The freshly pulped leaves of lady’s mantle help wounds to heal quickly when applied externally. If you sustain a scratch or a cut while walking or hiking in the mountains, there are plenty of effective remedies all around. A few flowers of St John’s wort rubbed between the fingers and placed on the cut (or crushed arnica root), with pulped lady’s mantle bound on top, will make an inexpensive curative dressing. A word of caution is needed here: pick the plants only where they are clean and never from the wayside or near an alpine dairy.
Formerly, good ointments used to be made from the fresh leaves of lady’s mantle and also its root. These ointments and creams were used to dress wounds and treat mild ruptures. A tea made with lady’s mantle will also stop children’s diarrhoea without any side effects.
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