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The use of pine, cedar and spruce resin in folk medicine. The benefits and harms of pine resin for the body. Using oils and ointments at home

Pine resin

Damaged pine secretes a resin that protects the plant from penetrating the wood fibers pests. That is why this resin is called resin, because it heals and embalms tree wounds. And apparently, having noticed this property of the resin, gardeners began to heal wounds with it fruit trees, making a plaster from it with the addition of wood (olive) oil and wax. By the way, the balm with which the ancient Egyptians soaked mummies that have survived to this day and survived for thousands of years also includes pine resin. Loggers and hunters have long noticed the ability of oleoresin to heal wounds.

If there is no first aid kit at hand, then instead of a bandage or plaster, they applied clean resin to the wound. By the way, the patch we buy at the pharmacy also contains pine resin. They also put resin on sore teeth to relieve toothache. And the inhabitants of the Caucasus even prepared a special medicinal chewing gum from pine resin. In the old days, oleoresin diluted with alcohol was used as a rub for aches and pains. Until now, turpentine obtained from resin is used as a rubbing agent. The smoke of burning resin has disinfectant properties. In some regions, in winter, peasants smoked their huts with smoke from burning resin to purify the air and remove bad odors.

And who doesn’t know the wonderful mineral amber. Amber is also pine resin, but it has lain in the ground for millions of years. In some pieces of amber there are insects that once took a rash step, sitting on the resin flowing from a pine tree. And now scientists have the opportunity to study insects that lived on earth millions of years ago. Amber has a rich range of colors - from golden yellow and red to blue-green and almost black. Not only jewelry is made from amber: rings, brooches, necklaces, bracelets, but also decorative sculpture and mosaic panels. The highest achievement of the art of amber processing was the famous amber room in Tsarskoe Selo near St. Petersburg, in which everything, from a small item to the walls, was made of carved amber.

Resin is a valuable raw material for the chemical industry. How is resin prepared? In forests specially designated for this purpose, the oleoresin harvesters, the lifters, make two rows of inclined cuts called horseshoes. The resin gradually flows into the receiver - a small vessel fixed at the bottom. If the fresh cuts are renewed from time to time, the resin will flow all summer. Over the summer, up to two kilograms of resin are obtained from one tree.

At rosin-turpentine enterprises, the resin is cleared of debris and distilled with steam. When cooled, the volatile part of the resin forms turpentine, and the golden, brittle mass remaining after distillation is rosin. Rosin is used to make paper, make soap and prepare varnish and paint. It is necessary in shipbuilding, the leather and rubber industries, as well as for the production of sealing wax and linoleum. A violin, cello and other bowed instruments would not be able to play without rosin.

Other component oleoresin - turpentine is used as a solvent for paints and varnishes, rubber and various resins. Synthetic camphor is produced from it. In textile production, chintz fabrics are etched with turpentine before drawings are applied to them, and paints are diluted.

In folk medicine, there are many recipes where pine resin (resin) or rosin is mixed with wax and a fatty base for an ointment (butter, internal animal fat, petroleum jelly, vegetable oil...). Sometimes the ointment contains propolis, laundry soap. Such ointments, as a rule, have strong wound healing and cleansing properties. One of the recipes for such an ointment is given below.
Take 25 g of rosin, 25 g of beeswax, 25 g of vegetable oil and heat until dissolved. After this, add 50 g of propolis and bring to a boil, but do not boil. Apply this ointment to wounds daily.

Bring to a boil 200 g of ground spruce resin, one onion, 15 g copper sulfate and 50 g of oil (preferably olive). The ointment has “warming properties” and also treats bruises, abscesses and bone fractures. It is used both for compresses and for lubricating the nasal mucosa.

The resin should be placed in the freezer for 1 hour, then removed and quickly ground into powder with a glass bottle. Then sift through cheesecloth.
Take 2 grams 1 hour before meals 3 times a day.
Don't drink big amount cold water.

At the end of May, staminate spikelets appear on the pine tree - male inflorescences with a large amount of yellow pollen, and at the ends of young shoots - female inflorescences - cones.
One tablespoon of male inflorescences is brewed in two glasses of boiling milk or water. Add 1 tablespoon of honey. Take in three doses for diseases of the upper respiratory tract.

Fresh pine red female cones fill glass jar two-thirds, pour vodka to the top and leave for at least two weeks. Take from 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon per day for heart pain.

Pour one part of pine resin (resin) into 5 parts of water, leave for 9 days in the sun in a glass container. Take 3 times a day before meals from a tablespoon to half a glass for diseases of the upper respiratory tract, as a general tonic.

Pine resin is kept in the mouth, licked with the tongue, alcohol extracts and water infusions are made. Used to treat stomach ulcers.

5 tablespoons pine needles, 3 tablespoons rose hips, 2 tablespoons onion peel pour 1 liter of boiling water. Boil for 10 minutes. Strain. Take 100 g. 2-3 times a day to cleanse blood vessels.

If there are cracks in the lips, they are lubricated with oleoresin powder.

For a boil, apply pine resin to the sore spot. Pain relief occurs immediately, after 2-3 days the boil completely resolves. Wounds also heal painlessly and quickly.

For radiculitis, a decoction of young pine shoots is used, which is used for baths. 1 kg of young pine shoots is poured into 3 liters of boiling water, boiled in a sealed container for 10 minutes, left for 4 hours, filtered. Add a liter of this decoction for every 15 liters of water in the bath, maintain the temperature at 33 - 34 degrees, the procedure time is 10 - 15 minutes.

Young pine shoots are collected before mid-May, washed, rinsed with cold water, dried and placed in layers in a wide-necked jar. The same layer of sugar is poured onto a layer of pine needles (1.5-2 cm). The topmost layer should be sugar. Tie the neck with gauze. Place in the sun for 10 days. On the eleventh day, drain the resulting juice and store in closed bottles at room temperature. For tuberculosis, pneumonia, bronchitis, asthma, take 2 tablespoons (children - one) in the morning.

25-30 gr pine buds cook for 10-15 minutes in a mixture of milk and water (1:1) in an enamel or glass container. After cooling, filter and drink 100 grams. 3-4 times a day with colds.

Pine bud decoction vapor is an anti-inflammatory, disinfectant and breathing aid and is used for inhalation.

Essential pine oil used in aromatherapy is obtained from pine needles. An alcohol solution of essential oil is known as forest water.

