Wintergreen and Sweet Birch - Reasons to Not Use Them

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Butch Owen <butchbsi

Wed, 09 Feb 2005 05:25:15 -0800

Wintergreen and Sweet Birch - Reasons to Not

Use Them

 

 

Hey y'all,

 

I just sent two posts to another group .. subject as above .. and I want

to share the same information with y'all so they're on the way wait.

 

Methyl salicylate is not found in the original plant material .. it

requires laborious processing to obtain it .. that's why Wintergreen

(Gaultheria procumbens) and Sweet Birch (Betula lenta) are almost always

totally synthetic. Someone is gonna come on line and swear that theirs

is the real thing .. because their supplier told them it was and the

supplier advertises it as natural. Why would someone take the time and

effort to produce an expensive natural oil when the exact same results

are obtained with any form of Methyl salicylate? If someone thinks they

have a natural one .. they can write me off line and tell me how much

they paid for it I'll be able to enlighten them.

 

These are two oils where there is no high or low quality .. both are

98-99 percent Methyl salicylate in any case. Does Methyl salicylate

stop pain? YEP! But it poisons the liver if used frequently. Folks

who use it normally do so because of chronic problems .. so they do use

it frequently. Use of Wintergreen to stop pain is like a wino drinking

another bottle to avoid a hangover .. or a heroin addict taking another

shot to avoid withdrawal .. in all cases it works but in all cases it is

not the healthy thing to do.

 

Posts are on the way that explain why I don't sell Wintergreen or Sweet

Birch and why I think folks should think hard on whether or not they

want to use it.

 

Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com