Dr. Schulze talks about Menthol crystals Re: wintergreen oil and menthol crystals where to get them? Uny?

Dr. Schulze talks about Menthol Crystals

Curing With Cayenne: The Untold Story (I THINK this was 1997)

For Arthritis and Joint problems:

Cayenne heating oil

Into 16 ounces of Wintergreen oil, soak 8 tablespoons of Cayenne pepper and 4 tablespoons of Ginger root and 4 tablespoons of Mustard powder. Let it set from the New Moon to the Fu]l Moon. Strain and add 6 ounces of Menthol crystals.

A word on obtaining ingredients:

1) Regarding cayenne pepper, the hotter, the better. Use African bird peppers, or habeneros.

2) Buy your menthol crystals at either a pharmacy or a lab supply house. That can be a little difficult, but usually one or the other can supply it. A lot of pharmacists carry it, because it stops itching.

What they do is distill peppermint oil to make it, and then they distill it a second time and it crystallizes.

These crystals are pure menthol. Menthol is one of the active principles of peppermint oil. You have peppermint leaves, which have a lot of active principals, then you have peppermint oil, which is a more concentrated form, and.then you have menthol crystals, which is even more concentrated.

Make sure the menthol crystals are made from peppermint or thyme. Chemists always know that.

I get it from a chemical supply house in Los Angeles. But a lot of times, people can contact a local university or school,and ask them where they can purchase some chemicals.

You need a chemical supply house that sells natural chemicals that are derived from plants.

INTERVIEWER: How do you get the menthol crystals to dissolve into the oil?

SCHULZE: The way we’ve been doing it recently is, once you put the menthol into the oil, we set that on the floor and then we have a radiant heater that has a coil inside of it on the other side of the room. We face it in that direction, and by the end of the day, the heat melts the crystals.

In the summer, just put the jar in the sun for a few hours, or put the jar in a double boiler.

INTERVIEWER: That dissolves it into the peppermint oil?
SCIIULZE: Yes, and it just has to be warm. You could also put it over a heat register and it would work. There are a lot of ways to do it.