[Fwd: Fw: CAFL and brown recluse]

October 30, 2007

> I wanted to share something. I was browsing the CAFL and came across

> Brown_recluse_spider bite. It said also to take lots if echinacea and

> vitamin C.

>

> I had one of those bites about two years ago. I took up to 40g of

> synthetic C

> (no bioflavinoids) per day. I didn't know about the echinacea. (I now

> take C with the bios.)

>

> Anyway the inflamation just creeped along getting bigger and bigger.

> After a week

> it was a little bigger than a silver dollar and itched bad the entire

> time.

>

> I got frustrated, worried and annoyed. I scanned google for about 5

> hours and found

> a short little paragraph about a woman whose husband had one on his

> foot I think.

> She took a handful of MSM (cheap and at the health food store) put it

> in a bucket of

> water or something and presto.

>

> The next day I made a sort of supersaturated poultice and I got presto

> too!

>

> Within 15 minutes the haloed welt was gone and what was left looked

> like mosquito bite.

> And NO itching. Within a few days the little red spot gone.

>

> I just had to share that, it was amazing.

>

> Thank you for your site -- I love it!

>

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