Preparing tar water
Pour 4 liters of cold water over 0.5 liters of birch tar and stir thoroughly with a wooden stick or spoon for 5-6 minutes. After that, close the vessel tightly and leave to stand for 2 days to let the tar stand. Carefully skim off the foam and then drain the clear liquid without shaking and store it in a tightly corked bottle. The remaining tar has no further medicinal value as a medicine, but is suitable for other, economic purposes. Good tar water has a clear appearance, and in color approaches the color of a good dry grape wine.
Tar water for external application
Take 2 liters of boiling water to 1 liter of birch tar, shake vigorously and stir the liquid with a wooden stick or spoon for at least 15 minutes, then let stand for 10 hours, drain the clear liquid and store in a tightly corked bottle. This water can be made stronger or weaker as needed.
Washing sick parts of the body with this liquid helps from urolithiasis, scabies, ulcers, scrofula and leprosy. In addition, this water is useful for the following diseases: smallpox, bleeding, ulceration of the intestines, all kinds of tumors, gangrene, scorbuta, rye, bronchial asthma, upset digestion, dropsy and hysteria.
If you have dandruff, then at first it is very easy to get rid of it - you need to wash your hair once a week with tar soap, rinsing them with an infusion of birch leaves.
Infusion (1 : 10) of dry birch wood powder is used for ear diseases. This infusion in a warm form is useful to rinse the cavities of the ears.
The second layer of birch wood is consumed for food and home brewed beer is made from it.
Birch charcoal (carbolen)
Even when burnt and turned into charcoal, birch is still useful to man. Birch charcoal is obtained by calcining the wood.
The preparation from purified birch charcoal - carbolen - is used as an adsorbent for flatulence, colic in the stomach, increased acidity of gastric juice and especially in poisoning by berries and bacterial toxins. In this case, rapid removal of birch charcoal by gastric lavage and by administration of saline laxatives is necessary. Carbolen prevents the absorption of toxic substances into the blood, which greatly facilitates the functioning of the liver and kidneys, removes excess cholesterol, which is very important for the prevention of cancer, atherosclerosis and other diseases of the cardiovascular system. Take carbolen 20-30 g as a suspension in cool boiled water. Carbolen is an excellent anti-allergic agent.
Wonderful effect on a sick liver with jaundice, if you drink daily morning and evening cup of milk with a spoonful of charcoal birch powder with sugar.
The use of birch activated charcoal as an intestinal disinfectant has been suggested to help children in acute intoxication with drugs, as well as in the treatment of acute renal failure.
Birch charcoal is useful in senile cachexia and in chronic dyspepsia with flatulence.
Dysentery is treated with birch charcoal. Mix I teaspoon of powdered charcoal with a shot of red wine or alcohol and drink at once. Repeat this way the next day if the diarrhea does not stop.
If from the gas feces of the stomach became stinky, then to disinfect the stomach is useful to take birch charcoal 1 - 2 tablets before meals, drinking them with an infusion of St. John's wort herb.
In cholera, the patient is given a sip of birch charcoal solution every 10 minutes. In 10 cups of boiled water dissolve 1 tablespoon with the top crushed into powdered charcoal and shake well. You can add brandy, alcohol or vodka to the solution.
If the wound begins to get wet, it is good to cover it with a mixture of alum and birch charcoal powder. It is useful to sprinkle birch charcoal powder on a festering wound.
It is useful immediately after a burn to pour birch charcoal powder on the sore spot. Hold for 1-2 hours or more. The pain will gradually subside and no burn marks will remain.
When it is necessary to wash dirty wounds from machine injuries, the skin around the wound must first be carefully washed with gasoline or turpentine, and then the wound itself. Then put a bandage on it. The stronger the discharge from the wound, the more often it should be bandaged, each time washing with tar water and sprinkling with a mixture of alum and birch charcoal powder.
When treating trichophytosis (shingles), folk medicine recommends rubbing garlic on the sore spot. Then rub birch charcoal mixed with burdock juice from the fresh root. Do the rubbing for 20-30 minutes. Two or three treatments will usually cure ringworm. The crusts from lice on the head should be washed with a strong hot decoction of birch leaves. If any lichen does not have certain signs, you can try to treat it with a simple old remedy: mix one spoonful of pure tar with three spoons of fish oil, in which 2 months insisted birch buds, grind, smear this ointment cloth and tie to the lichen.
