Coniferous oil. Essential oils of pine, cedar and spruce: properties and applications in the home

Healing properties of coniferous oils. Where are essential pine oils used?

In coniferous trees of pine family, which belongs to pine, spruce and cedar,needles, cones, resin and oil. These are the medicinal properties:

• antimicrobial
• anti-inflammatory
• painkillers
• diuretics
• diaphoretic
• cholagogue
• antiscorbutic

In addition, the needles and pine nuts contain vitamins A, E, C, P, K, PP, group B, and from minerals such:

• copper
• chrome
• cobalt
• iron
• manganese

Essential oils contained in needles and resin have antibacterial action. Therefore, even in ancient times people knew about the healing properties of coniferous trees. Some tribes left the sick person for several days in a coniferous forest, and he was cured.

If in your family, people close to you often get colds, put a real Christmas tree on New Year's Day, not artificial ones.

The healing properties of coniferous pine, cedar, spruce and coniferous resin

Coniferous resin

A drop of the coniferous resin

The coniferous resin , or else it is called gum , has antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, wound healing, analgesic and antibacterial properties.

In folk medicine zhivitsa treat various diseases.

Diseases of the skin :

• fungal diseases
• herpes
• trophic ulcers
• bedsores
• boils

Recipe .

1. Apply to the sore spot, several times folded and lubricated with resin, gauze, for 30 minutes, then this place is wiped with an antiseptic( hydrogen peroxide, alcohol solution).

• Compresses made of gum do with radiculitis, burns.
• To improve immunity, if the bones fail after fracture, with osteoporosis , first the resin is frozen, then ground into powder and ingested by 0.5 teaspoon, 1 hour after eating, 2 times a day and more.
• Angina, bronchitis, oral infections( stomatitis, caries, parodontosis ) are treated as follows: 1/3 of a teaspoon of resin is placed under the tongue and dissolve.
• With gastritis, stomach ulcer and colitis , it is recommended that folk practitioners eat a bread sandwich in the morning with 5 grams of gum.

Pine gum oil

If you mix May pine gum with some vegetable oil, you get oil , which is stronger than the gum .

For the joints and muscles of , you need to prepare the following oil, and rub it before bedtime for sore spots.

Recipe :

1. Mix for 50 g of pine resin, vegetable oil and vodka , we insist 1 week in a cold place.
2. The mixture is filtered into a jar and closed with a lid.

When mastopathy , mix 20 g pine pine oil with 100 g of olive oil, warm it in a water bath and make compresses for 35 minutes, every day. The oil left on the skin after the compress is rubbed into the chest.

Oil from pine, spruce needles and young branches

Coniferous oil is extracted from needles and young, still soft branches of pine, spruce, cedar, by steam extraction, but the process lasts a long time( 5-6 hours) and the oil yield is small, only 0, 3%.The healing properties of this oil are the same as those of gum.

Cedar oil

Cedar oil of cold pressing

Cedar oil is obtained from pine nuts .There are 2 ways of making butter: cold and hot. The most delicious and useful oil, prepared by cold pressing. It is transparent, has a golden color with a gentle pleasant smell of pine nuts.

Cold-prepared oil is used for oral ingestion with a healing purpose and in cooking, and hot pressing - in perfumery, cosmetology and medicine.

Cedar oil contains, in addition to vitamins and minerals, an optimal amount of fatty polyunsaturated acids omega-3 and omega-6 , and this is an excellent opportunity:

• to clean blood vessels from cholesterol
• prevention of heart attacks and strokes
• to improve the blood composition of
• to cure inflammatory diseases in the body
• to repair damaged

tissues phospholipids found in oil, with regular application, improve the functioning of the brain, the nervous system .

Chlorophyll , contained in cedar oil, possesses the wound healing and bactericidal action , stearines - with antitumor and antifungal properties , and essential oils help kill in the body .

Contraindications to the application of cedar oil .You can not use people who are allergic to cedar oil, obese and those with an exacerbation of gallbladder disease.

Application of coniferous oil in medicine

Based on gum from pine with the addition of wax and vegetable oils , ointment "Zhivichnaya" is produced in industrial production for the treatment of such diseases:

1. Damage to the skin( wounds, burns, boils, abscesses,stretch and pressure sores ) are lubricated with ointment in a warm form.
2. For gynecological diseases( erosion of the cervix, myoma, fibroma, inflammation of the ovaries) lubricates the skin above the sore spot with the treatment prescribed by the doctor.
3. For colds and viral diseases( flu, bronchitis, cough) a warm ointment should be rubbed in the back, chest and feet, wrapped in a warm blanket.
4. With a cold, sinusitis the nasal mucosa inside, and also on top of the nose, lubricate overnight with ointment.
5. With angina 0.5 teaspoon of ointment is kept in the mouth until complete resorption.
6. With pneumonia, tuberculosis , drink half a glass of warm milk 3 times a day with 1 teaspoon of ointment dissolved in it.
7. For mastitis and mastopathy , the breast is lubricated with warm ointment, cellophane is applied, and a woolen shawl is wrapped on top. In addition, you can do massage, but first you need to consult a doctor.
8. When hemorrhoids ointment is administered in the morning and evening in the anus.
9. With gout, rheumatism , the affected joints are rubbed overnight, and wrapped with a woolen thing.

