Gullah Cure for Swelling of the Skin or Joints

Below is an Old-Time cure for “Swelling of the skin or joints” prescribed by a Gullah “Root doctor”:

Swelling of the skin or joints: Mix the oil from blending white roses, lavender, and honeysuckle; apply this to the affected part and rub well in to the skin

My guess is that this involves the following:

white rose is a white petaled wild rose, either Carolina Rose, ( Rosa carolina, ) common in thickets or the Swamp Rose (Rosa palustris) which grows in wet ground.
lavender could be official lavender(Lavandula angustifolia), but Lavandula is a genus of 47 known species.
honeysuckle is trumpet honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) also known as "woodbine honeysuckle," or "coral honeysuckle." In USA folk medicine, the Trumpet honeysuckle leaves were traditionally applied to bee stings after being ground up by chewing. An infusion of the flowers was used to make a "hot tea" for sore throats.

I got this cure from Wilbur Cross’ Gullah Culture in America, 2012, p. 139. Cross wrote:

Root doctors are by no means extinct along the Gullah Corridor and in the Sea Island and Low Country villages, where generations of families have relied on them for treatment .
--Wilbur Cross, Gullah Culture in America, 2012, p.139

Cross also quotes from Faith Mitchell’s Hoodoo Medicine: Gullah Herbal Remedies, 1999, which stated was one of the “authoritative works on this subject":

Hoodoo medicine is a unique record of nearly lost African American folk cultures . It documents herbal medicines used for centuries, from the 1600s until recent decades, by the slaves and later their freed descendants, in the South Carolina Sea Islands. …Likewise, their folk medicine mixed medicines that originated in Africa with cures learned from the American Indians and European settlers. Hood medicine is a window into Gullah traditions, which in recent years have been threatened by migration of familes , the invastion of the Sea Islands by suburban developers, and the gradual death of the elder generation. More than that, it captures folk practices that lasted longer in the Sea Islands than elsewhere, but were once wide spread throughout African American communities of the South.
--Faith Mitchell, Hoodoo Medicine: Gullah Herbal Remedies, 1999.

If any scripture or prayer was to be recited while rubbing in the oil, Cross did not provide any. However, I would guess that the Psalm 23 or Jeremiah 33:6 KJV could be used.

Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
--Jeremiah 33:6 KJV

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