WATER TREATMENTS:
1. Starch bath, once a day.
2. Use dry starch or gawgaw as powder if the skin is itchy and dry at night
3. Don't use soap when taking a bath; take a starch bath instead. Don't rub
the skin with towel to dry the skin.
4. Don't scratch the skin when itchy.
HERBAL MEDICATIONS:
1. comfrey leaves
. Crush leaves and extract the juice.
= Apply the juice on the affected skin, 3 times a day.
2. Balete bark
. Boil one cup of chopped bark in 1/2 gallon of water for 10 minutes.
= Wash area with decoction , 2 times a day. This may be done instead
of the starch bath.
3. Kalatsutsi sap
. Get the sap from the trunk and mix with a few drops of oil.
= Apply directly on the affects skin.
4. Kakawete leaves
. Crush 10 leaves and extract the juice.
= Apply the juice on the itchy skin but do not rub.
Apply as often as neccesary for itchiness.
