Pine resin application. The use of resin (resin of coniferous trees) as medicines

For survival in the forest knowledge of any natural materials used in food or as medicines is essential. This will allow survive even when exposed to the most extreme conditions, so knowing how to resin application hard to overestimate.

Sap

Even in ancient Russia, it was actively used as a medicine. resin of coniferous trees such as pine, spruce, fir, cedar and larch. On the territory of our country, they are ubiquitous, so almost everywhere you can find at least one of these species.

It is for the healing properties of these resins that the people received the common name " sap", that is, "carrying life." In the scientific world, they are better known as turpentine.

You can find resin in a coniferous forest on damaged trees, which, with the help of this sticky juice, heal the wounds, protecting the wood from the penetration of fungi and bark beetles. The oozing resin looks very much like fresh (amber) bee honey.

Sap its composition is very viscous and extremely sticky, so when collecting it, try not to get dirty. It does not dissolve in water, but ordinary vegetable oil can be used as a solvent. This allows soiled tools and hands to be simply rubbed with oil and then washed with soap and water.

If you did not find a damaged tree, you can do it differently. For example, to get pine resin, it is enough to make a few small notches on the tree with a knife or an ax. After that, it is worth waiting a few minutes, and you will notice how the excreted resin appears on the bark. She will need you.

The use of resin for centuries

As already mentioned, the healing properties of resin have been known for many millennia. The first mention of it dates back to the times of Ancient Egypt, as recorded in the manuscripts. Even then, coniferous resin was widely used for bleeding, for poultices, compresses, treatment of wounds and other diseases. She has successfully cured rheumatism, lung diseases, burns and ulcers, skin diseases, digestive disorders and even urinary infections.

So in the XVI century, coniferous resin was successfully used to treat the plague. Turpentine was made from it, the vapors of which had a bactericidal effect.

The great Russian surgeon Pirogov, during the Russian-Turkish war (1877), actively used resin in the treatment of poorly healing wounds formed at the site of amputations. Subsequently, this type of treatment became one of the main topics of his scientific activity.

During the Great Patriotic War pine resin and cedar resin successfully used in hospitals. Thanks to their anesthetic and healing properties, wounds and cuts, even the most severe and chronic ones, healed faster. They also treated gangrene, which was considered the scourge of military medicine. Wounds were filled with resin itself or balsam from it, and tissue soaked in balm was applied to abscesses and tumors. Such a compress had a softening and healing effect.

Gum in folk medicine

Most often it is used to cover wounds and abrasions to prevent infection and dirt from entering them. Resin well stops the blood and disinfects the wound, thanks to the antiseptics, which are contained in the resin in large quantities. In addition, by preventing the access of air, water and microbes, it contributes to a significant acceleration of the healing process.

For many centuries, the inhabitants of the Urals and Siberia have used resin for pain relief, rapid healing of cuts and wounds, treatment of ulcers, burns, boils, abscesses, and after snake bites. In case of fractures, they lubricated the place of injury with resin, which led to a rapid fusion of the bones.

In addition, for a long time in Siberia cedar resin treat toothache. It was applied to a diseased tooth or gum, which brought relief from pain and swelling of the gums. Siberian healers also used it to treat diseases such as cataracts, cataracts, stomach and duodenal ulcers, as well as to strengthen the nervous system. Even incense used to be made from cedar resin and was considered sacred, because according to legend, he cast out evil spirits.

Currently, the resin of coniferous trees is one of the main components for many lotions and ointments with analgesic effect. Based on it, medicines are created for the treatment of colds, dental, cardiovascular and other diseases, as well as the healing of the gastrointestinal tract.

Workshop for survival in extreme conditions

With angina - put a small piece of resin in your mouth. You can dissolve it or chew it like gum. You can forget about a sore throat in a couple of days. In addition, "gum" saliva heals well sore and inflamed gums, and once in the stomach - heals internal ulcers.

Resin, taken internally, restores liver and pancreas cells. This improves not only metabolism, but also cerebral and peripheral circulation. Visibly activated removal of heavy and harmful substances from the body. Improves overall health and blood pressure stabilizes.

Attention! Reception of resin and products from it inside is carried out exclusively during daylight hours. This is due to the fact that its components have a maximum effect only on the waking organism. As a result of taking resin in humans, the chromosome number is restored, which is truly unique, because even complex homeopathic systems rarely lead to such results.