Did you know that pine not only heals, but also feeds? In some areas of Siberia and northern European Russia, the sweet and juicy outer layers of the wood (called sapwood) are eaten raw or dried and mixed with flour. Unopened male pine inflorescences are also eaten raw. Delicious drinks are made from pine buds. One glass of pine drink is equivalent to five glasses in vitamin content tomato juice and five times richer in them than a glass of lemon drink.

To prepare a pine drink, take about 50 grams of young pine (cedar, fir or other) needles and grind well. The prepared pine needles should be infused in two glasses of boiled water for 2 hours in a cool, dark place. Add a little to the strained solution for taste citric acid and granulated sugar.

Drink pine coniferous drink immediately after preparation, since during storage the drink loses beneficial vitamins.

Remember that pine preparations should be used with extreme caution in case of hepatitis, glomerulonephritis and pregnancy. Good health to you!

TREATMENT WITH OIL: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

I heard that oleoresin is widely used in folk medicine. Please tell us where they get it and what diseases they treat with it?

Resin - the resin of coniferous trees - can be found in the forest on the trunks of pines, spruces, cedars, fir, and larches. IN medicinal purposes It is best to use transparent oleoresin, you can also collect frozen resin - but in this case (before using it, you need to hold it in a water bath for some time so that it becomes soft. And oleoresin is used to treat rheumatism, radiculitis, gout, neuralgia, diseases of the upper respiratory tract , lungs and bronchi, neurasthenia, kidney diseases, digestive organs and many other ailments.

I was tormented by pain in the sacrum and lower spine. Doctors diagnosed me with lumbodynia. They prescribed medications and massage, but the disease did not go away. They say that in such cases the resin of coniferous trees is used. Please advise how to use it?

Mix a teaspoon of liquid cedar, fir or spruce resin with 200 g of massage oil and use for therapeutic massage. The course of treatment is 12-15 sessions.

I've been pestered since early childhood constant colds and herpes - sores appear not only on the lips, but also on the nose. I heard that resin helps with such a misfortune. Write how to use it?

Usually, before the appearance of herpes sores on the lips, there is mild redness and itching. Take a cotton swab soaked in a mixture of resin and any vegetable oil in a 1:1 ratio and apply to this area for 20-25 minutes. You can use any resin - spruce, cedar or pine. Repeat the procedure after 2-4 hours

For colds and sore throats, dissolve 1/2 coffee spoon of pine or cedar resin in your mouth twice a day after meals.

. Tell me how to treat stomach ulcers with wood resin?

In the morning, half an hour before meals, hold a small (pea-sized) piece of cedar or pine resin. The course of treatment is from 3 weeks to one and a half months.

Hello! I am 75 years old. I broke my leg four months ago, but I still can’t walk: the doctors say the bones aren’t healing well. I recently read somewhere that fractures used to be treated with spruce resin, but I don’t remember how. Could you please post the recipe?

Place a large onion, grated on a fine grater, in an enamel saucepan, 4 tablespoons olive oil, a tablespoon of powdered copper sulfate and spruce resin, mix thoroughly and put on low heat. Bring the mixture to a boil (but do not boil!), then cool. Apply the ointment as a compress to the fracture site - healing will go twice as fast.

I’ve been working as a carpenter since I was 12, and sometimes you cut your hand, but the wound doesn’t heal for a long time. In such cases, my grandmother cooked ointment with resin. Maybe you know how to cook it?

Mix fresh pine resin with sea buckthorn oil in a 2:1 ratio, boil the mixture over low heat for 2-3 minutes, cool. Lubricate the wound two to three times a day until completely healed. Store the ointment for six months in a cool place in a tightly closed bottle.

I wish you good health! I came across your newspaper, read it and decided - I’ll write a letter, maybe you can help me? I live in Siberia, hard work - logging. I’m only about fifty years old, almost fifty, but recently I started to notice that I seem to be losing male strength. There is no time to go to doctors, and it’s inconvenient. A friend told me that ordinary resin, the kind you can find on a tree, helps with impotence. Can you tell me how specifically to use it?
A tincture with resin helps well against impotence. Pour a teaspoon of cedar, pine or spruce resin into 0.5 liters of good vodka and let it brew for 5 days in a dark place, shaking occasionally. Drink 3 tablespoons with lunch and dinner.

POLYARTHRITIS OF ZHIVITSA IS AFRAID

Dear editors, good health to you! The whole village reads your newspaper and admires it! There are fifteen old pensioners living here, aged from 58 to 87 years. We heal in our own way, in a village way. And we advise others: it helps us! For example, two years ago I was overcome by polyarthritis. This is what our village people advised me. You need to go to the bathhouse twice a week to steam all the bones, and add pine decoction with oleoresin to the water (2-3 tablespoons of crushed dry buds and branches of spruce or pine and 2 teaspoons of oleoresin, brew with a liter of boiling water, simmer over low heat 15-20 minutes). It’s also very good to rub your joints every other day with oleoresin mixed with vegetable oil. You treat for two weeks, rest for two weeks, and then you can repeat it again. Of course, I haven’t completely overcome my pain, but my joints no longer hurt and have stopped swelling.

The only contraindication to treatment with resin is individual intolerance. To find out if you are allergic to pine resin, rub a drop of resin into your skin. inside forearms If after 12-20 hours no redness appears in this area, you can begin treatment.

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Treatment with pine resin - resin

All pine wood is permeated with tiny resin passages. If you inflict a wound on a tree, fragrant amber resin will emerge from the resin passages and quickly flood it. The tree puts a band-aid on itself. Many plants have the ability to produce resin. The resin serves as a means of protection against the penetration of harmful microorganisms into tissue cells. Protective properties resins lie not so much in the viscous consistency of the latter, but in the bactericidal effect of the substances included in its composition. That is why plant resins, in particular pine resin, were included in the compositions for embalming corpses among the ancient Egyptians. The bactericidal properties of resins can last for thousands of years. This is evidenced by an experiment carried out by Doctor of Biological Sciences F.V. Khetagurova. She examined the bactericidal effect of pieces of tarred fabric that had lain in the tomb of one of the Egyptian pharaohs for about 3 thousand years, and found that the resin impregnation continued to have a fairly strong bactericidal effect. The bacteria sown on the nutrient medium around a piece of tarred tissue died, and only on the periphery of the nutrient medium did the bacteria multiply as usual.

