Essential oils

Plant Description

History and Origin

Originally the product of a natural hybridization between Mentha aquatica and Mentha spicata, peppermint is today a widely cultivated plant. Indigenous in Europe, it is now commonly found all around the globe as an adventitious plant. It likes humid and well-drained soils. In Egypt, some peppermint traces were found, dating back to as far as 1 000 years before J.-C. In Native medicinal tradition, it is used as analgesic (against colic, cramps and headaches), antiemetic, carminative, antipyretic and gastrointestinal tonic, as well as a remedy against flu and hemorrhoids and as a urinary disinfectant. Mitchum peppermint, very popular around the world, has its roots in Saint-Lawrence River Valley, in Québec.

Energetic and Emotional Effect

Peppermint is a general stimulant. Applied on the third eye chakra, it is inspiring and stimulates creativity while enhancing will and activity (solar plexus). Peppermint has a high level of compatibility with spruce. Peppermint’s energy soothes frictions and works on the barriers impeding the assimilation of new information. Symbolically, it allows the digestion of new thoughts and beliefs. Besides, peppermint contributes to chasing fears away from the mental body; it calms mental chattering and dissipates confusion.

Plant Description

History and Origin

From the family of Rutaceaes and originally from South-East Asia and Europe, petitgrain is the name given to essential oils extracted by steam distilling the leaves of lemon, mandarin and bitter orange trees. Each of these trees provides three different essential oils depending on the part used. The leaves produce petitgrain, the flower, neroli and the peel, the zest oil. Petitgrain is used in high grade Colognes.

Plant Description

History and Origin

 Camphor tree is a beautiful evergreen and aromatic tree coming from China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and a few other countries in South-East Asia. It is well known for the essence that is extracted from the leaves and wood, camphor. The essential oil has been used for very long. It is used for its properties as antiseptic, antiviral and heart tonic. The term originates from the Malagasy language (from raven, the leaf, et tsara, “good”, literally meaning : “the good leaf”).

Plant Description

History and Origin

Several types of chamomile exist, and they should not be confused. Roman chamomile is one of the medicinal plants for which the longest tradition is found in many cultures. It owes its name to the fact that the Romans cultivated it around the XVI^th and XVII^th centuries.
Physicians used to prescribe it for numerous purposes, and they held it in high regard as a medicine. Of course, they prescribed higher concentrations than what we are today used to consuming for relaxation ("a couple flowers floating on an ocean of water").

Energetic and Emotional Effect

Positivating, and negativating. The oil enhances the feeling of inner harmony and relieves stress. It helps working on abandonment feelings. It is an “essential” oil that brings us into contact with our life mission (use on the frontal chakra for that purpose).
It eases the process of creativity, activates the crown chakra and calms emotivity and reactivity.

Plant Description

History and Origin

Rosemary is a shrub of the lamiaceae family native to the Mediterranean area.Its stem, that can reach two metres in length, is covered with a greyish bark and divides into opposing branches. Its leaves are longer than they are wide, with slightly rolled edges. Its blue flower spikes blossom from January to May. The name "rosemary" derives from the Latin for "dew" (ros) and "sea" (marinus), or "dew of the sea".

Rosemary has been one of the first plants widely used therapeutically, for cooking as well as for its pleasant aroma. As an example, in Ancient Greece, rosemary sprigs were burnt as incense at shrines. In the Middle Age, it was used to treat respiratory and circulatory disorders, liver congestion, muscular and rheumatic pain as well as skin and hair problems.

Plant Description

History and Origin

Sage is also called Sacred Herb or European Tea. Its name is already a diploma of efficacy because salvia comes from the latin word salvare which means “save”, “cure”. For the Ancients, it’s a sacred plant. The Romans followed a particular ritual when harvesting sage: after a sacrifice of bread and wine, sage had to be picked “wearing a white tunic, bare and washed feet”, and without using iron tools (we know today that iron salts are incompatible with sage). Throughout the Middle Ages, sage was considered an essential plant and was an ingredient in a large number of preparations such as arquebuse water, celestial water, imperial water, etc. There is an old saying that goes: “Who has sage in his garden never needs a doctor”.

Our sandalwood essential oil is produced according to a sustainable approach and equitable sharing in New Caledonia. The production supports local economy, populations and preservation of the forest.

The seedlings are cultivated in nurseries to be planted in forest. Each year, only 40 to 50 years old trees are selected for cutting. In addition, 10 trees are planted for every tree cut. This way, natural regeneration is superior than harvesting.

