Turpentine oil, 100 ml

It has a local irritant, distracting (analgesic) and antiseptic effect.

Indications

Neuralgia, myositis, lumboishalgia, rheumatism.

Active ingredient

How to take, the dosage

Outwardly for rubbing in the form of ointments and liniments, sometimes for inhalation in putrefactive bronchitis and other lung diseases.

Synopsis

Purified turpentine. An essential oil obtained by distillation of oleoresin from Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), pine family (Pinaceae).

The main component of turpentine is hydrogenated hydrocarbon pinene.

A transparent colorless liquid with a characteristic odor and pungent taste. Insoluble in water, soluble in 12 parts of alcohol. It is miscible in all ratios with ether, chloroform, benzene.

It has local irritating, distracting (analgesic) and antiseptic effects.

The distracting effect is associated with the ability of turpentine (similarly to other essential oils) to penetrate the epidermis and cause reflex changes in the body due to irritation of skin receptors; release of bioactive substances from the skin, particularly histamine, also plays a certain role.

Contraindications

Liver and kidney diseases.

Side effects

Allergic reactions are possible.

Assignments

For neuralgia (pain spreading along the nerve), myositis (inflammation of muscles), lumboichialis (lumbosacral pain), rheumatism, sometimes used internally and for inhalations for putrefactive bronchitis (inflammation of bronchi),

Inflammatory bronchitis (inflammation of the bronchi, accompanied by stinky, mucopurulent sputum), bronchiectasis (lung disease with the formation of cavities in the lung tissue filled with sputum) and other lung diseases.

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