Tiger balm. So cool, licked with menthol. Tiger balm.
My friend Heather! really wanted to know what tiger balm was because I mentioned using it due to work related pains. I didn't know what tiger balm was either, until I tore a back muscle by reaching for something. So lame. Heimerich bought tiger balm for me. Despite the foreign looking packaging, you can find this stuff in any drugstore-- CVS, Rite Aid, etc. Ask the pharmacists if you can't find it!
This stuff does have a really cool history though. In 1870, there was a herbalist in Burma who developed tiger balm, but asked his 2 sons to complete the product while he was on his death bed.
These sons, the Aw brothers, promoted the finalized product. Tiger balm is named after one of the sons, Aw Boon Haw, whose name was tiger in Chinese.
Now that you know... people have been using this stuff for ages! Use it for headaches, torn muscles, soreness, back, shoulders... anything you could probably think of, tiger balm will feel pretty good.
To quote the ingredients on my jar:
menthol, camphor, demontholised mint oil, cajuput oil, clove bud oil, and cassia oil.
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