Tea tree oil

[randyt]

Every spring every fall I get a cough and it turns into a sinus infection. I fight it and fight it. I finally relent and take antibiotics to get over it.

A freind recommended that I dip s q.tip in tea tree oil and gently coat the inside of the nostrils. Best be careful tea tree oil is harsh.

I've done this twice at the start of a sinus infection and both times it worked so well.

 

[jazzy]

i love tea tree oil, and make some salve with it. also rubbed behind hear for an earache. didnt know about the nostril qtip , will try that next time. thaks!~

 

[LadyLocust]

I’m sensitive to tea tree and eucalyptus . I just got the Fire Cider recipe out though. Tea tree would be easier and smell better.

 

[Peanut]

I’m sensitive to tea tree and eucalyptus . I just got the Fire Cider recipe out though. Tea tree would be easier and smell better.

Funny, my herb friend heard about fire cider and made some this summer. She was telling me about it on the phone (and I was dying laughing)!!! She was expecting something pleasant, not the most god awful concoction ever dreamed up!

There is nothing fire cider can do that I can’t do with a few drops of tincture in my favorite beverage. I’ll stick with my tinctures. But I have wondered about the person who dreamed up fire cider… must have had a horrible childhood!!!

 

[DrHenley]

I’m sensitive to tea tree and eucalyptus .

Same here. I used it until I got sensitized and now I can't get anywhere near the stuff.

 

[LadyLocust]

Funny, my herb friend heard about fire cider and made some this summer. She was telling me about it on the phone (and I was dying laughing)!!! She was expecting something pleasant, not the most god awful concoction ever dreamed up!

There is nothing fire cider can do that I can’t do with a few drops of tincture in my favorite beverage. I’ll stick with my tinctures. But I have wondered about the person who dreamed up fire cider… must have had a horrible childhood!!!

What flavor (kind) of tincture? I am planning on R Gladstar’s recipe in ACV. I would just take a tablespoon daily sorta thing. The horseradish for sinuses was what caught my attention. I’m not a horseradish fan but I like breathing.

 

[Amish Heart]

Ugh. I think amish tonic is similar.
I like tea tree for a rough heel rub.

 

[Binky]

Every spring every fall I get a cough and it turns into a sinus infection. I fight it and fight it. I finally relent and take antibiotics to get over it.

A freind recommended that I dip s q.tip in tea tree oil and gently coat the inside of the nostrils. Best be careful tea tree oil is harsh.

I've done this twice at the start of a sinus infection and both times it worked so well.

You're right, it is harsh if it's undiluted - the same could be said about oregano oil too. Pure tea tree oil applied topically to sensitive skin with or near mucous membranes can burn the skin so be careful when using it on the inside of the sensitive skinned nostrils, ok. If in doubt about the potency of your tea tree oil it won't hurt to dilute it a little bit with a gentler oil that's good to put on tender skin, such as olive oil, which feeds the skin and helps reduce the harshness of the tea tree oil.

 

[Binky]

Funny, my herb friend heard about fire cider and made some this summer. She was telling me about it on the phone (and I was dying laughing)!!! She was expecting something pleasant, not the most god awful concoction ever dreamed up!

There is nothing fire cider can do that I can’t do with a few drops of tincture in my favorite beverage. I’ll stick with my tinctures. But I have wondered about the person who dreamed up fire cider… must have had a horrible childhood!!!

There are so many various newly invented recipes for fire cider online now but it's my understanding that the person who originally popularized fire cider in the 1970's is a wisewoman type herbalist and educator named Rosemary Gladstar. I don't know what her childhood was like but I think she must have grown up with a cast iron stomach.

 

[Peanut]

What flavor (kind) of tincture? I am planning on R Gladstar’s recipe in ACV. I would just take a tablespoon daily sorta thing. The horseradish for sinuses was what caught my attention. I’m not a horseradish fan but I like breathing.

All my tinctures are alcohol based and simple. Because I don't have extra energy (cfs) to spend on flavors or premixing more complex medicines I mix only when there is an immediate need.

I rarely get flu or cold symptoms. I sometimes feel a virus attack but not always. The reason is several of the tinctures I take for other health issues also happen have strong antiviral components. For example poke root I take for arthritis has a powerful antiviral component. It's not something I take daily, only when my hands are achy. So I always have low levels of antivirals in my system.

Only 3 times since '08 have I actually gotten the 'flu', had symptoms lasting several days. Each time I had badly over stressed my body (and immune system) and was very vulnerable to viruses. For example, jan of 20, dad was in the icu for 23days. I was sleeping in a chair in his hosp. rm, eating poorly, in a hosp during a mini-flu epidemic and didn't have my tinctures with me... I got very sick.

When I first feel a virus attack my body I throw everything I have at it, shotgun effect. Example, on an overnight trip to TN to have my guitar worked on I was 100miles from home when I felt a bad virus. I stopped and took a round of tinctures and continued for the next 24hrs. Still got a fever before I got to TN, was one sick puppy in my hotel that night. Glad my rm had double beds, I broke my fever twice during night, soaked the sheets on one bed, had to move to the other but by morning I no longer had the flu. My methods work very well for me. They may not work for others...

This is my tincture travel kit, I even have it in my truck when I go to town for groceries. Because of chronic fatigue syndrome getting groceries can over stress my body and leave me vulnerable to viruses, just about everything I do over stresses my body so.... I have little one ounce plastic cups for tinctures in my kit. I put in a few drops of this or that, add water, soda, what ever is handy and drink it down. (its a child's tackle box I lined with foam)