I have a smooth top stove and one Sunday morning last summer, while making brunch for a family gathering I absent mindedly put my hand on a still HOT burner and burned my hand badly enough that I wanted to scream from the sudden, intense pain.
I immediately put ice on it and this helped the pain but as the ice quickly melted the pain immediately became unbearable again. Remembering that Lavender is said to be a wonderful healing agent for burns, I put some Lavender Essential Oil on my hand and waited hopefully to see what happened but as the oil dried into my skin the intense pain didn't let up at all.
Desperate to relieve the pain, I turned to Arnica, a homeopathic remedy that I had used many times for a variety of painful conditions with great success. (The Arnica that I used was a salve although it comes in other forms.) I slathered it all over my hand and the pain was better in a few minutes and disappeared entirely in a very short time. Of course I was glad, but also surprised, as Arnica has never - to my knowledge - been mentioned as useful for painful burns.
I kept a thick coating of the Arnica salve on my hand until the next day although the pain did not return and I was able to use my hand as I normally would. I will be writing more about Arnica in the future but for now let's get back to the results of the Lavender.
The next day when I washed the last of the Arnica off I was amazed that there was no sign of my hand having been burned. Incredibly, my skin looked completely normal! No blisters, no redness, no hint of the burn that had been bad enough to hurt very badly!
Lavender heals burns; Arnica vanishes pain. What a great combination.
Love that Lavender. Love that Arnica.
Blessings, Gilly