Chemically, plant resins are a mixture of resin acids, resin alcohols, their esters, pigments and some other substances. According to their consistency, resins can be liquid, soft or hard. All of them are insoluble in water, but easily soluble in alcohol, chloroform and other organic solvents.

Even in the last century, resins were widely used in medicine as binders and antiseptics. Currently, they are being replaced from medical practice by more effective medicinal substances, practical significance contains only pine resin, from which substances valuable for medicine such as turpentine and rosin are extracted.

How is resin extracted from pine trees? There are several methods of extraction, one of which is called tipping. Numerous deep cuts are made on the tree trunk in the form of gutters, located obliquely one above the other. The wounded tree begins to secrete resin, which flows through the grooves into the placed containers. This first release of resin is not too abundant, since the damage caused to the tree quickly heals. After a week, the cuts on the trunk are cleared again, thereby causing a more intense secondary release of resin. In this way, over the summer it is possible to obtain from 300 to 650 g of resin from each tree. The trees do not die, and resin can be extracted for many years.

Resin can be obtained not only from living trees, but also from pine stumps, which contain quite a lot of it. The stumps are crushed and the resin is extracted from the wood through extraction or distillation.

Liquid resin, or resin, collected from trees is purified and subjected to steam distillation. In this case, the resin is divided into two fractions: the volatile one, carried away from the cube along with the steam, and the heavy fraction - the well-known rosin, which remains at the bottom of the cube. The light fraction of resin is called turpentine, and it is used in medical practice as a medicine. Turpentine can also be obtained by steam distilling crushed pine wood. Turpentine is a colorless clear liquid with a peculiar smell and burning taste.

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Pine resin, or turpentine, has very valuable medicinal properties. Sometimes resin is called balsam. It is obtained by tapping.

Tapping pine resin

Tapping is a technique for obtaining sap from trees, carried out by systematically cutting the sapwood. Resin is extracted from conifers by tapping, and sugar-bearing sap is extracted from maple and birch. To obtain resin, karra is laid on the trunk of a coniferous tree, i.e. a section of the trunk 10-20 cm wide and 40-50 cm long is freed from the bark. A longitudinal groove with a branch (“herringbone”) is made in the sapwood to the depth of several annual rings. A receiver is attached to the tree under this groove. In front of the receiver, a bent metal plate is strengthened - a crampon, along which the resin flows into the receiver. The liquid resin flowing from the carra quickly hardens and heals the wound. Therefore, the carra needs to be renewed from time to time, i.e. clean and apply a new brine above the first one. This repeated wounding is called undercut or heave. In all pine forests scheduled for felling in 5-10 years, forestry organizations organize short-term tapping. With this method, several karras are planted on a tree, 5 years before it is cut down. When tapping trees that are not intended for felling, 1-2 karras are planted, which does not affect its viability. In deciduous forests, this method is used to obtain sweet sap from birch and some types of maple. To obtain sap in tree trunks during the period of sap flow, a hole is drilled with a brace at a height of 70 cm from the ground. The resulting juice is evaporated to a syrupy state. The syrup is used in Food Industry. In tropical countries, a similar method of tapping is used to extract the milky juice from Hevea to obtain rubber.

For furunculosis, resin was smeared on a cloth and applied to the sore spots. Two or three days of such treatment led to complete resorption of the boils. Collected from the trunk, it is recommended to swallow 5-6 grains per dose twice a day when coughing.

The composition of resin contains from 15 to 30% essential oil (turpentine) and 60-80% resin. Turpentine, which mainly includes mono- and sesquiterpenoids, is called turpentine oil. The main components of turpentine oil: - α-pinene, β-pinene, carene, α-thuyene, camphene, myrcene, β-limonene (dipentene), camphor, β-phellandrene, γ-terpinene, n-cymene, terpinolene, bornyl acetate, borneol and isoborneol.

Purified turpentine oil is part of the drug Olimetinum, used for urolithiasis and gallstone diseases.

After the turpentine is separated from the resin, rosin remains. Industrially, purified turpentine is obtained from it, which is used for rubbing for neuralgia, rheumatism, and sometimes taken orally one or two drops with milk, as well as for inhalation for putrefactive bronchitis and other lung diseases. However, turpentine is contraindicated for people with damaged liver and kidneys!

Turpentine is irritating and antiseptic effect and is widely used externally for radiculitis, myositis, joint diseases, bronchiectasis, bronchitis and pulmonary tuberculosis.

Turpentine is added to baths during treatment according to the Zalmanov method and used for inhalation.

Turpentine is used in various ointments, balms, and rubbing mixtures as a skin irritant for rheumatism and colds. It disinfects rooms and refreshes the air. Turpentine hydrate is obtained from it, often used with codeine for coughs.

Rosin is included in various patches. Tar is obtained from pine chips and used in ointments to treat eczema, scabies and scaly lichen.

The following drugs can be found in the pharmacy:

Purified turpentine (Oleum Terebinthinae rectificatum). Use 10-15 drops per glass hot water(for inhalations).

Turpentine liniment (Linimentum olei Terebinthinae compositum). Used externally for rubbing for neuralgia, myositis, rheumatism.

Tar and coal

Pine tar is obtained by dry distillation. It is used in various ointments for treatment skin diseases. After dry distillation, coal remains in the cube. It is treated with steam at high temperatures to form activated carbon.

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Back in the 19th century, the great Russian surgeon N.I. Pirogov noted the beneficial effects of turpentine and oleoresin itself on long-term non-healing wounds. Until now, in some regions of Russia, the resin of coniferous trees is used as folk remedy for the treatment of burns, trophic ulcers, wounds, mastitis and other diseases.

Anyone who has encountered such an unpleasant skin disease as neurodermatitis at least once in their life knows that its treatment is a troublesome and lengthy task; it requires patience from both the patient and his loved ones.

Yes, it is patience, Valentina Smerdeva (Perm region, Osa) is convinced, that has become the main healer in the fight against neurodermatitis, which her youngest daughter fell ill with when she was still a child. kindergarten. The child could not sleep due to the exhausting itching, and mother and daughter hugged each other and cried together at night. But one day Valentina said to herself: enough! And she began to study reference books on traditional medicine. I found an ointment recipe, prepared it, and began to lubricate the affected areas. She changed the bandages in the morning and evening, sometimes did not leave her daughter’s side for days, and after half a year there was no trace of the disease.

