Ginger Reviewed – West Coast Institute of Aromatherapy

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Do you know in Senegal and Fouta’Djalon, the ladies use pounded Ginger roots to make belts to across the dormant consideration of their husbands?  This fragrant is used extensively in oriental fragrances for women and men the place it lends a heat sensual spicy high quality, and in males’s fragrances for the spicy and spicy-woody sort.

In his Non secular PhytoEssencing Materia Medica, Dr. Bruce Berkowsky’s says that “The fundamental theme of ginger revolves round resignation after a protracted wrestle to keep up management.  There might be profound detachment. “

Learn extra about Ginger important oil, Ginger CO2 and Ginger Hydrosol.

GINGER

Latin Binomial: Zingiber officinale
Household:
Zingiberaceae

Important Oil A pale yellow to gentle brown important oil.
Extraction Technique: Often steam distilled. A CO² extraction can also be obtainable and I discover it has a a lot nicer aroma, extra like recent ginger.
Half Used:  Dried Rhizomes
Yield: 0.25 – 3.3%

Aroma:  Spicy, heat, sharp and nice
Odour depth:  Excessive
Fragrance Be aware:  Has been categorised as each a high and a backside observe
Blends properly with:  sandalwood, vetiver, patchouli, frankincense, rosewood, cedarwood, coriander, rose, lime, neroli, orange and lemon.
Fragrance Key Qualities:  Tonic, aphrodisiac, stimulating, warming, cephalic, comforting. 

Cautions:  Use in low concentrations as this oil could cause pores and skin irritations.  In accordance with a report by D.L.J. Opdyke in Meals Cosmet. Toxicology, it’s very low phototoxicity is just not thought of to be vital.

THERAPEUTIC PROPERTIES

Ginger has analgesic, antioxidant, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, aphrodisiac, carminative, digestive, expectorant, febrifuge, laxative, rubefacient, stimulant, stomachic, sudorific and tonic properties.

SUBTLE ENERGIES

Ginger permits one to understand the shadow self and befriend the inside baby inside by opening up the inside eye.  This could in flip result in transformations and therapeutic.

ENERGETIC ASSOCIATIONS
  • Chakra: Root and Photo voltaic Plexus.  Balances all Chakras.
  • TCM Meridian: Lung, Spleen, Abdomen, Coronary heart, Bladder, Kidney, Circulation and Triple Hotter.
  • Ayurveda Doscha: Balances Vata, decreases Kapha and Will increase Pitta.
  • Animal Connection:
  • Crystal:
  • Shade: Orange, Yellow and Blue.
  • Numerology: Ginger 1; Zingiber officinale 9
Reference
Steffen Arctander, Fragrance and Taste Supplies of Pure Origin, 1960
Berkowsky’s Synthesis Materia Medica/Spiritualis of Important Oils ©1998-2018 Joseph Ben Hil-Meyer Analysis, Inc.
Tony Burfield, Pure Fragrant Supplies – Odours & Origins, 2000
Ernst Guenther, The Important Oil, Vol V, 1948 reprinted 1972
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Peter Holmes, Aromatica, Vol 1 and a couple of.  Singing Dragon 2016 & 2019
Joni Keim & Ruah Bull, Every day Aromatherapy, Remodeling the Seasons of your Life with Important Oils, North Atlantic Books, 2008Alec Lawless: Artisan Perfumery or Being Led by the Nostril, 2009,
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Tisserand and Younger, 2nd Version Important Oil Security, 2014
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