Common cold camphor

Chrysanthemum jucundum Nakai Kitag. C. koraiense Nakai C. morifolium Ramat. C. sinense Sabine. Jiu Hua (Chrysanthemum) (flower) Bomol, chrysanthemin, camphor, stachydrine, choline, acacetin-7-rhamnoglucoside, cosmosiin, acacetin-7-glucoside, diosmetin-7-glucoside, adenine.33 Antipyretic, antitoxin, remedy for common cold, headache, dizziness, red eye, swelling, hypertension. 

N.A. Achilleine, tannins, cineole, chamazulene, sesquiterpene, lactones, menthol, camphor, sterols, triterpenes.98,99,100,101,102 103 Reduce fever, anti-inflammatory, treat common cold, diarrhea, dysentery, hypertension, and gastrointestinal complaints. 

Commercially available common cold preparations may contain Menthol, Camphor, Turpentine, Clove oil. Thymol, Eucalyptus oil, yellow soft paraffin oil, and that essential oils that evaporate at the tempera-tme of the human body. When the ointment is rubbed on the skin, a local stimulation of the peripheral blood vessels is obtained,... 

By the measurement of lung and forced expiratory volumes, nasal, lower and total airway resistances, closing volume data, the phase III slope of the alveolar plateau, and the maximum expiratory ow volume, peripheral airway dysfunction was con rmed in 24 adults with common colds. In a randomized, controlled trial, an aromatic mixture of menthol, eucalyptus oil, and camphor (56%, 9%, and 35% w/w, respectively) were vaporized in a room where the subjects were seated. Respiratory function measurements were made at baseline, 20 and 60 min after exposure. After the last measurement, phenylephrine was sprayed into the nostrils and the measurements taken again 5-10 min later to determine potential airway responsiveness. The control consisted of tap water. The results showed sign cant changes in forced vital capacity, forced expiratory volume, closing capacity, and the phase III slope after aromatic therapy as compared to the control. It was con eluded that the aromatic inhalation favorably modi ed the peripheral airway dysfunction (Cohen and Dressier, 1982). 

Beach s Black Plaster or Healing Salve. Take of olive oil, 3 quarts common resin, 3 onnees bees -wax, 3 ounces. Melt these articles together, and raise the oil almost to boiling heat then gn ually add of pulverized red lead 24-pounds, if in the summer if in the winter, pound less. In a short time after the lead is taken up by the oil, and the mixture becomes brown or a shining black, remove from the fire, and, when neimy cold, add 4 ounce pulverized camphor. 

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