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Ron 'The Hat' Clay
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A couple of years ago I cut my finger rather badly. I applied the usual antiseptic and plaster.
It didn't seem to heal and for several days it hurt like hell. I was worried about infection, but I had a fishing weekend organised and wasn't going to let a silly little cut interfere with it.
Then I caught a nice tench and whilst unhooking it the plaster came of my finger exposing the rather nasty cut on the first finger of my left hand. Some slime from the tench got into the cut.
I washed the cut and wrapped it up in a hanky and went home.
Within an hour or so the pain from my cut had stopped. I put on a new plaster.
In only two days the cut had completely healed!
Was this the result of the slime? Does the myth of the tench being the "Doctor Fish" have some truth in it?
Whenever I go pike fishing and catch a few I always end up with cuts and perforations on my hands due to the pike's teeth.
They always heal very quickly with no sign of infection. There could be a lot of truth in fish slime having curative and anti-bacterial qualities?
What do you think?
It didn't seem to heal and for several days it hurt like hell. I was worried about infection, but I had a fishing weekend organised and wasn't going to let a silly little cut interfere with it.
Then I caught a nice tench and whilst unhooking it the plaster came of my finger exposing the rather nasty cut on the first finger of my left hand. Some slime from the tench got into the cut.
I washed the cut and wrapped it up in a hanky and went home.
Within an hour or so the pain from my cut had stopped. I put on a new plaster.
In only two days the cut had completely healed!
Was this the result of the slime? Does the myth of the tench being the "Doctor Fish" have some truth in it?
Whenever I go pike fishing and catch a few I always end up with cuts and perforations on my hands due to the pike's teeth.
They always heal very quickly with no sign of infection. There could be a lot of truth in fish slime having curative and anti-bacterial qualities?
What do you think?