Salve

An achiote (urucu) ointment was applied to healing surgical scars in a trial.

Creams, gels and ointments made with arnica flower extracts are applied to unbroken skin.

Ointments and creams are made by extracting the flowers into fat or petroleum jelly, for use on the skin.

Extracts of the fruit, standardized for capsaicin (the compound that makes chili hot), are used in creams and ointments and in medicated plasters stuck on the skin.

Creams and ointments made with chamomile flower extracts are applied to the skin.

In one folk recipe, the fresh juice is mixed with butter into an ointment for scalds, burns and swelling.

An alcohol extract of the root is made into creams and ointments for use on the skin.

In the Himalayas, the ash of burnt mosses, including this one, is mixed with fat and honey as an ointment for cuts, burns and wounds.

A nasal ointment containing eyebright has been used for nose irritation with a cold.

Extracts, as liquids or ointments, are applied to the skin.

Creams and gels made with grapevine leaf extract are applied to the skin.

Creams and gels made with seed extracts are applied to the skin.

Pitch boiled with grease, rubbed on for colds, chest congestion and sore muscles.

Creams and ointments made with sage leaf extracts are used on the skin or in the mouth.

In trials, creams made with an extract of the plant were applied to the skin for athlete's foot and foot ulcers.

The flowers are made into a salve for bruises, burns and nerve pain.

The bark is made into ointments, and it's sold in creams, shampoos and soaps.

Creams, ointments and gels made with witch hazel leaf are used on the skin and around the anus, for example for hemorrhoids.