And most importantly, resin does not create stressful situations for the body. It slowly and gently starts the process of regeneration, and at the cellular level.

For many centuries, resin has been mixed with vegetable or cedar oil, getting turpentine balm. It has a powerful healing effect both externally and internally. With no less success, it is used as an oil for therapeutic massage.

Collection and storage of resin

The collection of resin largely depends on what time of the year you need the resin. In spring (with the beginning of sap flow) and summer, it is liquid, and its viscosity decreases with increasing ambient temperature. Notches are made on the tree, under which a cone-shaped container is attached. After collecting the resin, the damage is covered with garden pitch.

In the cold season, the frozen resin is collected, which is cut with a knife. Wipe the blade with an oiled cloth before harvesting to keep the resin from sticking to the knife. Cut it into small pieces or layers. Remember, the colder the weather, the less sticky the resin, and the more convenient the collection.

The unique quality of resin is that it does not age, which is very convenient for survival in the wild. With access to air, it only gradually crystallizes and becomes solid, outwardly similar to amber. Conveniently, these golden pieces melt well when heated. And most importantly, it retains its healing properties for centuries.

O resin sing songs and compose poems. People say that this remedy is given to us as an inheritance. Can we properly dispose of it and multiply it, that is the question.

On the possibility of diversity use of gum for medicinal purposes such a story can be given. Three patients come to the doctor with various diseases, in their opinion, but the doctor does not know that they are from the same family. First, the father came in complaining of a stomach ulcer, and the doctor gave him medicine. Then the daughter came in complaining of furunculosis and eczema, and the doctor gave her the same medicine. Finally, a respectable lady, the mother of her daughter, came in with complaints of a cold and cough, and the doctor gave her the same medicine. All three, returning home, noticed that the doctor gave the same medicine for a variety of diseases.

Indeed, resin has helped and is helping a lot of people, from an early age to old age. In Russia, from ancient times and until now, it is customary to chew pine resin to strengthen teeth, gums, and to disinfect the oral cavity. In ancient Egypt, pine resin was included in embalming compositions, and it has been established that over the past 3000 years these balms have not lost their bactericidal properties.

Medicinal properties of Scotch pine resin

Sometimes it has an extraordinary healing effect. For example, with cracked lips ("split lips") with unbearable pain, three days of lubrication with resin is enough to heal the wound. With catarrh, stomach ulcers, take it in small doses orally. With furunculosis, resin is smeared on the fabric and applied to sore spots. Pain relief occurs almost immediately, and after 2-3 days these procedures will lead to complete resorption of boils. If the resin is taken in a solid state, then it can be made plastic and even liquid by mixing it with hot vegetable oil.

Many cure weeping eczema with the help of resin in a few days, wetting the sore spots with it. It has bronchodilator and anticancer effects.

In diseases of the respiratory system, they insist resin in water and drink a glass of infusion during the day for 3-4 doses. Angina can be cured in a day if you suck on a piece of pine or spruce resin.

Purified turpentine oil, purified turpentine is obtained by steam distillation of pine resin and is used for rubbing into the skin mixed with petroleum jelly. Terpinhydrate is obtained from turpentine. It is taken as an expectorant and sputum thinner for bronchitis and tracheobronchitis, but it is quite clear that the resin itself is much more useful and effective than the preparations derived from it.

Often people turn to us for help when they suffer from stomach pain caused by an ulcer. Patients complain that neither oatmeal nor almagels help. In such cases, resin is an indispensable remedy, which is absorbed over a pea on an empty stomach, and it is even better to repeat the procedure before meals during the day. Helps! Moreover, it is useful in colitis, anacid gastritis, hepatitis, cholecystitis and enterocolitis. It improves the intestinal microflora, copes with dysbacteriosis. Gum ointment has a radical therapeutic effect in hemorrhoidal bleeding. Often there are problems in older people due to dry calluses on the soles of the feet. The best recipe turned out to be the one when gum was applied to the sore spots on the steamed feet at night, and fixed on top with adhesive tape.

With a severe cold, when it becomes difficult to breathe due to an hysterical heavy incessant cough, the resin is dissolved in hot water and mixed with granulated sugar. Make balls the size of a pea or bean from this mixture and dissolve after eating.

