The therapeutic effect of essential oils

Essential oils are used to make topical medicines, to rub, dissolve the bruises of bruising and soothe the pain. Essential oils also make anti-flu, antiseptic and digestive stimulants.

In addition to the therapeutic effect, essential oils are also used to make cosmetics, shampoos and spices in food technology. Essential oils are liquid, volatile, fragrant, depending on the herb can be processed into essential oils.

Where is the essential oil?

Essential oils in flowers such as roses, grapefruit flowers, star anise, cloves.

Essential oils are found in pods such as orange peel, mandarin bark, lemon peel, grapefruit peel .

Essential oils are found in leaves such as mint leaves, basil, eucalyptus, lemon basil, perilla, marjoram, envelope, chrysanthemum, melaleuca leaves, broom leaves, citronella leaves, camphor, orange, lemon, and tangerine. .

Essential oils in bark like cinnamon, in wood like incense, camphor.

Essential oils are found in roots, tubers such as ginger, galangal, onion, garlic, cross-frame, angelica, white and white .

Essential oils are found in fruits such as sap, pepper, tang, cardamom, buddha .

In order to have essential oils, people often use distilled, dry or distilled fresh methods because essential oils are not soluble in water, one must use oil distillation machines with different temperatures to get pure essential oils.

The therapeutic effect of some essential oils

Lemongrass essential oil: Has an antiseptic effect in hospitals, disinfects contaminated places, makes drugs to stimulate appetite digestion. In addition, lemongrass essential oil is also used for mosquito repellent, perfume, soap-fragrance and shampoo.

Cinnamon essential oil: The effect of stimulating blood circulation increases, breathing is stronger, stimulating increased secretion, enhancing uterine contractions, increasing intestinal motility. Cinnamon essential oil also used to massage the area of ​​pain, bruising due to injury, use wind when feeling cold.

Lemon essential oil: Is a light yellow liquid, with the aroma of lemon. The effect of making fragrant medicines of medicine, lozenges or powder for easy drinking (C lemon tablet). In addition, it is used to make shampoo.

Peppermint essential oil: Used as an antiseptic to massage the place of swelling, pain like joints, headaches caused by sun damage, treat dyspepsia. Peppermint oil evaporates quickly, causing cool sensation and numbness in place. Peppermint candy is used to treat cough, treat peripheral neuralgia.

Do not use this oil for nose drops and throat irritation, easy to inhibit, can stop breathing, sudden cardiac arrest.

Aromatic essential oils: White and purple aroma plants all have essential oils, the ratio of white basil essential oils is twice as high as those of purple. Our country grows a lot of flavor to extract essential oil for export. The effects of refined essential oils into ethyleneola, an essential drug in dentistry and vanillin synthesis

Camphor oil: Segment camphor oil will be white camphor oil (used in xineola). Red camphor oil contains safrona. Camphor essential oil can be used in addition to massaging instead of camphor, especially for colds, inflammation, reducing swelling, and in addition to making pesticides, dissolving plastic paint as a solvent.

Clove essential oil: Has the effect of killing insects and antiseptic, clove essential oil is used in dentistry as an anesthetic to destroy pulp, our country has not grown cloves, so it must be imported from abroad.