Essential Oils Flashcards
Relieves colic for babies, calms crying babies when all else fails, overcomes convulsions in young children.
Anise
Helps flatulent colic, especially in children. Applied locally to skin, acts as an anesthetic.
Caraway Oil
Rheumatism, myalgia (muscle pains), spasmodic stomach and bowels, bladder catarrh, low fever, gout, colds, cholera morbus, dysmenorrhea, laryngitis, bronchitis, toothache, chilblains.
Cajeput Oil
Bark: diarrhea, flatulence, nausea, vomiting, menorrhagia. Vomiting in pregnancy, and tones nervous system.
Cinnamon Oil
Most powerful and useful.
Nausea, vomiting, flatulence, spasms, epilepsy, twitching, indigestion, poor circulation, cold extremities, low blood pressure, diarrhea, dysentery, bronchus catarrh, phthisis, sour stomach, bad breath, zymotic disease, germicide. Epilepsy.
Cloves
Acts mainly on genitourinary mucous membranes, also skin and mucous membranes. Increases quantity of urine and ridding of deposit matter in urine.
Helps cystitis, bronchitis, dysentery, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, psoriasis, dropsy, and leprosy.
Copaiba
Indigestion, flatulence, colic, neuralgia, rheumatism.
Coriander
Stimulates and disinfects bronchial mucous membrane, skin, kidneys, and genitourinary tract.
Helps gonorrhea, urethritis, vesicular irritability, cystitis, abscess of prostate gland, hemorrhoids, chronic bronchitis, and catarrh.
Cubebs
Helps failing sight, blindness, dropsy, adipose tissue, inflammations and fevers, ague, chorea, fits, nervous troubles.
Increases breast milk production, rids flatulence from mother and child, help prevent nausea, open obstructions of liver, spleen and gall. Bathing eyes with it helps with inflammation.
Fennel
SM doses: Rheumatic fever and sciatica, stimulate stomach, heart, and respiration. Migraine, diabetes, cystitis, diphtheria. Sciatica, migraine, diabetes.
Externally: rheumatism, warts, corns, calluses, cysts, tattoo marks.
Sprains, bruises, charley horse, sore muscles, joints, stiff back and neck. Sunburn. Torn ligaments, sprained ankles.
Wintergreen
Sciatica, rheumatism, neuralgia, swollen glands and joints. Arthritis.
Antidote for narcotic poisons.
Dyspepsia, indigestion, nausea, colic, rheumatism, sprains, bruises, swollen joints, abscesses. Ear ache, toothache.
Inflammation of any kind.
Wild Marjoram
Stomach and bowel pain, nausea, vomiting, flatulence, cholera morbus, diarrhea, dysentery, colic, nervous headache, hiccup, heart palpitation.
Externally: headache, rheumatism, neuralgia, toothache, earache. Cancer.
Bruises, sprains,burns, torn ligaments, athlete’s foot, chapped hands, gangrene, varicose ulcers, varicose veins, acne, boils, eczema.
Peppermint
Mouth ulcers, and threat.
Dries up mammary secretions, excessive mucus discharges, salivation, indurated sores, nasal catarrh.
Good for head and brain, quickens senses and memory.
Sage
Syphilis, skin disease, poison oak, rheumatism. Purify blood, stimulant in neuralgia, dispel insects, rid system of narcotic effects of smoking and tobacco.
Inflamed eyes or conjunctivitis, stomach or bowel inflammation, diarrhea, warts, corns, bony growths.
Starts delayed menstruation. Might cause abortion.
Sassafras
Never overdose or use long periods.
Rheumatism, bronchitis, diarrhea, gonorrhea, leucorrhea.
Externally: scabies (itch), muscular rheumatism, correct odor of sores, ulcers, gangrene. Helps Toothache & earache on cotton ball.
Conjunctivitis, otorrhea, cancer, warts, psoriasis, eczema, diarrhea, typhoid fever, diabetes.
Strengthens lung from whooping or rough cough. Purges phlegm. Helps shortness of breath.
Internally: worms, insects, parasites, germs, flies.
Thyme
Don’t overdose
