List of Therapeutic Essential Oils

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Properties: Anaesthetic, analgesic, anti oxidant, anti septic, carminative, relaxant, rubefacient, stimulant and tonic.

Health Benefits: Induce numbness, pain relief, relaxes body & mind, brings redness in skin, stimulates functions.

Angelica

Properties: Anti spasmodic, carminative, depurative, diaphoretic, digestive, diuretic, hepatic, emenagogue, expectorant, febrifuge, nervine, stimulant, stomachic and tonic

Health Benefits: Relaxes spasm, removes gases, purifies blood, promotes perspiration, promotes digestion, increase urination & removes toxins, good for liver, opens obstructed menstruations, expells phlegm & catarrh, reduces fever, cures nervous disorders, stimulates functions, good for stomach, tones up body.

Anise

Properties: Anti epileptic & anti hysteric, anti rheumatic, anti septic, anti spasmodic, aperient, carminative, cordial, decongestant, digestive, expectorant, insecticide, sedative, stimulant and vermifuge.

Health Benefits: Treats rheumatism & arthritis, protects against septic, relaxes spasm, purgative, removes gases, warming, clears congestion & eases breathing, facilitates digestion, expells phlegm & catarrh, kills & repells insects, worms and lice, nervous afflictions, stimulates functions.

Basil

Properties: Carminative, anti spasmodic, analgesic, anti bacterial, opthalmic

Health Benefits: Skin care, indigestion, respiratory problems, infections, stress disorder, blood circulation, pain relief, vomiting

Bay Essential Oil

Properties: Anti septic, anti biotic, anti neuralgic, anti spasmodic, analgesic, aperitif, astringent, cholagogue, emenagogue, febrifuge, insecticide, sedative, stomachic, sudorific and tonic.

Health Benefits: Protects against septic, inhibits microbial growth, gives relief from pain of neuralgia, relaxes spasm, pain relief, increases appetite, tightens gums & muscles and helps stop hair fall & haemorrhage, promotes bile secretion, opens obstructed menstruations, reduces fever, kills & repells insects, sedates inflammations & nervous afflictions, good for stomach, increases perspiration & removal of toxins, tones up body.

Benzoin

Properties: Anti depressant, carminative, cordial, deodorant, disinfectant, relaxant, diuretic, expectorant, anti septic, vulnerary, astringent, anti inflammatory, anti rheumatic and sedative.

Health Benefits: Uplifts mood and fights depression, removes gases and does not let them build up, warming for the respiratory system, drives away body odour, cures infections, relaxes, promotes urination and removal of toxins, protects wounds, strengthens gums and stops haemorrhage, cures inflammation, improves circulation and removes toxins like uric acid and helps cure arthritis, calms anxiety and tension.

Bergamot

Properties: Deodorant, vulnerary, vermifuge, anti biotic, anti septic, anti spasmodic, sedative, analgesic, anti depressant, disinfectant, febrifuge, cicatrisant, digestive

Health Benefits: Removes body odour, gives relief from spasm, suppresses pain, brings hope and fights depression, heals cuts and scars, promotes digestion.


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Birch

Properties: Tonic, disinfectant, stimulant & anti depressant, analgesic, detoxifying, anti rheumatic and anti arthritic, diuretic, anti septic, astringent, febrifuge, germicide and insecticide, depurative

Health Benefits: Stimulates functions, fights depression, reduces pain, promotes urination, protects wounds from being septic, reduces fever, kills germs and insects, purifies blood.

Bitter Almond

Properties: Vermifuge, febrifuge, bactericidal, germicidal, fungicidal, sedative, anesthetic, aperient, diuretic, anti intoxicating, anti spasmodic, cure for hydrophobia

Health Benefits: Kills worms, reduces fever, kills bacteria, germs and fungi, sedates and reduces inflammation, brings numbness and desensitizes, purgative, increases urination and helps remove excess water, salt, toxins and fat from the body, counters effects of intoxicants, cure spasm, helps cure hydrophobia.

