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I had never known what it was in the stores. So I went down to the shop to buy some and not really knowing what to do with it, I made myself a camomile tea and put it into the tea to dissolve. I drank the tea and ate the gooey remains of the resin (UUUggghhh - but will try anything) and my bad breath instantly cleared. The warm wafty feel has gone. It is now 5 hours later and my husband says that my breath smells clinically fresh, as if I've just been to the dentist.
I don't know how to describe it but it feels as if the whole of my insides have been disenfected with a strong longlasting mouthwash.
Now I need to work out if it was a combination of cloves, cinnamon and previous doses of antibiotics, plus the prebiotics that made it work or whether it was the mastic on its own that worked. I haven't had any side effects as of yet.
Check out the website and see if you can get hold of some of this resin - I think this one might be a goer.
This is from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastic A 1985 study by the University of Thessaloniki discovered that mastic can reduce bacterial plaque in the mouth by 41.5 percent. A 1998 study by the University of Athens found that mastic oil has antibacterial and anti-fungal properties. Another 1998 University of Nottingham study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that mastic can heal peptic ulcers.
An interesting bit of history I found on
http://www.greekproducts.com/mastic/index.html was that during the Ottoman Empire the Sultan used to give the mastic to his harems for fresh breath and white teeth! How about this for a bit of confidence boosting!!!
I have also sucked it as you would a mint the size of a tic-tac for almost immediate effect. It lasts about an hour in your mouth and the after effect a few more hours.