All You Wanted to Know about Jasmine Essential Oil
Jasmine essential oil is an extract from the common jasmine flower or the Jasminum gradiflora as it is named in Latin. This oil also comes from sister plants such as Jasminum grandiflorum or the royal jasmine, and the Jasminum officinale.
Where Does the Jasmine Come From?
The name of Jasmine comes from the Arabic word Yasmin. The jasmine is a small evergreen climber bush that can grow up to 10 meters or 33 feet tall, which gives exquisitely small and beautiful white flowers that have the most amazing fragrance. This is a plant which was originally brought from Northern India and China where it was used as an adornment for women and a medicine in the royal courts.
The flower spread fast in Europe after the Spanish people introduced it there and today you have Turkey where the best quality and concentration of oil is extracted. The extract is obtained in two phases, (1) the concrete phase whereby the extraction is done by solvent method and (2) the absolute phase where the extract is separated from the concrete with the help of alcohol. Lastly, jasmine essential oil is obtained through the distillation process. Jasmine essential oil is very expensive since it takes about one thousand pounds (approx 50 kilograms) of flowers to make one pound of the best quality jasmine extract.
How Is the Jasmine Essential Oil Used?
The first and most important use of this oil is used for its fragrance in cosmetics and incense industries. The alternate medicine professionals from China, India and United Arab Emirates use it both as an air freshener as well as a home or herbal remedy for a number of ailments including as an excellent aphrodisiac. In Indonesia, it seems that the jasmine flower is an exceptional tasty garnish for food and in Turkey it is a very popular tea.
The jasmine essential oil is well known for its exceptional therapeutic properties. It is able to drive away depression (even the heavy chronic types), anxiety attacks, improve self-confidence, helps in stomach ache and elimination of gas, fights respiratory related problems, etc. Daily massage with this oil is said to cure impotence and premature ejaculation, promotes easy childbirth while at the same time neutralizes childbirth pain.
You can use of this oil when you are assailed by post-partum depression or when you need an increased formation of milk. Other problems where this oil is able to make a difference for are frigidity in women and failed sexual prowess in men. Its anti inflammatory properties make it excellent remedy for minor injuries.
