[Shawndell Green]

Don't tell ClaudiusI or newzjunkey about this, since they are certain that their own saliva is deadly!

Licking a wound seems instinctive to man and beast and for good reason. It is well known that saliva contains the antimicrobial substances thiocyanate and lysozyme. Lysozyme is a mucopolysaccharidase that dissolves the cell walls of gram negative bacteria.
Nigel Benjamin at the St. Bartholomew's and Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry has demonstrated that saliva also contains significant levels of nitrite which can be converted to nitric oxide, a powerful antimicrobial agent. Benjamin enlisted the aid of 14 healthy subjects asking them to lick "all over" their hands and then he measured the synthesis of nitric oxide on their skin. Nitric oxide levels increased sharply suggesting that "nitric oxide derived from salivary nitrite applied to the skin contributes to the antimicrobial effects of wound licking." The enzymes necessary to convert salivary nitrite to nitric oxide may be in the saliva as well.

[TexasTransplant]

Saltwater (as in the Ocean) is also good for the wound, now common sense would instruct you to do this in shallow water as to not attract those in Natures Food Chain that might find "O" Positive the equivalent of the dinner bell.

TT