What's something really painful that you can pour into an open wound?

[Felon]

OK, I need to display a torture victim to the PC's, and I know salting wounds is popular, but I want something more esoteric. What else can be applied to a cut to make it hurt like hell?

Somebody watching "Reservoir Dogs" with me insisted that gasoline or kerosene burns like a mother when poured on a wound. Don't know it that's true.

 

[Knightfall]

Um, salt?

 

[Jdvn1]

Acid?

 

[Nellisir]

Boiling water? No preexisting wounds needed. Guaranteed 3rd degree burns.

How badly do you want to mess up the torture victim?
Boiling lead works too.

 

[tarchon]

stinging nettles, poison ivy, various natural vesicants from toads, bettles, toxic plants, etc.

 

[jonesy]

Bunnies?

 

[Jdvn1]

Bunnies?

With big teeth!

 

[Torm]

Lemon juice or tabasco sauce.

 

[Jdvn1]

How about something to pull open the wound? You don't have to pour anything per se.

 

[Greylock]

Well, part of my line of work until recently was loss prevention. This doesn't involve an open wound, but it's something you may be able to work in...

Chased a thief around the store and had several tussles with him. He was determined, and managed to elude me and another man trying to tackle him. Think greased pig. But in the process, he pepper sprayed me four (yes, 4) times. Right smack in the face.

When I was finally in the bathroom attempting to find my bearings, my sanity, and my eyeballs, everyone started in with home-remedies. The most promising sounding was the milk treatment.

Well. I ended up puffy, half-blind, in excrutiating pain, sweating, angry, and covered in milk. The eventual stink made things only so much better.

HTH