Tumeric for Accident Soreness

Hello fellow green folk:),

Just a quick post tonight. I've been pretty preoccupied with canvassing for Moveon.org and the Obama campaign. It's beautiful work. I love being outside and meeting people and especially getting them excited about voting. That's very awesome.

It's amazing that this work is really re-invigorating me to want to be involved in herbal education again - particularly with children. I have so many ideas. I'm thinking about whipping up a proposal for someplace. I'm waiting for the idea to totally form;-).

Wellpers, what I wanted to definitely write about is this. Day before yesterday I was in an icky car accident. Things weren't horribly bad, but I did walk away with an achy back, leg, and stiffish neck. I definitely didn't want to go for pain killers, especially because I knew that my kitchen witch in me knew a better source.

My intuition kept suggesting paprika which I do think would have been a great choice. However, I didn't have any BUT as I looked for it I found Tumeric! Tumeric is awesome for sprains and bruised muscles. So I poured some lavender infused oil in my hand and sprinkled a good portion of Tumeric into it and rubbed it deeply into all the sore spots.

By the end of the day, the soreness had subsided considerably and I was able to walk a whole bunch that day. Towards the beginning of the day, I wasn't sure if I was going to make it up the hill:).

Yay for Tumeric:).

Here are the pictures I captured from the accident: http://www.photoblog.com/missleah/2008/10/06/car-crash.html

Here's some info on kitchen herbs from me: http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art21352.asp

and from someone else:): http://vanithagohi.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/home-remedies-for-sprain/