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Actress Tiffany Haddish praises the health benefits of drinking toxic turpentine in unbelievable interview

Actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish insists drinking small amounts of turpentine is good for you — and she blames the government for trying to convince people otherwise.
The “Girls Trip” star explained her unorthodox views on turpentine — a pine resin extract typically used as paint thinner — to an incredulous reporter during an in-depth profile for GQ.

“A teaspoon of turpentine will not kill you,” Haddish claimed. “The government doesn’t want you to know that if you have a cold, just take some turpentine with some sugar or castor oil or honey and it’ll go away the next day.”
Reporter Caity Weaver pushed back, cautioning that turpentine was not intended for human consumption.
“Honey, back during slavery — let me teach you something, okay?” Haddish argued.
The actress claimed that slaves drank turpentine oil as a cure for various ailments, and historical accounts do show the organic solvent was commonly used as a topical remedy for cuts, sprains and even respiratory ailments.

The reporter told Haddish that slaves weren’t known for excellent health, but she argued that’s because not all slaves had access to turpentine.
“There’s worms inside your body,” Haddish argued. “There are worms inside your body.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/actress-tiffany-haddish-praises-health-benefits-drinking-toxic-turpentine-unbelievable-interview/

[matt819]

1. This doesn't make it any more sensible, but

Turpentine in old home remedies.

https://www.leaf.tv/articles/old-home-remedies-using-turpentine/

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. WTF indeed

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. I prefer bleeding the patient.

Leeches can help.

Also, drilling holes in the skull.

[brush]

4. There is something to old home remedies. I'd take this one with a grain of salt, but some of them...

sound crazy to us now but have a kernel of truth to them. See this link:

https://www.leaf.tv/articles/old-home-remedies-using-turpentine/

[Arkansas Granny]

5. I'm not advocating this as a valid treatment, but my late mother in law told me that if you put

three or four drops of kerosene (she called it coal oil) on a teaspoon of sugar and swallowed it, it worked as a cough medicine. She also told me to put warm urine in my son's ear to cure an ear infection.

I never tried either remedy.

[EffieBlack]

7. My grandmother's go-to remedy was a spoonful of castor oil

I still get the shakes just thinking about it.

But it sure reduced the incidences of us kids playing sick when we really weren't.

[Adrahil]

6. Turpentine Oil can be used medicinally.....

see here: https://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-508-turpentine%20oil.aspx?activeingredientid=508&activeingredientname=turpentine%20oil

Also note that ingesting any significant quantity of turpentine oil can lead to some nasty side effects.

HOWEVER, do not confuse Turpentine oil with GUM turpentine, or Gum Spirits of Turpentine, which is what you buy at the hardware store.