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Did you know spider webs serve another purpose other than being the home of your friendly, neighborhood spider? Spider webs make for an excellent natural treatment for healing cuts and scrapes! This is a long-forgotten natural remedy for sealing open wounds and accelerating healing. Even modern science has embraced spider web as a great treatment for scrapes and wounds.

Spider webs are incredibly strong. It’s made from silk produced from the body proteins of the spider, turning it into silk through spinnerets. The spinnerets are located on a spider’s abdomen. Each spider has three or four spinnerets. Inside the spinnerets are numerous spigots connected to a single silk gland.

The spider silk starts out in liquid form. As the material is being drawn out of the spider’s body, it begins to harden. This movement literally changes the structural components of the protein.

The spider silk could be stronger than a thread of steel in equal thickness yet it’s extremely flexible; so flexible that a spider can spin different patterns without breaking the material. And this is why, surprisingly, it serves a lot of purpose!

How Spider Webs Work to Heal Wounds

Using cobwebs or spider webs has been done since ancient times when Greeks and Romans treated wounded soldiers with it to stop bleeding. Although Greeks and Romans know very little about viral and bacterial infections, through trial and error, they discovered the surprising benefits of spider webs. Soldiers would even use a combination of honey and vinegar to clean deep wounds and then cover the whole thing with balled-up spider webs.

An open wound treated with a cluster of spider web or cobwebs will dry out faster. Cobwebs have antifungal and antiseptic properties that keep bacteria away, minimizing the chances of an infection. It works so well that cobwebs efficiently stop bleeding. What’s more, spider webs are high in vitamin K, a vitamin that triggers blood clotting! As long as the web is clean, it will not cause any infection or aggravate the wound’s condition at all.

How to Make Your Own Bandage Made from Spider Web

WARNING: Do not attempt to make your own spider web bandage when you live in a place full of poisonous spiders.

It’s easy to make your own bandage. First, you have to look for a clean spider web — you want a freshly spun web or one that does not have insect corpse in there. If the spider’s in there, remove the little critter carefully and harvest the web.

Then, ball up the spider web and stuff it onto the wound. Make sure all edges are covered by the web. The web has to touch the surface of the wound. Get a sterile cloth and cover the wound with it. This helps secure the web on the wound while also protecting the affected area from the elements. And there you have it, your own bandage made from spider web.

If the spider web has hardened on your wound and it’s hard to remove, just run your wound over warm water. The water will loosen the web, making it easier to remove.