[Sca-cooks] Hard to get ingredients

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

There are a couple of flavorings called for in some of the dishes i 
cook. I don't know how safe they actually are to eat.

Among these ingredients are camphor and musk. I know that genuine 
musk is safe to eat, but extremely expensive, so my real interest is 
in a safe-to-eat substitute. I can get real camphor - from the 
camphor tree, which is related to cinnamon (or at least i used to be 
able to, haven't tracked it down for a few years), but i don't know 
if it's actually safe to consume.

I wonder if folks have any ideas about how safe they are, and what to 
substitute for them. Any information?

Anahita