Parsley Seed Essential Oil

Product Details Parsley Seed Essential Oil: Uses, Benefits, and Blends Scientific Name: Petroselinum Sativum Origin: France Plant Part: Seeds Scent: Fresh, herbaceous, leafy Color: Pale green Consistency: Thin Initial Aroma Strength: Moderate Extraction Method: Steam distillation What does Parsley Seed Essential Oil Smell Like? The scent of parsley seed essential oil is predominantly green and herb. It has a sweet, warm spicy scent. What Blending Note is Parsley Seed Essential Oil? Parsley Seed essential oil is a middle-to-top note. What does Parsley Seed Essential Oil Blend Well With? Parsley seed blends well with citrus notes, woods, spices, and flowers. Breaking Down Parsley Seed Essential Oil’s Chemical Components According to the GCMS, our VINEVIDA Parsley seed essential oil Alpha pinene: 16.84% Beta pinene: 11.22% Myristicin: 29.65% Apiol: 22.32% Uses for Parsley Seed Essential oil Digestive support Relaxation Detoxification Pain relief Parsley Seed Essential Oil in History Parsley in Ancient Greece Parsley appears in an important, very ancient Greek myth. The Seven against Thebes were seven champions who raged war on Thebes. The King of Argus selected the seven to restore Polynices, son of the great Oedipus, to the Theban throne. On their way to Thebes, the Seven stopped at Nemea and bore witness to a dreadful tragedy, the death of a child. Euripides describes how Opheltes was the infant son of Euridice and Lycurgs, the priest of Zeus at Nemea, Lycurgus. One day Opheltes was left in the care of his foster mother,  Hypsipyle, who took him out for a walk. On her foray, she encountered the  "Seven against Thebes” who asked her where they could find a drink. She laid the babe on the ground to show them how to access a spring, and as she looked away, a fiery-eyed monstrous serpent bit the child as he slept.  Blood poured from the wound onto the ground and where it fell, sprung parsley. (The word Parsley comes from Petrose, the Greek word for “Rock”) The Seven killed the serpent, but it was too late. The child was dead. One of the Seven, the seer Amphiaraus, renamed the child Archemorus, which means the "Beginning of Doom", and interpreted the child's death as an omen of   “slaughter to come” of The Seven at Thebes. The Seven held funeral games to honor the child. These would go on to be the Nemean Games. Parsley Foretells Doom Over the coming weeks, a slaughter of the Seven did indeed ensue. Zeus struck Capaneus with a thunderbolt as he attempted to climb the city walls.  Tydeus had, for a while, been protected by Athena who had intended to make him immortal, but seeing him eating the brains of his attacker changed her mind, and she left him to die. Polynices and his brother Eteocles killed each other and the earth swallowed up the seer, Amphiaraus. Amphariaraus had seen the future astutely. Subsequently, the Nemean Games were held every two or three years to cycle to Olympic and Pythian Games in honor of the child and his family’s tutelary dei