PLANT EXTRACTS

Plant Description

History and Origin

Lemon verbena is a small shrub of the verbenaceae family originating from South America. It is cultivated for its delicious lemon-scented leaves and for its properties in phytotherapy. It can flavor some dishes, drinks and infusions for its calming and digestive virtues. Lemon verbena is also known to fight against depression and insomnia. It is also called Aloysia triphylla in Latin.

Aromatherapy 

Energetic and Emotional Effect

Lemon verbena has an energizing effect. It stimulates energy and reduces nervous fatigue, while helping find back the joy to live and self-esteem. It helps strengthen concentration abilities. Lemon verbena enables to turn the page on the past and to manage the present. It is very useful to fight against depressions and to help overcome grief. Lemon verbena prepare for the future with joy and confidence.

Uses

Plant Description

Plant Description

Plant Description

History and Origin

Melissa is indigenous around the Mediterranean sea. It is now common in Europe, Central Asia, North America, North Africa, and Western Siberia. It is a perennial herbaceous plant, more or less pubescent, with a strong lemon aroma. Melissa is one of most ancient medicinal plants. It was originally used mainly to treat nervous and cardiac problems as well as to act on the level of emotions (to treat anxiety, melancholy, etc.) as well as to reinforce and vitalize the spirit. In Native herbalism, it is used by the Cherokee as a cold remedy, febrifuge, stimulant and gastrointestinal aid.

Energetic and Emotional Effect

Melissa is helpful during transitions; it disperses fears (for example, nearing death). It induces and brings a peaceful joy. Use it on heart and solar plexus chakras (point of expression forcreativity). It helps realigning our will with the Divine.

Plant Description

Plant Description

History and Origin

 Around late 17th century, Anne Marie Orsini, Dutchess of Bracciano and Princess of Nerola, popularized the essence of bitter orange as a fragrance by using it to perfume her gloves and as bathing water. Since then, “neroli” is used to designate orange blossom. Many young brides would use orange blossom to ornament their hair as a symbol of purity and fertility. The flower represented the spirit of the Virgin Mary. The white flower symbolizes virginity and the fruit, maternity.

Energetic and Emotional Effect

Enhances self-love, stimulates the opening of the crown chakra and eighth chakra. Reinforces spirituality (Ref.: Patricia Davis). Orange blossom encourages self-realisation. It opens and equilibrates the masculine and feminine aspects of one’s heart, bringing a feeling of security and protection as well as an intense sensation of being loved in all one’s aspects.

Plant description

History and Origin

Originally from New-Caledonian tree malenia leucodendron. Niaouli, named that way by the Native people, is mainly from New-Caledonia. It provides, with melaleuca cajeputi from the Moluccas, the essence of niaouli (cajuput) to the perfumery industry (Journ. offic. 9 sept. 1875, p. 7703, 1st col.)

Plant Description

History and Origin

Cymbopogon martinii is a plant species better known as palmarosa. Other common names: Indian geranium, gingergrass, rosha and rosha grass. This perennial herb comes from South Asia, particularly India and Pakistan and it is cultivated for its oil.   

Energetic and Emotional Effect It relaxes the nervous system and helps us overcome the need to be perfect. It evokes the Mother energy, so to give birth to an idea, a child or other things. It invites us to begin a healing process with our own mother (our inside mother and our physical mother).

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

Common plantain is imported from Europe, but other plant species were already growing in America. Native Americans called this plant "whiteman’s foot" because it was often found growing everywhere a white man stepped. Plantain grows in fields, along roads, cracks in the sidewalks, etc. There are around 200 species of plantain around the world and they all have the same medicinal properties.

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.