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	Beaver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The European Beaver (Castor fiber) was hunted almost to extinction in Europe, both for fur, and for castoreum, a secretion of its scent gland believed to have medicinal properties.
		Castoreum is a substance contained in two pear-shaped pouches situated near the organs of reproduction, of a bitter taste and slightly foetid odour, at one time largely employed as a medicine, but now used only in perfumery.
		Fossil remains of beavers are found in the peat and other superficial deposits of England and the continent of Europe; while in the Pleistocene formations of England and Siberia occur remains of a giant extinct beaver, Trogontherium cuvieri, representing a genus by itself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beaver (2033 words)

	Castoreum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Castoreum is the glandular secretion of the beaver.
		It is used in trapping, some perfumes, and as a flavoring in chewing gum.
		Castoreum is believed by some to have medicinal properties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Castoreum (67 words)

	Beaver Tales: The Fur Trade in the Old West
		Through the Middle Ages castoreum was used to treat various symptoms of mental illness, as an anti-spasmodic to treat epilepsy, and a "cure" for tuberculosis.
		Castoreum also was highly valued by beaver trappers, who used the substance to create a scent lure that drew the beaver to their traps.
		The beaver, being an extremely territorial creature, smelling the castoreum and believing that his territory had been invaded by a stranger would swim toward the scent.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/3807/features/beaver.html (2843 words)

	At The Zoo: Busy Beavers - National Zoo\| FONZ
		Castoreum, an oily substance produced by the castor glands, is a strong-smelling compound that beavers use to mark territories and identify other beavers.
		Incidentally, castoreum has been found to contain small amounts of salicylic acid, which is found in the bark of one of the beaver's favorite trees, the willow.
		Castoreum was once thought to enhance sexual energies-an erroneous connection between the oil and beavers' sexual activity.
	nationalzoo.si.edu /Publications/ZooGoer/2002/2/busybeavers.cfm (2084 words)

	castoreum, beaver, pouch, pods, perfume, aromatherapy, essential oil, natural perfumes, aromatherapie
		Castoreum is the name that perfumers give to the pair of glands called pouches or pods, of the mature male beaver that produces an aromatic substance that the animal sprays on the plants to mark his territory and seduce the females into accepting him as a partner.
		The Beaver’s gland pouch is dried, grinded and put into alcohol to obtain the Castoreum perfume, the aromatic tincture.
		The scent of Castoreum is wild and leathery, very much animalistic, it is pure pheromone.
	www.profumo.it /perfume/aromatherapy/essential_oils/castoreum.htm (309 words)

	Castoreum is the glandular secretion
		Castoreum is the glandular secretion is a gland in the castor secreting the liquid which renders its fur...
		Castoreum is the glandular secretion is the glandular secretion of the North American beaver.
		Castoreum is the glandular secretion is believed by some to have medicinal properties.
	www.castoreum.com (283 words)

	Beaver
		During spring time both male and female beavers secrete castoreum (a yellow, sticky and pungent substance) to attract other beavers, often depositing it in small “scent mounds” near the runways that lead into their lodges.
		Trappers used castoreum both to locate entrances to lodges and to scent their traps to catch the beaver.
		Castoreum also found its way into the European marketplace as an excellent musk base for flower-scented perfumes.
	www.bell.lib.umn.edu /Products/beaver.html (839 words)

	Beaver
		From the time of the early Greeks through the 18th century castoreum was regarded as a cure-all health remedy (it contains salicylic acid, one of the main ingredients of aspirin).
		Today castoreum is still used as a fixative in perfumes.
		Castoreum - an oily, brown, odorous substance from beavers and used as a perfume fixative.
	www.northern.edu /natsource/MAMMALS/Beaver1.htm (1800 words)

	100% Natural Perfumes Made in Italy - Castoreum - Wild Beaver
		Castoreum is the name that perfumers give to the gland of the mature male beaver that produces an aromatic substance that the animal sprays on the plants to mark his territory and seduce the females into accepting him as a partner.
		Trade of Castoreum has always been tied to the trade of beavers furs.
		The Beaver’s gland is put into alcohol to obtain the Castoreum perfume, the aromatic tincture.
	www.profumo.it /perfume/prodotto.asp?pid=202 (352 words)

	Natural History of Beavers
		Castoreum was a popular medicine in the Middle Ages, said to cure ailments ranging from headaches to impotence; it is high in salicylic acid — the basic ingredient of aspirin — which the beaver ingests by dining on willow bark.
		Long used as a base for perfume, its scent is described as a pungent, waxy, burnt-orange odor, with smoky notes of Irish peat fires and good pipe tobacco and undertones of cardamom and tea.
		The bait and trigger were smeared with castoreum, which beavers invariably investigate, and when a beaver went for the bait the deadfall came crashing down, pinning the beaver beneath it.
	www.shawsheen.org /Beavers/Natural_History_of_Beavers/natural_history_of_beavers.html (3269 words)

