Hyssop Essential Oil

Product Details Scientific Name: Hyssopus Officinalis L Origin: Spain Plant Part: Flowers Scent: Sweetly Medicinal Color: Pale Yellow to Yellow Liquid Consistency: Thin Perfumery Note: Middle Initial Aroma Strength: Medium Extraction Method: Steam Distilled Hyssop Essential Oil: Uses, Benefits, and Blends Hyssop essential oil is one of the most useful tools there is in an aromatherapist’s kit box, but it is often written off as a hazardous oil. This is a dreadful shame because whilst there are some hazards attached to its usage, it is one of the most helpful oils there are for respiratory and emotional crises. Here’s what some of the aromatherapy experts have to say about hyssop essential oil. Hyssop is a beautiful perennial herb that has rich soft leaves and becomes covered in blue, pink, or purple flowers that attract hundreds of honeybees. The association with the stinging insect is a good analogy for learning how to use hyssop essential oil. Rather than being terrified of its scary side, we should come to respect its deeply healing attributes but always treat it with care. It is a fabulous respiratory and mental tonic, which can have dangerous effects in certain conditions such as epilepsy and migraine if used incorrectly. Hyssop Essential Oil Benefits: Component Breakdown Pinocamphone & Isopinocamphone have muscle-relaxing antifungal properties and are insecticidal. β-Pinene- In a scientific study published in Molecules magazine in 2019, Salehi et al. proclaimed a-Pinene and B-Pinene as “ A Miracle Gift of Nature”, citing their actions as including antibiotic resistance modulation, anticoagulant, antitumor, antimicrobial, antimalarial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-Leishmania, and analgesic effects. The Spirituality of Hyssop The hyssop plant is widely used in cooking, especially in Jewish recipes and is known in ancient Hebraic literature as Ezob “Holy Herb”. It appears in the Old Testament when the Temple was incensed and purified and it is used in Passover rituals. According to Holmes in Aromatica, A Clinical Guide to Essential Oils as Therapeutics, the Eastern Orthodox Church embraced the early Hebrew practice of ritually cleansing the congregation by sprinkling them with hyssop water, and indeed cleansing church buildings and their holy objects in the same way. This formed the origin of the Roman Catholic asperges , where the congregation is blessed on important feast days by the sprinkling of Holy Water, and according to Leslie Gordon in a Country Herbal, this also played an important part in the consecration of Westminster Abbey. Indeed the Gregorian chant that is intended as the asperges ritual commences  says  “ asperges me, Domine hyssopo et mundabor ”, that is  “Sprinkle me Lord with hyssop and I will be purified.” To understand the depth of this blessing, it is perhaps easier to consider how frankincense is used in a religious setting. Indeed, Frankincense essential oil has a similar effect to incense. It slows the breath,