Birch tar is a dark, oily liquid with an unpleasant odor, obtained as a result of dry distillation of birch bark. This product has excellent antiseptic as well as anti-inflammatory properties. Due to its valuable qualities, birch tar is one of the components of many products used in traditional medicine.
Product manufacturing
The upper part of the birch bark used to obtain birch tar is collected in early summer from growing trees. The collected bark is placed in a container with a tube, under which a small fire is built, and the bark itself is set on fire, from which tar is extracted. This product is formed as a result of the decomposition of a substance that stains birch bark in white. Ready tar can be purchased at pharmacies.
Application in traditional medicine
The most commonly used birch tar in the treatment of skin diseases. Compresses and ointments prepared from this therapeutic agent perfectly relieve lichen, eczema, psoriasis, scabies and fungal diseases.
Birch tar, the use of which will help get rid of many ailments, gives a good result in the treatment of:
- liver diseases,
- colds
- intestinal infections,
- cystitis.
This drug and preparations from it normalize metabolic processes and blood pressure, and also strengthen the heart muscle. Ancient healers actively used birch tar, the use of which saved from scurvy.
Also, this drug is an ancient remedy for tuberculosis. One drop of birch tar, divided into three parts, should be taken during the day. This product is washed down with carrot juice or coffee made from ground and roasted grains of oats, barley or wheat.
Birch tar is also used for respiratory diseases, the use of which in a mixture with an equal amount of honey gives a good medicinal effect. Take this remedy on a spoon on an empty stomach in the morning and evening.
Many folk recipes contain birch tar. Ingestion in the form of pills helps with purulent cough, smallpox, leprosy, unclean rashes, aches and wounds on the body. To prepare this remedy, an equal amount of powders from juniper berries and elecampane root is taken. From this mixture and birch tar knead the dough and divide it into pills of 125 grams. Take in the morning and evening from ten to thirty pieces.
Traditional medicine clarifies how to take birch tar for colds. Five to ten drops of this product must be stirred in a glass of warm milk and taken two glasses in the morning, afternoon and evening twenty minutes before eating.
Traditional healers have long used a solution of birch tar. It is mixed with boiled water in a ratio of 1: 8 and defended for two days, and then, having removed the film, it is poured into a clean container. Tar oil obtained in this way is an excellent tool in the treatment of lung diseases.
Getting rid of suffocating cough, pneumonia and bronchitis is also within the power of this solution. Taking a spoonful of tar water before bedtime, you need to warmly wrap up. In a more severe case, the dosage is increased to three spoons. In the morning you need to rinse your throat with tar water. This recipe is used for asthma and tuberculosis. Lubricating the tonsils with a swab smeared in tar, you can cure a sore throat. Thus, you can simply and effectively get rid of ailments.
Use tar water to improve digestive processes and thin the blood. With bone aches, rubbing it into the joints helps. Tar water also finds its use as a diuretic and cleanser.
Often use birch tar from parasites. At night, use one drop of this product, mixed with a teaspoon of honey, milk or carrot juice. The number of tar drops is increased daily, bringing to eight. The course is repeated annually.