Pini turiones

Pini turiones, also called pine shoots, is a drug used in herbal medicines for the treatment of mild muscular and nervous pains and for catarrhal diseases of the upper and lower respiratory tract.

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Commission E - Monograph: Internal: catarrhal diseases of the upper and lower respiratory tract. External: mild muscular and nervous pains.

Pini turiones contains resins, flavonoids and essential oil, with 10 and 50 % alpha-pinene (see pinene below), 10 to 25 % beta-pinene, 15 to 60 % beta-phellandrene and up to 12 % camphene.

Pini turiones has a weak antiseptic effect, stimulates blood circulation and is also secretolytic.

Pine sprouts are used to treat mild muscle and nerve pain and catarrhal diseases of the upper and lower respiratory tract.

For use several times a day use 2 to 3 g of the drug according to the preparation. For rubbing in liquid or semi-solid preparations with extracts, use 20 to 50 g of the drug.

Irritation of skin and mucous membranes

Allergy to one of the ingredients. Caution: In infants and young children up to 2 years, possibly triggering a vocal cramp (glottis spasm, laryngospasm) to respiratory arrest, never in the face ! from use in children up to 4 years is not advised!

There are no known interactions with other drugs.

The fixed combination eucalyptus oil+pine needle oil consists of:

• Eucalyptus oil (see eucalyptus below)
• Pine needle oil

has a slightly antispasmodic, slightly antiseptic, hyperemic, secretolytic, expectorant effect and is used in a catarrh of the airways.

1. Schilcher H (ed.) in, Leitfaden Phytotherapie, Urban & Fischer Verlag (2016) Munich, p. 188 f.
2. https://arzneipflanzenlexikon.info/kiefer.php