hi folks. I'm female, a pretty skilled home herbali practitioner planning to go professional (naturopathic medicine) and have only raised a daughter, so this is an idea I haven;t personally put into practice. but has anyone ever used eyebroght herb, say in a sitz bath or one of the James Green-style slightly hilarious-sounding/looking penis soaks say, for a child, or an adult, male with inlamation unferr the foreskin?

hgere's my logic...eyebright is about the most effective herb I know of to treat conjuntivitisd, or pinkeye. it;s also used as an internal remedy for respiratory allergiess...really buts down on inflammation and soothes irritated tissue marvelously. the basic process is making an herbal tea-type infusion with the herb (which is only available ground, at elast in California, because we have laws about "invasive" herbs that might reseed here...kind of stupid I think, but anyway) in boiled warer and when it is tolerably cooled, yolu take a compress soaked in the brewed infusion and apply it to the eyes. and other bathwater suggestions (some of my friends and acquaintances have had good success with bathing a little boy with an inflamed glans in water with some baking soda added, which makes sense as baking soda, sodium hydrogen carbonate, is an
amp[hoteric" tha can neutralize a pH that is eitehr too acidic OR too alkaline...I did learn SOMETHING in chemistry class after all!.

berbal writer Joy Gardner recommends a powder, used like baby powder jsut sprinkled on (pof course don;t force a rertraction!) of golden seal or Oregon grape root, and slippery elm bark. I suggested other soothing sitz bath herbs such as conmfrey root, chamomile flower, and mallow root.

anyway, the eyebright is something I just came up with, and wondered if anyone knows more about it?

there is a woman whose little boy had a badly inflameed glans, and I made a few other herb