[In Russia they have something called "Zalonka" which is iodine mixed with something that makes it green. It seems to help the iodine get under the surface of a wound. Any other iodine compound does not do this as far as I have seen. So while putting on iodine might be a good idea but unless you have zalonka, I doubt if that can help.]

[In Russia they also noticed Bornaya kislota (boric acid) as one of their magical medicines which also I have not noticed in the West.] 

I want to add also a nice thing about Russian medicine. That is that there seems to be a philosophy of  "Do not fix what is not broken". This is in stark contrast to the West.