Cedar resin (turpentine) is a resin of Siberian cedar. It has a greenish-yellow color, resembles honey bees in texture and appearance, and has a characteristic coniferous odor. Cedar resin is extracted during the growing season by tapping, in which the wood is injured - resin flows out of them. Since it does not crystallize quickly, this process takes quite a long time. From one carra - a section of a tree on which notches are applied (renewed) - no more than 20 g of resin is collected per season. Pine oleoresin is mainly mined in the Altai Territory, where its yield reaches up to 50-55 kg/ha (using modern technologies).
Turpentine contains a lot of useful substances. Cedar resin owes its healing properties to turpentine and its derivatives, oxygen compounds, as well as a wide range of acids: succinic, higher fatty (palmitic, lauric, palmitoleic, stearic, oleic), resinous (abietic, dextropimaric, lambertic, sapinic). In addition, it contains resinols,resinotannols, vitamins D and C, vegetable impurities.
Why cedar resin is useful, reviews can be found in sources devoted to traditional and folk medicine. From the point of view of the latter, the healing properties of turpentine have been known since ancient times to people inhabiting the Urals and Siberia. Resin has a bactericidal, anesthetic and healing effect. It is effectively used to treat snake bites, chronic ulcers. In folk medicine, it was applied to boils, abscesses, fractures. Cedar resin helps with diseases of the teeth and gums. Vapors of turpentine heated on coals help with ailments of the respiratory organs.
In the first half of the 20th century, a healing balm was invented, which became an indispensable drug in hospitals during the war. It was made by mixing filtered and purified resin with petroleum jelly or various oils. Dressings soaked with this drug were used for suppuration and infection of wounds, gangrene.
Not only cedar resin has an external effect, the use of preparations based on it is also widespread. It is used to treat diseases of the gastrointestinal tract: anacid gastritis, colitis, hepatitis, enterocolitis, cholecystitis, to restore the microflora of organs.
Camphor is made from it, which has a stimulating effect on the respiratory and cardiovascular systems. Turpentine can be obtained from turpentine, which is widely used in folk medicine for rheumatism, arthritis, gout, and bronchitis. Resin-based preparations help with sore throat, acute respiratory infections, frostbite, skin diseases, prostatitis, mastitis, hemorrhoids, and even inflammation of the trigeminal nerve.
Quite often it is used in combination with cedar oil. In addition, there is an opinion among healers that the resin that has flowed 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.
