Muscle Meditation Synergy Blend

Product Details Muscle Meditation Synergy Blend Muscle Meditation Synergy Blend contains Peppermint (Piperita) Oil, Clove (Bud) Oil, Wintergreen Oil, and Helichrysum Oil. Concentrate your healing efforts on weary and overworked muscles with this synergy of peppermint, clove, wintergreen, and helichrysum oils. What Is Synergy? This is a blend of pure essential oils, brought together to enhance and improve each other's effects. They are fantastic for use in diffusers and for making your own products for home and everyday use . Importantly, these are not contained in carrier oil. YOU MUST DILUTE THIS SYNERGY BLEND BEFORE USING IT ON THE SKIN. This is a fantastic blend of oils brought together for their analgesic powers. Wintergreen Essential Oil for Pain Wintergreen essential oil is composed almost entirely of a natural chemical called methyl salicylate. This constituent has powerful analgesic effects ( Guo, 2022 ) and is beloved by the pharmaceutical industry for its ability to make medicines absorb through the skin better. It has a strange numbing effect where the skin feels both warm and cold at the same time. Methyl salicylate is a precursor to the manufactured medicine aspirin, but because of its high concentrations is also stronger. Methyl salicylate also thins the blood. For this reason, there are warnings to consider before using Muscle Meditation Synergy Blend. These can be found in the precautions section of this description. Cooling Peppermint Essential Oil for Pain Peppermint is high in menthol, which has a clever hidden action on pain. Our skin is full of receptors that constantly sense the surrounding environment. Menthol interacts with one particular set of receptors called TRPM8. ( Bautista, 2007 ) These send messages about mechanical pressure (how heavy your bag is on your shoulder, for example), about pain, and also about the cold. Cold can be an extremely useful tool for massage therapists to use to relax overly tight tissues deep in the fascia. When these are overly taught, massage can be so painful; they constrict when touched. However, they can be “tricked” using freeze sprays, because they can only “think” about one thing at a time. The cold engages the signaling, distracting the muscle from the pressure being applied and confusing it into relaxing. Engaging cold receptors helps to massage muscles more deeply. Why Clove Bud Appears in the Muscle Meditation Synergy Blend Clove bud is rich in eugenol, the powerful painkiller that your grandmother would recommend clove oil for a toothache. Where menthol interacts with “cold” receptors, eugenol engages receptors to do with heat. ( Takahashi, 2021 ) This is lovely for rheumatic muscles that feel achy and sore in the cold and damp. Eugenol reduces pain using the same COX-2 anti-inflammatory pathway used by NSAID pharmaceuticals. ( Zhang, 2022 ) Clove bud essential oil also contains beta-caryophyllene (albeit in much smaller amounts). Beta-caryophyllene engages with the CB2 receptor