To prepare the ointment, you need 500 g of St. John's wort oil, 100 g of crushed birch buds, 250 g of unsalted butter, 100 g of pine resin powder, 50 g of dry celandine grass powder, 100 g of beeswax, 30 g of crushed chalk and 50 g of celandine powder. dry birch leaves. Place butter in an enamel pan beeswax and bring to a boil with continuous stirring. Then add resin and simmer over low heat for 10 minutes, stirring with a wooden stick. Pour in the powders of celandine and birch leaves, boil for another 5 minutes, pour in St. John's wort oil, stir everything well again and add chalk. Simmer in the oven for 2.5 hours, remembering to stir occasionally. Then put Birch buds, put on low heat and keep for 30 minutes. Then remove and cool for 6 hours. Then bring the mixture to a boil again, strain while hot through several layers of gauze, pour into jars, sealing well. Store in a cool, dark place. The ointment perfectly softens the skin, has an anti-inflammatory effect and relieves itchy skin. Clean cloths should be covered with a thin layer of ointment and applied to the sore spot.

An attentive reader has noticed that the ointment also contains oleoresin. The famous St. Petersburg healer N.A. Rozmanova told how in the post-war period, while in an orphanage near Leningrad, they, small children, chewed young shoots of Christmas trees, and this saved them from scurvy and preserved their teeth. Smirnova M.A. from Kirov completely agrees with her. Here's her story:

“As children, we—children of war—were constantly looking for something to eat, drink, chew. They ate hare cabbage, groundnuts, wild onions, and drank birch sap; chewed resin from the Christmas tree. But I especially liked going for pine sap, which is contained in the cambium - the layer between the bark and the trunk. They removed the bark, then the cambium, it was juicy and tasty. Maybe thanks to this, my teeth remained strong and healthy for a long time.

We used the resin from the Christmas tree for all sorts of purulent skin diseases: panaritium, boils, and other wounds.

The resin cleanses well of pus and gives fast healing. To use, you need to take a piece of resin and knead it for a long time with three fingers, spitting on it and bringing it to a very soft consistency. Then you need to quickly make a cake and put it on sore spot, bandaged for 2-3 days. You can repeat the procedure several times. The wounds are cleaned and heal quickly.”

Resin from any coniferous tree can cure various diseases throat up to sore throat. Therefore, while walking in the forest, collect pieces of resin from a pine or spruce tree in a plastic bag and keep it in your medicine cabinet at home. At the first sign of a cold, take a piece and suck it like a caramel for 10-15 minutes several times a day. The saliva produced during sucking should be swallowed.

Currently, pine buds are widely used in medicine. They are often included in diuretic preparations. A decoction prepared from them is recommended as an expectorant and disinfectant for inflammatory processes of the upper respiratory tract, prescribed for inhalation, regulates the activity gastrointestinal tract. To obtain a decoction, add 2 teaspoons of dried buds to a glass of water, boil for 15 minutes, and strain. Take 1-2 tablespoons 3 times a day.

In addition, a decoction of pine buds is used for rinsing as a wound-healing agent that stimulates tissue regeneration for periodontal disease, bleeding gums, and inflammation of the oral mucosa. To do this, pour 3 tablespoons of dried buds into a glass of water, boil for 15 minutes, strain, and apply externally.

In folk medicine, a decoction of the kidneys is used for rickets, rheumatism, dropsy, urolithiasis, skin diseases associated with metabolic disorders, as well as a choleretic and menstruation regulating agent.

Drink hot milk with pine pollen (1 teaspoon per glass) once a day for hypertension, rheumatism and as a general tonic.

In addition, pollen is infused in alcohol or brewed in boiling water (or in hot milk) and, adding honey and oil, is used for lung diseases.

In the treatment of pulmonary diseases, resin (freshly flowing resin) is also used: it is filled with water and kept in the sun for 9 days.

Young (red) cones Infuse vodka and drink for heart pain, green cones,

Pine trees that appear in the first year of life are used as a hemostatic agent.

Needles Used for baths; from resin boiled with pork fat and sugar, prepare an ointment for wound healing.

Attention! Pine preparations are contraindicated for hepatitis, glomerulonephritis and pregnancy.

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Essential oil

Scots pine

Scots pine needles contain 0.19-1.15% essential oil. From 1 ton of pine greenery, an average of 3-4 kg of pine essential oil is obtained by steam distillation. Other types of pine are also suitable for its production. Pine essential oil is light, fluid, colorless. The main aroma is deep, resinous, bitter, cool. Shades of tonality: upper - soft, oily-camphor; medium - woody-coniferous; the lower one is soft, musky and dusty.

The main components of the essential oil: α- and β-pinene, camphene, sabinene, limonene, δ-carene, α- and β-phellandrene, myrcene, ocimene, thujene, camphor, caryophyllene, bornyl acetate. It has long been known that in a pine forest the air is clean and easy to breathe. The needles release highly volatile phytoncides, which have a strong bactericidal effect. Therefore, sanatoriums for patients with pulmonary tuberculosis are located in pine forests.

But to quantitatively study the volatile emissions of pine trees and their impact on human body became only recently. Firstly, interest in aromatherapy - treatment with essential oils - has grown, and secondly, appropriate scientific methods have been developed.

When inhaling the vapors of pine essential oil, bronchial secretion increases, which contributes to the dilution and release of sputum. Therefore, essential oil is used for throat catarrh, bronchitis, and rheumatism. An alcohol solution of essential oil, known as “Forest Water,” is sprayed on residential, medical and school premises.

Pine oil can be used in office and residential premises, hospital wards, kindergartens, schools, and in saunas to aromatize the air. In this case, almost all bacteria and viruses that cause diseases die.

Pine oil is included in the preparations “Rivatinex”, “Pinabin”, etc. for the treatment of urolithiasis, as well as in various inhalation mixtures for bronchial diseases.

An aqueous solution of pine essential oil (2-3 drops per glass of water) is used to treat periodontal disease.

When air aromatization containing 0.1-0.5 mg/m3 of pine essential oils in patients after myocardial infarction, angina attacks decreased or disappeared, blood pressure normalized, and general conditions and sleep, positive ECG dynamics were noted. In the form of aerosols, essential oil is effective against staphylococcal infections.

Aromatherapists classify pine essential oil as aromatic adaptogens. It is believed that the use of essential oil in an aroma lamp purifies and disinfects indoor air. Neutralizes nicotine smoke.

