FYI Re: camphor
http://www.inchem.org/documents/pims/pharm/camphor.htm
2.1 Main risks and target organs
Central nervous system (CNS) and kidney: convulsions followed
by depression, and renal damage may occur after intake of
relatively small amounts of camphor may occur. The main risks
are apnoea, asystole, and severe post-convulsive coma. Toxic
effects appear after the ingestion of approximately 2 g
(lethal dose LD adults: 4 g; children: 1 g of pure camphor).
2.2 Summary of clinical effects
Clinical effects are: gastric irritation, colic, nausea,
vomiting, and diarrhoea; anxiety, excitement, delirium, and
epileptiform convulsions; apnoea and asystole. CNS depression
follows the excitatory phase, and may result in coma or,
rarely, death. Anuria may occur. The breath has the
characteristic odour of camphor.
2.3 Diagnosis
Poisoning by camphor is associated with an initial excitatory
phase, with vomiting, diarrhoea and excitement, followed by NS
depression and death. A characteristic odour of camphor is
present on the breath.
The symptoms may appear 5 to 90 min after ingestion depending
on the product ingested (solid or liquid)
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 00:24 -0400, bodhisattva wrote:
> Original mothballs, probably man decades ago, were camphor. But it
> hasn't been that way for a long long time.
>
> Pure camphor, has a lovely smell IMO.
>
> Bob Banever wrote:
> > Jane,
> >
> > Mothballs are not made from camphor... at least not to my
> > knowledge. They are made from napthalene. To me, mothballs are one of
> > most noxious, nauseating smells in the universe. Whenever I smell
> > them I move far away from the source.
> >
> > http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-moth-balls.htm
> >
> > Bob
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane MacRoss"
> > <highfie...@internode.on.net>
> > To: <silver-list@eskimo.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 8:04 PM
> > Subject: Re: CS>Re: CS Where to get edible camphor ?? Steve
> >
> >
> >> All I know is that camphor is meant to protect you from Cholera if
> >> you wear a ball of it on a string around your neck in a Cholera
> >> outbreak.
> >>
> >> It always smells to me like my grandmothers' wardrobes (to keep the
> >> moths out) not a smell I enjoy - and they always sell it by the box
> >> full in the Chinese grocers.
> >>
> >> Jane
> >>
> >> http://www.eamega.com/HighFieldHealth
> >> ~The Highest Field of Energy Healing you now!~
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Nave" <bhangcha...@gmail.com>
> >> To: <silver-list@eskimo.com>
> >> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 12:47 PM
> >> Subject: Re: CS>Re: CS Where to get edible camphor ?? Steve
> >>
> >>
> >> There used to be a camphor factory outside of Bareilly near where I
> >> lived in India for a tijme. When we would drive through the area, you
> >> could smell the camphor for about a mile along the road. Heavenly...
> >>
> >> Dan
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:18 PM, bodhisattva
> >> <bodhisat...@mutemail.com> wrote:
> >>> Careful some of those are synthetic camphor. Unless it says "Pure
> >>> Camphor"
> >>> it's usually synthetic, and I know for a fact DEER and the other
> >>> chinese
> >>> ones are synthetic, I know a wholesaler of them. In fact, many
> >>> wholesalers
> >>> sell synthetic unless you ASK for pure, because pure costs more. I
> >>> have pure
> >>> camphor oil 100%, from an essential oil seller, that's probably the
> >>> best way
> >>> to purchase it. I like the blocks for the closet though, to keep the
> >>> spooks
> >>> out.
> >>>
> >>> Norton, Steve wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I haven’t seen the edible camphor for sale online except from a
> >>> place in
> >>> Thailand. I got mine at a local Indian grocery. However, you can get
> >>> the
> >>> incense from a lot of places:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&resnum=1&q=camphor+puja+price&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=N6oGTKzxFo_4Mf2jpJ8J&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=title&resnum=11&ved=0CE0QrQQwCg
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> http://www.google.com/products?q=Camphor+Tablets+price&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=m6sGTM_oBpDiNeypza0J&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=title&resnum=3&ved=0CC8QrQQwAg
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> And Amazon:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.amazon.com/One-tablets-Camphor-Char-Minar/dp/B002QP90SU
> >>>
> >>> http://www.amazon.com/Deer-Camphor-Tablets-1lb-Box/dp/B002JQUHBU/ref=pd_sim_bt_1
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> http://www.amazon.com/Charminar-Camphor-Tablets-packets-tablets/dp/B003EIL2T8/ref=pd_sbs_bt_6
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
>
>
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