Camphor

beautiful.

And so it's very interesting to see camphor is also used outside of that context.

Camphor is a substance that was originally harvested from the cinnamomum camphora tree, a massive evergreen native to East Asia that can live for over a thousand years.

Workers would chop the wood, soak it in water, and heat it until the camphor turned into a gas and then formed crystals again as it cooled.

Today, most camphor is made synthetically from turpentine.

Camphor has been used medicinally for thousands of years across Ayurvedic, Chinese, and Unani medical traditions for everything from respiratory ailments and fever to joint pain and even as a cardiac stimulant.

Yeah.

So yet another ancient medicine that you can buy at Walgreens.

Mm.

Camphor was one of them.

So this is a, a resin that's used, um, to, to burn and you get a nice smell, so it would've been used in lots of, I guess, rituals and medicines and things like that.

Kind of like an incense sort of thing.

Yeah.

Right.

So there's records of a place called the Mountain of Camphor.

Uh-huh.

"I know an excellent jungle now." "Which is that?" asked the mouse-king.

"In the Nerbudda woods, by Camphor water," replied the crow, "there is an old and valued friend of mine lives there, Slow-tortoise his name is, a very virtuous tortoise.

He will regale me with fish and good things." "Why should I stay behind?" said Golden-skin.

"If thou goest, take me also." Accordingly, the two set forth together, enjoying charming converse upon the road.

And how was all that? asked the sons of the Raja.

Vishnu Sarman proceeded to relate.

The Battle of the Swans and Peacocks In the isle of Camphor there is a lake called Lotus Water, and therein a swan royal named Silversides had his residence.

The birds of the marsh and the mare had elected him king, in full council of all the fowls, for a people with no ruler is like a ship that is without a helmsman.

Syrup of tolu, two ounces.

add these to the sugar and mix the whole mass as confectioners do for lozenges and cut into lozenges the ordinary size use from six to twelve of these in twenty-four hours they sell at a great profit candied lemon or peppermint for colds boil one and a half pounds of sugar in a half pint of water till it begins to candy round the sides put in eight drops of essence pour it upon buttered paper and cut it with a knife Camphor balls, for rubbing on the hands to prevent chaps, etc.

Melt three drams of spermaceti, four drams of white wax, and one ounce of almond oil.

Stir in three drams of powdered camphor.

Pour the compound into small gallipots so as to form small hemispherical cakes.

They may be colored with alkanet if preferred.

camphorated oil this is another camphor liniment the proportions are the same as in the preceding formula substituting olive oil for the alcohol and exposing the materials to a moderate heat as an external stimulant application it is even more powerful than the spirits and to obtain its full influence the part treated should also be covered with flannel and oil silk it forms a valuable liniment in chronic rheumatism and other painful affections and is specially valuable as a counter irritant in sore or inflamed throats and diseased bowels camphor constitutes the basis of a large number of valuable liniments thus in cases of whooping-cough and some chronic bronchitic affections the following liniment may be advantageously rubbed into the chest and along the spine spirits of camphor two parts laudanum half a part spirits of turpentine one part castile soap in powder finely divided half an ounce alcohol three parts digest the whole together for three days and strain through linen this liniment should be gently warmed before using A powerful liniment for old rheumatic pains, especially when affecting the loins, is the Camphorated oil and spirits of turpentine, of each two parts.

Water of hartshorn, one part.

It gives blue tansy its uniqueness, right? Because you have the camphor, you have the sabonine, you have the bee pinene, the aphalandrine, and the chamazaline coming together.

So I want to break this down even more.

So when you're looking at CAMFOR, CAMFOR, when you look at the research around CAMFOR, is analgesic and all of these things, right? To the right of this particular chart, CAMFOR says, yes, this is gonna help with pain and inflammation.

This is gonna help clear the airways.

This is going to help be an antibacterial, be an antifungal, right? The sabanine is anti-inflammatory and it's an antioxidant.

Eh

... funny, odd term, and, and somehow, and we've talked about this a little bit before, in the protocol space, Camphor 200C is given as an antidote.

It's...

I call it the sorbet course between protocols, like a palate cleanser, when really you could wind up...

Home and Abroad.

Linden, Camphor, Beech.

"Now," said Miss Harson to her expectant flock, "it is to be hoped that our foreign wanderings among such wonderful trees have not spoiled you for home trees, as there are still a number of them which we have not yet examined." "No, indeed," they assured her.

They liked to hear about them all, and they were going to try and remember everything she told them about the trees.

It is also very fragrant, or rather I should say it has a strong aromatic odor, which is very reviving in cases of faintness or illness, although it has quite a contrary effect on insects, particularly on mosquitoes.

I should like to have someone tell me what this white, powerful substance is." This was quite a conundrum, and for a little while the children were extremely puzzled over its solution.

But presently Clara asked, "Do the moths hate it, too, Miss Harrison? And isn't it camphor?" "Camphor doesn't grow on a tree," said Malcolm in a superior tone.

"It is dug out of the earth." "I have never read of any camphor mines," replied his governess, laughing.

I'm not going to pull up the wiki and everything.

The level 45 Camphor Blowpipe, all Camphor stuff, by the way, as we see here, goes to Adamant.

Guess what the Camphor Blowpipe shoots? Up to Mithril.

Just up to Mithril.

Why? Why does a level 45 Blowpipe only shoot up to Mithril? You can literally already throw rune knives at level 40.

A moth! A moth! cried the ladies-in-waiting.

Camphor and boughs of cedar must be procured instantly, or the dreadful creature will eat up Her Highness's ermine robes.

But the little princess knew better than that.

on the fifth night she dreamed that she was a tiny white egg lying in a nest that a humming-bird had hung to a spray of fern by a rope of twisted spider's web the nest was softly and warmly lined with silky down and above her was the soft warmth of the mother bird's breast on the sixth night she was a snowflake it was christmas night and the towns and villages were gay rosy light poured from every window blurred by the falling snow and the air was full of the sound of bells high up on the mountain was a lonely wayside shrine with carved and painted wooden figures of the mother and her child whose birthday it was there were no bells there nor yellow candlelight but only snow and dark evergreen trees the snowflake whirling and dancing down from the sky a tiny frosty star gave its life as a birthday gift to the holy child lying for its little moment in his outstretched hand the angel was distressed to find on the seventh night that the seventh dream had slipped through a hole in the moonbeam basket and was lost careless little angel but it really did not matter for instead of a dream he showed himself to the princess and she liked that the best of all for she had never had any one to play with before and there is no playmate equal to an angel but the seventh dream is still drifting about the world i wonder where perhaps it will be upon my pillow to-night perhaps upon yours who knows End of section 2.

It's not humidifying the air, but it's tricking your body into mounting a response that partially compensates.

Camphor and eucalyptus work similarly.

It's not nothing, but it's also not a solution to breathing 10% humidity air for 12 hours.

I feel like we should talk to Ilbert about this.