Immediately after applying pure tar to the skin in patients with acute inflammatory phenomena, especially in the presence of erosions, there is burning and at the same time disappears itching. The burning stops after 10-15 minutes, and only in some patients with particularly high excitability the burning continues for as long as there is tar on the skin. Some patients immediately after applying tar to the skin noted an increase in itching, which disappears only after removing the tar from the skin.
After 15-30 minutes tar should be removed from the skin with a gauze swab moistened with vegetable oil, fish oil or petroleum jelly. After removal of tar from the skin, there may be an increase in redness, swelling of the skin and after 15-30 minutes an increase in wetting of the lubricated area. In such a case, an indifferent lotion should be applied to the skin area after the tar has been removed. For those patients in whom the wetting is slight, zinc paste or zinc aqueous shaken mixture should be applied to the skin area 1-2 hours after the tar has been removed from the skin. In patients who do not develop wetting after the tar is removed from the skin, this area of skin is not lubricated and remains open until the next day. With good tolerance of tar the next day it is applied to another area of the affected skin, but the area of the lubricated focus is increased to 10-15 cm in diameter, and the duration of application is lengthened to 30-60 minutes. Repeated application of tar on the same area is carried out after 1-3 days. In between smearing with tar, only indifferent therapy is given.
Most patients even in the acute stage of the disease from the first applications get a good and quick result. Redness and swelling of the skin decreases, the wetting stops, erosions quickly epithelialize. Infiltration remains on the skin, which resolves much more slowly. In the future, light rubbing of tar for 15-20 seconds with a wooden stick with absorbent cotton is used. The application time increases to 2- 3 hours.
Patients who after 10-12 applications of skin infiltration decreases slowly and the skin process, despite the treatment remains stationary, should combine the effect of tar with the use of hot paraffin. One or another area of the skin should be smeared with pure tar for 1 -1,5 hours, and then overlap on top of this focus for one hour melted at 50-55 ° C paraffin. The affected area should be warmly covered with oilcloth, absorbent cotton and bandaged. After an hour, the paraffin should be removed from the skin along with the tar. On the day of application of such applications, the skin is not lubricated with anything. Repeated applications are applied after 1-2 days.
Some patients may experience exacerbations after tar application, coming most often 4-7 hours after the tar is removed from the skin. An exacerbation that appeared from the use of tar does not always indicate its complete intolerance. Most patients who in the process of tar treatment exacerbation occurs after 1-3 or 8-9 applications, again well tolerated tar after a break of 5-10 days.
Patients with eczematoids of various kinds succumb to treatment particularly quickly. Given the lower reactivity of these patients, they can apply tar even in the presence of diffuse mottling. In such cases, initially there is a burning sensation, sometimes quite strong, which lasts for 10-30 minutes and then stops. The wetting sometimes increases, sometimes decreases, and in some cases even stops. As a rule, the next day there is an improvement: redness from bright red changes to stagnant, decreases in wetting and improves subjective sensations. Mottling usually stops completely after 3-4 applications, but slight hyperemia and infiltration remain. In such cases, treatment should be continued for another 1-
In such cases, treatment should be continued for another 1 to 2 weeks and discontinued when there is only slight infiltration, pigmentation and slight desquamation of the skin.
In eczematoid and chronic eczema with secondary rashes tar is applied only to the initial localized focus of the eczematoid process: on the shins, large folds, hands, etc. д. Areas of skin with secondary rashes should most often be lubricated with a zinc aqueous shaken mixture. Secondary rashes in most patients during the application of tar gradually fade and by the end of the first or beginning of the second week of treatment disappear completely. In some patients after the application of 1-2 applications of tar secondary rashes can be aggravated, their redness and juiciness increases, but later they fade and stop.
Chronic widespread eczema in the acute and sub-acute stages should be treated more cautiously. First, pure tar is smeared on a limited area of skin, no more than 5 cm in diameter, for 15 to 30 minutes. After using 3-4 tar applications, there is a significant improvement not only at the site of smearing the skin with tar, but also in all other areas. The best results, manifested by a reduction of redness, infiltration, and cessation of wetting, will, of course, be on an area lubricated with tar. But there are clear improvements in the unlubricated areas as well.
The average duration of treatment in patients in the acute and subacute stage of the disease is 24 days, and in the inpatient stage - 15 days.
The average number of tar applications in different patients ranges from 9 to 11 applications.
A single topical tar treatment by itself has sufficient and rapid effect. This does not mean, however, that avoidance of general treatment is recommended. The latter is absolutely essential, and underestimating it must obviously affect the long-term results.
Analyzing the experience of using tar in the treatment of eczematous diseases, the following conclusions can be drawn:
1. Tar preparations are very effective in the treatment of a number of eczematous skin lesions, accelerating recovery.
2. The tar has a good therapeutic effect, is convenient for treatment and deserves to be widely used in practice.
3. The method of tar treatment should vary depending on the stage and course of the eczematous process, as well as the body's reaction to the previous application of tar.