Essential oil from pine needles stimulates peripheral blood circulation and improves tissue trophism. Its external use relieves pain and eliminates swelling in osteochondrosis, arthrosis, arthritis, myositis, neuritis and neuralgia.

When used internally, pine oil is a decongestant, mild diuretic, helps dissolve conglomerates in the kidneys and bladder, has an anti-inflammatory effect in cystitis, urethritis. Aromatherapists consider it a good hemostatic agent for traumatic bleeding.

A little mysticism: Bioenergy therapists say that pine oil eliminates pessimism and does not allow you to feel sorry for yourself for a single minute. A fragrance that prohibits you from shifting your problems “from a sore head to a healthy one,” explaining any of your failures by a coincidence of circumstances and the opposition of others. A stoic, masculine scent. Eliminates aggression and impulsiveness. It is an aromatic “plug” that allows the young wine of emotions to “ferment” and become a fine wine.

Pine is an experienced etheric “surgeon” who professionally removes dead and decaying energy. Provides an opportunity to work out the problems that caused the formation of energy “dirt.” It encourages, first of all, not to look for a source of knowledge from anyone, but to look into your own world and the world around you. Opens the breath of the aura, refreshed by the influx of new High energy, born from an enlightened harmonious fusion with the life-giving forces of Air, Earth, Water and Fire.

There are many ways to use pine oil. We will try to talk about some of them. The simplest is inhalation. Now it is fashionable to use special aroma makers. If you have this cute little thing in your household, then to “refuel” it you need 4-5 drops of oil. The session lasts 20 minutes. If you don’t have an incense maker, you can simply put the same 4 drops on a cloth or cotton wool and put it on the battery.

For colds, you can drop 2-3 drops into a bowl of boiling water, lean over it and breathe, breathe... 5-10 minutes. This method of application will help you quickly cope with cough and runny nose.

This is interesting: You can combine aromatherapy with breathing exercises and meditation. To perform breathing exercises that give you the mindset for success and harmony with the world, apply 7 drops of pine oil on your palms, rub, bring your palms to your face 5-7 cm and, holding them vertically, in a corresponding time ratio of 1:4:2, do deep inhale-hold your breath-exhale. The duration of the procedure increases gradually: from 1 to 7 minutes per day.

To prepare a bath, you need 4-6 drops, which are mixed with milk, bubble bath, honey, cream or sea salt. The resulting mixture is poured or poured into the bath. Such baths are indispensable for diseases of the respiratory tract and nervous system.

For a sauna, 2-3 drops per 15 m2 of room are enough.

Due to their easy solubility in lipids, turpentine and pine essential oil penetrate deeply into the skin, irritate it and reflexively cause some changes in the body. Therefore, they rubbed sore joints with turpentine to reduce pain and swelling.

To prepare massage oil, take 5-6 drops per 15 g of base oil. As a rule, it is peach, olive or simply refined sunflower oil. To rub sore joints, prepare an ointment of 7 drops and 10 g of base (lanolin, petroleum jelly). You can prepare turpentine ointment in the same way.

Pine essential oil is used internally with honey or jam. The dose is 1 drop 1-2 times a day. Wash it down with orange or pineapple juice, tea, wine.

Those who like something unusual can flavor dry tea leaves or wine with oil. However, the main thing here is not to overdo it.

Contraindications. You should never take pine oil on an empty stomach. It cannot be used internally continuously for more than 7 days. The dose should not exceed 2 drops per day. You should not take oil internally if you have gastritis and peptic ulcer. Before internal and external use, check the oil for individual tolerance. At excessive concentrations it may cause allergic reaction, and when used externally, skin irritation.

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Healing pollen

The pollen of pine, like many other plants, is also healing. It is collected in May, during the flowering of pine trees. Prepared in the morning. To do this, put a plastic bag on the flowering branches and hit them with a stick. From impacts, pollen spills out of the “inflorescences” and settles at the bottom and internal walls package. The collected pollen is sifted through a sieve and spread in a thin layer on paper in a warm and dry place for drying.

In recent years, valuable medicinal properties pine pollen. It turned out that this is a ready-made concentrate various vitamins, microelements and other biologically active substances. In terms of its tonic and stimulating effect, it is close to such adaptogenic plants as ginseng, and increases the body’s resistance to adverse conditions environment. Pine pollen with honey is used for prostate adenoma, and also as a general tonic vitamin remedy after serious illnesses and operations. Swedish doctors have experimentally proven the high effectiveness of pollen for prostatitis and prostate adenoma. To treat these diseases, it is mixed with slightly warmed bee honey in equal parts by volume. Take 1 teaspoon of the mixture in the morning on an empty stomach and in the evening before dinner, washed down with a small amount of boiled water or milk.

Pine resin is obtained from pine resin and is completely natural. natural preparation. It contains healing components of the pine tree, so it has a beneficial effect on the human body. positive action. Let's get to know the benefits of oleoresin in more detail.

Chemical composition of pine resin

Vitamins: A, groups B, C, D, E, K, PP.

Minerals: vanadium, iron, iodine, potassium, calcium, carotene, cobalt, silicon, manganese, copper, molybdenum, nickel, phosphorus, zinc.

In addition, the resin contains resinols, resin esters, fatty acid and succinic acid.

Three-quarters of the resin consists of resin acids. Normally they are in a solid state. Why is the resin liquid? The secret is that in addition to acids, it contains terpenes (18%), which are excellent solvents. Thanks to this, the resin moves along the “corridors” inside the tree. In addition, in nature there are “resin pockets” - accumulations of resin. True, most often this can be seen in fir or spruce. Pockets are rare in pine trees.

Pine resin in a solid state is called barras. Someone calls it gray, although it has nothing to do with it.

Medicinal properties of pine resin

strengthens the immune system,
prevention and treatment of colds,
stops inflammatory processes,
relieves cough and sore throat,
treats bronchitis and pneumonia,
has an antiseptic and analgesic effect,
strengthens the cardiovascular system,
treats stomach diseases,
relieves mastopathy,
increases potency,
helps with VSD,
heals wounds, bruises and burns,
helps with radiculitis, mastopathy,
improves vision,
cures night blindness,
eliminates bleeding gums,
treats diseases of the oral cavity,
strengthens tooth enamel,
relieves pustules and boils,
helps with gynecological diseases,
treats hemorrhoids,
normalizes the functioning of the nervous system,
fights insomnia,
treats skin diseases,
improves skin condition.