Black Pepper

Properties: Digestive, diaphoretic, carminative, aperient, anti spasmodic, anti rheumatic & anti arthritic, anti bacterial, anti oxidant

Health Benefits: Aids digestion, increases perspiration and helps remove toxins from body, helps remove gases from intestines and does not let them form, acts as a purgative, cures spasm, helps cure arthritis and rheumatism by removing uric acid and other toxins, inhibits Bacterial growth, anti aging and neutralizes free radicals.

Boldo

Properties: Anti inflammatory, anti rheumatic, anti septic, cholagogue, digestive, diuretic, hepatic, insecticide, narcotic, stimulant and vermifuge.

Health Benefits: Sedates inflammations, treats rheumatism & arthritis, protects against septic, promotes bile secretion, facilitates digestion, increases urination & removal of toxins, good for liver, kills & repells insects, intoxicating, stimulates functions, kills worms.

Buchu

Properties: Anti septic, anti rheumatic & anti arthritic, carminative, digestive, diuretic, insecticide and tonic.

Health Benefits: Protects against septic, treats rheumatism & arthritis, removes gases, facilitates digestion, increases urination & removal of toxins, kills & repells insects, tones up body.

Cajuput

Properties: Anti septic, cosmetic, bactericide, insecticide, decongestant, analgesic, expectorant, febrifuge, vermifuge, anti spasmodic, anti neuralgic, carminative, stimulant, tonic, sudorific, emenagogue

Health Benefits: Protects wounds from septic, takes care of skin, kills bacteria and insects, cures congestion in respiratory system, reduces pain, cures coughs, reduces fever, cures spasm, gives relief from pain of neuralgia, removes gases and does not let them form, stimulates secretions and nerves, tones up organic systems, increases perspiration, gives relief from obstructed menses and makes them regular.

Calamus

Properties: Anti rheumatic, anti spasmodic, cephalic, circulatory, memory boosting, nervine, stimulant and tranquilizing.

Health Benefits: Treats rheumatism & arthritis, relaxes spasm, inhibits microbial growth, good for brain & boosts memory, increases blood & lymph circulation, cures nervous disorders, stimulates functions, induce sleep.


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Camomile

Properties: Anti spasmodic, anti septic, anti biotic, anti depressant, anti neuralgic, anti phlogistic, carminative, cholagogue, cicatrisant, emenagogue, analgesic, febrifuge, hepatic, sedative, nervine, digestive, tonic, anti spasmodic, bactericidal, sudorific, stomachic, anti inflammatory, anti infectious, vermifuge, vulnerary

Health Benefits: Cures spasm, protects wounds from being septic and infection, checks biotic growth or infections, fights depression and uplifts mood, cures neuralgic pain by reducing swelling in the vessels, soothes inflammation due to fever, removes gases, promotes discharge of bile, helps fading away of scars and after-marks, opens up obstructed menses and regularises them, cures pain, reduces fever, good for liver, sedates inflammation and hyper-reactions, restores health of nervous system, aids digestion, tones up all aspects of health, cures spasm, kills bacteria, increases perspiration, improves functioning of stomach, soothes inflammation, fights infections, kills worms, promotes healing up of wounds.

Camphor

Properties: Stimulant, anti spasmodic, anti septic, decongestant, anesthetic, sedative, nervouspacifier, anti neuralgic, anti inflammatory, disinfectant, insecticide

Health Benefits: Stimulates discharges and other systems, cures spasm, protects wounds from infections, opens up congestion, desensitizes and acts as local anaesthetic, calms down nervous disturbances, cures neuralgic pain, soothes inflammation, fights infections, kills insects.

Caraway

Properties: Galactogogue, anti histaminic, anti septic, cardiac, anti spasmodic, carminative, digestive, stomachic, disinfectant, diuretic, emenagogue, expectorant, aperitif, astringent, insecticide, stimulant, tonic, vermifuge

Health Benefits: Increases milk in the breasts, curbs histamin to fight cough, protects wounds against septic, good for heart, cures spasm and cramps, removes gases, promotes digestion, maintains stomach health, fights infections, increases urination and helps remove toxins from body, makes menstruations regular and clear, cures coughs, increases appetite, contracts gums and muscles, kills insects, stimulates secretions and other functions, tones up health.

