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    Camphor Tree) mcqsdo wwe {i’Medicinal Parts: ‘The medicinal partis camphor oil extracted fiom the tee, Flower and Fruit: The flowers are small, white and sessile ‘on 1 to 15 mm long pedicles. The petals are pubescent on the inside. The flowers ate caespitose, on loag axillary petioles. The 15 mm stamens form 3 circles and are pubescent with broad, sessile-cordate glands. The fuit is a urple-black, I-seeded, 10 to 12 mm oval drupe Leaves, Stem and Root! The plant is an evergreen tree {growing up to $0 m tall and Sm in diameter. The trunk is ‘rect at the lower part and knottily branched above. The leaves ate alternate on long petioles, oval-lanceolate, acum nate, grooved and glossy. They are light yellowish-preen above and paler beneath; they grow to to 1 em long by 5 Habitat: Camphor wees are indigenous to Vietnam and an ‘Mpxzz extending ffom southerm China to southem Japan Production: Purified camphor is obtained fiom the chipped ‘wood of the Cinamomum camphora tree using. steam distillation followed by sublimation to yield the oll Other Names: Gum Camphor, Laurel Camphor, Cemphire ACTIONS AND PHARMACOLOGY COMPOUNDS Camphora is a single substance: D(+) -carmphor ((1R4R)- 1,7,T-simethyl-bieyelo|2.2.1]heptan-2-on), extracted from the volatile oil of the trunk of the camphor tree, Cinnamo- ‘mum camphora. L(-caraphor also occurs in nature, Synthet- ic camphor is DL-carphor. EFFECTS. Used externally, camphor acts as a bronchial seoretolytic and hyperemia Internally, the effect is that of a respiratory analeptic and bronchospasmolytc. It should be noted that the

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