Pinus Silvestris – Scots Pine

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh shoots with a length up to 5 cm of the tree Pinus sylvestris L., which occurs in Europe and Northern Asia. N.O. Pinaceae.

The active ingredients are essential oil, oil of turpentine, resins and tannins. The alcoholic extract known as Oil of Pine and used externally is an old folk-remedy, and is recommended for emaciation of the lower extremities, and also in weakness of the ankles, but particularly also for tubercular, rachitic children who are late in learning to walk; it can be given internally or rubbed in externally.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Pinus sylvestris, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for

pinus silvestris: insufficiency of the ligamentous apparatus at the bones; chronic rheumatism; inflammations of the respiratory passages; eczema; hives and rash.