Cardamom

Properties: Anti spasmodic, neutralizes adverse effects of chemotherapy, reduces nausea, anti septic, anti microbial, aphrodisiac, astringent, digestive, stomachic, stimulant, diuretic

Health Benefits: Cures spasm, fights nausea, protects wounds and incisions, checks microbial growth, increases libido, contracts gums, promotes digestion, maintains stomach health, stimulates secretions and other functions, increases urination and thereby removes extra salt, bile, water, toxins and fat from the body.

Carrot seed

Properties: Anti septic, disinfectant, detoxifier, anti oxidant, carminative, depurative, diuretic, emenagogue, stimulant, cytophylactic, tonic

Health Benefits: Protects wounds from septic, fights infections, removes toxins from body, neutralises free radicals and reverses effects of oxidation, removes gases and does not let them form, purifies blood by removing toxins, increases urination, opens and regularises menses, stimulates secretions and other functions, promotes generation of new cells and growth, tones up health, kills worms.


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Cassia

Properties: Anti diarrhoea, anti depressant, anti emetic, anti galactogogue, anti microbial, anti rheumatic & anti arthritic, astringent, anti viral, carminative, circulatory, emenagogue, febrifuge and stimulant.

Health Benefits: Stops loose motions, fights depression & uplifts mood, stops vomiting, reduces milk flow, inhibits microbial growth, treats rheumatism & arthritis, tightens gums & muscles and helps stop hair fall & haemorrhage, fights viral infections, removes gases, improves blood & lymphatic circulation, opens obstructed menstruations, reduces fever, stimulates functions.

Catnip

Properties: Anti spasmodic, carminative, diaphoretic, emenagogue, nervine, stomachic, stimulant, astringent

Health Benefits: Fights spasm, removes gases, promotes sweating, opens obstructed menses and regularises them, stregthens nervous system, maintains stomach health, stimulates systems functioning in the body, contracts gums

Cedarwood

Properties: anti seborrhoeic, anti septic, anti spasmodic, tonic, astringent, diuretic, emenagogue, expectorant, insecticide, sedative, fungicide

Health Benefits: Helps cure seborrhoea, heals wounds, fights spasm, tones up health, cause contractions in gums, muscles, tissues, skin and blood vessels, promotes urination and removal of toxins, water, salt and fat from body, promotes menstruations, cures coughs and cold, kills insects, sedates inflammations and nervous disturbances, inhibitis fungal growth and infections

Cinnamom

Properties: Anti bacterial, anti fungal, anti microbial, astringent, anti clotting, stimulating, cooling, carminative

Health Benefits: Brain tonic, respiratory problems, skin infections, blood impurity, blood circulation, infections, healing, pain relief, birth control, menstruation problems, breastfeeding, heart disorders, diabetes, colon cancer, indigestion, mouth freshener

Citronella

Properties: Anti bacterial, anti depressant, anti septic, anti spasmodic, anti inflammatory, deodorant, diaphoretic, diuretic, febrifuge, fungicidal, insect repellent, stomachic, stimulant, tonic and vermifuge.

Health Benefits: Inhibits bacterial, microbial, viral & fungal infections and kills insects, protects wounds from being septic, relaxes spasm, sedates inflammations, drives away body odour, promotes perspiration, increases urination & removal of toxins, reduces fever, repells insects, good for stomach, stimulates functions, tones up body

Clary Sage

Properties: Anti depressant, anti convulsive, anti spasmodic, anti septic, aphrodisiac, astringent, bactericidal, carminative, deodorant, digestive, emenagogue, euphoric, hypotensive, nervine, sedative, stomachic, uterine.

