Use in Skin Care and Remedies

Essential camphor oil is not obtained from the leaves and flowers but from the lowest part of the trunk which is permeated most strongly with the aromatic odour. This alone would be unusual enough, the mighty trunk being infused with a scented floral element. But that is not all: as the mixture of essential oils obtained by steam distillation cools, camphor crystallizes out as pure substance. This in turn can bind so much warmth that it can go directly from the solid to the gaseous state. Camphor moves in the polarity of warmth and cold. Its most important constitutent must first be released by the heat of steam distillation before it is transformed into the pure crystalline form by cooling. This makes it easy to understand why doctors have argued about whether camphor has cooling or warming properties. It is part of its nature that both qualities go hand in hand. And together they produce its unusual healing powers: through temporary cooling it stimulates the body to generate moderate heat, in degenerative states is cools and relieves mild reactive inflammation.

WALA medicines containing camphor are, for example, Aconite Pain Relief Oil (Aconit Schmerzöl)* and Camphor St. John's Wort Oil* (Kampfer Johanniskrautöl), Scorodite Globules (Skorodit Kreislauf Globuli velati)* (for hypotensive disturbances of blood pressure regulation, states of exhaustion and convalesence), Aconite Ear Drops (Aconit Ohrentropfen)* and Plantago Bronchial Balm (Plantago Bronchialbalsam)*.


* Prescribing information for the preparations mentioned (the indications are derived from the anthroposophical understanding of man and nature):

Aconit Ohrentropfen (aconite ear drops)
Indications: Stimulation of the warmth organism and integration of metabolic processes in painful, inflammatory disorders originating in the nerve-sense system, e.g. inflammation of the outer-ear canal (otitis externa) and inflammation of the middle ear (otitis media).
Warning: In rare cases arachis (peanut) oil can cause local skin reactions (e.g. contact dermatitis).

Aconit Schmerzöl (aconite pain-relief oil)
Indications: Stimulation of the warmth organism and integration of metabolic processes in painful, inflammatory disorders originating in the nerve-sense system, e.g. nerve pain (neuralgia), inflammation of the nerves (neuritis), shingles (herpes zoster), rheumatic joint disease.
Warning: In rare cases arachis (peanut) oil can cause local skin reactions (e.g. contact dermatitis).

Kampfer Johanniskrautöl (Camphor and St. John's wort oil)
Indications: Stimulation of the warmth organisation in rheumatic disorders, degenerative joint disease, nerve pain, nervous angina.
Warning: In rare cases arachis (peanut) oil can cause local skin reactions (e.g. contact dermatitis).

Plantago Bronchialbalsam (bronchial balm)
Indications: Catarrhal, inflammatory disorders of the airways.
Warning: Breast feeding mothers should not apply the preparation in the region of the breasts. Wool fat can cause local skin reactions (e.g. contact dermatitis).

Skorodit Kreislauf Globuli velati
Indications: Stimulation of the interaction between the different constituent elements of the human being, e.g. in hypotensive circulatory dysregulation, states of exhaustion, convalescence, psychasthenia
Warning: This medicinal product contains sucrose and lactose.

* For information on risks and side-effects please read the pack insert and ask your doctor or pharmacist.