Birch tar has long been considered a healing potion with pronounced antiseptic properties. The undoubted benefit of birch tar is known not only in the field of traditional medicine, but also in the scientific community of traditional medicine. Alternative treatment options for birch tar have long been known to everyone.
Those, for example, who used
birch brooms in Russian baths
, only won in terms of strengthening their health. For effective cleansing of toxins or parasites, ancient people also practiced cleansing the body with birch tar. They consumed in small quantities inside this therapeutic substance, which markedly cleansed their body and cured various diseases. These are ulcers of the stomach and intestines, because birch tar promotes wound healing.
This can be seen, especially when external cleansing with birch tar is used. For example, washing hands using tar soap, which has a high percentage of birch tar, has an antiseptic effect on the skin.
The production of birch tar today is no less important than before. It looks like a dark brown oily with a specific odor liquid.
They make tar from birch wood by dry distillation. This means that the raw materials are heated to a certain temperature without oxygen. Birch tar contains such useful components as dioxibenzene, phenol, volatile, toluene, organic acids, tarry and other substances.
In addition to soap containing birch tar, this useful substance is also used in liquid form for external treatment of diseases such as mastitis, eczema, small wounds, epidermophytosis of the feet or groin, otitis media, lichen, fungi, bedsores. Also, tar solution can gargle during severe forms of diseases: tonsillitis, tonsillitis, laryngitis. In cosmetic properties, birch tar is not the last place. It is rubbed into the scalp to treat seborrhea, as well as against hair loss. The internal use of a weak solution of birch tar helps with diseases such as peptic ulcer of the gastrointestinal tract, diseases of the urolithic character, urethritis, various bleeding, gangrene, bronchial asthma.
A few words about the use of such a unique drug as birch tar. For various infectious diseases, furunculosis and carbunculosis, tuberculosis and parasites, tar tinctures are taken in milk (2 drops of birch tar are added to every 50 g of warm fresh milk) for a week, then a break is taken, and then taken again a week. In total, the course of taking the therapeutic agent is 10 weeks.
During diseases of the breast, they are also treated with a milkshake with birch tar, they only add 1-2 drops of tar every five hours, reaching 7 drops. In total, the course lasts 3 months with 1 month break. Sometimes the course is repeated to improve the effect.