Mustard plaster

Used industrially as a fumigant, fungicide, animal repellent, insect attractant used in the preparation of medicinal ointments and mustard plasters used as a flavoring agent, and denaturant for alcohol. 

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Plasters are solid adhesive (with cloth) preparation applied to the skin to protect, soothe and lessen pain e.g. Mustard plaster. Capsicum plaster. 

N.A. Mustard oil.191 Stimulant, promote urination. Mustard plasters for rheumatism, arthritis, chest congestion, aching backs, sore muscles. 

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Home-made mustard plasters (equal parts of mustard and flour, moistened with tepid water to form a paste and applied to the skin in a muslin bag) still play a role in folk medicine. 

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Products and Uses Applications include baked goods, condiments, horseradish flavor (imitation), meat, mustard oil (artificial), pickles, salad dressings, and sauces as a flavoring agent. Also found in mustard plasters and over-the-counter medications and in fumigants. 

The local skin irritant effect of topically applied mustards lasts for 24 to 48 hours (Wichtl 2004). Blistering, often accompanied by suppurating, poorly healing ulcerations and necrosis, may occur if topical black mustard plasters are applied for more than 15 to 30 minutes (Wichtl 2004). 

Weisenseel, P, and S. WoitaUa. 2005. Toxic mustard plaster dema-titis and phototoxic dematitis after application of bergamot oil. MMWFortschr. Med. 147(51-52)53,55. 

Hazardous Decomp. Prods. Heated to decomp, or on contact with acid or acid fumes, emits highly toxic fumes of CN, SOx, and NOx Uses Fumigant ointments mustard plasters synthetic flavoring agent in foods and pharmaceuticals counterirritant in external analgesic prods. 

Mustard seeds are the small round seeds of three different plants black mustard, brown Indian mustard, and white mustard. Mustards have been used in traditional folk medicine as a stimulant, diuretic, and purgative to treat a variety of ailments including peritonitis and neuralgia. They are also used in mustard plasters to treat rheumatism, arthritis, chest congestion, back pain and muscular ache. Prolonged application of mustard plaster can result in bums to the skin and nerve damage [35 ]. 

Black mustard is a light olive-brown powder obtained by grinding the dried ripe seeds of several varieties of plants of the Brassica genus moisture yields from this, through enzymatic hydrolysis of a contained glycoside, are about 0.6% of the volatile oil of mustard, which has as its main ingredient the irritant compound allyl isothiocyanate. Mustard is available in bulk and as the official plaster, the latter used only for the local irritant (counterirritant) properties it develops when applied to the skin after moistening with tepid water. 

Strong Blistering, or Canthari-des Plaster. Mix at a heat below 212 Fahr., 4 ounces Venico turpentine, 3 ounces each of burgundy pilch and cantharides, 1 ounce bces -wax, -J ounce finely powdered verdigris, and 2 drachms each of powdered mustard and black pepper. 

Topical application of mustard seed as a plaster has been associated with tachypnea, sweating, dizziness, agitation. 

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