草榴视频

Used as an important ingredient in the production of smokeless gunpowder, disinfectants, and celluloid. It has a wide range of medicinal uses. Safrole, produced from the residual oil after camphor extraction, is used in soap and perfume manufacture. (A large proportion of the world’s camphor is now produced synthetically from pinene, a turpentine derivative, or from coal tar.)

The plant is grown commercially in China and Japan as a medicinal tree and also for its essential oil, though most camphor oil on the market nowadays is produced synthetically. Camphor is obtained by passing steam through the chipped wood. The distillate contains camphor, which is separated and re-sublimed, yielding the essential oil of camphor

The plant is poisonous in large quantities. The essential oil and the wood can cause eye and skin irritation, whilst large doses of the essential oil can cause respiratory failure in children