4. Especially good effect from the application of tar is obtained in microbial eczematoids.
5. A number of patients can be cured by a single topical application of tarry preparations. However, treatment with tar preparations should be carried out in conjunction with other measures, taking into account the general condition of patients.
6. Topical application of tar can cause marked improvement on symmetrical and other distant areas of affected skin. Under the influence of tar, there may be a decrease and then cessation of not only local but also general itching.
7. Topical applications of tar cause normalization of sleep and general improvement of the body.
From birch tar, mixed in equal amounts with internal mutton or pig fat, prepare ointment for the treatment of wounds and skin diseases.
Ointment made of pure birch tar and petroleum jelly, taken in a ratio of 1 : 10, treat diseases such as ulcers, pyoderma, infected wounds.
It is quite common for children to get scabies. Recognizing scabies is easy: it shows up on the outside in small red pimples, blisters and pustules. Scabies usually starts between the fingers and then spreads to the circumference of the elbow, navel area, penis, breast nipples, etc. д. You can get infected with scabies mainly through contact with a sick person, his clothes, things, and you can also get scabies mites - "itchy" - from dogs, cats, goats, sheep, pigs. Ticks crawl under the skin, making passages where they lay their testicles. The movements of the tick cause the patient to experience intolerable itching. Tick passages have the appearance of gray curves and sagging lines, while those of unclean people have the appearance of black lines. At the point where the mite has entered under the skin, a purulent vesicle is visible, and at the end of the passage is the mite itself. There are up to several dozen testes in each course. If any female remains under the skin after the disease is cured, there is almost always a relapse of the disease.
Scabies-affected places are useful to smear with pure birch tar, and after a few hours wash them with warm water with bran or althea root, which reduce itching.
If scabies affects the whole body, you should make this ointment: take 1 tablespoon of any clarified unsalted fat, 1 tablespoon of grated gray soap, 2 teaspoons of sulfur powder, 1 teaspoon of pure birch tar. Mix it all well into an ointment. It is necessary to wash the patient thoroughly with a hot decoction of birch leaves with tar soap, wipe dry, then rub the affected areas of the skin well with this ointment and so leave until the next day. The next day, wash the body again and rub the ointment on it. Do this for 3 days and the scabies goes away. If there are relapses, the treatment is repeated.
Scaly lichen can try to treat a simple folk method; mix 1 tablespoon of pure birch tar with 3 tablespoons of fish oil, stir well, smear this ointment on a cloth and tie to the lichen.
100 g of pure birch tar, 50 g of fresh homemade cream, 4 fresh raw yolks of homemade eggs. Mix everything well, rub thoroughly for 15 minutes and smear this ointment on eczema-affected places. Do not soak with water, wipe eczema-affected areas with warm serum.
In psoriasis, sore spots can be smeared with purified tar mixed with ashes from a burnt birch tree. Proportion: 3/4 tar and 1/4 ash.
With itchy scalp, oily skin and dandruff is recommended to rub a mixture of 10 g of birch tar, 20 g of castor oil and 100 g of alcohol. The mixture should be rubbed in a few hours before washing your head. However, after the application of birch tar possible contact dermatitis, pigmentation, especially if the sensitivity of the body to tar is high.
An ancient remedy for tuberculosis - pure birch tar: one drop, it is very coarse, thick, to divide into 3 parts and take 3 times a day, drinking carrot juice, coffee, brewed from toasted and ground grains of oats, barley and wheat.
The disinfectant gases produced by dripping birch tar on hot coals perfectly disinfect the indoor air.
How to remove a splinter? Apply birch tar to the place where the splinter is embedded. Sometimes a cloth soaked in tar is applied. This remedy proves to be very effective even if the splinter has been in the body for more than two days. After 15-20 minutes of applying a cloth or smearing tar, the end of the splinter will show and can be easily pulled out.
To destroy the already formed painful calluses on the feet feet should be well steamed in a decoction of birch leaves and then bind on the calluses ointment of equal parts of birch tar, sugar and saltpeter.
Very promotes the growth and density of hair rubbing the scalp with tar water.
From abrasions on the feet, rubbing shoes, blisters on the heel is good to do warm foot baths in a decoction of birch leaves, then put this ointment: wheat starch and glycerin - 15.0 g each, pure tar - 40 g.
In folk veterinary medicine, foot-and-mouth disease is treated by periodically smearing the animal's tongue with birch tar.
When treating "chicken blindness" folk medicine recommends pouring 2 cups of birch tar into a bowl and looking at the bottom for three minutes every 3 hours. Take 1 tablespoon of fish oil at bedtime..
