What is Tar? How is it Used? What are its Benefits?
Benefits and Uses of Tar
* It is applied to skin sores, especially in veterinary medicine for skin diseases of animals.
* It is mixed with chickpea flour against stomach and intestinal diseases. Pills the size of a chickpea are made and taken one by one three times a day. Yellow tar, thin tar (pix cednia) is obtained from the resinous roots and trunks of cedar trees. This tar is the consistency and color of grape molasses, and it is reddish-brown in color.
* In veterinary medicine, it is applied to sores in skin diseases of animals.
* A small amount is placed inside beehives to protect the hive from moths and ants.
* Juniper tar (pix junipenıs) is obtained from the roots and trunks of juniper trees. It is blackish-red in color and has a pleasant smell.
* By mixing with chickpea flour, pills the size of a chickpea are made and swallowed one by one three times a day against hemorrhoids and stomach problems.
* It has an expectorant property. One is taken after meals, and a mixture of hot milk with honey is drunk afterward.
* It is included in the composition of ointments against scabies.
* In some eye diseases, tar is dripped onto a fire, and one stays in the smoke.
* Juniper tar is dripped onto a fire, and the smoke is blown into the beehive with bellows to disinfect the bees.
* It is applied to hemorrhoids and anal thrush.
* A tar-based soap shampoo is recommended for hair loss, dandruff, and itching.
* Ardenne tar is applied to ringworm.
Tar Foam:
Pine tar is mixed with a small amount of water and shaken vigorously. As a result, the mixture foams on top, which is called tar foam.
* It is used to clean wounds.
* For pulmonary tuberculosis, headache, and jaundice, 5 g of tar foam is mixed with mastic gum and swallowed at once. It is also beneficial for the heart.
* For shortness of breath, chest pain, and cough, 3 g of tar foam, 10 g of licorice honey, and 3 g of anise powder are mixed and taken three times a day after meals.
* Scorpions do not approach or sting a body to which tar foam has been applied.
* For headaches and colds, 2-3 g of tar foam is added to a glass of honey sherbet and drunk.
* For liver and spleen disorders, 3 g of tar foam is added to a glass of honey sherbet and drunk in three doses.