Resin oil for pain in joints and muscles

Zhivitsa strengthens its therapeutic effect in the composition with vegetable oils, since in this form it is better absorbed by the human body. It is quickly absorbed into the skin, penetrating into its deep layers.
As a rule, oil is used to relieve pain in joints and muscles.

How to make oil from resin

50 g pine resin mix with 50 g of any vegetable oil (base). Another 50 g of vodka is often added to the mixture. Place the mixture in the refrigerator for 7 days. Then strain the resulting solution and pour into a clean container with a tight lid.

Application of pine resin ointment

The drug is prepared according to traditional recipe. It does not contain preservatives or dyes, but only natural ingredients. The composition of the ointment includes: wax, resin and vegetable oils.

Most often, the mixture is used for stomach ulcers, cracked lips, wounds, furunculosis, weeping eczema and many other diseases.

Contraindications and harm

individual intolerance,
allergy,
pregnancy,
children under 5 years old.

Resin ointment

An overdose of the product may cause an allergic reaction. Before using oleoresin internally and applying it to the face, apply a small amount to a small area of skin.

Treatment with pine resin. Folk recipes

For immunity. First, you need to freeze about 40 g of pine resin, then grind it until a powder forms. Then you should dry it and transfer it to another container. You can take the product an hour after meals, at least 2 times a day, 0.5 tsp.

For sore throat. 1/3 tsp. put under the tongue or simply dissolve for diseases associated with inflammatory processes in the throat. The duration of treatment is until the condition improves.

For cough and sore throat. Inhale the smell of resin.

For mastopathy. Dissolve 20 g of resin in 100 g. Make compresses every day for 30-35 minutes, the remaining mixture can be rubbed into the chest.

For pain in muscles and joints. It is necessary to insist for a week in a cold place the resin and vegetable oil of each in the amount of 50 g. Then you need to decant the solution and move it to another container with a lid. Rub the resulting mixture into painful areas every day before going to bed.

From bleeding and wounds. Apply natural remedy to Right place.

For wounds, burns, skin diseases. Soak a bandage folded in four layers well with oleoresin or oleoresin ointment. Apply it to the affected area of skin for half an hour. After removing the compress, the area where the bandage was applied should be wiped with a disinfectant.

For skin diseases . Apply oleoresin ointment to problem areas.

Pine resin is a natural remedy for many diseases. She is truly unique!

Have you used resin for medicinal purposes?

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Resin is an aromatic, sticky, resinous substance released when the bark of coniferous trees (pine, spruce, fir, cedar, larch) is damaged. Hardening on the surface of the bark, the resin creates a reliable protective barrier that protects the wounded tree from penetrating into it pathogenic microorganisms or bark beetles pests.

Resins of all coniferous species have a pronounced antibacterial, antiseptic, analgesic, wound healing, anti-inflammatory, vascular strengthening, antiallergic, antifungal, antiviral, and immunomodulatory effect.

In ancient times, people noticed that just as a person’s blood runs, so does the sap run by the trees. That's why they called resin - resin. Alive, Zhivaga is the goddess of life among the ancient Slavs. Resin is the life sap of a tree. They took it in late spring and at the dawn of summer, when the awakened earth joyfully opened flowers and the grass sprang wildly in the meadows. They looked for healthy, thick trees, strong and proud, stretching their green palms high into the sky. They took the voluntarily donated blood of the tree, without an incision, as is now practiced, thanked the tree for the life given to them, for healing and help, believing that it would not leave Zhiva-Zhivag with its mercy, would breathe life into the body of the dead, and raise it from the bed.

And it couldn’t be otherwise - oleoresin cures 99 ailments, and even drives away the hundredth. People believed that tree blood not only drives away illnesses, but also restores vitality a person, transferring a part of his soul.

Centuries passed and people forgot the mercy of their land... considers modern science wood blood is used only as a raw material for the production of turpentine and rosin, forgetting the old recipes and compositions, forgetting the experience of doctors and healers of the ancients. There are almost no serious studies studying healing properties resin, no, despite the fact that many modern doctors They use it in the composition of ointments and other medicinal potions.

Physical characteristics and chemical composition resin

Resin, a colorless viscous resinous substance with a characteristic pine odor; waste product of trees, mainly conifers (in the USSR - pine, spruce, cedar, larch, fir). Contained in resin passages that penetrate all parts of the tree, and is released when it is damaged. Hardening on the surface of the damaged area, the resin protects the tree (“heals the wound,” hence the name) from penetration pathogenic fungi, bark beetles and others.

The composition of oleoresin includes: 40-65% diterpene, or resin, acids of the general formula C19H29COOH (levopimaric, pimaric, palustraic, abietic, dehydroabistic, etc.), 20-35% monoterpene hydrocarbons of the general formula C10H16 (the volatile part of the oleoresin is α- and β-pinenes, carene, camphene, β-phellandrene, limonene, etc.), 5-20% sesqui- and diterpene hydrocarbons and their derivatives (so-called neutral substances). The qualitative composition of resin acids and monoterpenes for the resin of coniferous trees growing in the USSR is basically the same (cedar resin also contains lambertian acid), their quantitative composition is different and depends on the species and type of tree, its area of distribution, etc. fir resin contains, in addition, triterpene acids.

Resins differ significantly from one another in the content and composition of neutral substances (in % by weight): in the resin of Scots pine (Pinus silvestris) - 3-4 (pimaradiene, pimarinol, abietinol, abietinal, methyldehydroabietate, etc.), in the resin of Siberian cedar (Pinus sibirica) - 7-10 (cembrene, isocembrine, isosembrene, etc.), in larch oleoresin (Larix sibirica, Larix daurica) -18-20 (larixol, larixacetate, epimanool, epitorulozole, aldehydes, etc.), in oleoresin spruce (Picea obovata, etc.) - 10-12 (neoabienol, epimanoyloxide, etc.), in fir resin (Abies sibirica) - 8-12 (manoyloxide, abienol, neoabienol, etc.).

The composition of the resin includes:
volatile substances (32-35%) – monoterpenes (a- and b-pinenes, b-phellandrene, camphene, carene, limonene, etc.);
diterpenes, sesquiterpenes and their derivatives (8-10%);
resin acids (77–77.5%) - abietic, lambertian, dextropimaric, dehydroabistic, levopimaric, pimaric, palustraic, sapinic, etc.
higher fatty acids (0.3%) including: lauric, palmitic, palmitooleic, oleic, stearic, etc.
resinols and resinotannols (resin alcohols), rubbers (resin esters), vitamins C and D, succinic acid.

