Chaulmoogra Carrier Oil contains chaulmoogric and palmitic acids, and the fatty oil has been found to yield glycerol, a very small quantity of phytosterol and a mixture of fatty acids containing constituents which have been found to be useful in the treatment of skin diseases, scrofula, rheumatism, eczema, and as a counter-irritant for bruises, open wounds and sores. The oil, from the ripe and fresh seeds, has been used as a specific remedy against leprosy in the very early stages and began to be studied by Western physicians in the 1800s, as it was the one medicine that was successful again
