Burn Balm

I concocted this when I was in my early twenties. I read somewhere about research into stimulating electrical activity at the cellular level in order to promote healing. I also read a story about someone who got burned badly on the job. There was no water immediately available and someone poured apple cider over the burn. The burn immediately stopped hurting. I also have read that apple juice has the same PH balance as human skin. So, one day when I burned my finger from cooking, I mixed up apple juice with salt water and soaked my finger in it. I made a fresh mixture several times during the day, whenever I felt it was no longer working. After several hours of soaking, my burn was completely healed. I have used it to good effect to heal a mashed finger as well, and to heal a burn where I poured boiling water over half my hand. I have recommended it for others who were suffering serious sun burn.

I use about half apple juice and half water, then I add salt. For soaking a hand or foot, I mix up around 8 ounces (or one cup) of apple cider or apple juice, the same amount of water, and add around one or two teaspoons of salt. If the apple juice is in the fridge, I add warm or hot water so that the mixture is tepid.

For a sunburn or other condition that covers more of the body, I put one to two gallons of cider in the bathtub and add around 1/2 to 1 cup of salt. I then run water to fill the tub enough to soak in it. Again, make it comfortable for the person who will be soaking -- tepid is usually best because  burned skin does not tolerate either heat or cold. The skin is an important part of the body's temperature regulating mechanism. When a large section of skin is damaged, the body's ability to cope with different temperatures is also impaired.

Update:

I recently had a chemical burn, probably from fertilizer. When apple juice and salt water were not working well enough, I used baking soda to help neutralize it. Since that worked, it must have been a strong acid. (Caustic chemicals can also be strongly alkaline -- like batteries -- in which case this would not help.) Initially, I just put baking soda on the skin but later added it to my apple juice and salt water mixture. I also used sea salt in place of table salt. My impression is that sea salt is more effective in this mixture than table salt is.