CAMPHOR (e.o) - 1/2 oz., Health and Beauty products, Look-Best

CAMPHOR (e.o) - 1/2 oz. Aromatherapy Oils

Medicinal Action and Uses---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.

It stimulates the intellectual centers 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. It has been proven valuable as an excitant in cases of heart failure.

Camphor is used in medicine internally for its calming influence in hysteria, nervousness and neuralgia, for serious diarrhea, externally as a counter-irritant in rheumatisms, sprains bronchitis, in inflammatory conditions, and sometimes in conjunction with menthol and phenol for heart failure. In nervous diseases it may be given in substance, in capsules or in spirit; dose 2 to 5 grains. Its great value is in colds, chills, and in all inflammatory complaints. Also, it relieves irritation of the sexual organs.