Cool/cold Bag For First Aid, Better Than Ice

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2-1 lb cherries, pips (250-500g)
• 1 small cloth, bag

Recipe

• 1 eat the cherries, keep the pips but discard the stems.
• 2 soak the cherry pips in water for an hour to soften the residue on them, then boil them until they are clean.
• 3 cool and dry them well.
• 4 sew a square or rectangular pillow from a soft cotton fabric, leaving a small opening so that you can fill it with the cherry pips.
• 5 fill and then sew the opening closed.
• 6 keep the bag in your freezer to use on all swellings and bruises.
• 7 excellent for painful insect bites because it's cold enough to give relief but not enough to burn with cold. it's amazingly comfortable too. can not be used as a heat pad, so don't microwave it.