I wonder if this could have been an Aloe plant? Aloe is a great healer but I don't know if it would draw out pus, etc. I sure would like to know what the English name of this is! About 20 years ago we had a neighbor who had some Cherokee heritage and they used camphor to diminish bruises. We started using it and it really seems to work! I'm very interested in using plants/herbs for healing. Any one else have any family hints/receipes? Polly Lacy At 10:02 AM 2/21/97 +0000, you wrote: >Back in Vienna when I was a child we had this big potplant with long sort >of fleshy leaves. And whenever one of the family suffered a grazed knee >or any other injury which started to fester my mother would get a leave of >that plant put it between two bits of clean white rags beat it with a >knife handle so the green juice would use through and cover the infected >part with it. This application would draw out all puss and assorted >poison. We called that plant Meerzwiebel, I have no English translation. >But I do remember it worked very well. > >Lotte Evans > >
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