The efficacy and effects of camphor wood

September 4, 2023
Camphor wood is hot in nature, pungent in taste, enters the heart and spleen meridian, toxic, and belongs to the medicine of opening the orifice and avoiding obscenity, dispersing cold and relieving pain, and is also the main raw material for extracting camphor, so what is the efficacy and function of this camphor wood?

Pain relief

Camphor wood contains a lot of camphor ingredients, fresh young leaves or bark of camphor wood can be applied externally to relieve pain, bruises, toothache, etc., or camphor can be applied externally after soaking in wine, which has the effect of dispersing blood stasis and relieving swelling and pain. For the treatment of windworm toothache, camphor can be used with jaundice, soap and other parts, research and transport, made into small pills, stuffed into the bud hole, with good therapeutic effect.

Anti-bacterial

The camphor component in camphor wood is stimulating and has inactivating effect on many bacteria, and its extract camphor is often used in clinical treatment of skin diseases caused by various bacterial infections, camphor wood also has such effect, boiling water with camphor wood for bathing and gargling has strong bactericidal effect on scabies, skin rash, red rash, bad breath and so on.

Anti-vomiting

In the clinic, the injection of sodium camphor sulphonate has good anti-vomiting effect on various kinds of gastric vomiting, mainly by using the anaesthetic, bactericidal and excitatory nerve effect of mucous, therefore, the usual consumption of camphor tea can also play a good anti-vomiting effect, and it has warming effect on stomach, suitable for the auxiliary treatment of acute gastritis, gastroenteritis and gastrointestinal neurological disorder.

Refreshing

The camphor contained in camphor wood contains strong aroma and has similar effect as ice chips, which is aromatic and opens the orifice, avoids obscenity and dissolves turbidity, so it can be used for treating mid-evil, stroke faintness or fever faintness, etc., to refresh the brain. It should not be consumed in large quantities.

Removing foot odor

Camphor wood has a strong fragrance, and also has good sterilization effect, boiling water with camphor wood can not only kill the foot flora, but also remove foot odor, and has good therapeutic effect on foot odor caused by fungi and bacteria.

Anesthesia to stop itching

Camphor contained in camphor wood has mild stimulating effect and antiseptic effect on skin, and it also has local anesthetic effect, and it is often used clinically as camphor rub to relieve itching and analgesia.
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