feeling smart

I got this radiation burn.  It started last week but by the weekend was acute and I brought it up on Monday.  They examined it and agreed it was acute, and I should spend the rest of the week healing. They gave me a prescription for Flamazine, a burn cream with silver oxide in it, or colloidal silver, I forget.  It's $65 bucks a tube, I remember that.  So I started slathering on a thick layer over the affected tissues and every time I peed, I rinsed with PH balanced water (that stings now for some reason?) and reapplied the salve.  I ran out in 36 hours or so.  Called for a refill, computer told me that it was too soon and would I like them to call my doctor?  I clicked a yes, and sent it on, and the computer said someone would call to discuss it later.  I waited all the next day, trying to get more creme out of the tube, worrying.  Ran out really bad late last night and couldn't sleep for the pain and frustration.  While I lay there suffering and crying I tried some shea butter on it, and had tried argan oil.  One is too runny, the other too thick, but they both served to soothe the raw skin nicely.  Then I started thinking maybe I could infuse some tea tree oil to kill the infection since I didn't have a way to put silver into it.  Yes, I was worried about the stuff stinging but thought if I can put it in just the right amount, not a whole lot, would it be okay?  Come morning and I got out the shea butter, cocoa butter, argan oil, and finally some tea tree oil.  No recipe, just some of this and some of that.  I should have used less of the cocoa butter and that would have used less shea butter and let the argan oil make it less solid, but anyway, I would up using all the shea butter to match the cocoa butter and not enough argan oil because the stuff is just too pricey, so the stuff isn't quite as spreadable as I wanted. But it goes quite drippy at body temp anyway, so it still doesn't stick in place like a salve should.
However it DOES work!  It stings, as I thought it would, but not as much as even the water or a tissue, and the stinging gets less and less instead of more and more.  It's almost more like tingling than stinging.  A half a day of using it and the colour of the wound fluid went from severely infected green to healing orange and then just the blood. The pain is retreating too.  So score one for herbalism since the fancy burn cream was just not touching the infection, for all it was very soothing.  Oh, and then I cut open the tube and scooped out what was left of the flamazine and stirred it into my warmed up salve.  Oh, and I also tried to infuse the salve with lidocaine from a lollipop I got for mouth sores that never showed up.  Maybe that's what's killing the sting?  Heheheeh,  I love having so much knowledge of healing and substances.  Holy damn, of course the lidocaine is why it stops stinging, isn't it?  heheeh, and it's killing the infection and shrinking the area of involvement.