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KARPURA (CAMPHOR) - Cinnamomum camphora, Lauraceae



Medical uses:

Caution:
White camphor is meant for external application only. 
This is not yellow camphor which is used in sweets.

1. Mosquito repellent: Soaking a bit of cloth within camphor oil as well as leaving it in the corners of the house. It helps drive away mosquitoes as well as flies. 

2. Skin Itching: Camphor oil application is good for skin and also removes skin itching, rashes and also inflammation.

3. Joint Pains: Warm sesame oil with camphor and massaging the body with this oil just before a Hot water bath will give relief to the 
aching body. Camphor is actually a rubefacient as well as energizes the dilation of capillaries.

4. Fungal nail: Camphorated oil may be used locally to cure fungus-infected toe nails.

5. Burn scars: Water mixed with a bit of camphor should be applied regularly on burn scars till it disappears.

6. Head lice: 10grams of camphor is dissolved in 100 ml of warm coconut oil and allowed to cool. This is applied on the scalp at night. Next day morning wash the hair. It is helpful in destroying the head lice.

7. Chest congestion: 5grams of camphor added in 100 ml of warm sesame oil and dissolved. This is applied over the chest followed by hot water fomentation over the chest to relieve the congestion in chest.
In this pandemic situation it works as wonders in relieving chest congestion.
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