Frankincense Essential Oil

Description

Frankincense oil has a woody, spicy, haunting smell, a little bit camphoric, but very pleasant. It is pale yellow-green in color. The word is from the French word &#**9;Franc&#**9; meaning &#**9;luxuriant&#**9; or &#**9;real incense&#**9; and together with Myrrh, it was the first gum to be used as incense. Uses 1) Frankincense essential oil is one of the firm favorites in aromatherapy. This essential oil has a wonderfully calming effect on the mind and helps to create inner peace, while helping to sooth the respiratory and urinary tract and relieve pain associated with rheumatism and muscular aches, while having a rejuvenating, balancing and healing action on the skin that is why most people use it topically for the reduction of wrinkles and fine lines. 2) Frankincense oil soothes and calms the mind, slowing down and deepening breathing and is excellent for use when meditating. It also helps to calm anxiety and obsessive states linked to the past. 3) On the respiratory tract, it clears the lungs and helps with shortness of breath, asthma, bronchitis, laryngitis, coughs and colds. 4) It can be useful to ease heavy periods, is a general tonic to the uterus and has a calming effect during labor. It is also most helpful for rheumatism and has a positive impact on the urinary tract. 5) Frankincense oil is said to help rejuvenate an ageing skin, is a skin tonic and is effective with sores, carbuncles, wounds, scars and skin inflammation.