows healing. The skin heals more quickly with less trauma under the fish skin which also protects from infection.
Yes, I have heard of that. It's very interesting what people come up with when they don't have access to Modern Medical means.
As soon as I heard you mention it I knew it had to work. Almost nothing dissipates heat like aluminum. There are so many forgotten old time remedies. Excellent video, keep them coming.
Yes, and they've been using aluminum foil on burn victims since the 1940s.
So wrapping my cooked hot dogs in foil actually makes them colder? Time to break out the thermal camera to test that…
@@helpdeskjnp that actually sounds like a neat experiment. I would think the foil would keep it warmer longer than if it wasn't wrapped. But I wonder which hot dog would cool faster, a wrapped and unwrapped hot dog.
@Jeffrey Whitlatch As soon as I get my thermal camera back I will be testing it. Probably this weekend and I will let you know. We usually have hotdogs for lunch at the airsoft game I play at. And they wrap the whole thing bun and all in foil. We shall see. I will let you know what I find. Thanks!
@@helpdeskjnp I sure like the way you think. I think there would be a difference of the shiny side of foil facing the hot dog versus the dull side facing the hot dog. I think the shiny side will retain more heat in the wrap then the dull side facing the hot dog .👍
When we were teenagers and our friend was working at a hot dog stand we learned about the yellow mustard for burns ! Adding the foil really makes this even better, thank you 👍
NOTE: I misspoke when I called it ketchup. I said the word Heinz and ketchup just automatically followed, lol. Anyway, here is a little known first aid trick that I wanted to pass along to you. I know the title is a bit hyperbole, but I think it is appropriate for the most part as there are many who are unaware of the advantages to having these couple of simple first aid items in their kit. Thanks for watching and give me a thumbs up (or a thumbs down 🙂) if you wish!
That's pretty slick kinda like cayenne powder dbl as a blood stopped.
I learn stuff from you all the time. It's a shame there is so much out there most people don't know because it has been lost.
USE WHITE TOOTH PASTE COOLS THE BURN ,WITH TOOTH PASTE TRY TO USE A GAUZE
Very impressive indeed, thanks.
Very interesting . Mustard good to have around sounds like. Hmmm I wonder if ingesting it gives some of the same benefits.
Very informative, thank you. FYI honey is also a great condiment to keep around. I used it on a infected cut and within half an hour the swelling and redness had gone down considerably. I had been using a triple antibiotic cream to no effect and gave honey a try as a last resort before going to the hospital.
Yes honey is an absolutely amazing substance when it comes to healing various wounds. Thanks for watching.
Honey is a great antibiotic but so is sugar of any kind! I use either granulated sugar, honey or almost any source of sugar. In a pinch, a hard candy like a fruit flavored Lifesaver works great; just pop it in your mouth for a moment or two to get it ready. Add a Bandaid to keep it clean… Done!
They actually make a honey compound to treat wounds in nursing
Also honey for surgical. Manuka Tobe specific
I wish I knew about this. Would have been handy as I was a welder for thirty years.
When I was a young boy, we always spent the weekends at granny's house. I had a cold, and granny put a mustard pack on my chest and told the other kids she was going to eat me. They all ran outside and hid in the field across the road. Granny and I had a real good laugh about that. It does work. I can remember it made my breathing easier.
@Larry Clarke: You're talking about a mustard poultice for your chest to ease the effects of a cold. Your Grandma obviously knew how to heal without modern medicine. My own Grandma was born in the Indian Territories of what is now Oklahoma in 1899. Grandma knew every plant, herb, tree, bark, or root with healing properties. She could make tinctures, salves, poultices, powder, teas, or dried herbs & root to heal about anything.
@@nerblebun WoW.. My gramma was born On the Thessalon Indian Reserve near Thunder Bay Ontario Canada in 1986.. She was full blood.. my mom second gen and I am third Generation Ojibwa... I am Caucasian . I am trying to get my Indian status.. lots of paper work..
@@larryclarke2872: My Grandfather was also born in Indian Territory on an Osage Reservation in 1900. Grandma was Caucasian of French decent, last name LaRoe. My biological father, as far as I know, is Scotch/Irish. Didn't meet him til I had a family of my own & don't know much about his side of the family. I'm a mutt.