Important : Ointment "Zhivichnaya" can not be used if the patient has a fever.

Important : Ointment "Zhivichnaya" is stored at room temperature and used only warm.

The same principle is used to prepare an ointment from spruce and cedar.

From fir needles in pharmacological enterprises is made for camphor , and on its basis are then prepared:

• injection solutions
• camphor ointment
• camphor alcohol
• ear drops of camphor solution with paraffin
• homeopathic anticonvulsant "Camphor"
• drops of dental "Denta" for soothing severe toothache
• preparation "Camphocin" for rubbing for arthritis and rheumatism

Inhalations with oilpine

Cold inhalation

Hot inhalation

Inhalations with essential oil of pine are of two kinds: cold and hot.

Cold inhalation - is inhalation in the room of essential oils, hot - inhalation of essential oil with hot steam. Hot inhalation is more effective than cold inhalation. But there are cases when a hot method is contraindicated, for example, by young children, who are suitable only for cold inhalations.

Inhalations with pine oil have an expectorant property for coughing.

Hot inhalation is done as follows:

1. In a vessel with hot water we drip pine oil( for 1 liter of boiling water 2 drops of oil).
2. We cover the rug with the head and breathe the hot air, first with the nose, and exhale through the mouth, and then vice versa.
3. The duration of the inhalation is 5 minutes.

For cold inhalation, pine oil drips onto anything that can be removed. It can be spent much longer than hot, but still at night essential oil can not be left, it can interfere with the child, sleep peacefully.

Application of pine and hair oil for hair

Beautiful hair after application of pine or spruce

oil Pine and spruce oil is beneficial for hair and scalp. It is added to shampoos, conditioners, masks, and aromatics.

If you often spend for hair treatments with pine and spruce oil instead get:

1. Improve blood flow to the skin and strengthen hair follicles with strong hair loss .This result is achieved, thanks to the active substances of the oil, the hair begins to grow faster.
2. Good blood circulation will improve the structure of the hair .The result will be even more effective if the procedures with oil do together with a head massage.
3. Regular treatments with spruce and pine oil will give a shine to the hair.
4. Thanks to essential oils of pine and spruce , dandruff will disappear without a trace.
5. Thin and lifeless hair with pine or spruce oil will easier to comb.
6. Very greasy hair will become less fat after several masks with spruce or pine oil.

How to use pine or spruce oil?

1. Oil can be added to shampoos, masks and other products that you use, but you need to do this before use, and not beforehand, as essential oils evaporate. It is done this way: put a little shampoo on the palm, drip a few drops of oil, mix well and apply to the hair.
2. Aroma hair combing with pine and spruce oil, to give the hair a lively shine and volume. The comb for this purpose should be wooden with natural bristles.
3. Preparation of masks for hair at home with the addition of pine or spruce oil.

Egg mask

The mask improves the appearance, eliminates dandruff and hair loss.

Recipe for .

1. Mix 2 yolks, 1 tbsp.a spoonful of flower honey and 3 drops of each of the oils: pine, orange, lavender, cloves .The mixture is well stirred, applied to the entire length of the hair, first wraps the hair with cellophane, and then with a towel for half an hour and rinsed.

Note .Water for flushing hair should be warm, not hot, otherwise the egg will curdle and it will have to be washed out for a long time.

Application of pine and fir oil for the face

Pine and spruce oil is added to the daily face cream

Oil obtained from pine needles, young pine and fir branches, when exposed to the skin of the face, has the following properties:

• powerful antiseptic
• helps to remove edema from
• face smoothes wrinkles and rejuvenates face
• cleanses face pores and blood circulation increases

How to apply pine or spruce oil?

1. Oil can be added to face or face creams, 3 drops per 5 ml of cream.
2. 5-6 drops of pine or fir oil can be added to massage oil for cosmetic massage.
3. Pine or spruce oil( 2 drops) can be added to cosmetic ice, and rub it twice a day with face and neck.

Also the products with pine or spruce oil help to fight with pigment spots, acne and rashes on the skin of the face of .

How to make coniferous pine, cedar and fir oil at home?

Drop of coniferous oil

vitreous ointment can easily produce at home .

Recipe :

1. Take for 100 g of pine resin( you can spruce, cedar, fir) and natural beeswax, 200 g of olive oil , mix everything and cook for 10-12 minutes.
2. Add 2 tbsp.spoons of honey and cook for another 10 minutes.
3. Then add 2 g propolis and continue to boil for 10 minutes.
4. Cool, pour into glass jars with twisting lids. The ointment is ready, you can be treated.

Oil from needles of coniferous trees at home can be obtained, but this is a very tedious procedure for .

Recipe for .

1. Pure pine needles, spruce, cedar are cut, placed in a ceramic vessel, is filled to the top with water , close and let stand for several weeks.
2. After the set time on the surface of the water will appear plaque - this oil .
3. Gently absorb oil with fleece from the surface of water and squeeze into a small container, store in a glass bottle, tightly closed.