	The World Market for Ambergris, Castoreum, Civit, Musk, Cantharides, Bile, Glands, and Other Animal Products Used in ...
		This report was created for strategic planners, international executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for ambergris, castoreum, civit, musk, cantharides, bile, glands, and other animal products used in the preparation of pharmaceutical products.
		I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for ambergris, castoreum, civit, musk, cantharides, bile, glands, and other animal products used in the preparation of pharmaceutical products for those countries serving the world market via exports or supplying from various countries via imports.
		The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for each region, is based on a model which aggregates across country markets and projects these to the current year.
	www.mindbranch.com /listing/product/R307-4355.html (824 words)

	Untitled Document
		Another hypothesis that connects territorial defense with scent mounds is that scent marking may serve as a way for the residents to demonstrate their willingness to fight in defense of their territory.
		Castoreum is a mixture of secondary metabolites from urine and it is secreted from the castor sacs.
		Castoreum is thought, for this reason, to be an ideal substance.
	www.bio.davidson.edu /people/vecase/behavior/Spring2003/McLeod/Territory.htm (1300 words)

	Fur Trappers - Whitman Mission National Historic Site
		It was attached by a chain to a sharpened stake implanted in deeper water.
		The traps were baited with castoreum, a scent obtained from glands in the hind legs of the beaver.
		All this activity was going on while the trapper stood in the water, often ice-cold, so that he would not leave his scent on the bank.
	www.nps.gov /whmi/educate/ortrtg/6or3.htm (944 words)

	Fur Trapping--Wyoming Tales and Trails
		The trapper takes this castoreum from this sac, and uses it as bait, it having served the beaver, by providing the where-with to oil himself.
		While constructing their dams, some are seen bringing sticks and bushes for the purpose, while others dive to the bottom of the stream and bring up mud to plaster the sticks and bushes of the structure.
		They are seen near these dams and at their "lodges" on the banks of the stream, where they ooze out this castoreum, which is understood to be a signal to other beavers.
	www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com /bridger2.html (3983 words)

	Endangered Species: Beaver
		By the 19th century, the beaver could only be found in small, isolated wetland areas in, Germany, Norway, Belarus, Mongolia and the Russian Federation.
		As recently as 10 years ago, this builder was on the edge of extinction, hunted because of the high demand for its soft water proof fur and a substance called castoreum found in the beaver's anal glands.
		Now that the beaver's important role in preserving wetlands is recognized, conservationists are working to reintroduce it to countries, such as Hungry, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands where it had been extinct.
	www.un.org /works/environment/animalplanet/beaver.html (522 words)

	Dissection of female beaver urinary and reproductive systems, BAA 289L 2004
		Beavers possess a pair of castor glands, for which the genus is named, that are pouch-shaped and located on either side of the cloaca.
		When necessary, the urine is converted into castoreum, which beavers use for territorial scent marking [1].
		The function of the scent marking is to warn off transient beavers from areas that are occupied.
	www.baa.duke.edu /companat/BAA_289L_2004/UG_system/Beaver/beaverug.htm (799 words)

	Dr. Dietland Müller-Schwarze: Faculty of Environmental and Forest Biology
		Neutral compounds from male castoreum of the North American beaver, Castor canadensis.
		Bioactivity of beaver castoreum using principal component analysis.
		Phenolic compounds from male castoreum of the North American beaver (Castor canadensis).
	www.esf.edu /efb/muller-schwarze/pubs.htm (320 words)

	Rocky Mountains Fur Trade Mountain Men Trappers Facts Pictures
		The tight chain prevented the beaver from reaching the bank, or its house, and it drowned in the deep water.
		Castor, or castoreum, comes from two glands at the base of the beaver’s tail.
		Castoreum was also used in perfumes and in medicines for a variety of illnesses; it contained acetylsalicylic acid…the main component of aspirin.
	www.thefurtrapper.com /fur_trappers.htm (2882 words)

	castor and beaver origin of words from Bill Casselman's Canadian Word of the Day at billcasselman.com
		In the 20th century, castoreum, the extract from beaver scent glands, was still being used in expensive perfume-making.
		Synthetic castoreum is an ingredient in the following well-known perfumes, according to their manufacturers.
		Before that, for hundreds of years, castoreum was part of the European materia medica and a jar of castoreum extract could be found on the shelves of most contin-ental pharmacies throughout the 19th century.
	www.billcasselman.com /cwod_archive/beaver_castor_two.htm (1276 words)

