Bay (Leaf) Essential Oil

Product Details Bay Leaf Essential Oil Scientific Name: Laurus Nobilis Origin: India Plant Part: Leaf Scent: Warm, floral, spicy, earthy, a little bitter Color: Pale yellow to clear Consistency: Thin Perfumery Note: Middle to top Initial Aroma Strength: Pungent Extraction Method: Steam distillation Suitable Blending Oils: Bay Leaf Essential Oil blends well with every green scent like pine, cypress, and juniper, herbal fragrances like rosemary, dill, hyssop, and lavender as well as citrus and spice oils. These all have relaxing and uplifting energetics which are similar to how bay essential oil makes you feel. Bay Leaf Essential Oil Composition Eugenol: 52.54% Limonene + 1,8-Cineole + b-phellandrene Myrcene: 10.87 Beta caryophyllene: 5.69 Humulene: 1.25 Methyl eugenol: 0.04 Bay Leaf Essential Oil Benefits and Actions Antifungal, antiseptic, bactericidal, carminative, diaphoretic, digestive, expectorant, and tonic. ( Battaglia, 2018 ) Bay Leaf Essential Oil Uses Bay Leaf Essential Oil for Digestive Support It’s very easy to think you need to understand loads about chemistry and endless data to be good at aromatherapy. But often, kitchen use will inform many of the uses for herbs. Bay leaves are used in stews to flavor them. Their chemical constituents meld into the juices to help you digest tougher meats. In particular, you’ll usually find bay leaves in recipes with red meats. Bay leaves guard against indigestion and heartburn as well as preventing reflux. Bay leaf essential oil is often used by aromatherapists to reduce flatulence, expel wind, and as a tonic for the liver. Combined with camomile, bay leaf essential oil may be helpful for sufferers of GERD or gastric reflux. Bay leaf’s richness in eugenol also makes it very helpful for stomach bugs and stomach upsets too, since eugenol has powerful antimicrobial abilities. Bay Leaf Essential Oil for Respiratory Support When you inhale bay laurel essential oil, it makes you gasp. You can feel it going right down the bases of the lungs. It feels cleansing and fortifying, expelling mucus and other pulmonary rubbish. Massage diluted bay leaf essential oil onto the chest for respiratory support during coughs and colds or more difficult infections like bronchitis. Bay Leaf Essential Oil for Pain The high levels of eugenol in bay laurel essential oil suggest it would have powerful nociceptive properties, helping to reduce pain signaling to the brain. This particularly relates to the stomach, of course, and Lis-Balchin describes how bay acted as an antispasmodic when tested on guinea pig ileum. ( Lis-Alchin, 2005 ) Eugenol is especially useful when pain is sudden and acute. Another oil which is rich in eugenol, is famously helpful for toothache. It is eugenol's fast response to pain receptors that help it to do this. Eugenol engages with thermoreceptors that also send messages to the brain about heat and pressure and translate those into potential pain messages. ( Chung, 2014 ), ( Klein, 2014 ) The mouth i