Bob, you’ve confirmed something I’ve noticed recently. I suffer from allergic rhinitis and normally I spend springtime sneezing my fool head off, even with prescription medication. Not this spring…and this is my first spring using snuff. Coincidence? Placebo effect? I dunno, but I’ll take it!
nope it’s the snuff. My allergies have gone way down since becomeing a snuff head. One of things I find annoying is when I have a sneezing fit some idiot will say that’s what happens when you use snuff. I wouldn’t mind if they didn’t always act superior and stupid and like I don’t know what I’am talking about when I say it was worse before doing snuff.
Also when you have allergies your mast cells which are the cells that trigger allergic reactions. When they are triggered they actualy pop and are destroyed. It’s part of the reason that mild exposure to allergians can be theraputic because it burns out the mast cells. I think that snuff helps reduce the number of mast cells in the nose reducing allergic reactions. Snuff is medicine and good for you, or at least I think it is.
@bob and with a much smaller list of potential side effects than most anything else on the market.
it’s amazing how that works.
@Theater Until I see a scientific study which proves that tobacco doesn’t alleviate the pain of stings or stop the itch of insect bites then I will go with my personal anecdotal evidence that tobacco in fact does those two things.
@bob so do I just need to take a pinch or two and spit on it to make a paste ? Then rub it on the sting/bite.
I used tap water only.
Saliva does work though if you can’t get to a tap. Honestly saliva is all I ever use unless I have a can of dip on me, then I just apply a pinch directly to the sting. I assume loose snus would work just as well, but I’m not going out of my way to test that theory.
where is your sense of adventure?
Right behind my don’t-get-stung-by-stuff gland.
there is no such thing. It’s just a little bug with a toxic ass spike, not something really to worry about.
I don’t think that tobacco is anthistimic topically. I think it’s really about a cold poultice being soothing. I also do not believe it stops colds and flu. Or if it does it’s as equally not down to tobacco being healing. 10g a day seems to afford me bugger all protection from them.
It’s still getting into the blood stream so it should work topicaly. It certainly has more effects then a cold poultice speaking from experience. It also probably helps in the nose since nicotine is astringent. I won’t get into details but it seems to kill nasty germs and stuff.
I couldn’t tell a poultice from a cataplasm if my life depended on it, but it seems to me that if nicotine is the active ingredient, a Rustica-heavy natural snuff like Toque Quit would be ideal.
I don’t think there is any rustica in Toque Quit.
It probably works because lots of stings are acid and snuff is alkaline so neutralizing it. I do know that bicarbonate if soda it anti inflammatory also so snuff may have similar properties.
that too. I personaly think it’s because snuff is so good and bug bites are bad. Though by that logic if you have bug bites on your hand petting your cat or dog should cure flea bites.