The most convincing example of the beneficial use of resin for me is my uncle, a front-line soldier who decided to quit smoking after the war. All attempts to use a wide variety of means ended in nothing: either he took special pills, or applied nicotine patches to the skin - and nothing! Until, finally, someone advised him to chew the pine resin collected in the forest on a full moon. The craving for smoking did not immediately go away, but gradually, after two weeks, he felt that the craving for smoking began to weaken, and after a month he noticed that he had lost this addiction altogether.

Chewed resin at least three times a day after meals for 15-20 minutes. Initially, due to a decrease in the number of cigarettes smoked, nausea, sweating, and slight dizziness may occur, but soon all this passes. If problems arise when chewing in its pure form, then you can do it together with chewing gum, the composition is softer, the resin does not crumble after hardening. (Now in our pharmacies, natural taiga tar, designed in the form of chewing gum, has appeared on sale). In addition, he was cured of chronic gastritis, his teeth stopped hurting, and caries began to wane.

Medicinal properties of Siberian larch resin

Useful is not only pine resin, but also spruce, fir, but The resin of the Siberian larch is considered especially curative.. The resin contains many vitamins and minerals, it restores the composition of tooth enamel, protects teeth from pathogenic bacteria that cause periodontal disease and caries.

Chewing gum enhances the secretion of saliva, which helps to cleanse the mouth, strengthens the gums and the roots of the teeth. A uniform load on the gums strengthens the masticatory muscles and helps to create a correct bite, which is why it is so useful to give it to children.

A case of an ankle sprain convinced me of the benefits of the medicinal properties of fir gum. It is known that when the ligaments are sprained, the joint swells, and sharp pulling pains appear. If you melt the interior fat (pork, bear or other) and mix it in equal proportions with resin, thoroughly simmer them in a water bath, add moonshine (an eighth of the total volume of the mixture), then a compress with this mixture will not only relieve pain, but also swelling , as well as a burgundy-cyanotic spot associated with this process at the site of stretching.

During attacks of sciatica, turpentine, dissolved in oil, is rubbed into the sore spot until the skin turns red. Then, on this place, you need to put dough (preferably rye), wrapped in cloth, and put parchment paper on top and wrap the body with a woolen scarf. The compress is placed for 40-60 minutes, after which the pain is removed.

Resin helps heal burn wounds. It happened, for example, in my childhood that a child in the forest near a fire stepped on a piece of coal, which burned through the thin rubber sole of a slipper and burned his foot. Home healers immediately figured out what to do. We took 1 tbsp. l. quicklime, poured 1 liter of cold water, insisted for 6 hours. At the same time, an ointment was prepared from resin, wax and interior lard in equal proportions. After heating on low heat with constant stirring, cooled. The wound was washed with lime water, and then smeared with the prepared ointment and bandaged. The dressing was changed daily, but four days was enough for the burn to disappear.

Helps resin, dissolved in vegetable oil (1:4), in the form of drops, for the treatment of eye diseases - cataracts, cataracts. It is necessary to instill in the eyes drop by drop at night for two months.

A. Baranov, Doctor of Biological Sciences,
T. Baranov, journalist

Pine resin - a product obtained from coniferous trees; Simply put, resin. It is also called sulfur, and the hardened substance is called barras. It is easily extracted and widely used for medicinal purposes, both in official and folk medicine. What is good about this substance and how to use it, we will learn further.

Chemical composition

A third of resin is resin acids. They are usually hard, but fresh resin has a soft, stretchy texture. This is justified by the presence of terpenes, which make up almost 18% by weight.

Among the useful elements, vitamins A, D, K, E, representatives of group B (P, PP) can be distinguished. There are many micro and macro elements in the resin - these are iron, cobalt, manganese, calcium, copper, phosphorus, zinc. It also contains iodine and carotene.

Benefit: medicinal properties

Gum is used as an antiseptic and antibacterial agent. It has an analgesic, anti-inflammatory effect. It is especially good to use it on festering wounds - the resin will disinfect the affected area and draw out everything bad, while healing will be faster.

Resin has a calming property - baths with the addition of pine resin help to relax and fall asleep sooner, cure insomnia. Hardened grains, when taken orally, can relieve coughing.

Important! Turpentine (resin derivative) is poisonous. Therefore, any treatment with his participation should be under the supervision of a physician.

