Friars' Balsam

By: Thornton & Ross
Pack: 50-ml
Product Code: TNR0004
Price: £2.55

Description

Also known as Balsamum Traumaticum, Balsamic Tincture, Jesuits’ Drops and Jerusalem Drops.

Can be used as an antiseptic and protectant to minor cuts and abrasions, chapped skin and lips, cracked nipples, small fissures of skin and anus, bedsores, indolent ulcers, herpes simplex, and gingivitis. Can relieve itching of chilblains, eczema, and urticaria. Can be taken internally and/or inhaled with steam vapor as a stimulating expectorant in old coughs and catarrhs, laryngitis, acute and chronic bronchitis, and asthma.

To apply topically: Lesion should be cleaned and dried, and then covered with the balsam, over which should be laid fresh cotton gauze, extending well beyond the lesion. This application may be painful at first, and should be changed daily, taking care to remove any dead tissue that is loose.

Can be taken internallyl: Two to four times per day, take 25 to 35 drops in water. For throat or bronchial affections, mix drops in a spoonful of honey, maple syrup or malt syrup.

Inhalant: Mix one or two droppers of the balsam into a pint of hot, steaming (not boiling) water and then breathe the vapors in deeply.

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