Post by desertrose on Jun 15, 2006 20:06:18 GMT -5
borrowed
Your caution about the use of turpentine is well advised, but not explained. In the days of our fathers when they didn't have a clinic to visit, and hospitals were the place people went to die, medical needs were met by the women of the farms, or the ranch cook.
Yes, they had doctors in their day, and these doctors were a hardy bunch, having to run a circuit through their territory. By todays standards, they were extremely barbaric, usually called upon as the last resort to set a badly broken bone, deliver a difficult birth, or preform an amputation. Internal medicine as we know it today was non existent. In those days every farmstead and ranch, in addition to their family garden, had a herb, or medicine garden to grow the plants needed to make their home remedies. In addition to this, every barn had a jug of turpentine.
I don't know how it works as a topical agent, but it does. Do not use on a contaminated surface, or to treat bug bites or skin rashes! One of the curative properties of turpentine (turp) is it's a carrier and penetrating agent. In other words if you put turp on a bee sting, not only will the inflamed area spread, it will penetrate deeper.
However if turp is put on a cut, it will stop the bleeding immediately, and cause the wounded area to start healing at a rapid rate of speed. Another quality of turp is it nullifies the 'after throbbing' associated with a deep cut.
I would advocate the first time use of turp to be applied to a cloth bandage and wrapped around the cut area for one day, and then the next day inspected. The cut will have pulled together, and started it's bonding process.
Turp also works well on burns. Case in point, when I was about 3 I fell into a burning fireplace. I received 3rd degree burns from my neck to my thighs. When my father (an old timer in those days) saw me at the hospital, he doused me down with turp, right through the bandages. Of course the nurse kicked the both of us out of the hospital. Today I don't have a hair from my adams apple to my thighs, but I'm not burdened by scars. Was it the turp, or was I just lucky?
Most of us are familiar with DMSO, the magic liquid that helped to relieve arthritic discomfort. This is a cousin of turp, it is a byproduct of the wood pulp industry, unlike turp a refined pine pitch. DMSO is the chemically reduced product of wood fiber, and its liquids (pitch), so what is so scarry?
To my knowlege, I haven't taken turp internally except maybe as a small kid in a home remedy or two. So I won't say how effective it is in small quantities. The old timers did it, and they survived, but their life expectancy wasn't as great as it is today. I would use a real jaundiced eye before doing this.
The day of the old circuit riding doctor is gone; medical science has greatly improved. The marvels of modern medical science are truly wondrous, and yet I am skeptical of the practitioners who treat the symptom and not the illness. Is return business that necessary? In the day of my father, if someone got hurt on the farm, turp was called for, and if it was a bad cut, Grandma grabbed her sewing basket too! Turpentine stole a lot of money from the doctors in those days, as I'm sure it could today if the AMA didn't poo-poo its use.
I'm not a rich man. I can't afford $40 visits to a doctor to sew me up, and another $40 visit just to have the doctor take the stitches out after a few weeks. I'm happy to do these things for myself. I'm old and crotchety, it is my nature, and it is my way; it works for me.
The above is only my opinion and not meant to be taken as fact. I have no facts showing proof for any of it. I do not advocate everyone to use turp, this is my decision, take care, and in whatever you do, enjoy life and don't take yourself so seriously.
Rusty Oxydado
Your caution about the use of turpentine is well advised, but not explained. In the days of our fathers when they didn't have a clinic to visit, and hospitals were the place people went to die, medical needs were met by the women of the farms, or the ranch cook.
Yes, they had doctors in their day, and these doctors were a hardy bunch, having to run a circuit through their territory. By todays standards, they were extremely barbaric, usually called upon as the last resort to set a badly broken bone, deliver a difficult birth, or preform an amputation. Internal medicine as we know it today was non existent. In those days every farmstead and ranch, in addition to their family garden, had a herb, or medicine garden to grow the plants needed to make their home remedies. In addition to this, every barn had a jug of turpentine.
I don't know how it works as a topical agent, but it does. Do not use on a contaminated surface, or to treat bug bites or skin rashes! One of the curative properties of turpentine (turp) is it's a carrier and penetrating agent. In other words if you put turp on a bee sting, not only will the inflamed area spread, it will penetrate deeper.
However if turp is put on a cut, it will stop the bleeding immediately, and cause the wounded area to start healing at a rapid rate of speed. Another quality of turp is it nullifies the 'after throbbing' associated with a deep cut.
I would advocate the first time use of turp to be applied to a cloth bandage and wrapped around the cut area for one day, and then the next day inspected. The cut will have pulled together, and started it's bonding process.
Turp also works well on burns. Case in point, when I was about 3 I fell into a burning fireplace. I received 3rd degree burns from my neck to my thighs. When my father (an old timer in those days) saw me at the hospital, he doused me down with turp, right through the bandages. Of course the nurse kicked the both of us out of the hospital. Today I don't have a hair from my adams apple to my thighs, but I'm not burdened by scars. Was it the turp, or was I just lucky?
Most of us are familiar with DMSO, the magic liquid that helped to relieve arthritic discomfort. This is a cousin of turp, it is a byproduct of the wood pulp industry, unlike turp a refined pine pitch. DMSO is the chemically reduced product of wood fiber, and its liquids (pitch), so what is so scarry?
To my knowlege, I haven't taken turp internally except maybe as a small kid in a home remedy or two. So I won't say how effective it is in small quantities. The old timers did it, and they survived, but their life expectancy wasn't as great as it is today. I would use a real jaundiced eye before doing this.
The day of the old circuit riding doctor is gone; medical science has greatly improved. The marvels of modern medical science are truly wondrous, and yet I am skeptical of the practitioners who treat the symptom and not the illness. Is return business that necessary? In the day of my father, if someone got hurt on the farm, turp was called for, and if it was a bad cut, Grandma grabbed her sewing basket too! Turpentine stole a lot of money from the doctors in those days, as I'm sure it could today if the AMA didn't poo-poo its use.
I'm not a rich man. I can't afford $40 visits to a doctor to sew me up, and another $40 visit just to have the doctor take the stitches out after a few weeks. I'm happy to do these things for myself. I'm old and crotchety, it is my nature, and it is my way; it works for me.
The above is only my opinion and not meant to be taken as fact. I have no facts showing proof for any of it. I do not advocate everyone to use turp, this is my decision, take care, and in whatever you do, enjoy life and don't take yourself so seriously.
Rusty Oxydado