If you bruise easily or just happen to have bumped into a table or wall and you are going out in your new dress or outfit and have a new bruise on your arm or leg – here are some things you may want to try.

*Banana peels. Eat the banana and put the peel on your bruise.

*Apply butter or margarine to your bruise and by the next morning it should be gone.

*Make an onion juice and salt mixture and use it as a compress

*Put a potato on that black eye and eat more sweet potatoes

*Eat more asparagus

*Apply crushed parsley and/or cabbage leaves to the bruise – mix it with butter for a paste

*Eat more broccoli

*Eat more foods high in flavonoids

*Massage some mustard powder to your bruise

*Eat more grapes – they strengthen your capillaries

*Rub ginger and olive oil to the affected areas

*Eat more blueberries

*Make some Comfrey tea – soak the tea into a cloth and use as a compress

*Put some molasses on it right away

*Apply some Vitamin K to your bruises asap

*Apply crushed pineapples or make a pineapple juice wrap and have a couple of pineapples while your at it – they are so tasty!

*Eat more foods high in potassium and Vitamin C

*Apply witch hazel to the bruises

*Apply some black pepper to your bruise

*Apply honey and cayenne pepper to the bruise

*Apply cold apple cider vinegar to get rid of the bruises gross colors

*Or you can try a more convention treatment by applying ice to the swelling/bruise – with a couple of drops of lemon juice on the ice.

*Always be sure to consult your doctor if you have a current or pre-existing condition before trying natural remedies. Natural remedies are sometimes not best for all people.