Benefits and harms of castoreum

Benefits and harms of beaver spray not yet fully elucidated. Many people consider it almost a panacea for all ills, and a cure for old age, others do not see anything interesting in this product and consider all the properties of fiction or fiction. But do not be too categorical in neither case do not understand the question. Benefits and harms of castoreum for the body can manifest itself in the most unexpected areas.

What is jet beaver

Jet or beaver castoreum called substance secreted by beavers (regardless of gender), which beavers are labeled with their possessions. The product stands out in special organs of beavers, called preputial glands, the glands that are biologically, in fact, are not. This is a unique organ, which is present exclusively in beavers.

Castoreum is not oily liquid, such as the allocation of most mammals. This is not liquid at all - it is a substance, on its hardness and texture are more like wet sand.

Previously, to obtain beaver castoreum had to kill, immediately they are grown artificially periodically collecting them with castoreum. On average, once able to collect about 40 g. This made unprofitable hunting beavers for the sake of their craft, as in 8-10 of extraction was as much substance as there are with a dead beaver. On average, such a number of beaver castoreum develops in the past month.

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How useful jet beaver

To understand the potential beneficial properties of the substance, it is necessary to study its composition.

The beaver jet composition includes the following components:

borneol;
salicylic acid;
benzyl alcohol;
benzoic acid;

ethylphenol (actually, the basic substance in the composition of the jet);
cinnamic acid;
steroids and more.

Official medicine recognizes only adaptogenic effects castoreum, that is, the ability to increase the body's resistance to various harmful effects of the most varied nature. Actually, so doctors, obviously not wanting to engage in polemics with sorcerers and healers, as it were, hinted to us that castoreum - not that other, as usual placebo, and its action is entirely psychosomatics.

However, it is believed that the beneficial properties beaver jets appear as follows:

it is a broad spectrum preservative (fungicide, insecticide, etc...);
It is an antimicrobial and antiviral agent;
is a good remedy against parasites;
It has a general strengthening effect;
It helps with vitamin deficiency;
normalizes mental state;
increases mental and physical activity;
It helps with depression

It can be used for treating both the wounds and injuries, as well as the gastrointestinal tract, and cardiovascular system. Castoreum able to also prevent aging and purify the body from radiation.