Mastic good enough for Harems and it seems to be working!

carlos_bigsby · Post by **carlos_bigsby** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:44 pm

Cyber...this is very interesitng and exciting. what do you believe is the major cause for your BB? is it PND or sinus related or something other?

I live in the US and have been researching mastic online. It seems its mostly availeable in pill form and not the pure mastik gum. do you think a greek grocery store would sell it in the US?

this is all very nteresting. lots of interesting aarticles on it too.

thanks cyber.

CGB

CyberchndriacNot · Post by **CyberchndriacNot** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 4:14 pm

Hmmm, causes, a good question. According to all the practioners I've seen I don't have any physical ailments. I think that I might have a slight PND and I used to suffer from bronchitis as a child and went on extensive tetracycline treatment which i believe was the cause of BB and intestinal flora imbalance. I am wondering if the bacteria resides in the lungs which later multiplies in the mouth.

Re query about mastic. I'm not from the US so don't know; you could try ringing the Greek store.

waitingforrelief · Post by **waitingforrelief** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 4:58 pm

hey cyber,

thanks for the info. for those of you who live in the US, try going an internet search on greek groceries. i came up with some options. altho' i had gone with a mediterranean store that i'd gone to (not in thecity that i live in) and have them send some to me. so i hope it'll arrive some time this week. but it's REALLY expensive. almost US$8 for an oz.

so if your offer still stands to send us some, cyber, i'd love to see if you could send me some if it does work for me.

where are you cyber, what's ME?

missy · Post by **missy** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:05 pm

I just received an order of Nullo yesterday and I'm going to send for some mastic pills today. Even a few hours of relief would be heaven! Will the Nullo get me to poop green or anything? Just want to be prepared! Did anyone have success with Nullo? I hope both products will help me, please God.

CyberchndriacNot · Post by **CyberchndriacNot** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 6:38 pm

waitingforrelief wrote:hey cyber,

thanks for the info. for those of you who live in the US, try going an internet search on greek groceries. i came up with some options. altho' i had gone with a mediterranean store that i'd gone to (not in thecity that i live in) and have them send some to me. so i hope it'll arrive some time this week. but it's REALLY expensive. almost US$8 for an oz.

so if your offer still stands to send us some, cyber, i'd love to see if you could send me some if it does work for me.

where are you cyber, what's ME?

Middle East! It would be great if you could trial it. I'd be interested to know if it only works for some conditions and not others. I am going to the Post office tomorrow morning to send some to rahul so can send some to you as well. Please send me your address asap as I usually can't get to post offices. I'm on holiday from school (only work evenings at uni this week) and post offices close here at 12:00pm!

Mastic is very light. I bought a 200g bag for £5 (US$10?) and think that it would last me at least a month.

waitingforrelief · Post by **waitingforrelief** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 6:41 pm

hey cyber, thanks a bunch. i just sent you a pm with my info.

CyberchndriacNot · Post by **CyberchndriacNot** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:07 pm

rahul, you mentioned that you were a physician. What is your specialism?

How long have you had BB? Do you know the cause? And what are your symptoms?

Do you not know anybody else in the medical profession who has information on this condition? Or have you experienced similar difficulties and not been able to find anybody who is willing to listen and look for a cause?

Sorry for all the questions but i answered all yours and am curious.

waitingforrelief · Post by **waitingforrelief** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 10:52 pm

by the way, cyber. did you ever have digestive issues? what about sinuses and tonsils?

CyberchndriacNot · Post by **CyberchndriacNot** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:32 am

No digestive issues, only when I was pregnant and had chronic indigestion which I put down to pressure on all the organs. Tonsils were removed when I was a child as I used to suffer from bronchitis and awful congestion. No sinuses.

This is why I put it all down to the antibiotics and an imbalanced flora, gut maybe (possibly oesophagus) but probably lungs, mouth and airways.