	Trees for Life - Species Profile: European Beaver
		The main cause of this dramatic reduction in beaver numbers was hunting for their pelts, meat and castoreum (a secretion from their scent glands), although habitat loss was also a contributory factor.
		Territories are scent marked with castoreum, a secretion from the anal gland beneath the tail, which has long been known to have medicinal properties.
		(Castoreum contains salicylic acid, the main active ingredient in aspirin, and the hunting pressure for castoreum was one of the main causes for the beaver's historical decline in numbers.)
	www.treesforlife.org.uk /tfl.eb.html (1413 words)

	Frogs Return Moon - Beaver position on the Native American Medicine Wheel
		Castoreum was regarded as a cure-all from the time of the early Greeks until the eighteenth century.
		Finally humans discovered that beavers helped maintain the water table and were of great value to fishing, wildlife, vegetation, and aesthetics, so they let the species live.
		Native people had also valued the beaver fur and meat and had used the castoreum to effect healing, but they had hunted beaver with moderation and respect.
	www.wolfcreekarts.com /beaver.htm (750 words)

	Welcome in the International Perfume Museum: Raw materials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Caster Giber L. Castoreum is a gland in the castor secreting the liquid which renders its fur waterproof.
		Still not too long ago, castoreum pouches were treated using alcohol infusion but also alcohol or benzol extraction in order to obtain an absolute essence or resinoid.
		Alcohol extraction produced a 45 to 75 % yield and Benzol extraction produced an 18 to 25% yield.
	www.museesdegrasse.com /MIP/fla_ang/mat_prem_10.shtml (107 words)

	Perfume, perfume discount encyclopedia
		Castoreum is a secretion from the preputial follicles of both male and female castor beavers.
		Synthetic castoreums are now available, and can be as good as the real thing.
		Civet is one of the most important animal materials used for perfume.
	www.perfumes.com /eng/materials_animal.htm (391 words)

	scottish heritage - genealogy scotland - clans - scottish associations - historical attractions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		So popular were the skins, highly valued due to their tight yet supple nature and their water resistance, that by the late 1500s, the beaver was extinct in Western Europe and was close to extinction in Scandinavia and Russia.
		There was another reason why beavers were hunted; they produced a secretion called castoreum, from a gland below the tail.
		Castoreum was valued because of its supposedly medicinal properties.
	www.scotlandonline.com /heritage/weekly_history/wh28_beaverhats.cfm (633 words)

	SOURCE Abstract: Information content in chemical signals: why do beavers respond to a wrong species? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Both the American beaver (Castor canadensis) and the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) use chemical compounds from the castoreum secretion for territorial advertisement.
		Field behavioral assay has shown that the American beaver consistently responds more to castoreum from the Eurasian beaver than to that from its own species.
		Chemical analysis shows that castoreum compounds are derived from secondary compounds in the plants beavers eat and the two beaver species share a set of such compounds in the castoreum secretion.
	www.cwu.edu /~our/source/2004/abstracts/8d8bab904f17f2345ea5ee013d7aaba9.html (139 words)

	MNCPPC: Where to see beavers in Montgomery County, Maryland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Beavers will also create mounds of mud and secrete a sweet-smelling oil called castoreum onto the mounds to mark their territory.
		Castoreum is used as a fixative in some perfumes.
		You may also hear beavers chewing the inner bark of trees; this scraping sound can be heard from fifty yards away or more.
	www.mc-mncppc.org /environment/beaver/seeing_beavers.shtm (190 words)

	Fragrance review: Sikkim from La Collection Lancome :: Now Smell This
		Named for a legendary Himalayan kingdom and originally released by Lancôme in 1971, Sikkim was reissued last year along with Climat, Magie, and Sagamore as part of La Collection, a special edition series of fragrances celebrating "70 years of perfume excellence".
		The thujone, a chemical found in wormwood (think absinthe) and castoreum (a musk-like glandular secretion of the beaver) create a slightly animalic and bitter effect found in the opening and midnotes.
		The basenotes of orris and patchouli add a rich earthiness while the moss, leather and galbanum firmly establish the fragrance as a chypre.
	nowsmellthis.blogharbor.com /blog/_archives/2006/1/21/1717603.html (932 words)

	Chapter Tinctures of The Complete Herbal by Culpeper
		Culpeper : See the virtues of Treacle water, and then know that this strengthens the heart something more, and keeps melancholy vapours thence by drinking a spoonful of it every morning.
		College : Take of Castoreum in powder half an ounce, spirit of Castoreum half a pound, digest them ten days cold, strain it, and keep the Liquor for Tincture.
		Culpeper : A fine thing for Gentlemen that have nothing else to do with their money, and it will have a lovely look to please their eyes.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/1/66/113/21291/1.html (335 words)

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