healing balms
Medicinal skin treatments
Healing balms are soothing ointments or salves applied to wounds, burns, or irritated skin to promote recovery.
The phrase often appears figuratively for anything that soothes emotional or spiritual hurt: Time and friendship were healing balms after the divorce.
The redundancy of "healing" with "balm" (which already implies soothing) gives the phrase an almost poetic quality.
- salveTopical healing preparation
- ointmentMedicated skin cream
- sootheGently ease discomfort
- herbsPlants for seasoning
- natural remedyNon-pharmaceutical health treatment
soothing touch · essential oils · tea tree oil · remedy · old wives' tale · comfort · aloe · lavender · medicinal · jar · fragrant · skin · skin care · relief · anoint · tender · eucalyptus · apothecary
- bush medicinebush medicine, herbal medicine, folk remedies, medicinal roots, herbalists
- herbal remediesechinacea, chamomile, valerian, ginseng, ginkgo biloba