Plant Description

History and Origin

Sandal wood grows as a small tree feeding from planting sucker shoots in the roots of other trees. Hemiparasitic, it is unable to transform nutrients in the soil. The variety austrocaledonicum was discovered in 1840 on Pins Island, New Caledonia. In India, many temples were built with its fragrant wood. Some excerpts from the Bible make reference to the use of sandal wood for the crafting of harps, lutes and railings for the Temple of Jerusalem, in the time of Solomon. Sandal wood is still today very much used in Hindu rituals and ceremonies. For instance, it enters in the composition of pastes used in the Temples of Shiva for embalming. Traditionally used in the Pacific Islands as a fragrant addition to coconut oil, applied on the body and hair. It is also specially recommended to treat chronic bronchitis and pulmonary problems. Women in the Comoro Islands and Mozambique make a paste used as a facial mask worn outside of the privacy for skin regeneration and protection (from cooking, working in the fields, etc.).

Back in 1865, overexploitation already threatened the plant’s future. It is one of the reasons why Aliksir chooses cultures that respect ecological and environmental values. We want to ensure the species and ecosystems’ safeguard

Energetic and Emotional Effect

Calms the mental (This is why it has been used in India for thousands of years to prepare meditation). Helps visualization and meditation by slowing down “mental hyperactivity”. It also reinforces the link between the Crown and Base chakra. The smell of sandal wood brings a sense of exotic sensuality and calmness. Sandal wood is used in the preparation of spiritual and self-healing work. Evolution of the Spirit is achieved through awakening the Kundalini and taming sexual energies. On an energetic level, sandal wood aligns and balances the center of sacral chakra’s feminine energies with the masculine energies of the root chakra. This alignment frees up the kundalini’s reserve of energy, wrapped around the base of the spine. By liberating this energy, it becomes able to take root and to connect with the heart. Sandal wood calms the fire of sexual desire and brings a feeling of completeness, which eases the process of learning the meaning of True Love. By exploring True Love’s nature, we are better able to understand the Divine and Sacred nature of sex.

Plant Description

History and Origin

Scotch pine is indigenous in Eurasia and cultivated in Eastern United-States, Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, Finland, and Canada. It is now considered naturalized in parts of New England and the Lake States. In Quebec, its future is uncertain. Because of its lack of adaptation, it can hardly multiply naturally. Pine seeds are known to be an excellent fortifier for consumptive and recovering people.

Aromatherapy 

Plant Description

History and Origin

 Already used by Dioscoride in the 1st Century of our Age, lavender has long been renowned as a medicinal plant. The term “Lavender”, from Latin “lavare”, appears in the Middle-Age. For a long period, people thought that bad smells were associated with disease, so essential oils started to be used to fight “diseases”, as a therapeutic product. In that time, Lavender was found in the gardens of Monasteries where, with other aromatic plants, it was used for medicinal purposes. Lavender picking is mentioned around the topic of herbalism in texts dating back to the XIVth Century. In the XIIIth Century, the development of the faculties of Marseille and Montpellier played a critical role on the path to knowing the properties of local plants. Lavender essential oil was used for its therapeutic properties both internally and externally during the plague epidemic, in Provence.

Energetic and emotional action

Aspic lavender dissolves mental rigidity, lack of tolerance and open-mindedness. It helps transform mental patterns. It heals wounds of the subtle bodies.

Plant Description

Plant Description

History and Origin 

Originally from Australia, tea tree is one of the most widely known medicinal aromatic plants. Australia’s Indigenous people have used its leaves for medicinal purposes for thousands of years.

Its common name “tea tree” dates back to Captain Cook’s expeditions (1770). The English sailors would drink in infusion of the leaves, fresh or dried, to replace their favorite beverage.

Plant description

History and Origin

Greek Thymos, “spiritedness, expressed passion”, is where the name thyme comes from. The Egyptians and Etruscans would use thyme and other plants to preserve their dead. Greeks burned thyme on altars, in public and in rich houses. Of course, thyme was also commonly used in the kitchen. It was also very often applied as a stimulating perfume. Romans would also use thyme to prepare a wide variety of cosmetics. As a symbol of courage, the image of thyme is used in Northern Europe until the Great Crusades. In the old days, maiden would embroider bees flying by a branch of thyme on scarves to protect their knights leaving for the land of barbarians.

Energetic and Emotional Effect

Thyme is tonic and energizing. Its mildness connects it to the frontal chakra, but it is also quite active on the level of the umbilical center of energy.

Plant Description

History and Origin

Greek Thymos, “spiritedness, expressed passion”, is where the name thyme comes from. The Egyptians and Etruscans would use thyme and other plants to preserve their dead. Greeks burned thyme on altars, in public and in rich houses. Of course, thyme was also commonly used in the kitchen. It was also very often applied as a stimulating perfume. Romans would also use thyme to prepare a wide variety of cosmetics. As a symbol of courage, the image of thyme is used in Northern Europe until the Great Crusades. In the old days, maiden would embroider bees flying by a branch of thyme on scarves to protect their knights leaving for the land of barbarians.