Camphor

Camphor

　　In the past, the camphor industry was thriving in the Miaoli area, with numerous camphor oil factories, especially densely concentrated in Tongluo Township, where the entire town was filled with the fragrant aroma of camphor wood. Nowadays, only one or two camphor factories remain in the Tongluo area. Among them, the "Donghua Camphor Factory," located on Provincial Highway 13 in Camphor Tree Village, has a history of over half a century and still insists on using traditional distillation methods to extract pure camphor oil. The traditional method of camphor oil extraction first involves shaving camphor wood into wood chips, which are then subjected to high-pressure steam treatment to distill out pure camphor oil and crystallized camphor. The distinctive fragrance of camphor oil not only helps repel insects and mosquitoes but also offers benefits such as wound healing and deodorization, making it highly versatile in its uses.