Antonia Blue Star (United States) on 03/23/2020

Replied By Lisa (Florida) on 09/30/2023

Hi LeeAnne,

Though this is an old post, maybe you will see it; check out the turpentine section in remedies on EC and there is a lot of good info there.

Replied By Rob (Kentucky) on 12/09/2023

Turpentine is a tried and true folk remedy for parasites. Long ago (1900's) farmers and even school nurses gave turpentine as a matter of course to children twice a year to eliminate parasites like pinworms. The easiest way to do this is to put a few drops of turpentine on a sugar cube (kids dose). This tastes like pine candy and is simple for children and adults alike to take. Turpentine was the best remedy there was.

Some of the greatest enemies of forests are fungi and parasites. As an evolutionary defense mechanism, trees and plants developed various chemical compounds within them to kill these invaders. Eucalyptus oil, neem oil, tea tree oil, turpentine oil, and other essential oils are composed mostly of hydrocarbons, like kerosene. The main chemical in turpentine is alpha-pinene, and it is a powerful antifungal.

As a remedy for that bane of childhood, worms, it is well known. A teaspoonful given in a half glass of sweetened milk (teens to adult dose), followed in an hour or two by a full dose of caster oil, seldom fails. The practice of our grandmothers in giving it to us on sugar, for coughs and sore throat, was based on common sense.

One tablespoon of gum turpentine thoroughly mixed with an equal amount of castor oil and taken floating on milk. Repeat every second or third day until fragments of the worm cease to appear in the stool. For children one teaspoonful of sugar, three to four drops of turpentine and one teaspoonful of castor oil, thoroughly mixed.

Turpentine, 1 tsp. Sugar. (1) glass of milk for intestinal worms. The worms are expelled in your feces. You can see dead parasites. The sugar is to attract them to feed & the turpentine kills the worms. The milk keeps turpentine from being toxic to your system. https://blogs.lib.unc.edu/shc/2008/11/14/the-turpentine-remedy/ After speaking with people from Germany and Bosnia, the addition of milk was used in their home land countries.

If you want to learn more about Turpentine Protocols, please read the book, Candida Cleaner by Dr Jennifer Daniels Turpentine Protocols - 31 Page Report

Link here – https://archive.org/stream/turp_candida_daniels/turp_candida_daniels_djvu.txt

Link here – https://www.healbygod.com/dr-jennifer-daniels-turpentine/

Replied By Rob (Kentucky) on 04/12/2025

For Worms, mix 8-9 drops turpentine oil with a spoonful of sugar and eat it. Use periodically to keep from getting worms. From the Book: Hoosier Home Remedies, p. 172,1985

Replied By Rob (Kentucky) on 04/13/2025

History of the Use of Oil of Turpentine for Worms.

Source: The Principles and Practice of Medicine, by John Elliotson, Thomas Stewardson · 1844

The history of our knowledge of this medicine is rather curious. So far as I have read, it appears that its use, in the cure of worms, was first mentioned in 1792, by a general practitioner at Putney, named Malden. A man had been long accustomed to pass tape-worm; and a friend advised him to take oil of turpentine. He took two drachms (2 teaspoon); and, to his great astonishment, discharged five yards of tape-worm, and several pieces afterwards. At the time Mr. Malden wrote, which was three years and a half afterwards, he was quite well. This fact was lost sight of, -not in the least attended to, till a paper was published, in 1811, in the " Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, " by a physician at Durham. It gives an account of a sailor, who had been in the habit of taking gin to expel a tænia (tapeworm); but at last it failed; and he took a glass of oil of turpentine;-thinking that that was stronger. It was quite successful. What is very curious, after this paper was written, Dr. Walker, in 1817, published a paper in the " Transactions of the London Medical Society, in which Mr. Malden's account was contained; and claimed the discovery of the remedy. The circumstance was forgotten; and the Society allowed the second paper to be published. Oil of turpentine is one of the best remedies that we have. It will expel all sorts of worms;- ascarides, lumbrici (roundworms), tæniæ (tapeworm), and all the others. Occasionally it will fail; but we should give it in large doses, and take care that it finds its way out. We should follow it up with a dose of castor-oil every two hours; otherwise the patient maybe brought into some danger. I have seen a degree of danger produced few hours. The oil of turpentine has been particularly used in the case of tapeworm in the intestines; but it is equally good in the case of other kinds of worms.

Replied By Julie (Kentucky) on 06/11/2026

Hello, Rob.

Thank you for this. I just was searching for info regarding this. The Lord is good.

Regards,

Julie

Replied By Vera (Colorado) on 04/13/2025

Rob, I am so grateful for these snippets of old-timey doctors who knew how to cure. IMO, what was lacking in those days was systematization of knowledge, so that it would perfuse common consciousness. (Lacking that, even harmful bloodletting was still recommended into the 20th century.)

I would like to add that this turpentine was natural, made from trees. Not the toxic modern stuff derived from petroleum.