Fir Needle Essential Oil

Product Details Scientific Name: Abies sibirica Origin: Austria Plant Part: Needle Scent: Forest Fresh, green, expansive Color: Clear to very pale green Consistency: Thin Perfumery Note: Middle to Top Initial Aroma Strength: Moderate Extraction Method: Steam distillation Suitable Blending Oils: Citruses like lemon, lemon verbena, lemongrass, and Melissa. Other conifer oils include pine, juniper, cypress, and cedar. Herbaceous fragrances like tea tree, chamomile, eucalyptus, rosemary, and hyssop. Breaking Down the Fir Needle Essential Oil’s Chemical Components Beta Pinene 26% Alpha Pinene 13% Delta 3 Carene 18% Limonene 10% Historical Uses of Fir Needle Essential Oil Coughs and colds Bunged-up noses and sniffles! Aching joints Muscle stiffness, especially after exercise Invigorating and uplifting. The Chemistry of Fir Needle Essential Oil The fragrance of the needle Essential Oil comes from pinenes, whose scent is forestlike, resinous, and woody. There are two isomers of pinenes. These are alpha-pinene and beta-pinene. They often occur together,  and there is usually more alpha than beta-pinene. If you look at the GC/MS report, you will notice that Fir Needle Essential Oil has large amounts of both, but in this case, beta-pinene is the primary constituent. The most important use of Fir Needle Essential Oil must surely be upon the nervous system. Blissfully reminiscent of walking in the forest, not only does Fir Needle Essential Oil soothe and refresh us,  but inhaling the trees’ vapors is proven to boost natural killer cells in our bodies and boost immunity. The positive effects of forest bathing are well documented, but thus far the evidence of how trees affect the human condition has only gotten as far as understanding how cypress affects us. Very little has been done to investigate each tree in more detail. How Does Fir Needle Essential Oil Affect Mood? Recently, a  Korean team was interested in understanding how tree oils might be capable of helping the millions of students across the world who are struggling with their mental health post-lockdown. So, they decided to choose a different tree and focused on the fir. This trial wanted to understand exactly what the effects of inhaling Fir Needle Essential Oil would be. It was only a small trial,  26 people, a mix of males and females. Participants were asked to inhale Fir Essential Oil for three minutes, then they were given a questionnaire to complete, and their heart rate was monitored. The ln Ratio reflects how stressed or aroused someone is by being stimulated by something. If someone feels stressed, then the score goes up;p, if they get calmer, the score goes down. Across the board, the score plummeted after inhaling the Fir Needle Essential Oil, showing that the students were less stressed. Overall, when the researchers analyzed the psychological indicators, they found that   “tension–anxiety”, “depression”, “anger–hostility”, “fatigue”, and anxiety levels had all been reduced. Simultaneou