Unbelievable, but true! Wood ash works wonders. Folk medicine has recorded facts when people who have lived to a very old age have absolutely healthy teeth! Folk medicine explains this phenomenon by the fact that all their lives these people cleaned their teeth with powdered birch wood ash, obtained as a result of burning birch trees. This product makes your teeth whiter and keeps them healthy until old age.
In the heat, people sweat and lose a lot of mineral salts In this case, you can prepare your own mineral water from plant ashes. Birch ash is especially useful. But the more plants the mix includes, the better. The ash is poured into a cloth bag and lightly rinsed with cold water. In doing so, it leaches out an excessive amount of potassium, which is always more than what humans need in plants. Then water is infused on the remaining ash, carefully strained, diluted to a pleasant taste and used for drinking. This recipe is equally good for the cold north and the hot south (or hot weather seasons).
Accelerate the elimination of radioactive isotopes from the body contribute to enemas prepared from birch leaves, with simultaneous ingestion of carbolen.
When menstruation is delayed, which is most often from a cold (excluding pregnancy), you can apply such a simple remedy. Keep your feet in very hot water (above the ankle), where you put a handful of salt and 2-3 handfuls of wood birch ash. Then the legs are doused with clean warm water, wipe dry, put on clean stockings, in which to pour dry mustard.
In urticaria, an excellent folk remedy for cure is washing the body with birch lye. Make it so: burn birch wood, collect clean ash, pour water, boil, let stand, carefully pour the clear infusion, strain through a multilayer gauze or cloth and this lye daily wash.
In trophic ulcers 1 kg of birch ash sift and pour 10 liters of steep boiling water. Infuse, covered, until slightly warm. Dip the sore leg or arm in this liquor for 30 minutes.
If the ulcer is not convenient for baths, then compresses should be made. Fold the gauze 6-8 times, soak it in lye and put a compress on the sore spot for 2 hours. Make the compress 2 times a day. After 2-3 days, the pus will go and clean the wound. After compressing ulcers rinse with calendula tincture (40 drops of tincture to 1 cup of cold water). Rinsing should be done regularly after compresses. Then bandage the sore spot and after 2-3 hours make the compress again.
Very helpful in rheumatism alkaline baths. Pour lye into the bathtub. Water for boiling wood birch ash should be taken as much as ash. After boiling the water with ash, let it stand and leave it for twenty-four hours. In twenty-four hours the water will cool, the ash will drain and the liquor will be clear as water on top. This is what you should take for your bath, diluted with water. In the bath should sit for 10-15 minutes at a temperature of 30-32 ° C, and the water should reach the armpits. After the bath, you should drink a hot infusion of birch leaves to induce profuse sweating and urination. At the same time, the skin should be wiped thoroughly with a dry towel or sheet. It is necessary to beware of the common cold. If this method is used constantly, you can be cured of the most severe stale rheumatism. It is useful to make baths from the infusion of fresh birch leaves. After hot baths, it is recommended to lubricate sore places with an ancient folk remedy - pure birch tar mixed with kerosene.
Warm foot bath
Put a full handful of salt and 2 handfuls of birch ash in warm water (31-33°C) and mix well. The duration of the bath is 12-15 minutes.
Foot baths are intended especially for weak, low-blooded, nervous, very young and elderly people, mainly for women, and are excellent in case of poor circulation, during hot flashes, headaches, throat pains, cramps, etc. п.
These baths divert the blood to the feet and act soothingly.
These baths are undesirable for those suffering from sweaty feet.
With cancer, mainly of the stomach, it is good to drink an infusion of birch alkali, prepared at the rate of 1 weight of ash from birch wood to 5 parts of water. Put this mixture on the fire in an earthenware, glass or enamel bowl, but not metal, and boil for 10 minutes. Then strain thoroughly through multilayer gauze, pour into bottles, cork well and keep in a cold place.
Method of use: 50 ml of lye mixed with milk or fruit juice and drink before meals 3 times a day. The taste of lye is very nasty, but it certainly delays the development of cancer. At the same time, you should not eat meat, but should eat vegetables, fruits, especially oranges.
