Using tea tree oil for boils and cuts etc.

[Cainkane1]

I bought a bottle of tea tree oil after I discovered a boil on my shoulder. It seems to have drawn the pus to the surface and dried the wound up. For instance, the pus is now clotting and the would is healing well.

The boil opened and then I started using iodine.

Anyone else have experiences using tea tree oil?

 

[MRC_Hans]

I bought a bottle of tea tree oil after I discovered a boil on my shoulder. It seems to have drawn the pus to the surface and dried the wound up. For instance, the pus is now clotting and the would is healing well.

The boil opened and then I started using iodine.

Anyone else have experiences using tea tree oil?

No experience. However, isn't that the usual way boils behave?

Hans

 

[Steve001]

You need two boils, one a control boil for obvious reasons I hope you realize.

 

[EHocking]

No experience. However, isn't that the usual way boils behave?

Hans

Pretty much.

Teatree oil has some antibacterial properties, in some applications, but that'd be only useful after the boil has burst I would have thought.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Pus doesn't clot.

Tea tree oil smells something gawdawful, making it difficult to use if you plan on any contact with other people, like going to work.

If it's not serious, a hot-wet-pack a few times a day would have taken care of it. If it doesn't go away, an antibiotic will do more than some untested remedy. That is unless you have a randomized clinical trial where the oil was tested.

 

[Shiner]

I bought a bottle of tea tree oil after I discovered a boil on my shoulder. It seems to have drawn the pus to the surface and dried the wound up. For instance, the pus is now clotting and the would is healing well.

The boil opened and then I started using iodine.

Anyone else have experiences using tea tree oil?

I've used it most of my life. The essential oil, and as an "active ingredient" in various antiseptic creams, ointments, etc. It's used in burn creams too.

No idea if it helps or not.

This is ten years old now. I think there are more products on the shelves these days containing melaleuca extract than there were ten years ago.

A wealth of in vitro data now supports the long-held beliefs that TTO has antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties. Despite some progress, there is still a lack of clinical evidence demonstrating efficacy against bacterial, fungal, or viral infections. Large randomized clinical trials are now required to cement a place for TTO as a topical medicinal agent.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1360273/