Lavender
Family: Labiatae
Note: Middle
Method of Extraction: Steam distillation from the flowers and stalk.
Place of origin: A native of the Mediterranean.
Areas where this oil can help:
1. Burns and other skin problems
2. Virus infections like colds, coughs, or flu
3. Muscular aches and pains
4. Headaches
Effects on mind:
- Has a remarkable balancing effect on the nervous system, relieving anxiety, depression and insomnia and encouraging calmness and serenity.
Effects on body:
- Incredibly versatile, lavender has beneficial effects on all systems of the body.
- Excellent for high blood pressure, palpitations and other cardiac disorders due to its sedative action on the heart.
- Provides pain relief; relieves spasm; soothes inflammation in conditions such as arthritis, muscular aches and pains, rheumatism, cramps, sprains and strains.
- An immune booster, lavender is recommended for protection against all infections, viruses, colds and throat disorders.
- Invaluable for all skin care due to its powers of rejuvenation and balancing effects.
- Helps to heal burns, sunburn, acne, boils, bruises, eczema; fungal infection such as athlete's foot; psoriasis; infectious skin conditions such as scabies and chicken pox; and wounds and sores of all descriptions.
Effects on spirit:
- Exerts a pronounced effect on the solar plexus, calming and soothing an angry spirit.
- Helps to balance all the chakras.
- May help to centre those on the wrong spiritual pathway.
Special precautions:
- None.
** Lavender oil is regarded as the most useful and versatile oil for therapeutic purposes. It is an excellent normaliser or balancer. Mixing lavender with another essential oil enhances its own action as well as heightening the action of any other oil mixed with it.
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