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Words by Anny Schneider

This type of eucalyptus (also known as lemon-scented gum) essential oil is one of the most powerful to repel biting insects.

We add it to our anti-tick and mosquito synergies.

It has antalgic properties and analgesic ones too.

Diluted at a rate of 10% of the aromatic essence in vegetable oil, it can to be applied to joints and painful muscles.

Origin of this essential oil

This organic lemon eucalyptus essential oil from India is distilled from the leaves of the tree.

Properties

It is also a recognized insect repellent often used in synergy against mosquitoes, ticks or lice.

Suggestions for use

In local application on the painful area, alone or in combination with other pain-relieving oils, such as wintergreen, lavender, and common juniper, all diluted between 10 and 15%, 3 to 4 times per day.

In massages diluted in calendula oil or St. John's wort.

Cautions

Keep away from children, air, heat and light.

More information

It is a high and wide tree 50 meters high whose foliage gives off a lemony smell, whitish to pale pink bark spotted with gray, standing out in long ribbons.

Mature leaves are alternate, long (10-16 cm), narrow (1-2 cm) and tapered at the ends.

The flowers are club-shaped, they give off a peppermint smell when kneaded, the fruit is hemispherical and woody.

 

Thanks to its composition rich in terpene aldehydes, Lemon Eucalyptus essential oil will act as a powerful anti-inflammatory.

In other words, it will help regulate inflammatory reactions in the joints and muscles.

It will thus relieve the pain associated with sporting effort, osteoarthritis or arthritis.

It will also be useful in cases of skin or respiratory inflammation.

As for its medicinal use, in Cuba for example, leaves are placed in the sheets of feverish patients.

 

Main components of essential oil

• Monoterpene aldehyde: citronellal 60 to 70%
• Monoterpenols: 10-25% (citronnellol 7-12%, isopulegol 3-9%, neoisopulegol 4-6%, linalool <1%, alpha-terpineol <1%, 1,8-terpinol hydrate <1%, geraniol < 1% )
• organic compound related to monoterpenes, derived from menthol, p-menthane-3,8-diol = para-menthane-3,8-diol, or PMD
• Monoterpenes: 3% (alpha-pinene < 1%, beta-pinene < 1%, limonene < 1%, beta-myrcene < 1%)
• Sesquiterpenes: < 3% (beta-caryophyllene 1%, bicyclogermacrene < 1%)
• Esters: <2% (Citronnellyl Acetate <2%, Citronnellyl Formate <1)%, Beta-Phenylethyl Acetate <1%
• Monoterpene oxides: < 1% (1.8 cineole < 1%, rose oxide < 1%)
• Acids: < 1% (citronellic acid)

 

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References

Passeportsante.net (Céline Hilpipre, Pharmacienne)

Wikiphyto.org

 

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