Cool/Cold Bag for First Aid, Better Than Ice
photo by kiwidutch
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 2
- Yields:
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1 bag
ingredients
- 1⁄2 - 1 lb cherries, pips (250-500g)
- 1 small cloth, bag
directions
- Eat the cherries, keep the pips but discard the stems.
- Soak the cherry pips in water for an hour to soften the residue on them, then boil them until they are clean.
- Cool and dry them well.
- Sew a square or rectangular pillow from a soft cotton fabric, leaving a small opening so that you can fill it with the cherry pips.
- Fill and then sew the opening closed.
- Keep the bag in your freezer to use on all swellings and bruises.
- Excellent for painful insect bites because it's cold enough to give relief but not enough to burn with cold. It's amazingly comfortable too. Can NOT be used as a heat pad, so don't microwave it.
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Reviews
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I wanted to add something, since i use my Cherry-Pad also as a heat pad, and actually a lot of people do in Germany. You can actually buy these cherry pads in heatlh stores. This method of having a cold bag or a hot bag is indeed quite common used in Germany. I love it - especially in the winter time when i just put it in my microwave for 3 minutes and it warms me (or when i have cystitis - what a relief!).
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kiwidutch
Netherlands