Application of coniferous oil for baths

Bath with coniferous oil

Each coniferous tree and essential oil has its own healing properties:

1. Pine oil helps with diseases of bronchi, lungs, arthritis, gallstones and kidney stones.
2. oil fits well with bruises, bruises and scratches, helps with swelling, fatigue, upper respiratory tract diseases.
3. cedar oil works best for diseases of the respiratory system, overwork and restores the strength after a serious illness.
4. Fir oil helps with diseases of the lungs, bronchi, arthritis, osteochondrosis, eye fatigue.

Baths with pine oil help the :

• improve the condition of the body, especially the skin
• in case of fatigue and sleeplessness
• with cough and bronchitis
• for joint diseases and osteochondrosis
• soothes with nervous disorders
• with inflammation of the bladder
• improve the state of intoxication
• boostimmunity of
• to restore the metabolism of
• with heart diseases
• in diseases of the kidneys
• to restore strength after severe illness

To to cookA bath with pine oil needs:

1. Pour almost a full bath of warm water 37 ° C and add to it 10-15 drops of coniferous oil.
2. Immerse in the bath, but so that the heart area is not covered with water.
3. Bath should be taken 15 minutes before bedtime. The course of treatment 10-15 sessions, you can every day or every other day.
4. You can not take a bath on an empty stomach or if you just ate. After meal should pass or take place not less than 1-2 hours.

Contraindications to the use of the bath .Coniferous baths can not be taken with cancer, atherosclerosis, hypotension and if there is an allergy to needles.

Cedar Essential Oil

Cedar with cones in which pine nuts are located

Cedar essential oil is produced from wood, bark and cedar branches. First, all is ground, and then by distillation with steam, an oily mass is obtained. Essential oil is no less valuable than from nuts.

Cedar essential oil has such useful properties :

1. Accelerates blood circulation and strengthens the hair follicles of the head.
2. Has anti-inflammatory, wound-healing and antifungal effect.
3. Normalizes the work of sebaceous glands and eliminates the excessive fatness of scalp and hair.

Contraindications : Essential oil from cedar is an allergenic product, before using it, apply oil on a small area of ​​the skin and wait for several hours, if during this time there is no redness or itching, then you can use it.

Healthy shine of hair after washing them with cedar essential oil

Applying the essential oil of cedar to the hair can be in several ways:

1. Aromatic cleansing with several drops of oil.
2. Addition in shampoos, conditioners on some drops.
3. Masks for hair growth , they are made as follows: in 2-3 st.spoons of burdock oil add a few drops of essential oil from the cedar, mix and apply to the hair, so hold 1-2 hours, wrapping his head with a towel, then rinse.

Cedar Essential Oil

Cedar essential oil is widely used in cosmetology. Especially it is useful for oily face skin .The oil penetrates deeply and soothes the inflamed skin of the face, cleans it with acne rash .

Smooth face skin after application of cedar essential oil

Several recipes for using facial essential oil for the face:

1. With acne .In the cream( 20 ml) add 1 drop of cedar essential oil and 2 drops of bergamot oil, use as a day cream.
2. Cleansing the face with steam trays , which contribute to the rapid recovery of damaged facial skin. For 0.5 liters of hot water, 1-2 drops of essential oil of cedar.
3. Ice for the face .It is used for wiping the face in the morning and in the evening. Ice is easy to prepare: take 1 glass of mineral water, 3 drops of essential oil, 1 teaspoon of sour cream and honey, stir, pour into a special vessel with cells, and freeze in the freezer.
4. Mask for the fading skin .Half of the ripe avocado pulp is crushed, mixed with 1 drop of essential oil of cedar and 0.5 teaspoon of cream or sour cream, put on your face, and after 15 minutes, rinse.
5. If you add 1 drop of cedar essential oil to cosmetic milk, you will get an make-up remover with a toning effect.

Mouthwash with coniferous oil, use

Mouthwash with coniferous oil

• The language will tell us about the state of our body. If the language is a thick layer of white coating, then our body is clogged with slag and clogged with bacteria.
• You can cleanse the body of toxins by mouth rinsing in the morning.
• Good effect gives rinsing with olive oil( not refined) with the addition of coniferous oil.
• Rinse mouth with pine oil .In warm water( 1 glass), add 1-3 drops of any coniferous oil, stir and rinse your mouth, spitting out the liquid.
• Rinse the mouth with oil. In 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil( preferably olive), drip 1-2 drops of coniferous oil and rinse your mouth until the foam begins to form between the teeth of the oil, and the oil becomes liquid, like water( 5-10 minutes).Then spit out the oil.
• Theory of mouth rinsing is new. It began to be studied only in Russia and the post-Soviet space. In the West, this method of treatment is silent. In the east, in the Indian medicine there are similar procedures, but there they rinse their mouth with a few drops of oil, spit out, and then brush their teeth with toothpaste.
• The healing powers of coniferous oil have been proven for centuries. To date, there are many serious diseases, for which treatment can not do without coniferous oils.

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