I used to be a boxer, I always wrapped my hands and wrists with tape before putting on the gloves. I was a Filipino martial artist which strengthened my hands and wrists. I take Tai Chi Chuan Yang and Choy Li Fut Kung Fu. From our Kung Fu, we do a lot a different punches on punching hand pads. My four top knuckles of both hands get red after our drilling at the school. At home, I put dit da jao Chinese ointment on my knuckles and in a few minutes my red knuckles turn to dark brown knuckles. Dit da jao is also good for scabs which I used on my fingers, dit da jao makes the scab smaller and smaller as the days go by so in about a week or less the scab is gone. Dit da jao ointment is a careful mixture of ingredients that makes a dark brown ointment (the darker the better). It is placed under ground for a year to achieve full potency. It really works. I put it on cuts after traditional treatment (cleaning and antiseptic). That works too. By the way I am a purple sash in Choy Li Fut Kung Fu and a blue sash in Tai Chi Chuan Yang. Ethnically I am a mix of Visayan, Amoy Chinese, Apache, and Cherokee, Tamil, Ita, and Basco (in that order)
