Self heal has a number of documented uses and it is often used to help various blood problems and sores.

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Individual Herbal Remedies:	Size	Description	Price
Self Heal	50ml bottle	Bleeding, soreness, swelling	£7.95
Self Heal	100ml bottle	Bleeding, soreness, swelling	£11.95

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The following article is reproduced with kind permission of P.Topham, U.S. Nutritional and Herbal Researcher:

Self heal and its many uses

Self Heal is native to Europe, North America and Asia. It is a perennial plant (lasting all year round). Self Heal has a creeping rhizome (root system), square stems, and oblong leaves that have sharply toothed edges and a shinny dark-green surface.

Its compact spikes of lipped, violet flowers appear from midsummer to early autumn at the tips of the stems, with a pair of stalkless leaves beneath, like a collar.

How self heal gets its name

The name Self Heal describes the herb very well. The whole of the herb can be used and in the middle ages self heal was considered one of the best wound-healing remedies.

Because of this it was also known as carpenters' herb and used to treat numerous types of cuts and abrasions that carpenters inevitably received.

Today, self heal is mainly used as a styptic (helping to contract the blood vessels or tissues).

Self heal can be used externally direct upon bleeding wounds, and internally for ulcers, internal bleeding and sore throats.

Chinese medicine prescribes self heal for high blood pressure, conjunctivitis, oedema (swelling with water retention), abscesses and swellings.

This herb is not as well known as many other popular ones, but self heal is really a little known secret.

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