What is Pranarôm Organic Basil Essential Oil used for?
Basilessential oil (Ocimum Basilicum) has anthelmintic and insecticidal properties. It is stupefying, positivizing, powerful antispasmodic and neuroregulatory. It normalizes intestinal flora. It is anti-inflammatory and analgesic. It is an antioxidant, venous and prostatic decongestant and anti-infectious (antiviral) essential oil. It is also an antifungal, digestive and hepatobiliary tonic.
This essential oil is used in the following therapeutic indications:
- Aerophagia, gastritis, pancreatic insufficiency, nausea, digestive spasms, gastroenteritis
- Motion sickness
- Spasmophilia, anxiety, certain depressions, post-infectious asthenia, insomnia
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Venous circulatory disorders, dysmenorrhea
It's an annual herb 20 to 50 cm high, with clump-forming twiggy stems and oval, dark-green leaves (some varieties have wine-red leaves, due to the presence of anthocyanins). Its flowers are white, yellowish to reddish, grouped in whorls of 6.
Several varieties of basil are grown: the large green one, best known as pistou and the most common (O. basilicum var. Genovese), purple basil (O. basilicum purpurascens), lemon basil (O. basilicum citriodorum), and Thai basil (O. basilicum var. thyrsiflora, and var. dianatnejadii).
It's the "pistou" of southerners, widely used in the culinary arts, and is also the basis of "pesto", an Italian condiment. Originally from Asia, the Greeks discovered it after the campaigns of Alexander the Great. In medieval Europe, it was considered a witchcraft plant.
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How to use this essential oil
Venous decongestant action for circulatory disorders (sensation of heavy legs): Dilute 7% basil essential oil in calophylla vegetable oil and massage your legs with this mixture 2 times a day for 10 days.
Calming action against aerophagia: dilute basil essential oil 30% inblack cumin vegetable oil. Apply as a belly massage.
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Basil Essential Oil (Ocimum Basilicum) is also an anti-inflammatory, analgesic and antioxidant, as well as a venous and prostate decongestant. Basil is anti-infectious: antiviral and antifungal. It is a digestive and hepatobiliary tonic. It has antibacterial activity against Pseudomonas sp.
Precautions for use
- Carcinogenic risk with estragole and methyl-eugenol.
- Not recommended during pregnancy (prohibited for methyl-chavicol chemotype).
- Skin irritation (dermocaustic) possible in pure form
- Not recommended for pregnant or breast-feeding women.
- Do not diffuse
- Caution when used orally by people with coagulation disorders or those taking anticoagulants or blood thinners.
- Not recommended for hepatosensitive persons.
What is its composition?
Basil essential oil contains phenol methyl ethers, monoterpene alcohols, monoterpene esters, phenols, ketones and monoterpene oxides.
Main molecule: Linalool
Distilled part: Flowering aerial part
- Phenol methyl ether: chavicol ME or majority methyl chavicol, cis-anethole and trans-anethole. Methyl chavicol is absent or present in trace amounts in French basil (aromatic profile with linalool, geraniol, 1,8-cineole, eugenol), but up to 70-90% in exotic Indian basil.
- Monoterpene alcohols: linalool (12-14% and up to 80% in Mediterranean chemotypes), fenchol, terpinene-1-ol-4, alpha-terpineol, citronnellol
- Terpene esters: fenchyl acetate and linalyl acetate
- Phenols: eugenol (1%)
- Eugenol methyl ether
- Ketones: (1%): 3-octanone, camphor
- Oxides: 1,8-cineole, trans-ocymene oxide
Analysis of the EO of two varieties of Ocimum basilicum var. purpurascens and var. dianatnejadii from Iran (between 0.6 and 1.1% EO) enabled us to separate 49 compounds (representing 97 to 99.7% of the EO). The main compounds are aromatics (mainly methylchavicol, from 34 to 49%) and oxygenated monoterpenes (represented by linalool, from 14 to 39%), whatever the variety. Eugenol is present at less than 1%.
N.B.: Tropical basil essential oil is 3 times more potent than spasfon.