Eugenol vapor as a novel cough suppressant?

[atara]

Sasha Shulgin notes in PiHKAL that eugenol is an important component of clove cigarettes, acting as a local anesthetic to prevent coughing.

I decided to test this today by a process:

I smoked weed until I started coughing.

Then, I poured cloves on top of the weed and continued to smoke it, noting the amount of coughing.

The result? After the cloves were added to the weed, I did not cough once. The smoke had a distinctive spicy taste of cloves and I could feel the familiar numbing effect on my tongue.

Kind of impressive. It seems like it should be able to prevent coughing for any other reason as well!

 

[sekio]

It's an anesthetic, so yeah it will stop the cough reflex quite effectively

 

[titstypedthis]

mix it one to one with menthol and it might actually taste alright too

 

[Hammilton]

This is a reasonable assumption. camphor approved for use in humidifiers to reduce children's coughing. I don't know how validated it is, though.

 

[atara]

I thought camphor was banned as a carcinogen?

 

[Hammilton]

I can double check what's in the product, but I'm pretty certain it's camphor.

 

[jahh]

?

Was there a numbing threw out your throat or just on your tongue?
Does it open up your airways, like a bronchiodialator?

thanks

 

[DJHENRU]

I do know there where times I just vaped clove oil for... fun? and I dont think I coughed.

 

[sekio]

Eugenol isn't a bronchodilator as far as I know, just an anti-inflammatory and anesthetic. Nor is camphor a carcinogen; it occurs naturally in turpentine...

I know other terpenes (one of them was terpin hydrate) were formerly approved for cough supression but were found no better than placebo.

 

[nuke]

I made an inhaler with clove essential oil and thickened cotton once. It soothed my throat but I don't recall it inhibiting coughing.

 

[greenmeanies]

Vicks vaporub contains menthol, eucalyptus oil, turpentine, and camphor.

i believe eugenol (clove oil's major constituent) may have hepatotoxic metabolites just like elemicin or myristicin (related phenylpropenes), which is why it isn't used as often as these other physiolocigally active cough suppressants.