Birch tar is an oily, dark, viscous liquid with a very pungent odor. It is produced by distillation. The word "tar" is translated as burnt or burnt.
The principle of its extraction has been preserved since ancient times. At present, special boilers are used for the production of tar. They put the bark there, after which the tanks are heated. In ancient times, the resulting substance was used for a variety of purposes. Tar is a means by which shoes are even lubricated so that they become waterproof.
Medicinal use
Most of all, it is popular in traditional medicine. It was used as a medicine for worms, it made it possible to quickly heal wounds, in addition, it was one of the best remedies for tumors. At the moment, it is not so in demand, although it is still appreciated in pharmacology. So, a huge amount of medicines is produced from it.
Beneficial features
Tar, reviews of which can be read in this article, contains phenol, bitulin, organic acid, xylene, volatile, toluene. With it, atherosclerosis is especially effectively treated. In this case, you need to take half a spoonful of tar, dilute it in a glass of warm milk. The course of treatment in this case lasts a month and a half.
Birch tar is a substance that has a huge number of healing properties. It has an antimicrobial and antiseptic effect. Based on it, Vishnevsky and Wilkinson ointment is made, as well as tar soap, which has a reducing, antiparasitic, drying, anesthetic effect. With an inflammatory, purulent process, you can easily restore the skin integument, you can thus get rid of itching and blackheads.
Admission Rules
With this tool, you can normalize blood pressure, improve metabolism, strengthen heart muscles. This is good to do in the morning before breakfast, before lunch in the afternoon, before bedtime in the evening. With this tool, you can cure purulent cough, dropsy and fever. Birch tar inside is used to cleanse the body of toxins, toxins, in addition, it helps to improve the condition of the liver, intestines, pancreas. After some time, a person feels relief in the stomach, intestines. The tool heals ulcers in the stomach and duodenum.
Therefore, birch tar is one of the best remedies for treating various diseases, especially skin ones.
Tar water
It is necessary to take 500 g of tar, 4 l of spring cold water, mix thoroughly with a wooden stick. Close the vessel tightly for 2 days so that the composition settles. Carefully remove the foam, drain the clear liquid, and then store it in a closed bottle. The tar that remains, no longer has healing properties, water goes for various household needs. It is transparent and reminds the color of dry grape wine.
The dosage for consumption is as follows: 100 g in the morning for adults 20 minutes before breakfast; 50 g to children at the same time; infants 2 teaspoons twice daily after meals.
Thrombophlebitis, diabetes, stroke
Tar (instructions for its use is attached to each package) is used to treat these diseases. Drink every day, daily by drop increasing the dose. You need to start with 1 drop per spoonful of carrot juice or milk. Starting with the 10th drop, the dose should also be gradually reduced. Take once a day half an hour before meals.
Tar birch: application, instructions for the treatment of hemorrhoids
You need to take half of the red brick, heat it on an electric stove or gas. Put it in an empty iron bucket, drop a couple drops of tar there - smoke forms. Naked booty sit on a bucket for 20 minutes. You are unlikely to stay longer, because the steam will be very warm. This procedure should be done before bedtime in the evenings. Wake up in the morning - the pain disappears. And after 6 days all your cones will resolve.
Psoriasis
And in the treatment of psoriasis birch tar is used. Application (instructions are included in each package) in this case is very simple - lubricate all sore spots with a purified substance mixed with birch ash. The proportion is: 1/4 of the ashes and 3/4 of the tar.
Trophic ulcer
In equal parts, take Kalanchoe juice and tar. To mix everything. Soak the bandage in the product and apply as a compress to the ulcer. After 3 procedures, the ulcer will completely heal.
Genitourinary Infection
The use of tar inside will help with infections of the genitourinary sphere. Drink birch bark in the same way as in the first paragraph. In addition, water must be prepared from the substance. Tar tar is generally recommended for the treatment of young children, as well as people who do not tolerate the smell of tar. With it, asthma, constipation, hair loss, waterborne diseases, smallpox, skin pigmentation, erysipelas, gangrene, leprosy, scabies are treated.
