Birch tar has long been considered a healing drug with pronounced antiseptic properties. The undoubted benefits of birch tar are 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 benefited in terms of strengthening their he alth. For effective cleansing of toxins or parasites, ancient people also practiced cleansing the body with birch tar. They used this medicinal substance in small quantities inside, which visibly 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 birch tar is applied externally. For example, washing hands using tar soap, which has a highpercentage 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 liquid with a specific smell.
Tar is made from birch wood by dry distillation. This means that the raw material is heated to a certain temperature without 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, athlete's foot or groin, otitis media, lichen, fungi, bedsores. You can also gargle with a solution of tar 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 and also against hair loss. Internal application of a weak solution of birch tar helps with diseases such as peptic ulcers of the gastrointestinal tract, urolithiasis, urethritis, various bleeding, gangrene, bronchial asthma.
A few words about the use of such a unique drug as birch tar. With various infectious diseases, furunculosis and carbunculosis, tuberculosisand parasites take tinctures of tar in milk (2 drops of birch liquid tar are added for every 50 g of warm fresh milk) for a week, then they take a break, and then take it again for a week. In total, the course of taking the remedy is 10 weeks.
During breast diseases, they are also treated with a milkshake with birch tar, only add 1-2 drops of tar more every five hours, reaching 7 drops. In total, the course lasts 3 months with a 1 month break. Sometimes the course is repeated to improve the effect.