Best of luck in your efforts obtaining Indian status.
@@larryclarke2872 your grandmother was born in 1986? That would make her about 35 yrs old, your mom might be about 20 if she was born when your granny was 15, and that would make you about 5 years old if your mother had you at 15. Did you have help responding to this video? LOL... I'm just messing with you. But seriously I think you misplaced your finger when you were responding to the feller you were talking to...
@@ThePatrick42044 Ha Ha Ha I'm sorry…that should have said 1886... My mistake.... now I feel silly, and the whole world can see... Thank you for pointing this out to me… Gee! What a dweb I can be... bet you had a good laugh ... Thank you, Patrick
Honey works well too. Takes a couple of minutes to work, but it heals burns amazingly fast.
I guess mustard is what most people have in there homes even though both may work. also a lot of honey is fake and you must know
I actually knew the mustard burn trick but I always thought it was because it had vinegar in it! Had no idea that mustard was that interesting. I will have to try the tinfoil thing next time I get a burn 🔥 Great video!
When I worked with a blowtorch and melted glass I would sometimes get a bad burn. I used the oil squeezed out of vitamin E capsules on the burns and cover the burn with a bandaid that had the gauze pad soaked in the vitamin E. The next day there was no pain and no blister. And no scarring. These were no first degree burns.
It also works on burns from cooking.( for some reason I burned myself more in the kitchen and with the torch)
It also works amazingly on sunburns. My son, a redhead, once got a nasty sunburn at the beach that covered him in blisters before we even left the beach. Put the E on him as soon as we got home and the next day he had no pain and no blisters and the peeling was minimal. I used to suffer from the pain of sunburn for days until I started using vitamin E.
I found out about the usefulness of vitamin E on burns from a study in Canada of using it on burn patients.
thanks to the powers in charge for it being vitamin E and not D, or that bit about your son would be pretty brutal.
Yes, vitamin E is good as well. I got cut on the face by a boat prop and put vitamin E on the cuts. Now few even notice the scar.
@@Amares69 I did not mention vitamin D. Vitamin D was not the vitamin mentioned in the Canadian study of the effect of vitamin E on burns, so I wouldn't have even thought of using vitamin D. Did you just think I grabbed the nearest vitamin container and start slathering it on my son? Nope. I knew it worked because I had tried it on my own sunburn before that. And when I accidentally put my hand in the blowtorch flame and got second degree burns (I assume they were second degree since my skin looked like cooked meat) it worked on that too with no scarring. It works better than aloe vera and tea compresses because by the next day there is no pain and it heals fast. That other stuff just makes it feel better for a little while and the pain returns. I hate burns and I prefer to use something that heals and stops pain. Anything else is a waste of time.
@@erad67 that's nice to know. Since it works so well on burns and makes them heal up fast it should work on other skin injuries. I was thinking of using it on my skin for injuries just the other day. I didn't have any injuries but if I did get some I was going to try it. I am glad it worked well for you. I haven't heard of any doctors using it for anything. Wonder why.
@@susanfarley1332 r/woosh
I have found that putting plain whole milk yoghurt onto a burn, then rinsing it off after a few minutes is wonderful. This even helps to prevent scarring. Once, years ago, when I was camping, and did not have access to a number of things that might have been nice to have, I burned my hand in the fire I had made to cook supper. There were a number of maple trees nearby, and I just wanted something cool to wrap the burn in, so that I could continue to put our meal together, so I took a few leaves and wrapped my hand in them. They were surprisingly soothing.
Thank you for watching, and sharing your experiences.
Very impressive. You never know when a skill like this will give you comfort when desperately needed. Thank you my friend.
All my life I've read and heard about mustard plasters but I always thought it was for fever. Good to know about this other way of use. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
I've tried telling everyone about this mustard "hack" for at least 20 years and most people blow it off until I asked them to at least try it. Then they were like, I can't believe this works. So, thank you for posting this video, at least now I have proof. :)
Indeed, there are so many skeptics until they have actually tried it.
