If you feel a need for more Camphor, you can still buy it as a pure oil
or block and I suppose you can still eat it and get a buzz...or if too
much, die.
Looks as though kids were having seizure problems with the fumes. Camphor
is quite toxic, after all. Usefully toxic, with caution.
Vicks VR apparently has enough to still work and kill a mite or
tick...which was the point.
I've heard similar ruminations about how Prep H was ruined.
Might put half the blame on idiotic people?
Ode
At 10:40 AM 6/1/2010 -0400, you wrote:
Its the camphor in it that kills ticks, camphor is very potent. It used to
be, Vicks had a higher concentration of camphor, but the FDA got all angry
because it was curing stuff, so they limited any sale in the US to be 10%
or less refined camphor. The US version of Tiger Balm is very poor
quality, the one you get off Ebay from Thailand, now that's the good
stuff. Around 20% camphor!
If you have an asian grocery store around, you can find "Monkey Holding
Peach" which is even more potent than any of them. It's purely medicinal,
and amazing.. Stops pains in seconds, stops headaches. I think it is
around 25% camphor, along with other good stuff in it. I have a few
satchels of it around here.
Vicks today, is a distant cousin of the vastly more effective medicinal
Vicks from days past before the FDA tyranny.
Ode Coyote wrote:
I just found out that Vicks Vapo Rub kills ticks just as well as it kills
Mange mites...makes em slippery enough to tug out easy too...and no more
itching.
Ode
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