I wanted to share this about skunk oil in it's use as numbers of people around here used it as a medicinal. My Grandfather who I post this for in honor of him, was a trapper and fur buyer, among numbers of other trade to just survive. He used to render skunk fat into oil, by cutting strips of it and hanging it on the south side of his barn in the winter, saying this made the best oil.
He always told me two stories about the miracle of skunk oil. One night during a raging blizzard, someone was banging on his door. He found a man from west central Minnesota on his doorstep pleading for a jar of skunk oil, as his child was sick and he came 20 miles in the storm to obtain it. My Grandfather tried to get him to stay a bit, but he said he had to get back home as the child was really sick.
In our family, my Grandfather's youngest son who was a baby, and Gram was crying as the child was turning blue. It was a blizzard again and no one was getting to a hospital, so he told me that all he could do was cover the baby head to toe with skunk oil, wrap him up and wait for morning. He said the next morning my uncle was playing and laughing, but had passed a green colored offal.
I know the old time stories always talked of bear and coon grease, but skunk is all the settlers had. I had it rubbed on me as did my siblings. I was talking to an old well driller and he told me the same stories, but added, "We took a spoonful inside too".
People think nothing of reaching for petroleum grease as a cure, but most would make snide remarks about skunk oil for the same use.

There are many medicinal plants, roots and animal byproducts that were and are very effective for treating a host of ailments. Where do you think many of our modern medicines are derived from. Many are refined, modified and altered but still many are nature based ingredients.

It is an all but lost art of knowing what plants and roots work for various health problems.

Lecithin is what I have used