1 When you first get a bruise, it's kind of reddish as the blood appears under the skin.  Within 1 or 2 days, the hemoglobin (an iron-containing substance that carries oxygen) in the blood changes and your bruise turns bluish-purple or even blackish.
balmy-mild and pleasant; balmy days and nights; the climate was mild and conducive to life or growth; a soft breeze. mild, soft. clement - (of weather or climate) physically mild; clement weather.
RE: What does &quot;balm in Gilead&quot; mean? I know that it has some sort of Christian meaning taken from Genesis chapter 37 referring to a balm (or balsam) carried from Gilead by the caravan of merchants to whom Joseph was sold to by his brothers.My real question is how does Edgar Allan Poe use it in his poem The Raven.. The following passage... know that it has some sort of Christian meaning taken from Genesis chapter 37 referring to a balm (or balsam) carried from Gilead by the caravan of merchants to whom Joseph was sold to by his brothers.