I've always used a rubber glove and it's worked well withlut any lost of the mustard. The additionial moisture helps the mustard permeate into the wound much better than foil
My mother shared this tip with me years ago. We did it a little differently by caking a good bit of mustard on the burn. By the time the mustard dries over and starts to separate or crack it can be washed off and feels better. I will try the aluminum foil with it next time, because there’s always a next time with burns.
Thanks for this video, as I was one of the people who "didn't know" about this. And I love mustard and aluminum foil, so I will always have this at home.
If someone doesn't have these at home, but has pure honey (made in the U.S.), this can help "band aid" the burn while drawing out the heat (or something like that).
I accidently poured boiling water on my thumb and forefinger and after an argument with my roommate regarding which methods are best for this (between honey and professionally produced burn spray medicine), I applied honey to one half of the burn, and the spray to the other.
The honey half experienced more pain while the heat was drawn out of it (or something like that), BUT it healed about twice as fast as the burn spray side.
Next time I accidentally burn myself again like that, I will use honey on one side, and mustard/aluminum foil on the other and see which works best.
Thanks again.
My grandmother used to use mustard powder and make a paste. When I had a cough, she would spread the paste on a cheese cloth and lay it on my chest to heat it and draw out any infection. Also breathing it helped. The over the counter alternative for this was Vicks vapor rub. I hated doing it, but it was effective.
Another way to pull out the heat from a burn, is immediately immerse the burnt body part in cold water.
Very true. You can also use the water from your canteen if it is cool enough. Thank you for watching.
Blain is right... but he should not have said "another way" mustard does not pull heat out from a burn. Butter does not pull heat out from a burn. Nothing "pulls" heat out from a burn. A burn is the same as grilling meat. Putting mustard, butter or whatever on hot flesh is just basting it. The goal is to reduce the temperature of the flesh as fast as possible. Ice bath, cold water, whatever you have to reduce the temperature of the burned tissue and stop the damage (cooking) from continuing.
@@kated6780 Actually, Waypoint Survival said the Tin Foil removed the heat from the burn.
Ice is good too
Rapid immersion in cold water is one of the best things you can do for a burn.
The same musterd is great for heart burn.
Another tip is tea bags on a sunburn after tea is cooled. The tea seems to neutralize the burn sensation and feels soothing. Add if you have a cramp, just pinch your hair lip under your nose and this releases the cramp...this is acupressure that powers over the cramp.
Good to know!
Cool! We use unsweetened applesauce.
My husband got a second degree burn from touching the side of his hand on a very hot pan - immediate large blister. We dumped a mini- carton of unsweetened applesauce on it, loosely wrapped his hand in gauze to hold the applesauce in place, and covered it with a plastic bag taped in place further up his arm. Two days later, we removed it all, washed it off, and presto - no more burn, no more blister - his former burn wasn't even pink.
My husband’s father from Amsterdam was an engineer on a cargo ship. He accidentally cut off the end of a finger while operating machinery in the 1920’s. The ship’s Chinese cook/medical officer put warm olive oil un the ends of the finger & severed piece of the finger (no bone involved), pressed the severed part back in place, slipped a brass bushing over his finger, wrapped it up, left it for a few days, and his finger was mended.
Thanks for the great anecdotes and for watching the video!
Can't preach about this one enought...My best friend taught me this when we first met 25 years ago working at a restaurant (though I never used foil; just mustard). EVERYBODY in my universe throughout the years have thought me bananas... until they get a burn. In 25 years, I have never gotten a burn scar. I once stuck my ENTIRE HAND in a DEEP FRYER! By the time the paramedics got there, my entire hand was encased after dunking it into one of those restaurant sized mustard vats. The paramedics were like, "WTF are you doing?!" Couple hours later... no pain, no burn... I think I had two or three tiny blisters... and my hand was stained for a couple of days.
I bet those paramedics think about that to this day! I bet they've read about it and even tried it! 😉
Angela come on, you never stuck your entire hand in a deep fryer and didn't have any pain or burn. That is just a plain lie. I get your point but let's not be ridiculous.
@@skylark4901 I'm not sure you could forget a sobbing lunatic teenager sitting with her hand in a gallon tub of mustard, lol.
You literally said, "a couple hours later...no pain, no burn". Not sure how I pulled that out of thin air...