You Can Learn From Wounds
Wounds, whether physical or emotional, always leave a scar on a person. You have to manage to live with the scars and know how to learn from them.
When we have a painful, bleeding wound, our first thought is that something has gone wrong. The next thing is that we can still survive.
Experience teaches us that we all bleed when we are pricked and that we have to get away from what is punctured or learn to avoid it.
The body also learns that recovery comes after the injury and that sometimes you have to stop along the way and take a break to recover and reflect on what has happened.
It is important to know the great capacity of the body to heal wounds, to heal and restore damaged tissues.
To heal a wound, reduce discomfort and avoid complications, it will be necessary to use everything we know: from sutures, topical adhesives, bloodless suture bands, polyurethane films, dressings or gauze, to ointments or ointments that help the healing and prevent infection.
Plants such as St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum), aloe (Aloe vera), calendula (Calendula officinalis), cat’s claw (Uncaria guianensis) and gotu kola (Hidrocotile asiatica), or sugar and quality honey.
But we must know that the best treatment is to trust the body itself and that the second in effectiveness is to clean the wound with clean water – better than any antiseptic – and let it air dry.
Scars to remember
It is important to see the positive side of life and the wound, especially if you have undergone operations for serious injuries or if you are a mother who has had a cesarean section or a complicated episiotomy.
The scar leaves a memory to warn of the experience of the injury and the memory of past pain may be marked by the fear that it will recur.
Scars remind us of the body’s regenerative capacity, our ability to survive and overcome the strongest attacks and aggressions.
All life-threatening situations entail serious psychological stress. Sometimes health professionals are not aware of the psychological suffering that these situations can generate.
Often you can experience sadness or anger, or think that the body or reflexes have failed us and that we have been injured for that reason … or even that we will not be able to respond to a new situation.
But it happens that the following situation is no longer the same and that the body has acquired experience to deal with it.
Recommendations to heal wounds
- The wound produces sadness, which is sometimes increased by the weakness caused by the hemorrhage or the same aggression or trauma. And burnout can intensify those feelings and lead to depression.
- Talking about the feelings surrounding a wound makes it easier to heal emotionally and physically. By speaking, we pass on our experience and learn from it.
- The wound cleansing with water can also help both physically and emotionally.