Health Benefits: Fights depression and uplifts mood, stops convulsions by sedating nervous disturbances, relaxes spasm, protects wound from septic, cures sexual weakness and increases libido, causes contractions, kills bacteria and checks Bacterial growth, removes gases, drives body odour, improves digestion, opens obstructed menstruations, creates happy feeling, lowers blood pressure, makes nervous system healthy, sedates emotions and anxiety, maintains good health of stomach, restores health of uterus.


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Clove

Properties: Anti microbial, anti fungal, anti septic, anti viral, aphrodisiac, stimulating

Health Benefits: Dental care, toothache, cavity, infections, skin care, stress, headache, respiratory problems, earache, indigestion, nausea, blood circulation, blood purification, diabetes, immune system, premature ejaculation, cholera, sty

Coriander

Properties: Analgesic, aphrodisiac, anti spasmodic, carminative, depurative, deodorant, digestive, fungicidal, lipolytic, stimulant, stomachic

Health Benefits: Reduces pain, increases libido, clears spasm, removes gas, purifies blood, drives away body odour, promotes digestion, inhibits fungal growth and infection, reduces fat by breaking it down by hydrolysis, stimulates functions, maintains good health of stomach.

Cumin

Properties: Bactericidal, carminative, digestive, diuretic, anti septic, anti spasmodic, detoxifier, emenagogue, stimulant, nervine, tonic

Health Benefits: Kills bacteria and inhibits Bacterial infection, removes gas from intestine, promotes digestion, increases urination, protects wounds against septic, clears spasm, removes toxins from blood, regularises menstruations, stimulates functions, good for nerves, tones up health.

Cypress

Properties: Astringent, anti septic, anti spasmodic, deodorant, diuretic, haemostatic, hepatic, styptic, sudorific, vasoconstrictor, respiratory tonic, sedative.

Health Benefits: Strengthens gums and contracts muscles, protects wounds against infections, clears spasm, removes body odour, increases urination, promotes perspiration, tones up respiratory system, sedates inflammations, anxiety etc.

Davana

Properties: Anti depression, anti septic, anti viral, disinfectant, emenagogue, expectorant, relaxant and vulnerary.

Health Benefits: Fights depression & uplifts mood, protects against septic, fights viral infections, opens obstructed menstruations & makes them regular, expells phlegm & catarrh, relaxes body & mind, heals wounds.

Dill

Properties: Anti spasmodic, carminative, digestive, disinfectant, galactogogue, sedative, stomachic, sudorific.

Health Benefits: Clears spasm, removes gases, promotes digestion, prohibits infections, increases secretion of milk, sedates hypersensitivity and anxiety, good for stomach, increases perspiration.

ElemiProperties: Anti septic, analgesic, expectorant, stimulant and tonic.

Health Benefits: Protects against septic, pain relief, expells phlegm & catarrh, stimulates functions, tones up body.

Eucalyptus

Properties: Anti inflammatory, anti spasmodic, decongestant, deodorant, anti septic, anti bacterial, stimulating

Health Benefits: Respiratory problems, wounds, muscle pain, mental exhaustion, dental care, skin care, diabetes, fever, intestinal germs


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Fennel

Properties: Anti septic, anti spasmodic, aperitif, carminative, depurative, diuretic, emenagogue, expectorant, galactogogue, laxative, stimulant, stomachic, splenic, tonic, vermifuge

Health Benefits: Protects wounds against septic, clears spasm, increases appetite, removes gases and does not let them form, purifies blood, increases urination, promotes menstruations, fights cough and cold, increases milk secretion, helps clear bowels and constipation, stimulates systems, good for stomach's health, good for spleen, tones up health, kills worms.

Frankincense

Properties: Anti septic, disinfectant, astringent, carminative, cicatrisant, cytophylactic, digestive, diuretic, emenagogue, expectorant, sedative, tonic, uterine, vulnerary

Health Benefits: Protects wounds against septic, fights infections, induces contractions in gums, muscles and blood vessels, removes gases, heals scars, keeps cells healthy and promotes their generation, promotes digestion, increases urination, promotes menstruations, cures cough and cold, sedates anxiety and inflammations, tones up body, ensures good health of uterus, promotes healing of wounds.