Burns and cold water

[Maria Bohle]

I know that is not homeopathic,
and when I get a burn, I usually hold the area as close to the heat source as I can for as long as I can stand it. I do that three times.

However, when I spilled hot jelly on myself, I was canning (jar fell over when I was trying to screw the lid on, My instant instinct was to get the burning source off my skin, so rinsed it off with cold water first. Then held it near the heat - never even got a blister, boiling sugar is terrible as a rule causing some bad burns.

When using the Linseed oil and lime water, you cannot put that on hot skin, the oils hold in the heat, like a sunburn and continue to cause damage to the area.
Thus before the solution the heat has to come out of the burn.
By the way, sunburn seems to do well with a large towel soaked in cold water and vinegar. Don't know how you can hold a sunburn near a heat source and you will find the skin is burning hot, thus the cooling effects of the wet towel which takes out the heat. That and a dose of cantharsis in potency seems to do the trick for friends and relatives when the Jersey Sun is too strong.

Maria