Canada Balsam or Balsam fir resin
Canada Balsam or Balsam fir resin: Do you know this plant and its benefits?
Benefits and uses of balsam fir oil
The different ways of using the essential oil of balsam fir
By mouth: it is recommended to take a few drops in a teaspoon of honey or olive oil several times a day.
By skin: it is recommended to mix 3-4 drops of fir essential oil in a teaspoon of vegetable oil, and to massage this mixture into the chest several times a day. The fir tree will thus calm coughing fits by its antispasmodic effect.
The inhalation of essential oil of fir is very effective against sinusitis and all respiratory diseases, because the active molecules will act directly on the site of infection and inflammation. Its mucolytic action (the mucus will be liquefied), will make the cough more effective.
It just so happens that the number one ingredient in the VetRx bottles for chickens is this Beaumier fir oil! VetRx also contains camphor, rosemary and oregano. But how much do you know about the properties of the Beaumier Fir? VetRx is available at henville
Medicinal properties :
– Improves blood clotting
– Helps to eliminate mucus from the respiratory tract
– Antiscorbutic
– Expectorant Helps eliminate toxins
– Immunostimulant
– Antiseptic, astringent
– anti-inflammatory
– Sedative
– calming effect
Treats respiratory tract infections, mucous membrane inflammation and skin ulcers; relieves rheumatic and neuralgic pain.
Turpentine, a substance distilled from the gum of various conifers, including balsam fir and pine, is best known in the medicinal field. It had the advantage of being easier to use than gum, which has the unpleasant characteristic of being very sticky. The gum and turpentine extracted from it were called either “Canada balsam” or Terebenthina canadensis (Canada turpentine). They were also attributed the same properties.
Note. Caution! Pharmaceutical turpentine has nothing to do with turpentine sold in hardware stores, which is toxic.
At the end of the 19th century, turpentine was still used in Quebec hospitals, as shown in the 1890 edition of the Traité élémentaire de matière médicale by the Sisters of Providence. Exciting and in high doses purgative, turpentine had an action especially on the urinary system and the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract. It was very popular, used as a plaster or ointment on cuts, old ulcers, rheumatism, kidney pains, etc.
Turpentine oil, an essential oil obtained from the distillation of turpentine (different from fir oil, which is distilled from the needles), was considered stimulating, diuretic, vermifuge, rubefacient, slightly sudorific and, in large doses, purgative. It was used against typhoid fever, puerperal fever (applied to the abdomen) and diarrhoea associated with cholera. It was used for acute and chronic bronchitis, inflammation of the bladder and vagina, chronic rheumatism and lumbago. It is said to have been particularly effective against sciatica and several other neuralgias. It was administered internally in the form of “turpentine” honey, at a rate of one part essence to four parts honey.
The oil was also used against gallstones, which it did not dissolve, but which it expelled from the bile duct. It was used as a vermifuge, particularly against tapeworms. It was used as a rub for typhoid fevers, neuralgia, paralysis, inflammation of the stomach and intestines, sore throats, and chronic rheumatic pains, whether muscular or articular. In addition, it relieved some of the discomforts associated with paralysis, including limb atrophy and pain.
Recently, Quebec researchers identified more than 15 compounds in the essential oil of Abies balsamea. In vitro, several of them have antibacterial properties, particularly against the bacterium Staphylococus aureus.
Balsam fir is definitely an essential oil to have in your pharmacy, not only for yourself but also for your chickens!
VetRx is available at Poules en Ville
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