To treat alcoholism, folk medicine recommends a rather interesting method: dry birch wood abundantly sprinkled with sugar and set on fire. The fire is extinguished and the alcoholic is forced to breathe this smoke, after which he is immediately given a glass of vodka. It is claimed that after such treatment, the alcoholic stops drinking alcohol.
Currently, there is a disappointing picture of the state of drinking water. As a result of inefficient operation and emergency condition of treatment facilities, water is polluted with phenols, petroleum products, salts of heavy metals, etc. п.
So what can humans do to improve the quality of drinking water?
Water that smells strongly of chlorine should be allowed to stand for 24 hours, stirring it periodically. The bad odor will be gone.
For those who are afraid of various impurities in the water, the simplest filter can be made yourself. Chop a birch log into small shavings and burn in a closed dish on high heat. The obtained birch charcoal lay layers of gauze or linen, cotton material - and the filter is ready. It can work for several days.
Birch charcoal is widely used in homeopathy. Tests of potentized charcoal by homeopaths have found a strong and multifaceted effect on the human body.
Charcoal (Carbo vegetabilis) in homeopathy is especially indicated in diseases accompanied by irritability, fearfulness, homesickness, temper, shyness. It agitates and increases the body's reactivity to other drugs.
The following diseases can be cured by homeopathic methods with carbo vegetabilis.
1. The most severe forms of all diseases at the end of them, when the body is weakened and the patient is on the verge of death. A dose of carbo vegetabilis (k. в.) 6-30.
2. General collapse of strength after illness in old people with venous congestion. К. в. 6.
3. Dyspepsia with development of gas, heaviness and fullness in the stomach, drowsiness. К. в. 3.
4. Dyspepsia after food poisoning. К. в. 3, always in powder.
5. Colic and "rumbling" in the abdomen from gas. Q- to. 3-6.
6. Dizziness in stomach disease, nausea, darkening of eyes, profuse hot sweat, trembling of limbs, liquid stools, fainting. Q- to. 6.
7. Chronic peritonitis. К. в. 6.
8. Chronic liver inflammation with associated symptoms. K,- in. 6.
9. Headache in the afternoon and toward evening. К. в. 6.
10. Heartache from an overflowing or bloated stomach. К. в. 3-6.
11. Asthma in the elderly with cyanosis of the skin. К. в. 3-6.
12. Asthma in debilitated subjects with upset digestion. К. в. 3-6.
13. Advanced chronic bronchitis with emphysema. Q- to. 3.
14. Acute bronchitis threatening to progress to capillary bronchitis. К. в. 3.
15. Chronic hoarseness and voicelessness. К. в. 3.
16. Pneumonia with large accumulation of sputum; cyanosis and stinky breath. Q- to. 6.
17. Festering in the lungs after inflammation. К. в. 3-6.
18. Bleeding from various parts of the body in deep exhaustion. К. В. 6.
19. Nasal bleeding is frequent, prolonged, debilitating; blood is dark, liquid. К. в. 6.
20. Dilated veins in the legs and arms. К. в. 3.
21. Itchy scalp and severe hair loss. К. в. 6.
During homeopathic treatment, the basic requirement of a strict diet must be steadfastly adhered to.
The medication is taken at least 30 minutes before a meal and no sooner than an hour after a meal. The best time to take high potency is in the morning, on an empty stomach.
Keep the medicine in a dry, dark, cool place, free from all kinds of odors, especially camphor. Homeopathic medicines, properly preserved, work just as well after decades as freshly prepared ones. The shelf life for them is unlimited.
During the treatment with homeopathic remedies any other internal and external medicines, any substances emitting strong odors, alcohol, mineral and fruit waters, spices, pickles and pickles, candies, chocolate, coffee, strong tea, almonds, nuts, chestnuts, fruit seeds, canned food, salt, smoked meat, tobacco are forbidden.
It is necessary to avoid overwork, free the nervous system from all external and internal stimuli. However, all these requirements should also be met when using phytotherapeutic preparations.
Decoction of dry crushed roots of birch (1: 10) used 1/3 cup orally 3 times a day before meals as an antirheumatic and antifever..