Coniferous liquid is able to strengthen the immune system and restore strength to the body after long and serious illnesses.

Application in medicine: indications for use

Pine resin is used in the treatment of diseases of many organs and tissues.

Skin diseases

Indications for use:

• furunculosis;
• eczema;
• allergic reactions;
• psoriasis;
• herpes;
• streptoderma;
• trophic ulcers.

• disinfects the skin;
• draws out pus (for example, with furunculosis);
• anesthetizes;
• soothes;
• promotes rapid healing.

Diseases of the teeth and gums

Resin is an ingredient in many toothpastes and rinses that can help prevent gum disease and cavities.

Indications for use:

• stomatitis;
• bleeding gums;
• ulcers on the tongue and mouth;
• toothache;
• gingivitis;
• periodontal disease 1 and 2 degrees.

It is taken in the form of chewing mixtures in combination with medicinal herbs, as separate chewing cakes (serku), in the form of healing balms inside and topically.

How it works:

• kills microbes;
• relieves inflammation;
• relieves pain;
• helps ulcers heal faster.

Joints and connective tissues

• polyarthritis;
• arthritis;
• gout;
• radiculitis;
• osteochondrosis;
• myositis;
• plexite;
• constant back pain from overwork and exertion.

How does it work:

• when rubbed into places of pain, the balm is able to stop the development of the disease and weaken the severity of its course;
• adding baths and lotions to ointments allows you to relieve tension, relax muscles and joints;
• Resin-based oil massages help to warm up the focus of pain and relieve pressure in the joints and muscles.

Respiratory diseases

Helps with:

• chronic diseases;
• pneumonia;
• bronchitis;
• pulmonary tuberculosis.

How it works:

• helps mucus dissolve;
• promotes vasodilation and expectoration;
• kills microbes and bacteria;
• helps regenerate lung tissues.

Diseases of the digestive system

Indications for use:

• stomach or duodenal ulcer;
• colitis;
• enterocolitis;
• heartburn;
• gastritis;
• cholecystitis.

Assign drops in small doses, which:

• remove pain;
• renew the microflora;
• remove dysbacteriosis as a consequence of the disease;
• help the healing of internal organs;
• improve the processes of the digestive tract.

Did you know? In the old days, it was believed that the resin of an ancient pine tree could attract wealth.

Diseases of the cardiovascular system

It will help to cure such diseases:

• angina;
• arrhythmia;
• tachycardia;
• vascular dystonia;
• endarteritis.

How does it work:

• when rubbed into the sternum and back, it gets inside and acts in places of illness;
• soothes and relieves pain;
• helps to normalize processes in the heart and improve the condition of blood vessels.

Diseases of the excretory system

Helps with:

• kidney stones;
• prostatitis;
• adenoma;
• hemorrhoids.

Here, enemas with a solution of resin are used, which are absorbed and begin to act locally. Still useful are baths based on a medicinal substance, as well as a balm that is taken orally.

Diseases of the reproductive organs

Zhivitsa heals:

• thrush;
• erosion of the cervix;
• cystitis;
• gonorrhea;
• also helps with PMS.

It is advised to use microclysters or inject the solution with a swab. Gum balm is also prescribed.

How does it work:

• eliminates pain and unpleasant discharge;
• relieves the disease and promotes its rapid treatment.

Eye diseases

Assign for treatment:

• cataracts;
• walleye;
• barley.

It works locally when the eyes are instilled with a solution of turpentine balm 5%.

Diseases of the central nervous system

Resumes processes in the central nervous system:

• with atherosclerosis;
• after injuries that led to a deterioration in memory, coordination, attention, speech;
• with senile dementia;
• in Alzheimer's disease.

Fights viral or microplasma infection; it is also prescribed for brain hypoxia. In general, resin stimulates and resumes all processes.

Diseases of the endocrine system

Pine resin helps with inflammation of the thyroid gland. Thanks to succinic acids in the composition, the level of sugar in the blood decreases and the condition of diabetics improves.

Obesity, overweight

Excess weight can be removed by rubbing resin oil in a steam room or bath - it activates fat burning. Slags and toxins are removed, and the person begins to feel much better. You can also use baths. Together, these procedures will help you lose more than 5 kg in a month.

