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So I was at a construction site today and one of the workers stepped on a nail. Of course, this being Nepal, he wasn't wearing a hard hat, gloves, steel toe boots, or safety glasses. He was just wearing a pair of pants and a shirt and sandals. So naturally the nail went right through his sandals and into the bottom of his foot. It all looked very painful and I'm sure it was.
But what he did next astounded me. His friend calmly pulled out a matchbox and proceeded to remove the red match powder and apply it on the wound. Before I could yell at them to stop the madness he lit a match and then put it on the match powder on the wound. And then poof. His foot was on fire. For 5 seconds at least.
I'm no doctor so I don't know - were these guys insane or does lighting a wound help heal it faster?
But what he did next astounded me. His friend calmly pulled out a matchbox and proceeded to remove the red match powder and apply it on the wound. Before I could yell at them to stop the madness he lit a match and then put it on the match powder on the wound. And then poof. His foot was on fire. For 5 seconds at least.
I'm no doctor so I don't know - were these guys insane or does lighting a wound help heal it faster?
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aawartan
No, it does not. In fact it increases the healing time of the wound (that is if does not get killed by tetanus). Moreover, the tip of the nail went right through so there is no point in doing something on the surface. Nothing to be surprised about because there still are a lot of places in our country where they put dust on a fresh cut wound to stop bleeding. (And putting mud on the wound is a sure way to get tetanus.)
I guess it's supposed to kill the germs.
7 months ago