Healing properties and benefits of birch tar for human health

Birch tar has long been considered a medicinal 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 circles of traditional medicine. Alternative treatment options for birch tar have long been known to everyone. Those, for example, who used birch brooms in Russian bathhouses , only won in terms of strengthening their health. For effective purification from slags or parasites, ancient people also practiced purification of the body with birch tar. They used small amounts of this medicinal substance, which significantly cleared their body and cured various diseases. This is the ulcer of the stomach and intestines, because birch tar contributes to the healing of wounds. This can be seen, especially when applied by external cleaning birch tar. For example, hand washing with tar soap, which has a high percentage of birch tar, has an antiseptic effect on the skin.

Production of birch tar today is no less important than before. It looks like a dark brown oily liquid with a peculiar smell. Tar is produced from birch wood by dry distillation. This means that the raw material is heated to a certain temperature without access to oxygen. In its composition, birch tar contains such useful components as dioxybenzene, phenol, phytoncides, toluene, organic acids, resinous and other substances.

In addition to soap containing birch tar, this useful substance is also used in liquid form for the external treatment of diseases such as mastitis, eczema, small wounds, epidermophytia of the feet or groin, otitis media, lichens, fungi, bedsores. Also, a solution of tar 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. Internal application of a weak solution of birch tar helps with diseases such as gastrointestinal ulcer, urolithiasis, 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 take tar tinctures in milk (for every 50 g of warm fresh milk add 2 drops of birch liquid tar) for a week, then take a break, and then again take a week. In total, the course of treatment is 10 weeks.

During breast diseases, also treated with a milkshake with birch tar, only add every 5 hours for 1-2 drops of tar more, reaching 7 drops. In total, the course lasts 3 months with 1 month break. Sometimes the course is repeated to improve the effect.