Bites of blood-sucking insects

Resin-based balms help prevent insect bites and relieve symptoms after them. They stop itching, burning and irritation. Used for tick bites:

After a bite, you need to drink a balm for several days to prevent infection with encephalitis.

Application in cosmetology

To improve the condition of the skin of the face, neck and chest, it is advised to do massages with oil based on pine resin. It helps smooth wrinkles, eliminate skin imperfections, makes the skin supple and fresh.

Resin is also used for massages of the back, legs and arms - this helps to relax muscles, warm up joints, expand blood vessels and relieve pain, and is also used for varicose veins of the legs. Helps to regenerate the skin, remove fatigue and increase efficiency.
Aromatherapy helps to remove a runny nose and acute respiratory infections, free the lungs from sputum and improve breathing. A drop of oil can be added to a humidifier with the necessary function, or to an aroma lamp.

Harm and side effects

Harm can cause the use of medicines in large doses than prescribed by the doctor. As for side effects, overdose can cause rashes, nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting.

Contraindications

An allergy to a medicinal substance is possible, therefore, before use, it is better to check your reaction on your wrist by holding the ointment or balm there for 10 minutes. It is also better to refrain from using the product for pregnant women and children under 10 years of age.

Procurement and storage of raw materials

We choose any pine tree we like in the forest and make an incision on the tree. You immediately need to connect a container to it, where the resin will merge. One tree can produce up to 1.5 kg of resin. Most of the "harvest" will be harvested from May to August.

Important! You should not bring the tree to death - just make a couple of cuts to collect a liter capacity of resin. For the next two years, the tree cannot be touched.

Collection Tips:

• if you wipe a knife or awl with an oiled cloth, then the resin will not stick to it;
• choose trees away from roads, construction sites and factories;
• resin can be cut from already naturally wounded trees;
• resin accumulates under the bark, where there are tubercles.

Spruce resin is not as popular as, say, cedar, but it is also used in folk medicine and is used quite successfully. It has properties similar to cedar resin, but it has one advantage - spruce is quite common throughout the country, which means that it is possible to independently harvest the most valuable raw materials and subsequently use it for medicinal purposes.

So, if you decide to harvest the resin yourself, you need to know when it is best to do it and how to do it correctly.

When and how to prepare spruce resin

It is right to harvest healing spruce resin in spring or, at worst, at the very beginning of summer. It is during this period that the trees begin the period of sap flow and it is ideal for harvesting resin.

Spruce resin is collected in the same way as any other, using an awl, a knife, a container with a lid and a napkin. The procedure is as follows:

1. We are looking for a suitable spruce with naturally damaged bark
2. Wipe the knife with an oiled cloth. This is necessary so that it does not stick to the resin.
3. Cut off a layer of resin and place in a jar with a lid

The second option is suitable for collection during the period of sap flow, that is, in early spring. The procedure is as follows:

1. We are looking for a suitable not old spruce
2. We are looking for small tubercles on the tree trunk. These will be the accumulations of resin that we need.
3. With the help of an awl, we make a puncture and pressing, we collect raw materials in a jar
4. Since the resin tends to harden quickly, it is better to immediately close the jar with a lid

Medicinal properties of spruce resin

The healing properties of this product are in many ways similar to the properties of the resin of other coniferous trees (fir, cedar, pine). Even the recipes for its use are almost the same.

Spruce resin has the following properties:

• strong bactericidal
• antitumor
• wound healing
• strengthening immunity

Ointment

Very often, an ointment is made from it, which is subsequently used to treat skin diseases. You can make it like this:

We take in equal proportions olive oil, spruce resin and beeswax. Everything needs to be heated in a water bath until all the ingredients are melted. Next, let the ointment cool, filter through gauze and we have a universal ointment ready, which can be used for all skin diseases, as well as applied to wounds and cuts.

Remedy for stomach cancer

Among cancer patients there is a certainty that resin has a healing effect on the body. For example, in case of stomach cancer, it is recommended to chew a piece of any resin the size of a pea for about 20 minutes, and then spit it out. This procedure is done 3 times during the day.

Belief in such treatment is based on the belief that the strongest bactericidal and wound-healing substances constantly enter the diseased stomach with saliva, which have a positive effect on the patient's condition.

