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This is Frontier's nitrogen-flushed double wall silverfoil pack. Some Frontier packs are double wall wax-lined paper. Camphor is a white crystalline substance, obtained from the oil of the leaves and wood of the east Asian tree Cinnamonum camphora. The name has been applied to various concrete odorous volatile products, found in different aromatic plants. But the commercial Camphor, used in such famous over-the-counter preparations as Vicks Vapo Rub, comes only from C. camphora. It is extensively used for religious purposes to offer 'Aarti' incense. A repellent for ants, flies, moths and other insects, it is used in bed clothes and in mothballs. It apparently stimulates cold sensors in the nervous system, and is therefore used as a counter irritant and an anti-itching substance. It is used in gout (in menthol and thymol) and skin conditions to give relief. Grieve's classic 'A Modern Herbal': 'Camphor has a strong, penetrating, fragrant odour, a bitter, pungent taste, and is slightly cold to the touch like menthol leaves; locally it is an irritant, numbs the peripheral sensory nerves, and is slightly antiseptic; it is not readily absorbed by the mucous membrane, but is easily absorbed by the subcutaneous tissue - it combines in the body with glucuronic acid, and in this condition is voided by the urine.' 'Experiments on frogs show a depressant action to the spinal column, no motor disturbance, but a slow increasing paralysis; in mankind it causes convulsions, from the effect it has on the motor tract of the brain; it stimulates the intellectual centres and prevents narcotic drugs taking effect, but in cases of nervous excitement it has a soothing and quieting result.' 'Authorities vary as to its effect on blood pressure; some think it raises it, others take an opposite view; but it has been proved valuable as an excitant in cases of heart failure, whether due to diseases or asa result of infectious fevers, such as typhoid and pneumonia, not only in the latter case as a stimulant to circulation, but as preventing the growth of pneumococci.' 'Camphor is used in medicine internally for its calming influence in hysteria, nervousness and neuralgia, and for serious diarrhoea, and externally as a counter-irritant in rheumatisms, sprains bronchitis, and in inflammatory conditions, and sometimes in conjunction with menthol and phenol for heart failure; it is often given hypodermically, 3 to 5 grains dissolved in 20 to 30 minims of sterile Olive oil - the effect will last about two hours.' 'In nervous diseases it may be given in substance or in capsules or in spirit; dose 2 to 5 grains.' 'Its great value is in colds, chills, and in all inflammatory complaints; it relieves irritation of the sexual organs.' 'Preparations and Dosages: Spirit of Camphor, B.P., 5 to 20 drops. Tincture of Camphor Comp., B.P. (Paregoric), 1/2 to 1 drachm. Camphor water, B.P., 1 to 2 OZ. Liniment of Aconite, B.P. Liniment of Belladonna, B.P. Liniment of Camp
Manufacturer: Frontier Natural Brands Bulk Herbs SKU: 22519 Category: Bulk Herbs-Sedatives
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