that blog ostrander bellepoint, blog of charming essays, found it when i did a search for vicks vapourub. ostrander bellepoint came up because of an essay on the miraculous effects of this ordinary nonprescription over the counter or off the shelf medication.
the author writes of his childhood experience with vicks and recounts the many other ways to use vicks he has come across in his life and at the last he reveals a very secret use he was warned against telling to others.
glistening petroleum jelly, the finest menthol, eucalyptol, camphor, essence of turpentine and a few minor ingredients constitute the medicinal rub all contributing to a miracle greater than the sum of their parts. the miracle that most interested me was the very secret one of inhaling the vicks vapours directly from the blue jar.
of course i had done this, hold the open jar near my nose but only for a whiff and then i extracted some with my finger, rubbed it on my chest and feet even sometimes all over most of my epidermis, and then i closed the jar to save the vapours for the next rubdown. but i had never held the jar to my nose for five minutes, even longer, in order to receive the alleged full benefits of the miracle.
when inhaling from the jar the effect seems concentrated on the lungs and the back of the soft palate. i fell asleep with the jar at my nose and awoke maybe thirty minutes later, a slight headache followed after this, from the cobalt blue fumes or the awkward way i was laying on my side to keep my nose against the jar while i was asleep. this passed and never recurred as long as i only inhaled for the prescribed five minutes.
it worked well enough.
to the many side effects the cojitator of ostrander bellepoint repeats i would add one. he mentions and other sources on the internet confirm vicks as a rust protection on metal tools. it does this by excluding humidity from rusting the metal.
the petrojelly does this but so does camphor oils, and i wonder may it also prevent the oxygenation process in the blood. would it attach to the iron in the blood and prevent it from its temporary bonding with oxygen which transports it to the cellular mass of the body. something to consider along side the other dangers ostrander mentions.
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