Remedy for impotence

Spruce resin is excellent for treating impotence. To prepare the medicine, take 1 teaspoon of spruce resin and fill it with a 0.5 liter bottle. vodka. This remedy should be infused in a dark place for a full 5 days. Shake the bottle once a day. Take a remedy for impotence, 3 tablespoons 2 times a day.

Remedy for bedsores

You can prepare an ointment that is great for dealing with pressure sores. She prepares like this:

• We take 100 grams of pure spruce resin, beeswax and 200 grams of natural butter.
• We heat all this in a water bath for 2 hours, stirring occasionally.
• After 2 hours, pour the mixture directly bitterly into a glass jar with a lid.

The treatment is simple and consists in rubbing this ointment into bedsores.

Folk remedy for burns

A very effective ointment can be prepared as follows:

• 100 pork fat (inside), 100 grams of beeswax and 100 grams of spruce resin should be melted in a saucepan and let it boil a little.
• We got an ointment that can be used to lubricate burns by applying it to a bandage.

Where to buy spruce resin

Many people who do not have the opportunity to procure resin on their own are interested in the question, where can I buy it? In view of the low popularity of this product, it can be problematic to find it. All “Health Shops” and online stores selling such products mainly offer cedar resin, since it is considered the most useful.

Can be used to treat her. There is no particular difference between cedar and spruce resin, and their healing properties are largely similar. Yes, and recipes for use almost duplicate each other.

If you want to buy exactly spruce resin, I can advise you to look for specialized forums where this problem is discussed or groups in the social. networks. In some cases, the sale of products is carried out directly in the group.

Damaged pine releases a resin that protects plants from penetration into the wood fibers of harmful organisms. That is why this resin is called resin, which heals, embalms the wounds of the tree. And apparently, noticing this property of the resin, the gardeners began to heal the wounds of fruit trees with it, making a plaster from it with the addition of wood (olive) oil and wax. By the way, the balm with which the ancient Egyptians soaked mummies that have survived to this day and survived millennia also includes pine resin in its composition. Lumberjacks and hunters have long noticed the ability of resin to heal wounds.

If there is no first-aid kit at hand, then instead of a bandage or plaster, they put clean resin on the wound. By the way, the patch that we buy at the pharmacy also includes pine resin. They also put resin on aching teeth to relieve toothache. And the inhabitants of the Caucasus even prepared a special medicinal chewing gum from pine resin. In the old days, resin diluted with alcohol was used as a rub for aches. Until now, turpentine obtained from resin is used as rubbing. The smoke of burning resin has disinfectant properties. In some regions, peasants smoked a hut with the smoke of burning resin in winter to purify the air and remove the bad smell.

And who does not know the wonderful mineral amber. Amber is also pine resin, only it has lain in the ground for millions of years. In some pieces of amber, there are insects that once made a rash step, sitting on the resin flowing from the pine. And now scientists have the opportunity to study insects that lived on earth millions of years ago. Amber has a rich color range - from golden yellow and red to blue-green and almost black. Not only jewelry is made of amber: rings, brooches, necklaces, bracelets, but also decorative sculpture and mosaic panels. The highest achievement of the art of processing amber was the famous amber room in Tsarskoe Selo near St. Petersburg, in which everything, from a small thing to the walls, was made of carved amber.

Resin is a valuable raw material for the chemical industry. How is sap prepared? In the forests specially designated for this purpose, turpentine preparers - scavengers make two rows of inclined cuts, called horseshoes. Resin flows down the bottoms into the receiver - a small vessel, reinforced at the bottom. If the incisions are renewed from time to time, then the resin will flow all summer. Over the summer, up to two kilograms of resin are obtained from one tree.


At rosin-turpentine enterprises, resin is cleaned of litter and distilled with steam. The volatile part of the resin, when cooled, forms turpentine, and the golden, fragile mass remaining after distillation is rosin. Rosin is used to make paper, make soap, and make paint and varnish. It is necessary in shipbuilding, leather and rubber industries, as well as for the production of sealing wax and linoleum. The violin, cello and other bowed instruments could not play without rosin.

Another component of resin - turpentine is used as a solvent for paints and varnishes, rubber and various resins. Synthetic camphor is produced from it. In the textile industry, chintz fabrics are etched with turpentine before drawing a pattern on them, and paints are diluted.