The thing that puzzles me is that BB is almost cleared when I eat the mastic, so it appears to be cleaning the mouth and oesphagus. Maybe the effect is quickly absorbed into the bloodstream and into lungs and exhaled. I don't know. this is one for the scientists.

CyberchndriacNot · Post by **CyberchndriacNot** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:38 am

CyberchndriacNot wrote:I haven't taken it before going to sleep, but will this evening to see if the effect lasts all night.

OK, the morning after...

After chewing on a small piece of mastic before going to sleep and 6 hours of sleep later, I awoke with mild BB. My husband said that it wasn't as bad as yesterdays but that he could still detect it.

So the mastic doesn't work all night when I'm inactive for the whole of the night.

Tonight I'll steep it in water and drink it before going to bed and will report again in the morning.

I'll also chew some today before teaching and will report on how that goes.

CyberchndriacNot · Post by **CyberchndriacNot** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:05 am

OK. parcels are on their way! I ended up doing a bit of research in the herbal shops and found that there are very many different types of masticas and that they're all called different names and are sourced from different places. There's a wealth of information in these little shops, but the shopkeepers hardly speak English. Next time I will try to find a local with whom i can go shopping!

As a result, I started buying more varieties and due to the quantities I bought I managed to bargain down the prices. For $10 US I was able to buy two more varieties, and two varieties of mastica chewing gum. So in all have managed to get:

1)125g tree resin with a crystal clear gnarled look (the one I have been taking)
2) 125g of some other tree gum (whitish)
3) a small pkt of Greek mastica (yellow)
4) some local tree resin chewing gum
5) mastica chewing gum

waiting and rahul will both be testing these items, so I am anxious to know if the stuff will work for them as well.

Since I had been out for most of the day, and knew that my BB would come back anytime, I started chewing on the local tree resin gum. It had a neutral taste with a hint of tea-tree (no strong perppermint flavour or anything to mask the smell) and I found it quite pleasant and refreshing - and guess what no BB! I noticed that it immediately increased my saliva production. I spat it out an hour or so ago and my breath is still feeling incredibly fresh.

Now I've got so many different varieties to try, I'm not sure where to start next.

since it appers that most of these masticas originate from tree resin, I wonder if tea-tree resin (the australian melaleuca) has similar benefits. Does anybody know?

Maybe it's worth looking into tree resins in other parts of the world... although the resins known for their medicinal properties that I have seen and read about are sourced from warm climates.

Another thing to research...

noptical · Post by **noptical** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:31 pm

CyberchndriacNot, the real mastic comes from a specific tree

CyberchndriacNot · Post by **CyberchndriacNot** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:25 pm

Yes, this is why the Greeks patented it because the tree only grows in Chios. However, it seems that the ME and Africa have used specific tree resin medicinally for 1000s of years. I don't know what the species are, but will do my best to find out. I think the picture in Wikipedia might not show the Greek mastic becuase it's the resin found here locally. The Greek mastic is more expensive and looks like tiny yellow pebbles in its original form. Have you managed to get hold of some of the Greek mastic? I'd be interested to know if it's the same.

I have been using the stuff in the Wikipedia picture which is local to here and probably not of the Greek variety. I need to find out what it is. The trouble is that it's known to non-English speaking peoples and so there might be no English equivalents of the stuff. I'll have to start looking for somebody locally who is acquainted with these varieties and who speaks english.

Whatever it is, it's working...

Larc400 · Post by **Larc400** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:26 pm

For all you Swedes on here: I can inform you that Mastic is not available in Sweden

I called like five specialist shops with no luck

Did anyone find a good online "Mastic store"..?

noptical · Post by **noptical** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:53 pm

There's this greek chain called "Mastic spa", they produce natural mastic products, they even have a mastic toothpaste and mouthwash, they could also have mastic in its raw form i dont know.
There are many shops available in countries other than greece: http://www.masticspa.com/index.php?opti ... Itemid=113

There's one in Helsinki, succ maybe you want to check it out