I wonder what the effects would be?

[Alpo]

Of bathing a wound with coffee.

 

Any novel - somebody gets wounded and he's found by the hero and the hero always heats up water to bathe the wound.

 

So there I am out in the wilderness and you come stumbling up to my camp, wounded. I don't haveHAPPEN to have a pot of hot water just sitting there steaming at the edge of my fire. I do, however, have a pot of coffee sitting there steaming at the edge of my fire.

 

Would cleaning the wound with a clean rag dipped in coffee be a bad thing?

[Eyesa Horg]

It would keep the wound from getting sleepy! And it should probably get some rest.

[Subdeacon Joe]

Why wouldn't you have a pot of water simmering?   Don't you plan on washing the dishes?   

 

But let's back up a bit and ask just why in situations like that someone always wants boiled water....you boil it to try to sterilize it, and maybe also the dressings and bandages.

 

It should work.  As long as you haven't sugared it (which would rule out Arbuckles).

 

Coffee is a mild vasoconstrictor, so it might help control bleeding.

[Cypress Sun]

 

Wait...you're out in the wilderness, some wounded guy comes stumbling up to your camp...and you don't have questions?

 

Doesn't seem like an Alpo camp to me.

[Alpo]

34 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:

and you don't have questions?

 

1 hour ago, Alpo said:

Would cleaning the wound with a clean rag dipped in coffee be a bad thing?

Isn't that a question?

[Texas Joker]

Straight sugar works also.  Honey with a bit of clove, most herb poultices were chewed and applied.

 

Boiled coffee beats rubbing dirt on it

[Badlands Bob #61228]

36 minutes ago, Texas Joker said:

Straight sugar works also.  Honey with a bit of clove, most herb poultices were chewed and applied.

 

Boiled coffee beats rubbing dirt on it

Honey was an ancient battlefield wound treatment.   Sugar is still used in a lot of undeveloped countries in place of antibiotics for treatments of wounds or when antibiotics are not effective.  

[watab kid]

i think id want a couple questions answered before i lower my gun barrel but if coffee was what i had he cant be all that picky .....otherwise he can check the next camp out that he stumbles onto and ill enjoy my coffee 

[Subdeacon Joe]

10 hours ago, Texas Joker said:

Straight sugar works also.  Honey with a bit of clove, most herb poultices were chewed and applied.

 

Boiled coffee beats rubbing dirt on it

 

Back when @Forty Rod SASS 3935 was a corporal the Greeks u sed a mix of honey, wine, and olive oil on wounds.

[Trailrider #896]

Somewhere I read that using coffee for an enema was used to help prevent shock. The coffee was made extra strong to be effective. 

[Alpo]

I don't know about extra strong, but I bet you if you didn't let it cool off, when you pumped it in it'd bring him out of shock.