In folk medicine, there are many recipes where pine resin (resin) or rosin is mixed with wax and with a fatty base for ointment (butter, internal animal fat, petroleum jelly, vegetable oil ...). Sometimes the composition of the ointment includes propolis, laundry soap. Such ointments have, as a rule, strong wound healing and cleansing properties. One of the recipes for such an ointment is given below.
Take 25 g of rosin, 25 g of beeswax, 25 g of vegetable oil and heat until dissolved. After that, add 50 g of propolis and bring to a boil, but do not boil. Apply this ointment daily to wounds.

Bring to a boil 200 g of ground spruce resin, one onion, 15 g of copper sulfate and 50 g of oil (preferably olive oil). The ointment has "warming properties" and also heals bruises, abscesses and broken bones. It is used both for compresses and for lubricating the nasal mucosa.

The resin should be placed in the freezer for 1 hour, then removed and quickly ground with a glass bottle into powder. Then sift through cheesecloth.
Take 1 hour before meals 3 times a day, 2 grams.
Drink some cold water.

At the end of May, staminate spikelets appear on the pine - male inflorescences with a large amount of yellow pollen, and at the ends of young shoots - female inflorescences - cones.
One tablespoon of male inflorescences is brewed in two glasses of boiling milk or water. Add 1 teaspoon of honey. Take in three doses for diseases of the upper respiratory tract.

Fresh pine red female cones fill a glass jar by two-thirds, fill it to the top with vodka and leave for at least two weeks. Take from 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon per day for pain in the heart.

Pour one part of pine resin (resin) with 5 parts of water, leave for 9 days in the sun in a glass bowl. Take 3 times a day before meals from a tablespoon to half a cup for diseases of the upper respiratory tract, as a tonic.

Pine resin is kept in the mouth, licked with the tongue, alcohol extracts, water infusions are made. Used to treat stomach ulcers.

5 tablespoons of needles, 3 tablespoons of wild rose, 2 tablespoons of onion peel pour 1 liter of boiling water. Boil 10 min. Strain. Take 100 gr. 2-3 times a day to clean the vessels.

With cracks in the lips, they are smeared with resin powder.

With a boil, pine resin is applied to the sore spot. Anesthesia occurs immediately, after 2-3 days the boil completely resolves. Wounds also heal painlessly and quickly.

From sciatica, a decoction of young pine shoots is used, which is used for baths. 1 kg of young pine shoots is poured into 3 liters of boiling water, boiled in a sealed container for 10 minutes, insisted for 4 hours, filtered. A liter of such a decoction is added for every 15 liters of water in the bath, the temperature is maintained at 33 - 34 degrees, the procedure time is 10 - 15 minutes.

Young pine shoots are harvested until mid-May, washed, rinsed with cold water, dried and placed in layers in a jar with a wide neck. The same layer of sugar is poured onto a layer of needles (1.5-2 cm). The topmost layer should be made of sugar. Tie the neck with gauze. Put in the sun for 10 days. On the eleventh day, drain the resulting juice and store in closed bottles at room temperature. For tuberculosis, pneumonia, bronchitis, asthma, take 2 tablespoons (one for children) in the morning.

25-30 g of pine buds are boiled for 10-15 minutes in a mixture of milk and water (1:1) in an enamel or glass bowl. After cooling, filter and drink 100 gr. 3-4 times a day for colds.

The vapors of pine bud decoction are anti-inflammatory, disinfectant and breath reliever and are used for inhalation.

Pine essential oil is obtained from pine needles and is used in aromatherapy. An alcoholic solution of essential oil is known as forest water.

Did you know that pine not only heals, but also feeds? In some areas of Siberia and northern European Russia, the sweet and juicy outer layers of the wood (called sapwood) are eaten raw or dried and mixed with flour. Unopened male pine inflorescences are also eaten raw. Delicious drinks are made from pine buds. One glass of coniferous drink in terms of vitamin content is equivalent to five glasses of tomato juice and is five times richer in them than a glass of lemon drink.

To prepare a coniferous drink, take about 50 grams of young pine (cedar, fir or other) needles and grind well. Prepared needles should be infused in two glasses of boiled water for 2 hours in a dark, cool place. Add a little citric acid and granulated sugar to the filtered solution for taste.

Drink pine coniferous drink immediately after preparation, as the drink loses useful vitamins during storage.

Remember that pine preparations should be used with extreme caution in hepatitis, glomerulonephritis and pregnancy. Health to you!