Greetings.
Eric Bakker, the natural path from New Zealand.
Thanks for coming back.
We're going to talk about turpentine.
Many people ask me, "Is turpentine okay to take?
I want to try turpentine because many candida experts talk about turpentine saying it's
wonderful.
It cures candida.
It eradicates candida.
It cleans up the gut.
It's been used for hundreds of years.
It's going to work on me.
I think it's going to be successful."
Well, been there, done that.
I recommended turpentine probably about 15 years ago, 20 years ago.
I started recommending it here and there to people.
Like a lot of other people, I was just a parrot.
I was just copying what other people told me.
In some cases I found I had some success with turpentine, but in the majority of cases I
found it didn't work at all in most people.
Now, I've been in this game a long time as you're probably aware.
I watch people and I track them long, long, long, long term.
I keep all my patient files.
I keep patient files even back from the eighties.
I've got patients going way back.
Now that I'm coming up to closing my clinical practice, it's very interesting when I go
back through some of my patient files and have a look at the reports and some of thee
findings and things I've written up on people.
I mentally keep a track long-term on what I believe are the best kind of treatments
for the majority of people and turpentine does not fall into that category whatsoever.
I find it a very fringy type of approach.
It makes people like me look like a fool, too, as far as the medical profession's concerned.
Turpentine historically has been used for a long time.
But like a lot of other things historically, it's fallen by the wayside.
Now people believe what they want to believe.
People did all sorts of therapies a long time ago.
Some of these crazy therapies have pulled through like turpentine.
Turpentine had its origins originally, if we go back, in fact right back to the 1400s
and 1500s seafarers used to use it to take ... Would take turpentine with them on long
trips for healing sores and ailments and STDs.
But they also used it for parasites.
But they used everything for parasites back then.
They used sheep's dung for parasites.
They used camel's urine for parasites.
They would have used Trump's urine if they had it.
They used everything.
Just because something was used historically doesn't mean to say that today that it's necessarily
going to be good.
Let's say I told you that having mercury or antimony or heavy metal was going to cure
your disease.
Notice how I used the cure word which I never use.
Don't listen to people who say cure.
Okay?
That to me is a really dangerous word to use around somebody because it's making that person
think that they're going to get rid of their illness completely by taking some type of
a medicine.
It doesn't work that easily, okay?Have you ever thought about urine therapy?
Okay?
I don't want to rain on your parade, but the thing is that's another old form of therapy.
It was even in the Bible.
Son drink from thine own system in the Old Testament.
Would you like to do that kind of therapy?
Probably not.
It's not really pleasant, is it, trying drink your own urine.
Then why the hell you want to drink turpentine for?
Turpentine is a great medicine from a tree.
Like a lot of trees produce a good kind of medicine.
Topically.
So if you're going to look at the essential oil of turpentine, just like the essential
oil of say the Canadian fir tree or the large tree, pinus sylvestris, pinus radiata.
There are many pinus or coniferous species of trees that you've got beautiful all your
resins.
When we slash into a Ceiba tree, cut into it at particular times of the year, especially
all this sort of stuff oozes out of the bark, okay?
It's a protective resin.
Protects the tree from injury and attack and lightning strikes and stuff like that and
Clare bears clawing on it and whatever.
That's how the tree heals.
So that all year resin was often broken off in chunks and then taken back to a workshop
and further processed into an oil.
That's not how turps is made today or turpentine itself because it's a crude oil distillation.
We can't compare the big bottles, the half gallon turpentine bottles in the hardware
store to the small bottles of gum turpentine that you find in the artist shop or in the
health food shop.
Don't get me wrong.
They're different kind of product.
But still, they're a lot of terpenes and phenols and chemicals in turps whether it's ... Okay,
the crude product from the oil refinery or whether it's from the tree.
Okay?
There are still chemicals in these products that can make you sick either way.
Taking any kind of a strong product like turpentine internally can have kidney effects, it can
have liver effects.
It can affect your immune response.
It can affect your beneficial flora response.
I've tracked store reports on people for a long time now using all kinds of therapies
including turpentine therapy.
I can tell you now, I've seen some not so nice things in store reports on people on
turpentine.
For example, compared to grapefruit seed extract.
I find GFC or grapefruit seed extract a hundred times more effective than turpentine any day
hands down.When you take turpentine in, often you're going to do it with sugar or with something
else thinking you're going to do your body a good service.
You may initially get a good feeling with turpentine, but it doesn't last.
In most all cases in my experience with turpentine, the person with the same problem within 6
to 12 months back again after they used turpentine.
So it doesn't hold long-term.
All right?
Think about that.Chemically it can be dangerous for you, for your lungs, okay?
For your kidneys, for different parts of your body.
Especially if you don't understand about dosing correctly.
That's number one.Number two is it's making you think you're going to take in something
to kill the parasites or to get rid of the parasites.
Generally people who do that don't pay enough attention to other aspects of their lifestyle
or diet to increase the ability of the body to eradicate these parasites.
They're just looking for some type of a remedy.
Well, I think you need to look further than just the remedy in my opinion.Have a look
at some of my other videos on parasites whereas I talk a bit more about a holistic approach
rather than just a rifle approach.
Trying doesn't work so well.
My opinion on turpentine for candida, I would give it the thumbs down.
But as I said, why don't you try this out?
No one talks about that anymore and this is a very popular therapy a long time ago just
like turpentine was.
Have a good day.