Dragon meat for healing WARNING : real world gross fact

[Jeanette]

No: HPFGUIDX 126948



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> > Orqad7 continues:
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> > One last bit, In OotP when Hagrid returns, he is covered in cuts 
> > and bruises, and uses dragon meat to help the healing process.  

> bboyminn:
> 
> I wonder if this wasn't just JKR's humorous take off on the old
> beefsteak over a blackeye idea. It's cold so it's soothing, plus the
> blood stains the bruise red thereby helping hide the injury. 

  There is ANOTHER reason to use meat on an injury. That is if you 
bind raw meat over a injury that breaks the skin, it will attract 
flies which will lay their eggs in it.  The eggs will hatch to maggots 
and maggots eat ONLY dead tissue.  If infection has set in,  the 
maggots will clean the wound of any dead or decaying flesh. It is a 
treatment which it still used in hot countries such as Africa and was 
used in the trenches of the first World War. 

   Maggots are also used to clean wounds on diabetics, though they are 
lab-bred and placed on with tweezers, not by way of raw meat.

  I think in the case of Hagrid though, he is using the dragon meat 
for some special properties or effects of dragonkind.  Which leads 
tothe thought, we have been talking of careers for the Hogwort 
students. Is there a career as a supplier for herbs and bits and 
pieces of magical animals for the Healers?  Would the dragon meat come 
from a wild dragon or as a side product of the dragonskin leather 
industry?  Do they farm dragons or is there an elite group of hunters 
who supple the trade.

Jeanette



Jeanette