Incredible healing properties?

Ok, this will be EXTREMELY random, but when you think about Toothless, Hiccup, and other HTTYD stuff a lot, sometimes random stuff slips in!

Toothless’s saliva! (Wait, are you SERIOUSLY going to talk about dragon spit? Yes, yes I am.) Hiccup describes it as having incredible healing properties, soooooo what might those properties be?

1. It is obviously able to reduce swelling. We see it do that in Defiant One. Reducing inflammation would be extremely helpful especially in viking times. 

2. I would also venture to say that it has some antibacterial properties. Why? Well Toothless eats raw food and other unpleasant things quite a lot, but his teeth remain fairly white. Plus being antibacterial would be EXTREMELY useful if Toothless were to lick his wounds. Snotlout makes a jab at Toothless once talking about the dragon licking his wounds, so I make the assumption that he would.

3. His saliva and his licking would aid in clotting. Open wounds for a dragon (or a person for that matter) are extremely likely to result in death due to blood loss. If we can take Snotlout’s little hint as being true, then Toothless does lick his cuts and help them seal and would keep them from becoming infected.

4. And of course his saliva does way more than that for him! He produces quite a lot of it (see GotNF)! That is very typical for a predatory animal who swallows most food whole. It is literally a life saver for the animal! If he did not make a lot of that slippery goo his food could easily get lodged in his throat! Plus all that spit makes his licking Hiccup something that the boy will not quickly forget! Ok, now I am reaaaaaaallllllyyyyyy rambling off! 

So that is what I believe the properties of his spit are! Sorry if this is the most random scientific look into the movie, but I just want to get every nitty gritty bit of that dragon down, even if it involves trying to analyze his saliva!