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robot
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 Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 8:17 am Post subject: Eggs as a cure for bruises? |
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My wife, while sitting on a wonky office chair yesterday, wiped out quite dramatically and is now sporting quite the sizeable bruise on her back.
For the past half hour tonight she's had me rubbing this cold egg from the fridge (still in the shell) across the welt. Apparently that's what you commonly do in Asia -- a Naver search finds that protein or something-or-other from the egg is supposed to suck out the bad stuff from your bruise. And apparently it's bad to eat the egg afterward, as it's full of the badness.
This home remedy strikes me as a little suspect, yet I keep rolling the egg back and forth. Is it just the soothing coldness that helps, and if so wouldn't ice be better? Or is there something more to eggs that Eastern medicine has picked up on? A google on this topic doesn't shed much light, so I was wondering if anyone else has ever heard of the egg treatment... |
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amo_jh
Joined: 21 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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prolly is just soothing coldness, which I think is better than ice since egg is all round and nice, and not too cold.
maybe you can ask an eastern medicine doctor about it.. |
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Letiz7
Joined: 29 Jan 2007
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You can't suck out badness! The bruise is a sign that your body is dealing with it. Blood vessels and stuff.
Tell her to sleep next to a fan on 3.... |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 4:12 pm Post subject: Re: Eggs as a cure for bruises? |
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| robot wrote: |
My wife, while sitting on a wonky office chair yesterday, wiped out quite dramatically and is now sporting quite the sizeable bruise on her back.
For the past half hour tonight she's had me rubbing this cold egg from the fridge (still in the shell) across the welt. Apparently that's what you commonly do in Asia -- a Naver search finds that protein or something-or-other from the egg is supposed to suck out the bad stuff from your bruise. And apparently it's bad to eat the egg afterward, as it's full of the badness.
This home remedy strikes me as a little suspect, yet I keep rolling the egg back and forth. Is it just the soothing coldness that helps, and if so wouldn't ice be better? Or is there something more to eggs that Eastern medicine has picked up on? A google on this topic doesn't shed much light, so I was wondering if anyone else has ever heard of the egg treatment... |
Treatment for the injury is cold to reduce the bleeding (a bruise is just a contusion below the skin) and thereby reduce the swelling.
An ice pack may be uncomfortable but would also work. |
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merkurix
Joined: 21 Dec 2006
Location: Not far from the deep end.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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| This sounds very similar to egg-cleansing Santeria rituals of the Caribbean. |
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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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| Don't Westerners put raw steaks on black eyes? (Example: Hagrid in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," after his half-brother beat him up?) |
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