SC - camphor

[jeffrey s heilveil]

Camphor is the root of the camphry plant, ground.  It can be mixed with
alcohol to make a tincture, and then mixed with a thickner to create an
ointment.  It is a cheap and easy way to teach elementary herbalism, and I
made it a long time ago in an intro Botany course.  

Hope this helps,
Bogdan

On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, James and/or Nancy Gilly wrote:

> At 21:59 25-1-98 +0000, Stefan li Rous wrote:
> >What *is* camphor? I thought it was a petroleum product. How would
> >they have produced it in the Middle Ages? How else was it used in
> >the Middle Ages?
> 
> 
> Says the *Britannica*:
> 
>          camphor, an organic compound of penetrating, somewhat
>      musty aroma, used for many centuries as a component of incense
>      and as a medicinal.  Modern uses of camphor have been as a
>      plasticizer for cellulose nitrate and as an insect repellent,
>      particularly for moths.  The molecular formula is C10H16O
>      [C-ten H-sixteen O].
>          Camphor occurs in the camphot laurel, *Cinnamomum camphora*,
>      common in China, Taiwan, and Japan....
> 
> (*Encyclopaedia Britannica*, 15th edition, Vol II, p 492.  Copyright 1977 by
> Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.)
> 
> 
> Alasdair mac Iain
> 
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