What is Docteur Valnet Lemongrass Organic Essential Oil used for?
Lemongrass essential oil has anti-inflammatory and anti-herpetic properties on HSV type 1. It is sedative, vasodilating and hypotensive. A great tropical herb, lemongrass (Cymbopogon flexuosus - Poaceae family ), also known as Indian verbena, is used in oriental cuisine and has been present in Indian medicine for centuries. The essential oil has a refreshing scent reminiscent of lemon.
Lemongrass essential oil, extracted from the plant's rhizomes, is recognized for its multiple pharmacological properties. It contains bioactive compounds, notably citral, geraniol and limonene, which are the source of its health benefits.
Specific antiviral and antibacterial properties
- Anti-herpetic: Lemongrass essential oil has been shown to inhibit replication of the Herpes simplex virus type 1, thereby limiting the clinical manifestations of this infection.
- Bacterial growth inhibition: Effective against various bacterial strains, including antibiotic-resistant strains such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
- Spectrum of action: Antibacterial action extends to skin infections, throat ailments and urinary tract infections.
Anticancer properties
- Induction of apoptosis: induces programmed cell death in cancer cells.
- Cytotoxic activity: Displays selective toxicity towards cancer cell lines, suggesting potential as an anticancer agent.
Other pharmacological properties
- Action on the nervous system: Calming and sedative effects on the central nervous system.
- Febrifuge: Ability to reduce fever.
- Insect repellent: Repellent property against mosquitoes, useful in preventing bites.
- Anti-inflammatory: Attributable in part to citrals, it can help reduce inflammation.
- Anti-allergic: Citral also has anti-allergic properties.
- Vasodilating and hypotensive: May help dilate blood vessels and reduce blood pressure.
- Mucolytic and lipolytic: Promotes liquefaction and expulsion of mucus and helps break down fats.
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How to use this essential oil
For cellulite-type draining action, dilute lemongrass essential oil 20% in rose hip vegetable oil. Massage into the area concerned.
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What are the precautions for use?
- Do not use undiluted (risk of skin irritation), always dilute.
- Not recommended for pregnant or breast-feeding women.
- Not recommended for people with cardiovascular problems.
- Avoid diffusing or inhaling this essential oil.
- Do not use in bath water
- Caution in cases of prostatic hyperplasia
- Risk of enzymatic inhibition and therefore of drug interactions (ask your pharmacist for advice).
- Caution for people with autoimmune diseases, epilepsy, asthma, Parkinson's disease or the elderly, as well as those with neurosensitivity.
- Risk of neurotoxicity that may induce epileptic seizures at high doses
- Do not swallow
- Recommended for cutaneous use only
- Forbidden for internal use
- For adults only
- Risk of drug interactions with essential oils containing sesquiterpenes in excess of 10%.
What is its composition?
Lemongrass essential oil is composed of monoterpene aldehydes, monoterpene alcohols, sesquiterpene aldehydes, monoterpene hydrocarbons and sesquiterpene hydrocarbons.
Distilled part |
leaves |
Chemotype |
citral (neral + geranial) |
Distillation |
low-pressure steam distillation |
Origin |
Madagascar |
Yield |
200 kg for 1 kg of EO |
Presentation : Docteur Valnet's organic lemongrass essential oil comes in a 10ml bottle.