How to Heal a Broken Bone – Wise Home Life

Poor quality picture, but this shows swelling which was instant after trauma. Pouring rain, muddy boots, slipped down steps, wrist took brunt of fall while trying to brace myself. My one mistake here was to not set wrist immediately, thinking it was just sprained. Instead, I finished all my livestock chores, first.

First choice of healing herbs would have been plantain, comfrey or docks but none were available here in February so I used Lamb’s Ear. At this point, I only knew of lamb’s ear’s antimicrobial properties, did not know, but hoped it had bone and soft tissue healing properties. I read this later: “Historically, Lambs Ear herb was used to help reduce swelling of injured or inflamed joints and muscles and was gathered when the plant was in flower and dried for later use.”

Chewed the Lamb’s Ear to mix my salivary enzymes in with it, then bruised the leaves more and placed them on swelling. Covered with plastic bag to hold wet leaves in place.

Wrapped sock around wrist for warmth and cushion. Used three sticks of fire kindling as splints and baling twine to secure in place. Improvise, adapt, overcome. This splint felt SO good because it stabilized the bone. Incredible relief.

While I was choring I was thinking and looking for items to use for stablizing and healing, by then, knowing it was more than a sprain. Did I mention pain yet? Excruciating, sharp pains barely describe it. Zero range of motion. Swelling. Chills. Throbbing. Radiating ache.
At midnight I got up and took more White Willow Bark and also took Kava Kava. Within 20 minutes the Kava had increased my body temp and chills were gone. That allowed me to sleep.

Day 2, after I’d determined it was a fracture of the radius I developed a plan of action.
BFC Caps (Bone Flesh Cartilage) for bone and soft tissue repair.
Jarrow’s Bone-Up – bone density support
Cat’s Claw – antiinflammatory
Cannabis tincture – antiinflammtory, bone builder
GoL Vitamin C spray – collagen support
Arnica200c – pain
Kava – relaxant, warmth, sleep aid, pain
St John’s Wort – nerve/immune support
Cannabis for pain – (boy did THAT help)
Selenium
MSM
DMSO major anti-inflammatory
Lots of bone broth and raw milk.

Marked off how far pain radiates. This photo was taken 24 hrs after trauma. Still swollen but reduced. Still high pain.

Pretty much swollen from knuckles to halfway up the forearm. I deduced radius fracture because the pain was not coming from scaphoid or other small, lower palm bones, or ulna. Chills usually come with a broken bone, not soft tissue sprain. The zero range of motion continuing 24 hours later with chills tells me it’s bone, not soft tissue. The fact I can’t feel the radius shifting or grinding inside upon palpation or twisting indicates it’s closely aligned. This is self-diagnosis. For children or others who cannot tell what they’re dealing with, I would suggest Xrays so you’d know how to set the bone (or let allopaths set it.)

Picked up a splint with very rigid support. This will be my “cast” until the bone heals. The supplements will hasten healing.

So grateful for bringing two shemaghs to this job as one worked to keep arm warm and other worked well as a sling for elevation to keep blood from pooling in hand.