Main constituents in rosin flux may hold promise treating common health issues.

[Zero999]

This is an important use because of the epidemic of obesity which may have environmental causes.

I think we all knew that.

Its possible that the main constituent in flux may be valuable in fighting the metabolic syndrome which is characterized by systemic inflammation.

It made no difference to me. I was a bit overweight, exercised more and got down to a healthy weight.

Rosin flux fumes are have also been linked with asthma, there are fume extractors where I work. Not that we use them much for soldering because they're noisy and the pipe gets in the way. They're normally used when we need to burn off some potting compound, which really does give off nasty fumes.

[thm_w]

From the bench tech's point of view, Rosin is more of health risk than benefit due to the well known risks of inducing asthma by inhalation of its fumes and sensitisation leading to dermatitis by skin contact.   One might consider drinking a rosé Retsina for your daily glass of wine, but if you are already sensitised to Rosin, that could be unwise . . .

Yeah, and likely the decomposition compounds produced by high soldering temperature are not quite as positive.


OP if you are interested in other terpenoids, check out limonene as well: https://examine.com/supplements/limonene/
Anyway, getting much open minded health discussion here is a bit of an intellectual dead end. Might be better off searching elsewhere.

https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/20133214035
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/abietic_acid#section=Chemical-Co-Occurrences-in-Literature

[helius]

Retsina is, of course, the only thing Arthur Dent thought to save when he returned to Earth prior to its Vogon destruction.

Limonene and methyl salicylate are plant products widely used as industrial solvents (as is ɑ-pinene, also known as turpentine).
If you are interested in gums and resins as dietary products, benzoin and chioς mastic are noteworthy.