How to Make Black Drawing Salve for Boils, Wounds and Tick Bites

Having a cluster of deeply embedded boils, wounds, or tick bites are pretty bad. If you are new to herbal remedies and treatments, then you might not have heard about black salve. 

What is Black Drawing Salves?

If prepared well, black drawing salve is one of the most incredible herbal remedies to eliminate toxins, slivers, impurities, and other materials that find their way under the surface of your skin. Black salve is a herbal treatment option for boils, wounds, tick bites, cactus spines, embedded glass shards, and many more. Apart from that, the salve is highly effective for accelerating the healing process from bugs, ticks, spider bites, thorns, and ingrown hairs. Furthermore, some people make use of black salve in the treatment of cancer. However, it requires certain ingredients. For everyone interested in making a black drawing salve, doing it yourself isn’t complicated. 

Making a Black Drawing Salve: The Ingredients

Here are a few of the ingredients used in making a black drawing salve and how they work.

• Charcoal

Charcoal is one of the essential ingredients required in the preparation of black salve since ancient times. Activated charcoal usually serves as a purifier or detoxifier. In some cases, it is normally used for patients who had just ingested poisons. The primary role of activated charcoal in the preparation of black drawing salve is to clean off the wound. It also helps to pull out the toxic material present in the wound.

• Herbal Infused Oil

Some of the most common herbal infused oils utilized in the preparation of black drawing salve include Comfrey, St. John’s Wort, and Plantain. Comfrey is commonly regarded as an herbal infused oil that effectively accelerates the rate of wound healing. St. John’s Wort and Plantain herbal oils are also excellent for soothing the pains as a result of these wounds.

• Castor Oil

Another prominent ingredient used in the preparation of black drawing salve is castor oil. It is a viscous oil that has great anti-microbial properties.

Therefore, it helps to paralyze bacteria that may be responsible for infection on those wounds.

• Bentonite Clay

While it is generally assumed that any clay can be used to make a drawing salve, it is also pertinent to note that different clays perform different functions. However, it all depends on their composition.

Bentonite clay is preferable when making a black salve because it functions to enhance detoxification. It also enhances the drawing action of the activated charcoal. Bentonite clay also helps to thicken the salve.

• Beeswax

Beeswax doesn’t only heal the skin, it also helps to create the salve.

It is usually considered as the ointment feel of this topical herbal remedy.

• Essential Oils

This involves a mixture of equal portions of essential oils such as rosemary, clove, and lavender.

Blending these oils gives your black salve a great smell. More importantly, these essential oils also contribute to speeding up the healing process.

Measurement of the Ingredients for Black Salve

• 1/3 cup of herb-infused oil
• 1/2 to 2 tablespoons of castor oil
• 2 to 3 teaspoons of beeswax
• 1 tablespoon of activated charcoal
• 1 tablespoon of bentonite clay
• 20 drops of each of the essential oils such as Rosemary, Lavender, and Clove.

Instructions for Making Your Black Drawing Salve

Step 1

Combine your herbal-infused oil, castor oil and the beeswax and place it in a double boiler. A pint-sized Mason jar set dipped into a pan of shallow water (about 11/2 to 2 inches). The burner has to be on a low. Melt the beeswax into the oil. Once it turns liquid, you can separate it from the heat.

Step 2

This is where you add the charcoal and the bentonite clay. After this, you can stir well.

Step 3

Add the essential oils

Step 4

Pour the salve into a glass jar.

You can find this recipe on Youtube as well:

Step 5

Allow it to set up until it becomes nice and firm. You can put it inside the freezer and leave it for about 10 minutes.  You can also decide not to place it inside the freezer at all. Leaving it for several hours will set it up just fine and nice.

Store the finished salve in a cool, dark place. To use, just place a big glob onto the affected area and then cover with a large bandage. Activated charcoal tends to stain fabric, so you don’t want it touching your clothing or furniture. Leave the salve on the spot for at least 24 hours, then, in the case of splinters and other foreign bodies, check if it’s moved enough to grab it with tweezers. For tick and insect bites, after 24 hours, you can remove the salve, clean the spot, and then either let it be open to the air or cover it with another bandage.

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