Ginger Essential Oil
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Oil Properties:
Scent:
Peppery, sharp, pungent,
aromatic and warm, sometimes with a hint of camphor or lemon
Odor Intensity: Medium
Evaporation Rate:
Middle Note
Color:
Pale yellow to a darker amber color
SAFETY: Non-toxic, Non-irritant (except in high concentration), slightly phototoxic, may cause sensitization in some individuals. Always dilute with a carrier if applying to the skin.
Uses:
Ginger is a multipurpose essential oil that is very useful for reducing inflammation. In a massage oil or liniment, its heating action relieves pain from arthritis or sore muscles, menstrual cramps, and headaches. Ginger stimulates both appetite and poor blood circulation and relieves nausea and motion sickness. It also acts as a sexual stimulant. Ginger reduces drowsiness and irritability and jump starts the brain to keep concentration and mental energy high.
Ginger oil is well suited to help ease colds and flu, nausea, motion sickness, morning sickness, muscle aches and pains as well as poor circulation and arthritic pain.
Its warming qualities are good to use for feelings of loneliness and winter depression, and its energizing properties make it a good aphrodisiac.
Origin of Ginger essential oil:
The name ginger is said to be derived from the Gingi district in India, where tea made from ginger is used for stomach upsets.
Ginger is a perennial herb and grows to about 3 - 4 feet high with thick spreading tuberous rhizome. Every year it shoots up a stalk with narrow spear-shaped leaves as well as white or yellow flowers growing directly from the root.
It has been used as a medicine since very early times and is recorded in both Sanskrit and Chinese texts and is also mentioned in the literature of the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Arabians.
Extraction:
The oil is extracted by means of steam distillation from the unpeeled or dried, ground-up root (rhizome) of the plant, and can yield about 2 - 4 % oil.
Chemical composition:
Borneol, Citral, Cineole, Alpha and Beta Zingiberene, Camphene, Limonene, Phellandrene, Beta Bisabolene and Neral.
Blends well with:
Bergamot, Sandalwood, Ylang-Ylang