Helichrysum, Italian (Immortal), Italia

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Crop type: 

Conventional culture

Appearance: 

Pale yellow to reddish-yellow liquid

Odor: 

Characteristic aromatic odor.

Oil Properties: 

Anticoagulant

Circulatory

Wound cicatrizer

Oil Recommendations: 

Massage

Friction

Cosmétique

Synonym: 

Helichrysum angustifolium, Immortelle

INCI: 

Helichrysum italicum flower oil

CAS TSCA: 

8023-95-8

Product code: EAC435484

COA PDF: 

za.coa_helichrysum_italian.eac435484it64124a.pdf

Cautions and warnings:
Do not use pure essential oils. Essential oils are diluted in a vegetable oil when applied to the skin. Carry out a skin tolerance test in the crook of your elbow and wait 48 hours before using the oil on the skin. Do not use the essential oil if you notice a reaction such as redness, itching or stinging.
Keep out of reach of children.
If accidental ingestion occurs, seek urgent medical attention or contact a Poison Control Center.
Avoid contact with eyes and mucous membranes. Essential oils should not be applied to the eyes, the eye contour area, neither into the ears. In case of contact, apply a plenty of vegetable oil and take promptly medical advice.
If symptoms persist or worsen when using essential oil, consult a health care practitioner.
If you have epilepsy or asthma, consult a health care practitioner prior to use.
Avoid exposure of applied area(s) to the sun.
Contraindications:
If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, do not use essential oils.
Known adverse reactions:
If you experience nausea, dizziness, headache or an allergic reaction, discontinue use.
Storage:
Store in airtight, light-resistant container at room temperature.
Responsibility:
The information contained on our site is presented purely for information purposes and cannot, in any case, bind the responsibility of the company. In no way does this information constitute a recommendation for preventive or curative treatment, prescription or diagnosis, nor should it be considered as such.

Words by Mikaël

Creativity

Helichrysum heals physical and emotional wounds: it helps heal trauma.

Accompanying visualization, it releases creativity.

Healing, anti-coagulant, antispasmodic.

Words by Anny Schneider

Its scent is generally soothing on an emotional level, and Immortelle, as its name suggests, overcomes many ailments, both physical and psychological.

Helichrysum relieves both hematomas and emotional bruises, particularly wounds and trauma experienced in early childhood.

This pretty little yellow flower from the arid scrubland, very soft to the touch and with a subtle aroma, well deserves its popular name of everlasting!

Lydia Bosson, in Energetic Aromatherapy, recommends applying a drop to the soles of the feet, a drop to the solar plexus and a drop to the third eye before going to sleep.

Helichrysum essential oil helps ground you and calms raw nerves.

It helps you get out of difficult situations and take new steps.

Origin of this essential oil

This essential oil comes from the distillation of the flowering tops of Italian Helichrysum harvested in Italy.

Properties

• Antiseptic,
• healing,
• hemostatic,
• moisturizing.

Suggestions for use

Used diluted at 5% in vegetable oil (hemp, St. John's wort, castor) against joint and muscle pain.

Cautions

• It is a very useful essential oil that should not be used internally or at a very low dosage and under the supervision of a health practitioner with good knowledge of aromatherapy.
• It is prohibited in pregnant women and children and should be avoided in people taking anticoagulants.

More information

The Italian helichrysum, also called immortelle because its flowers never seem to die, is a small plant from the shores of the Mediterranean.

It does not exceed 50 cm in height.

It grows in dense clumps, the leaves are fine, grayish, soft and topped with yellow flower heads in June-July.

Helichrysum likes well-draining and siliceous soils.

To make the precious essential oil, we use the flowers and upper branches.

Essential oil should be part of all backpacks for hikers and athletes in general; it is known to quickly relieve the risk of hematomas (bruises) after an impact or a fall.

It helps in cases of phlebitis and paraphlebitis as well as edema, varicosities, rosacea.

But also, it relieves bronchitis and nasopharyngitis.

It would also be effective in reducing ringing in the ears.

If there is one oil to have with you when you go hiking, it's this one.

Main components of essential oil

• Terpene esters:
  • Origin Corsica (France): neryl acetate 35-75% (most abundant component), ketones and β-diketones
  • Origin Greece: neryl acetate 7% with additional geranyl acetate 15% and geraniol)
• Ketones (15 to 20%): diones or betadiones or β-diketones = italidiones: italidione I, II, III (4,6,9-trimethyl-8-decene-3,5-dione = italidione I and 2,4, 6,9-tetramethyl-8-decene-3,5 dione = italidione II)
  • In Corsican origin (France), presence of higher quantities of ketones and β-diketones in young shoots, and of neryl acetate in full flowering 
• Neryl acetate is the majority component of Corsican EO, with neryl propionate, nerol, ketones and β‐diketones [3], eudesm‐5‐en‐11‐ol 
• Distillation processes are likely to modify the chemical composition of the EO [5], as does the geographical origin 
• Sesquiterpenes: beta-caryophyllene, alpha-cedrene, gamma-curcumene, alpha-curcumene
• Monoterpenols: nerol
• Limonene, 1,8-cineole (Corsican origin (France)), alpha-pinene, alpha-selinene and beta-selinene
• Great variability of the essential oil depending on the origin :
  • Corsica (France): contain mainly oxygenated derivatives: neryl acetate, neryl propionate, aliphatic ketones and beta-diketones, few hydrocarbons (limonene, gamma-curcumene, alpha-curcumene)
  • Former Yugoslavia: alpha-pinene (22%), gamma-curcumene (10%), beta-selinene (6%), neryl acetate (6%), beta-caryophyllene (5%), while alpha-curcumene ( 15-29%), gamma-curcumene, and alpha-pinene (25-30%) are more abundant in EOs from the Adriatic coast
  • Greece: geraniol (36%), geranyl acetate (15%), nerolidol (12%)
  • Tuscany: alpha-pinene (33–53%), neryl acetate (10–22%), and sesquiterpene hydrocarbons (23–39%): beta-selinene, beta-caryophyllene, alpha-selinene

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References

*Wikiphyto.org