| This is one of those very simple home remedies that | | | | Let it dry then wet it through the gauze with pure |
| will just wow you! We've all probably heard horror | | | | water, preferably steam distilled (not hot). Leave it on, |
| stories about brown recluse spider bites and how | | | | wetting it then letting it dry and changing the paste and |
| deadly they can be. What a shame that people | | | | dressing once a day until all of the poison is drawn out |
| suffer from such things when such an easy remedy is | | | | and the wound heals. |
| available! | | | | I used this on my bite area which had been there for |
| I had a spider bite a while back that I knew was | | | | several days and was getting continously larger. It |
| poisonous but I didn't know which spider it was so I | | | | worked like a charm. A few months later a friend of |
| went online searching for information. Here's what I | | | | mine showed up with what was obviously a brown |
| found: | | | | recluse bite that she said had just occurred about an |
| For brown recluse spiders and most other poisonous | | | | hour earlier and was already ulcerating and was very |
| spiders there is no anti-venom because venom is too | | | | painful. I used this remedy on her. She said it |
| hard to come by. So doctors cannot counteract the | | | | immediately hurt less when I applied the bentonite |
| effects of the poison - they can only administer a | | | | clay/goldenseal paste and that it completely healed the |
| topical anti-bacterial ointment and pain killer to help deal | | | | bite area within two or three days. These products |
| with the symptoms. I did not find any information that | | | | cost very little, keep well in your medicine |
| told how to effectively deal with a brown recluse or | | | | cabinet, have NO dangerous side effects, and work |
| any other poisonous spider bite. So I went to my | | | | quickly and effectively on poisonous bites. The |
| local health food store and asked the attendant at the | | | | bentonite clay draws the poison out through the skin |
| counter for suggestions. He told me to take: | | | | and the goldenseal protects from bacterial infection at |
| 2 parts Bentonite Clay and | | | | the site. (The goldenseal does have a strong odor, |
| 1 part Goldenseal Powder | | | | though. If you need to be in a public place, you might |
| Add enough water to make a paste | | | | want to use just the clay until you get home. |
| Smear it on a clean piece of gauzeand tape it in place. | | | | |