So I live in the forest.
I wear shoes in summer for oh about 4 hours a month? We had several rains and my feet were wet all day every day for several days in a row.
I ended up with toe rot on both feet. So what to do?
I know oak barks and hemlock barks in my area have a lot of tannins which is acidic. So I pounded up a bunch of Hemlock bark and boiled it fiercely- "decocted it." I also have some Yeller' Dock plant in my area. It's quit antifungal. I dug up a small yeller dock and chopped up the whole plant. I boiled it down too.
I soaked my feet in the tea for about 30 minutes before bed. The next morning my toes had scabbed up and were not bothering me where previously they had been painfully cracked, hurting and burning.
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