mostly like chicken soup
Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on August 29, 2001 at 13:35:03:
In reply to: Does Henna have healing properties? posted by Michelle on August 29, 2001 at 13:12:04:
People have used henna as a skin conditioner because it will preventdessication and it may be it is mildly antifungal and antibacterial.
If you're in a very arid place and have some epidermal injury henna
may help the body heal itself by keeping the skin moist and flexible,
and deter infection. Many plants are a bit antifungal and
antibacterial, so that's nothing unusual.
Though henna has been used for many other things, its mostly a
"chicken soup" category medication. That is to say ... very
comforting, very traditional, grandma always did it that way ... but
probably not verifiably effective as a medication.
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