Saliva on Zits (and cuts too!)

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You can make use of your own saliva for beauty and healing. When I was

a young teenager, a woman friend of the family taught me this trick :

If you ever notice a pimple determined to make itself known on your

face, you can often cause it to recede by simply applying a bit of your

own saliva to the area. If you do this repeatedly throughout the day,

you could save yourself having to cover an embarassing zit with makeup

before an important date!

A cut or scrape will also respond to a lick of your tongue if peroxide

is not in easy reach. IN fact, you will feel a little sting when you

apply saliva to a wound just as you do when an antibacterial solution

is used. Have you ever noticed how fast a cut insid eyour mouth heals

in comparison to one on your finger? That's saliva at work! Animals

lick their wounds to hasten healing; it works for humans too. Saliva

contains a variety of priteins and enzymes that can kill certan

bacteria, viruses and fungi.

_ article found in Winter 2006-2007 issue of Health Action (published

by health action network society www.hans.org )