Medicinal properties of resin

The composition of wood blood is similar; all oleoresins are characterized by a strongly pronounced healing, antiseptic, and analgesic effect. However, there are also differences:

Siberian cedar resin is an excellent remedy for stimulating and restoring metabolic processes and blood circulation in the brain, improves integral brain activity, especially in atherosclerosis, injuries and other diseases with obvious impairment cerebral circulation(impaired memory, attention, speech, dizziness). Can be used when depressive states, in gerontological practice, senile dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. Normalizes cardiac activity, including during myocardial infarction. It is advisable to use it for brain hypoxia caused by acute viral and mycoplasma infections, for example, a virus tick-borne encephalitis. There is data on preventive action for tumor diseases: increases the sensitivity of tumors to radiation and chemotherapy.

During the Great Patriotic War, with an acute shortage of medicines, resin brought invaluable help to military surgeons; in Siberian hospitals it was used to treat deep bullet wounds. The most severe and chronic tissue damage, including gangrene, was treated with resin. In case of fractures, resin was smeared on the site of injury - and the bone healed faster.

Resin has shown itself to be excellent in the treatment of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Resin resin is consumed in small doses orally - for stomach ulcers and duodenum, hemorrhoids, heartburn. Resin improves intestinal microflora and helps cope with dysbacteriosis. Resin is useful for pulmonary tuberculosis, pneumonia, catarrh, colitis, gastritis, hepatitis, cholecystitis and enterocolitis. Resin is used as an epithalizing agent for various ulcerative and erosive processes, for rubbing against rheumatism, gout, neuralgia, and colds of the respiratory system.

Resin is an excellent remedy for stimulating and restoring metabolic processes and blood circulation in the brain. It improves the integral activity of the brain, especially in atherosclerosis, trauma and other diseases with obvious impairment of cerebral circulation (impaired memory, attention, speech, dizziness).
There is evidence of the preventive effect of oleoresin in tumor diseases: it increases the sensitivity of tumors to radiation and chemotherapy.

Non-strict recipes and simple technology of preparation at home - seasonings, drinks, tinctures, kvass, teas, decoctions, extracts - encourage patients to treat with resinous substances. And an accessible form of procedures - baths, lotions, massage, rubbing, instillation, inhalation.

Recipes for using resin

For outdoor and internal use ointment-balm is made. It contains: oleoresin, propolis, beeswax, dried plantain leaf powder, meadowsweet, linseed and St. John's wort oil.

For bruises, diseases of the joints, spine, incipient boils, light burns, cracks in the fingers, herpes on the lips, rub the ointment into the sore spot for 3-5 minutes. You can do it up to 3 times a day.

For a runny nose, lubricate the wings of the nose, the area of the maxillary sinuses, the bridge of the nose and forehead. When coughing, apply mustard plasters and then lubricate the reddened skin with ointment. You can use ointment instead of massage cream to prevent frostbite.

For bronchitis, asthma, pulmonary tuberculosis, and stomach ulcers, a pea-sized dose of ointment should be added to slightly hot milk or tea. You can add it to a warm decoction of cetraria. Drink 3-4 times a day, 150 g, 15 minutes before meals, preferably with honey. The course of treatment is from 10 days to 6 months.

Tincture of oleoresin for sexual weakness

For sexual weakness, pour 1 teaspoon of pure resin into 500 g of vodka and place in a dark place for 7 days. Take 15 grams twice daily before meals. Or 30 grams before bed. The course of treatment is 2 months with a break of 10 days between them.

Gum oil for stomach ulcers and cataracts

To do this, you need to collect May resin (resin). Dissolve it in vegetable oil (preferably linseed) in a ratio of 1: 4. Then strain through 4 layers of gauze, let it sit for a day, carefully pour it into a dark bottle using a clean syringe and store in the refrigerator.

This oil is used internally - in the treatment of stomach ulcers (1|2 teaspoon, 3 times a day), externally - for joint diseases (instead of massage cream) and for cataracts. To do this, drop 1 drop of oil into the eye at night. There will be a slight burning sensation, but it will go away quickly. Course - 2 months.

Methods for obtaining resin

Resin is obtained by regularly making cuts on the tree trunk during the growing season (tapping) and collecting it in special containers. The yield of resin depends mainly on the type of tree and climatic conditions. In the USSR, mainly Scots pine is subjected to tapping, and the yield of resin is on average 1.0-1.1 kg/year. The yield of resin from trees of other coniferous species is significantly lower: cedar 0.6-0.8 kg, larch and spruce 0.3-0.5 kg.

When extracted, oleoresin quickly thickens in air, changes color to light or dark brown, becomes waterlogged, and becomes clogged. Commercial resin is characterized by the content of volatile terpenes (10-20% by weight), H2O (2-10%) and mechanical impurities (1-5%). Resin is soluble in diethyl ether, in abs. ethanol, acetone, worse - in gasoline, does not dissolve in water.

Scots pine resin is the main raw material for the production of rosin and turpentine. Processing of pine resin consists of removing water, removing debris, distilling off volatile monoterpene hydrocarbons with steam (this produces turpentine) with the simultaneous fusion of solid resin acids (receives rosin). Resin from larch, cedar, spruce, fir is a raw material for the production of α- and β-pinenes, balms (including medicinal), immersion oil, so-called neutral larch resin, glue-paste for sizing paper, repellents and others.

Processing of larch resin includes: purification, steam distillation of volatile terpene hydrocarbons with subsequent rectification, saponification of the non-volatile part with alkali, extraction of neutral substances with gasoline, boiling of the extract to obtain neutral larch resin (first obtained in the USSR), boiling of resin acid salts to obtain adhesive paste . Processing of cedar and fir resin consists of cleaning, thorough filtering and subsequent partial distillation of volatile monoterpene hydrocarbons to obtain fir and cedar balsams. The global volume of oleoresin harvesting is more than 700 thousand tons/year (1987). (1)

Dosages and methods of using resin

Since oleoresin is potent natural remedy, then the concentration for care products should be no more than 3-5%, for medicinal drugs for external use - no more than 50%, for internal use - no more than 5% of the share in the solution.

Pine resin is a product obtained from coniferous trees; in simple terms - resin. It is also called sulfur, and the solidified substance is called barras. It is easily obtained and widely used for medicinal purposes, both in official and folk medicine. We will find out further why this substance is good and how to use it.

