Where Camphor Come From?

Camphor

Natural camphor is a fragrant gum that comes from the camphor tree.

Camphor (pronounced KAM-fur) is a fragrant gum that comes from the camphor laurel tree.

Camphor is used in medicine, explosives, and plastics, as well as in many other useful products.  (Perhaps your mother uses balls of camphor in closers and drawers to keep moths away.)

Most camphor trees grow in Japan and on the island of Formosa.  The trees grow tall and have small white flowers and shiny, green, leathery leaves that smell like camphor when crushed.

The camphor is obtained by chopping the wood of the trees and steaming the chips.

The camphor comes off as a vapor that condenses into crystals, which are then purified into gum camphor.

The oil left after the camphor has been taken out is known as camphor oil, which is used in scenting soap.

Chemists have learned to make artificial camphor that is practically identical with camphor from the camphor trees.–Dick Rogers

Gov’t doctors required to use generic names for prescribed medicines - 1

Good morning to all of you! I heard this news is the radio while I’m eating my breakfast. After hearing this new, I also read this in the newspaper so that’s why I decided to share it with you. This will help a lot

All government doctors and health workers in government facilities are now required to write only generic names of prescribed medicines, following the mandate of the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act 9502 or the Universally Accessible and Affordable Quality Medicines Act of 2008 signed by health officials recently.

The law, also known as the Cheaper Medicines Act, strictly states the use of generics by doctors even in private health facilities. However, doctors working in private clinics and hospitals have the option of writing the commercial brands of medicines in their prescriptions. In a conference announcing the signing of the IRR in Quezon City yesterday, Department of Health (DoH) Secretary Francisco T. Duque III said this will pave the way for the reduction of the cost of medicines in the country.

He said the IRR seeks to improve competition, improve the availability of medicines, and contain the cost of drugs in the country. He said the IRR will also improve the "health professional’s behavior in responding to the needs of indigents and other vulnerable sectors of society" through the use of generic terminology in all transactions. One salient feature of the IRR is the targeted reduction of the cost of medicines at not less than half the drug prices in 2001. "Ang benchmark natin ay 2001 prices, so any downward movement of prices of medicines must be in reference to the 2001 benchmark," Duque said.

Faith Healing and Psychic Surgery: Fact or Fallacy ( Part 3 )

Is psychic surgery true? Studies of foreign researchers have remained inconclusive, some says it’s real, and others say it’s complete fakery. The inconsistency perhaps lies in the fact that some healers are genuine but there are others who are fakes. And there are times when even genuine healers face an operation when they have temporarily lost powers.

Still it is a fact that these healers the genuine ones at least, have healed thousands upon thousands of people from all over the world specially those otherwise given up by their country’s medical doctors.

Despite discouragement from some foreign governments and the adverse publicity against the faith healers, there are still thousands of foreigners, who flock to the Philippines every year in search of a miracle cure. Some go back either completely or partially healed; others not at all.

My friend have personally observed around 33 psychic surgeons in the Philippines and one in Brazil. She have witnessed thousands of psychic surgeries performed by them. She have also two laboratory reports of specimens taken from patients of the healers and another report from a Japanese medical specialist. All the reports proved to be genuine. Still we cannot openly advocate faith healing except perhaps as a last resort, because we are dealing here with a paranormal phenomenon whose results cannot be pre-determined or predicted. A lot depends on the powers of the healer at the time, the belief and attitudes of the patient and the people surrounding the healing process. It is a mystery that waits further study and explanation.

For those interested in seeing a Filipino faith healer, the above points are worth considering. Although it had seen many spectacular cures in the course of extensive research on the subject, it had also seen many spectacular failures. The decision lied in the visitor where he should subject himself to faith healing or not..


What do you think ? . . . . . . . . . . . . FACTS OR FALLACY ?

Faith Healing and Psychic Surgery: Fact or Fallacy ( Part 1 )

For about half of the 24 years in the business management of my friend, she was engaged in a very unusual hobby after office hours, doing research and writing books and articles on various paranormal and psychic phenomena. During her offbeat hours, the presence of a fascinating hidden culture of the Philippines became evident to her – a culture that is much more fundamental, more powerful and more pervasive than the outward culture that the ordinary visitor to our country becomes easily familiar with.

This hidden aspect of our culture, which she call the esoteric cultures of the Philippines, consists of beliefs in the supernatural, in the existence of various in habitants of the spirit world and the many rituals and practices connected with their supplication and intervention into our daily affairs. The esoteric culture also refers to the Filipino’s persistent belief in the awesome powers of the mind to transform one’s life and protect him from harm so long as that mind is connected with the spirit source. The paranormal is part of the hidden culture.

The Philippine Paranormal Research Society, a non-profit organization found in 1986, together with several business professionals and scientists, defines the paranormal as “any observable or experience able phenomenon, object, energy, force, event or human capability for which there is yet no generally accepted scientific explanation.”


Don’t miss the second part of my article . . . . . . . You’ll be surprised !!!!!!!!