WINTERGREEN OIL AND ITS BENEFITS
Wintergreen plant has a botanical name as Gaultheria Procumbens. Wintergreenoil is an essential oil prepared by steam distillation of leaves of wintergreen
tree. The main two components of this essential oil are Gaultherilene
and Menthyl Salicylate. Wintergreen tree has its native traced out as North
America. This oil is known to be very famous and has lot many benefits for
health and has been a boon to human life. The physical appearance of this oil
is of pale yellow and pinkish in colour and had an odour of minty mixed with
pleasant sweetish flavour.
The benefits of
wintergreen oil are:
·
By diluting 1 to 2 drops of wintergreen oil and
applying regularly, it reduces the bone pain which is sustaining from long.
·
By applying 1 to 2 drops of diluted oil for two times
a day helps in reducing bone spurs.
·
By massaging the oil for 3 to 4 times a day, it also
helps in the treatment of cartilage injury.
·
Wintergreen oil in daily wash of hair helps in the
reduction of dandruff problems.
·
By massaging of oil regularly, it also reduces the
hypertension which is built up in the body.
·
The inflammation of certain parts too is reduced by
constant massaging of this essential oil.
·
Osteoporosis is also reduced by massaging the oil.
·
The salicylic acid and methyl salicylate is a natural
aspirin present in the oil and hence reduces pain.
·
Rheumatism too has an answer as wintergreen oil.
·
Arthritic pain is the usual problem that emerges with
old age and by massaging with wintergreen oil, it really gets reduced.
·
Wintergreen oil is a natural stimulant which
stimulates the discharge of digestive juices, hormones, enzymes etc.
Precautions:
Wintergreen oil is to be taken and used within the safe limits and the
excess of it is not a good practice. Taking more of it directly into stomach
may be fatal. Pregnant women should be careful about it as it may lead to
miscarriages.
Knowing
these, it’s up to you to decide about the essentiality of wintergreen oil and
the uses by which it may serve you.
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