Some of your much older relatives may remember stories about being given turpentine as children in school a few times a year to clear out any issues with pin worms or other communicable parasites! 

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100% Gum Spirits of Turpentine are made from the sap (resin) of certain species of pine, spruce, or fir trees. Humans have been making it for centuries by stripping a small section of bark, puncturing the tree trunk, and collecting droplets of the tree’s resin. This resin is steam distilled and purified to become 100% Gum Spirits of Turpentine. If done correctly, it is a sustainable practice that does not harm the tree. A single tree can remain productive for 20 years or more!

Turpentine is rich in both alpha and beta pinenes and terpenes and is used in a number of home remedies. When diluted in milk, wine, or water, the concoction was used for respiratory problems and was also noted as an effective expectorant or used both internally and externally as an effective cure for a number of parasitic infections. Alpha-pinene or a-pinene is also an effective broad spectrum antibiotic.  (Nissen L, Zatta A, Stefanini I,  Grandi S, Sgorbati B, Biavati B et al. (2010)) 

Hippocrates and other doctors of his era prescribed 100% Gum Spirits of Turpentine for its properties against lung disease, gallbladder issues, kidney stones, and more. In the early nineteenth century in France, 100% Gum Spirits of Turpentine was prescribed for excessive mucus or bladder inflammation.  In Germany, Slovenia, and  Poland, 100% Gum Spirits of Turpentine was prescribed for severe pain from nerve damage, rheumatism, lower back pain, kidney inflammation, constipation, and mercury poisoning. 

Modern phytotherapy of 100% Gum Spirits of Turpentine has identified the following properties:

• antiparasitic

• external disinfectant

• analgesic

• balsamic (to soften or  reduce mucus)

• haemostasis (ability to stop bleeding)

• antispasmodic

• diuretic

• antirheumatic

• deworming

• antidote for poisoning caused by  phosphorus

• reduces bronchial secretion and other chronic obstructive  bronchitis 

 

There is a big difference between our pure version of 100% Pure Gum Spirits of Turpentine and the chemically enhanced turpentine you can pick up from your local hardware store to thin paint - that other stuff is actually a byproduct of the wood pulp industry. They both come from pine trees, but are altered in different ways along the way, and the stuff from the hardware store has all kinds of nasty additives that are NOT safe for ingestion! 

 

Again, 100% Gum Spirits of Turpentine is simply an extract of pine, spruce, or fir trees with no additives or stabilizers. The tree's resin is collected then steam distilled to collect 100% Gum Spirits of Turpentine.

 
And of course, just like ANYTHING else in this world (even water!), too much of it can be dangerous. Doctors who historically prescribed 100% Gum Spirits of Turpentine recognized it as an effective booster at an average dose, but that it could be dangerous at high doses.

 

As with everything, we HIGHLY recommend everyone do their own research to know the benefits and potential dangers of anything you are going to incorporate into your life! These free educational materials, references, and sources we provide are a service to you for beginning that research. 

Now just to be clear, we are not saying that all medicines previously used in millenniums past have been spot on with their healing; doctors used to give their patients a glass of mercury water during office visits, and we obviously know better than this now. As science progresses, we have learned more information that helps us make strides in genuine health care. 

However, many wonderful, inexpensive, effective, natural medicines have been pushed to the wayside and labeled "quackery" or poison to make way for pharmaceutical drugs which can be patented and sold for big bucks - something companies can't do with natural healing remedies. 100% Gum Spirits of Turpentine is one of those natural medicines that has been almost completely disregarded, and we seek to resurrect this excellent option.