They still manufacture a salve called "Sayman Salve", but it looks and smells nothing like the old stuff. Astyptodyne is still being produced but is much more expensive than it used to be. It's excellent for bug bites/stings, burns, bleeding, wounds and aches & pains. It comes from the long leaf pine, a Deep South species, and smells - at least used to - like, well, pine. It's one of the best of the "natural" first aid oils. I have an old original bottle of it but it's almost empty. Castor oil - may it be confined in Hell - was always the first "medicine" administered regardless of the ailment. Be it a common cold, tummy aches, general aches & pains and just something a kid got frequently for "general health" reasons. It certainly did work after a fashion in that; it was a great way to punish, it tasted so awful you'd swear afterwards you were cured from the first dose even if you were stage 4 lung cancer, all physical pain stopped in it's tracks as soon as your mom reached up on the pantry shelf, all behavior could be "corrected" with the simple threat of, "it's time for a table spoon of castor oil". A syrup called "Syrup of Black Draft" was poured down a kid's throat at the mere suspicion - true or not - that one's GI situation was not regular.
So we weren't any healthier back then, we just professed to be healthy to save us from these horrible oral emollients.
