Bayberry Oil: Medicinal
Action and Uses---Astringent and stimulant. In
large doses emetic. It is useful in diarrhoea, jaundice,
scrofula, etc. Externally, the powdered bark is used as
a stimulant to indolent ulcers, though in poultices it
should be combined with elm. The decoction is good as a
gargle and injection in chronic inflammation of the
throat, leucorrhoea, uterine haemorrhage, etc. It is an
excellent wash for the gums.
The powder is strongly sternutatory and excites
coughing. Water in which the wax has been 'tried,' when
boiled to an extract, is regarded as a certain cure for
dysentery, and the wax itself, being astringent and
slightly narcotic, is valuable in severe dysentery and
internal ulcerations.
Eucalyptus Oil: The medicinal Eucalyptus Oil is probably the most
powerful antiseptic of its class, especially when it is
old, as ozone is formed in it on exposure to the air. It
has decided disinfectant action, destroying the lower
forms of life. Internally, it has the typical actions of
a volatile oil in a marked degree.
Eucalyptus Oil is used as a stimulant and antiseptic
gargle. Locally applied, it impairs sensibility. It
increases cardiac action.
Its antiseptic properties confer some antimalarial
action, though it cannot take the place of Cinchona.
An emulsion made by shaking up equal parts of the oil
and powdered gum-arabic with water has been used as a
urethral injection, and has also been given internally
in drachm doses in pulmonary tuberculosis and other
microbic diseases of the lungs and bronchitis.
In croup and spasmodic throat troubles, the oil may
be freely applied externally.
The oil is an ingredient of 'catheder oil,' used for
sterilizing and lubricating urethral catheters.
In large doses, it acts as an irritant to the
kidneys, by which it is largely excreted, and as a
marked nervous depressant ultimately arresting
respiration by its action on the medullary centre.
For some years Eucalyptus-chloroform was employed as
one of the remedies in the tropics for hookworm, but it
has now been almost universally abandoned as an
inefficient anthelmintic, Chenopodium Oil having become
the recognized remedy.
In veterinary practice, Eucalyptus Oil is
administered to horses in influenza, to dogs in
distemper, to all animals in septicaemia. It is also
used for parasitic skin affections.
Honeysuckle Oil: Honeysuckles are cleansing, consuming
and digesting, and therefore no way fit for
inflammations. Take a leaf and chew it in your mouth and
you will quickly find it likelier to cause a sore mouth
and throat than cure it. If it be not good for this,
what is it good for? It is good for something, for God
and nature made nothing in vain. It is a herb of
Mercury, and appropriated to the lungs; the celestial
Crab claims dominion over it, neither is it a foe to the
Lion; if the lungs be afflicted by Jupiter, this is your
cure. It is fitting a conserve made of the flowers
should be kept in every gentlewoman's house; I know no
better cure for the asthma than this besides it takes
away the evil of the spleen: provokes urine, procures
speedy delivery of women in travail, relieves cramps,
convulsions, and palsies, and whatsoever grief's come of
cold or obstructed perspiration; if you make use of it
as an ointment, it will clear the skin of morphew,
freckles, and sun burnings, or whatever else discolors
it, and then the maids will love it. Authors say, the
flowers are of more effect than the leaves, and that is
true: but they say the seeds are the least effectual of
all. But there is a vital spirit in every seed to beget
its like; there is a greater heat in the seed than any
other part of the plant; and heat is the mother of
action.'
Lavender has the power to
penetrate the body quickly. Insist on the best!
Lavender oil has been popular since
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Sea provides the finest oil of the right species to bring
you a host of benefits far more pleasing than inferior
substitutes commonly sold today. Taking its name from the
Latin lavare, meaning "to wash," lavender possesses
a clean, pure aroma. And it encourages balance for the
entire nervous system.
It has been used for nerves,
migraines, headaches, tension,
emotional stress, sore muscles or tense
muscles. Other uses include benefits for the skin,
immune and circulatory systems.
Astral Sea offers only the highest-quality lavender.
Lavandula angustifolia, also known as
Lavender Fine, is high in esters (which provide
calming and balance to the nervous system) and contains no
camphor smell as does the more common Lavandula
officinalis (a clone of L. angustifolia) or the
sterile hybrid lavandin. These common,
less-expensive lavenders are sold in mass quantities for
commercial use.
Unlike its common counterparts, Lavender Fine is grown
from seed taken from wild plants and cultivated at high
altitudes. It has a shorter growing season and a lower
essential oil yield, but its quality is worth the effort.