Cancer of the stomach, throat
I also found tar in the treatment of these diseases. You need to drink it with boiled warm milk. From the very beginning, you need to add one drop of the substance to the milk. The next day - 2, then - 3. Thus, bring to twenty drops. Next, the tar intake is reduced, gradually increasing to 1 drop.
Nail fungus
Wash and steam the feet in soapy warm water, cut nails. Wipe your feet dry, especially between your toes. Wrap a cotton wool on a match, moisten it with tar, smear nails, while trying to push the product under the nails. After 10 minutes, remove it with cotton wool. Over this period of time, it has already been absorbed into the skin, which means that it has begun to fight the fungus that has appeared. You only need to wash your feet with soap - the tar is almost completely washed off the skin and from under the nails.
Wash your feet as much and when you want. But do not forget after that to lubricate them with tar. If there are cracks and itching between the fingers, then the substance does not need to be smeared, but proceed as follows: take 3 tablespoons of refined sunflower oil and a spoonful of tar. Mix everything and gently apply between fingers, remove after 20 minutes.
- Smear, then rest for 2 days. Then apply the product for two days, 3 - a break. And in the end, smear one day, rest - 3 days. Do this until the end of the 1st month.
- 2nd month: apply the product 1 time with a 5-day break.
- 3rd month: according to the same scheme, but the pause increases to 10 days.
In addition, disinfect all old shoes: fungi can live in it for a very long time. The infection is completely killed by putting a piece of gauze or fleece soaked in tar in the shoe.
Joint diseases
Pour some tar in the palm of your hand and smear it with a sore joint. After he starts tingling or pinching, immediately remove the product with a soft cloth. It will take about 15 minutes. After an hour, wash the joint with a washcloth and soap. Tar has already done its job, namely, it broke salt deposits.
The next day, put clay (blue, white, red) on the sore joint, the main thing is that it be sticky, without sand. It needs to be diluted to the consistency of sour cream. After that, lubricate the diseased joint. After some time, it will begin to dry, thus tightening the skin. So salts are drawn from the joint. Clay should be kept for as long as the patient can withstand, as severe pain may appear.
Treatment is carried out according to the following scheme: 1 day treatment with tar; 2nd — clay; 2 days break; 5th - we apply tar again; 6th - clay treatment; rest for three days; 10th day - tar treatment; the next day - clay. After this, recovery should occur, or at least relief.
If a person has a slight redness after removing this substance from the skin or becomes moist, a couple of hours after this, a zinc water mixture or zinc paste should be applied .
Tuberculosis
You need to drink birch tar from 1 to 40 drops, daily increasing the dose, then decreasing it from 40 to 1. After 2 months, the course should be repeated. Drink tar should be with milk.
Tar for children
Children often suffer from diathesis - an unpleasant allergic disease. Birch tar can cope with such problems. Traditional medicine advises lubricating sore spots with baby cream or butter with the addition of this substance.
Contraindications
It should be noted that this substance has contraindications. So, allergic irritations, including dermatitis, may appear on the skin if birch tar is used. Application (reviews of this can be seen in the article below) as a medicinal product is possible only after consulting a doctor. Use it is not recommended during exacerbation of various chronic skin diseases. With dermatitis, acute eczema, folliculitis, exudative psoriasis, it must be used with extreme caution.
Applying it over time to large parts of the skin can lead to intoxication of the kidneys. Nausea, weakness, diarrhea, vomiting, cramps, dizziness may occur.
In patients, after application of the substance, a burning sensation is observed, although the itching at the same time disappears. If the burning stops after 15 minutes, then you can continue treatment. Before using birch tar, you need to check tolerance in a small area of the skin.
Tar birch: application, reviews
Tar has found application in the treatment of various diseases, which we have already discussed in detail. Today you can find a huge number of reviews of people who happened to try this healing substance on themselves. So, many of them say that with their help they managed to get rid of the fungus, urinary tract infections, hemorrhoids and even psoriasis. Negative reviews include dissatisfaction with a sufficiently large number of contraindications.