Chemical composition

A third of the resin is rosin acid. They are usually hard, but fresh resin has a soft, stretchy texture. This is due to the presence of terpenes, which make up almost 18% of the mass.

Among useful elements Vitamins A, D, K, E, and representatives of group B (P, PP) can be distinguished. There are many micro- and macroelements in the resin - iron, cobalt, manganese, calcium, copper, phosphorus, zinc. There is also iodine and carotene.

Benefit: medicinal properties

Resin is used as an antiseptic and antibacterial agent. Has an analgesic and anti-inflammatory effect. It is especially good to use it on festering wounds - the resin will disinfect the affected area and draw out all the bad things, while healing will be faster.

Resin has a calming property - baths with the addition of pine resin help you relax and fall asleep faster, and cure insomnia. The frozen grains, when consumed orally, can relieve coughing.

Important! Turpentine (a resin derivative) is poisonous. Therefore, any treatment involving it should be under the supervision of a physician.

Coniferous liquid can strengthen the immune system and restore strength to the body after long and serious illnesses.

Use in medicine: indications for use

Pine resin is used in the treatment of diseases of many organs and tissues.

Skin diseases

Indications for use:

disinfects the skin;
draws out pus (for example, with furunculosis);
relieves pain;
calms;
promotes rapid healing.

Diseases of teeth and gums

Resin is included in many pastes and rinses that will help prevent gum disease and the formation of dental caries.

Indications for use:

It is taken in the form of chewable mixtures in combination with medicinal herbs, as separate chewable cakes (serku), in the form of healing balms internally and locally.

How it works:

kills germs;
relieves inflammation;
relieves pain;
helps ulcers heal faster.

Joints and connective tissues

polyarthritis;
arthritis;
gout;
radiculitis;
osteochondrosis;
myositis;
plexite;
constant back pain from overwork and stress.

How does it work:

when rubbed into places of pain, the balm can stop the development of the disease and reduce the severity of its course;
adding baths and lotions to ointments helps relieve tension, relax muscles and joints;
massages with oil based on resin help to warm up the source of pain and relieve pressure in joints and muscles.

Respiratory diseases

Helps with:

chronic diseases;
pneumonia;
bronchitis;
pulmonary tuberculosis.

How it works:

helps phlegm resolve;
promotes vasodilation and expectoration;
kills germs and bacteria;
helps regenerate lung tissue.

Digestive system diseases

Indications for use:

Drops are prescribed in small doses, which:

relieve pain;
renew microflora;
remove dysbacteriosis as a consequence of the disease;
help the healing of internal organs;
improve the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract.

Did you know? In the old days it was believed that the resin of an ancient pine tree could attract wealth.

Diseases of the cardiovascular system

It will help cure the following diseases:

angina pectoris;
arrhythmia;
tachycardia;
vascular dystonia;
endarteritis.

How does it work:

when rubbed into the sternum and back, it gets inside and acts in places of illness;
soothes and relieves pain;
helps normalize processes in the heart and improve the condition of blood vessels.

Diseases of the excretory system

Helps with:

kidney stones;
prostatitis;
adenoma;
hemorrhoids.

Here, enemas with a solution of resin are used, which are absorbed and begin to act locally. Baths based on a medicinal substance are also useful, as is a balm that is taken orally.

Diseases of the reproductive organs

Zhivitsa treats:

thrush;
cervical erosion;
cystitis;
gonorrhea;
also helps with PMS.

It is recommended to use microenemas or administer the solution using a tampon. Gum balm is also prescribed.

How does it work:

eliminates pain and unpleasant discharge;
alleviates the disease and promotes its rapid treatment.

Eye diseases

Prescribed for treatment:

cataracts;
thorn;
barley.

It works topically by instilling a solution of turpentine balm 5% into the eyes.

Diseases of the central nervous system

Resumes processes in the central nervous system:

with atherosclerosis;
after injuries that led to deterioration of memory, coordination, attention, speech;
with senile dementia;
in Alzheimer's disease.

Fights viral or microplasma infection; it is also prescribed for cerebral hypoxia. In general, resin stimulates and renews all processes.

Endocrine system diseases

Pine resin helps with inflammation of the thyroid gland. Thanks to the succinic acids in the composition, blood sugar levels are reduced and the condition of patients with diabetes is improved.

Obesity, overweight

Excess weight can be removed by rubbing oil from resin in a steam room or bath - it activates fat burning. At the same time, waste and toxins are eliminated, and the person begins to feel much better. Baths can also be used. Together, these procedures will help you lose more than 5 kg in a month.

Blood-sucking insect bites

Resin-based balms help prevent insect bites and relieve symptoms after them. They stop itching, burning and irritation. Used for tick bites:

After a bite, you need to drink balm for several days to prevent infection with encephalitis.

Application in cosmetology

To improve the condition of the skin of the face, neck and chest, it is recommended to massage with oil based on pine resin. This helps smooth out wrinkles, eliminate skin imperfections, and makes the skin elastic and fresh.

The resin is also used for massages of the back, legs and arms - this helps to relax muscles, warm up joints, dilate blood vessels and relieve pain; it is also used for varicose veins of the legs. Helps regenerate skin, eliminate fatigue and improve performance.
Aromatherapy helps relieve runny nose and acute respiratory infections, clears phlegm from the lungs and improves breathing. A drop of oil can be added to a humidifier with the required function, or to an aroma lamp.

Harm and side effects

Consumption may be harmful medicines V large doses what the doctor prescribed. Concerning side effects, then in case of an overdose there may be rashes, nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting.

Contraindications

It is possible to be allergic to the medicinal substance, so before use it is better to check your reaction on your wrist by holding the ointment or balm there for 10 minutes. It is also better to refrain from using the product for pregnant women and children under 10 years of age.

Procurement and storage of raw materials

We choose any pine tree we like in the forest and make an incision on the tree. You immediately need to connect a container into which the resin will be drained. One tree can produce up to 1.5 kg of resin. Most of the “harvest” will be collected from May to August.

Important! There is no need to let the tree die - just make a couple of cuts to collect a liter container of resin. The tree cannot be touched for the next two years.

Collection Tips:

if you wipe a knife or awl with an oiled cloth, the resin will not stick to it;
choose trees away from roads, construction sites and factories;
resin can be cut from already wounded naturally trees;
resin accumulates under the bark, where there are tubercles.