Calico Says: Arnica Is Fail
It’s a frequently-heard item of folk medicine in the Spanking community that arnica concoctions can help spanking bruises heal faster. However, a good herbalist will tell you that arnica is also fairly toxic stuff, making its use for this purpose somewhat controversial.
I am therefore amused to pass on the link to Calico’s arnica experiment. You know Calico; she counts among her accomplishments a ton of BDSM modeling, including a lot for Kink.com.
So what did she do? She marked out four-inch circles on her thighs, got “helpers” to cane the heck out of the marked areas, and then used an arnica cream on just one of the two bruised areas. Then, she watched the healing to determine whether the arnica bruise healed faster than the control. Her conclusion? Nope, nada, nothing, bunko.
The one trouble I see with her experiment is that she used what looks like a homeopathic arnica preparation. I do not propose to comment on The Great Homeopathy Debate here (nor will I allow that debate to take root in my comment section) but I will observe that homeopathic preparations are enormously dilute by design and intention. So testing a homeopathic arnica product in this fashion is not at all the same test as testing a genuine arnica cream that has some significant amount of actual arnica in it. There remains room for more bruised science to be done!
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