Pendink

Pendinka is mainly a “Tashkent” disease, observed occasionally in other places. It starts with a small wound on the nostril, which gradually grows and eats away the entire nostril, moving on to the second. For the most part, the disease stops there, but sometimes it spreads to the cheek, leaving scars.

Thousands of people in the Tashkent district suffer from this disease, and it is considered incurable. But there is one good simple folk remedy against it.

You need to wash the sore with some disinfectant, for example a manganese solution, and dry it well.

Then take a piece of fresh, clean resin from the pine tree, heat it, make a cake and apply it very tightly to the sore spot, even pressing a little with your finger so that the cake sticks better. When applying it to the wound, you need to grab a little of the healthy body around it so that no air gets into the sore. Then tie it.

Do this several times, taking fresh resin each time, and the disease will stop. [Checked personally in Semipalatinsk. — O.M.]