Camphor sassafras

Most representatives of the family are found in tropical southeast Asia with a few in Africa and the Mediterranean area. The. family enjoys economic importance for its aromatic oils used as spices, medicinals, flavors, and odors (cinnamon, camphor, sassafras, etc.) and for the familiar fruit, avocado. 

Hheumatic Liniment. Tincture of cayenne, oil of turpentine, olive oil, hemlock oil, gam camphor, sassafras oil, tincture of pricldy ash, of each 1 ounce powdered capsioam , or caycune, 1 ounce spirit of wine,... 

First wash with a volume of Glacial Acetic Acid equal to the amount of Sassafras Oil being processed. This will remove Euge-nol, Pinene and Camphor from the oil. 

It is found to a considerable extent in oils of sassafras, camphor, and Ilicitim religiosum. When pure it is a white crystalline mass at low temperatures, melting at + 11°. At ordinary temperatures it forms a colourless oil of characteristic, pleasant odour, and having the following characters —... 

Brown camphor oil is a fraction with a boiling point higher than that of camphor (ca. 20%). It is a pale yellow to brown liquid with the characteristic odor of sassafras oil. 

Camphor oils with a high safrole content can also be obtained by steam distillation from other Cinnamomum species (see sassafras oils). 

Chinese sassafras oils are oils or fractions of oils, rich in safrole, that are obtained from different species of the camphor tree (see Camphor Oils) [772]. 

The IFRA recommendation is that essential oils containing safrole should not be used at a level such that the total concentration exceeds 0.01% in consumer products. Essential oils with a high safrole content include Brown camphor oil (80%) and Sassafras (85-95%). Even the East Indian nutmeg oil has up to 3.3% and this needs considering when formulating blends. 

Camphor Oil (Cinnamomum camphora) The next best source of safrole on this planet next to sassafras oil. But you need a little bit of education on the subject to know what you re getting into. 

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and state/local law enforcement authorities throughout the United States have noted an alarming trend involving illicit MDMA production. MDMA (Ecstasy) is a major drug problem in the United States. All businesses engaged in the sale of safrole and essential oils rich in safrole, such as, sassafras oil, brown camphor oil or camphor oil 1.070, also referred to as Chinese sassafras oil, should be aware of the use of these products by clandestine MDMA laboratory operators. 

Make you aware that safrole and essential oils rich in safrole, such as sassafras oil, and brown camphor oil or camphor oil 1.070, are List I chemicals ... 

Another fractionated camphor oil having specific gravity about 1.070 is sold as artificial sassafras oil. It contains about 80 per cent of safrole and is used as a substitute for sassafras oil. 

It is of interest to note how these differ from the constituents contained in the root bark neither the leaf oil of sassafras nor that of the closely allied camphor tree contains safrole, although the leaves of the allied New South Wales sassafras contain from 80 to 60 per cent. (See beiow.)... 

Use Medicine (internal and external), plasticizer for cellulose nitrate, other explosives and lacquers, insecticides, moth and mildew proofings, tooth powders, flavoring, embalming, pyrotechnics, intermediate. Note A liquid form (camphor oil) is produced almost exclusively in Taiwan and was formerly used in the manufacture of sassafras oil the available supply is used chiefly as a fragrance or flavoring material and to some extent as a pharmaceutical product. 

All the materials tested were effective with the exception of boronia (Figure 4). Eucalyptus induced a 93% mortality, while cypress gave 90%, camphor 83% (Figure 2[10]), spearmint 78%, white thyme 75%, pheasant grass 50%, sassafras 50%, anethole (Figure 2[11]) 35%, red thyme 34%, and aniseed 28% (P < 0.05). It is interesting to note the disparity between white thyme and red thyme which indicates that either there is a significant increase in one bioactive compound in one cultivar versus the other, or that a specific ratio of compounds in the mixture is more effective than another. 

C. S. is the main component of sassafras oil (up to 90%) and also occurs in larger amounts in camphor oil. It is present together with smaller amounts of myristi-cin in many other essential oils, e.g., star anise, bay, fennel oils. 

Definition Volatile oil obtained from root of Sassafras officinale, contg. about 80% safrol, plus eugenol, pinene, phellandrene, sesquiterpene, d-camphor... 

Safrole is derived from the root bark of the sassafras tree, Sassafras albidum, and Camphor a spp., both of the Lauraceae family. It is also found as a minor constituent in cocoa, nutmeg and pepper and was once the principle ingredients of root beer (Hall 1973). Use of this oil is restricted due to suspected carcinogenic properties—demonstrated in rodents following administration of high doses. 

Safrol, an ether which is the chief constituent of sassafras oil, and also found in considerable quantity in camphor oil. It is sold as an artificial sassafras oil, and is very much used in perfuming cheap toilet or household soaps. Its specific gravity at 15° C. is 1 103-1 106 refractive index at 20° C., 1 5373 and it dissolves in fifteen volumes of 80 per cent, alcohol. 

Pickles S S 1912 The essential oil of the Nepal sassafras or Nepal camphor tree. J Chem Soc 101 1433-1443... 

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