ALCANFORERO (alcanforero cinnamomum camphora)

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	ALCANFORERO
	*alcanforero cinnamomum camphora*

Name
ALCANFORERO

Scientific Name
alcanforero cinnamomum camphora

ALCANFORERO

Other Names:

Camphor of Japan

The alcanforero is a millenarian tree pertaining to the family of the lauráceas. The oldest units of this beautiful tree can get to measure more

of 40 m.s of height and up to 3 m.s of perimeter. The crust is smooth, of a grayish brown color; the leaves are had alternating form and are persistent, heavy, whole and with nerviación little marked; the flowers are small, hermafroditas, of greenish yellow color and they meet in panículas of tops. The fruit is a berry that locks up a oleosa seed. This tree grows up much in Japan, China and Taiwan.

The alcanforero blooms between April and June, varying much based on the zone where it is. Of the harvesting with medicinal aims it interests the log central, since it is by this zone where the natural camphor runs, as now we will see. The natural camphor - also denominated camphor of Japan usually it is accumulated in the central log as the tree ages.

One calculates that towards the forty years the tree can give a yield of 3% in camphor. Of this camphor - and by certain processes chemical essence obtains of camphor, that is the one that really is used with medicinal aims since the natural camphor has been displaced by the synthetic camphor, made from the trementina. The camphor is absorbed easily by the skin, the mucous digestive and pulmonary and the subcutaneous cellular weave. It is a substance with strong rubefaciente action and it is used by external route like contrairritante, since it causes cutaneous vasodilatación and it provides heat sensation. Usually it is included in the formulation of rubefacientes liniments and pomadas that are applied on the skin to alleviate to the pain in adjacent muscles and joints. Also it is applied in prepared rinológicos like nasal decongestant. Another one of the virtues of the camphor is based in which bulbares is a stimulating substance of the centers, in special of the respiratory center, although it is not used clinically like so. The camphor can give rise to poisonings if it is used of accidental way; it is possible to be detected if a poisoning by the residual scent to camphor has taken place that appears in the breathing. In addition, due to the stimulation of the central nervous system produced by high doses of a analéptica substance, it causes an intense headache, confusion, delirium and, in some cases, hallucinations. The camphor is including in many commercial skillful and prepared formulas, basically by its rubefaciente power. Also he appears in prepared nasal by his descongestivo effect and in balsámicas formulas percutáneas employees in the treatment of the affections of high the respiratory routes. But in any case it agrees to let itself advise on the part of specialized personnel, that is to say, doctors and phamacists.

Rubefaciente. Antiinflamatorio. Vasodilator.

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