One who is skillful in looking after a cow herd is also very skillful in dressing wounds in the cows to maintain a healthy cow herd (read the sutta for the other 10 methods and similes).
Just like that...
"How does a monk dress wounds?
There is the case where a monk, on seeing a form with the eye, does not grasp at any theme or details by which — if he were to dwell without restraint over the faculty of the eye — evil, unskillful qualities such as greed or distress might assail him. He practices with restraint. He guards the faculty of the eye. He achieves restraint with regard to the faculty of the eye.
On hearing a sound with the ear... On smelling an odor with the nose... On tasting a flavor with the tongue... On touching a tactile sensation with the body... (same as for the eye)
On cognizing an idea with the intellect, he does not grasp at any theme or details by which — if he were to dwell without restraint over the faculty of the intellect — evil, unskillful qualities such as greed or distress might assail him. He practices with restraint. He guards the faculty of the intellect. He achieves restraint with regard to the faculty of the intellect. This is how a monk dresses wounds.
To read the full sutta:
Gopalaka Sutta
The Cowherd
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an11/an11.018.than.html#eggs
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