
Advices
Do not use in: pregnant or breast-feeding women, children under the age of three years, persons allergic to one of the components (geraniol, linalool, limonene), subjects with asthma without the advice of an allergologist before the first use, persons suffering from hormone-dependent cancer (uterus, ovary, breast, prostate).
recipes
Mix 1 drop of essential oil of cypress and 2 drops of essential oil of lemon in your shampoo.
Hoarseness - Dry cough
Place 2 drops of essential oil of cypress on a neutral tablet, sugar lump or in a spoonful of honey. Take this preparation three to four times daily for three to four days.
Any congestion
Mix 3 drops of essential oil of cypress with 10 drops of calophyllum vegetable oil, two to three times daily, always massaging from the bottom to the top of the body.
cultivation and production
fragrance
extraction and yield
Chemical formula
Main indications
Like most healing plants, cypress has its own legend. Ovid mentions in his Metamorphoses, that Cyparissus, "the most beautiful mortal of the island of Cos", accidentally killed a magnificent stag while hunting. Overwhelmed, he implored the gods to make him die, he was transformed into a tree. "We will miss you, said Apollo, but you will become the tree of mourning and tombs." The cypress did not just hold this cemetery keeper role. A tablet dating from 2080 B.C., discovered in the Ur site in Chaldea, gives a receipt to a merchant for a "cypress scented oil ointment". In the 7th century B.C., the poetess Sappho, infatuated with a beautiful friend, praises "the proud scent of cypress that she spreads on her beautiful curls". And Herodotus mentions in his Inquiries that Scythian women from what is now Ukraine "grate cypress wood over a rough stone" to prepare their beauty masks.
AROMATHERAPIA
The properties, benefits and method of use are given for information; they cannot in any case constitute or replace medical information that only health professionals can provide. For any use of essential oils for therapeutic purposes, please consult your GP or pharmacist.