CHILBLAINS AND COLD FEET 2
Do this every morning for several days in a row. If you have no balcony or veranda and have to leave your house to do your snow-walking, wear warm slippers to go outside, remove them quickly and start stamping around in the snow, preferably fresh snow. If at all possible, dry your feet vigorously with a towel before replacing your slippers to go back inside. Again, this treatment should be repeated for several days and you will be surprised to see how the chilblains disappear.
In order to prevent a return of the problem the following winter, soak your feet (for at least twenty minutes) regularly during the summer months in water to which wild thyme or hay flowers {hayseed) have been added. It is also helpful to go barefoot whenever possible so as to toughen up your feet.
You can also rub your feet with lemon juice. Let them dry naturally and then apply oil, olive oil being the best. In other areas, especially in the north, it is customary to use paraffin instead of lemon, although the smell is not as pleasant.
If you live near a place where cheese is made you may be able to obtain whey, which can be added to a foot bath. Sour whey is to be preferred to sweet for this purpose because of its more powerful action. These foot baths, although recommended for the summer period, can also be taken in winter as an alternative to the hot and cold baths or snow-walking. The water for the foot bath should be kept at blood temperature (37 °C/98.6 °F) by adding hot water whenever necessary; you can also, of course, add a decoction of herbs. The feet should be immersed for about thirty minutes and then rubbed with lemon. Finally, apply a poultice of pulped cabbage leaves and leave this on overnight. This treatment will not only do wonders for your chilblains, but will also be helpful when you suffer from skin eruptions.
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