Cedar resin (turpentine) is a resin of Siberian cedar. It has a greenish-yellow color, in consistency and appearance resembles honey of bees, has a characteristic coniferous smell. Cedar gum is extracted during the growing season by the method of tapping, in which wood is wounded - out of them, the outflow of resin occurs. Since it does not crystallize rapidly, this process takes a rather long time. From one carra - a section of a tree on which notches (renewable) are applied - no more than 20 g of resin is collected per season. Mostly cedar gum is currently mined in the Altai Territory, where its yield reaches up to 50-55 kg / ha (using modern technologies).
Terpentin contains a lot of useful substances. Cedar resin is obliged for its healing qualities by turpentine and its derivatives, oxygen compounds, as well as a wide range of acids: succinic, higher fatty (palmitic, lauric, palmitoleic, stearic, oleic), tar (abietic, dextropimaric, lambertian). In addition, it contains rezinol, rezinotannol, vitamins D and C, impurities of plant content.
Why cedar resin is useful, reviews can be found in sources devoted to traditional and traditional medicine. From the point of view of the latter, the healing properties of terpentine have been known since ancient times to people living in the Urals and Siberia. Zhivitsa has a bactericidal, anesthetic and healing effect. It is effectively used to treat snake bites and chronic ulcers. In folk medicine, it was applied to boils, abscesses, fracture sites.
Cedar resin helps with diseases of the teeth and gums. Vapors of terpentine, heated on charcoal, help with diseases of the respiratory organs.
In the first half of the 20th century, therapeutic balm was invented, which became an indispensable drug in hospitals during the war. It was made by mixing strained and refined gum with petroleum jelly or various oils. Dressings impregnated with this drug were used for suppuration and infection of wounds, gangrene.
Cedar resin is not only the external effect , the use of drugs based on it is also widespread. It is used to treat diseases of the gastrointestinal tract: anacid gastritis, colitis, hepatitis, enterocolitis, cholecystitis, to restore organ microflora.
Camphor is made from it, which has a stimulating effect on the respiratory and cardiovascular system. Turpentine can be obtained from turpentine, which is widely used in folk medicine for rheumatism, arthritis, gout, bronchitis. Gum-based drugs help with angina, acute respiratory infections, frostbite, skin diseases, prostatitis, mastitis, hemorrhoids, and even with inflammation of the trigeminal nerve.
Quite often it is used in combination with cedar oil. In addition, among the healers, there is an opinion that the resin, flowing out of a damaged tree or its branches in a natural way, has the greatest healing effect. There are practically no contraindications to its use, except for individual intolerance to the substance.