Blog post by Tina Winterlik
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.com
March 3/2011
Oh Lavender, Lovely Lavender. How I love you!!
I do, I really love my lavender. I use it for everything. For my little girl's little owee's, for acne, for stress, upset tummy, sunburn, preventing colds/flu. Lavender is an
anti-bacterial, anti-fungal,anti-depressant and oh so much more. See Read what Valerie Worwood writes about lavender.
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One day I hope to have a little house in the Kootenays with a big big garden full of lavender and other wonderful herbs. It would be so lovely to have a little storefront with
"Angel's Apothecary" and have a set up like
Gaia Gardens http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.com/2011/03/gaia-gardens-apothecary.html and sell all sorts of wonderful essential oils, creams, lotions and natural soaps.
I dream that Angel and I will become Herbalists and Aromatherapists.
That's my dream, my projection, my future!!
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| Lavender- Oh How I Love You! Photo by Tina Winterlik |
The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy
By Valerie Ann Worwood
Provenza-Promfumo di Lavanda
A Guide to Growing Lavender
Starting a Lavender Farm
Drying Lavender
Removing the flowers
Choosing a Distiller
Lavender Distiller Parts
La Lavanda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender
The lavenders (Lavandula) are a genus of 39 species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. An Old World genus, distributed from
Macaronesia (Cape Verde and Canary Islands and Madeira) across
Africa, the
Mediterranean,
South-West Asia, Arabia,
Western Iran and
South-East India. It is thought the genus originated in Asia but is most diversified in its western distribution.
The genus includes annuals, herbaceous plants, subshrubs, and small shrubs. The native range extends across the Canary Islands, North and East Africa, Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, Arabia and India. Because the
cultivated forms are planted in gardens worldwide, they are occasionally found growing wild as garden escapees, well beyond their natural range. However, since lavender cross-pollinates easily, there are countless variations within the species. The color of the flowers of some forms has come to be called lavender.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_oil
Lavender oil
Lavender oil is an essential oil obtained by distillation from the flower spikes of certain species of lavender. Two forms are distinguished,
lavender flower oil, a colorless oil, insoluble in water, having a density of 0.885 g/mL; and
lavender spike oil, a distillate from the herb Lavandula latifolia, having density 0.905 g/mL.
Lavender flower oil is a designation of the National Formulary and the British Pharmacopoeia. Like all essential oils, it is not a pure compound;
it is a complex mixture of naturally occurring phytochemicals, including linalool and linalyl acetate. Kashmir Lavender oil is famous for being produced from lavender at the foothills of the Himalayas. Read More Here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_oil
Therapeutic uses
Lavender oil, which has long been used in the production of perfume, can also be used in aromatherapy. The
scent has a
calming effect which may aid in
relaxation and the reduction of
anxiety.
Lasea capsules containing lavender oil with a high amount of
linalool and
linalyl acetate, termed
Silexan by the manufacturer, are approved as an
anxiolytic in Germany.
[1] The approval is based on a finding that the capsules are comparable in effect to low-dose
lorazepam.
[2]
It may also help to relieve pain from
tension headache when breathed in as vapor or diluted and rubbed on the skin.
When added to a
vaporizer, lavender oil may aid in the treatment of
cough and
respiratory infection.
Lavender oil may also be used as a
mosquito repellent when worn as perfume or when added to lotions or hair products. Read More Here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_oil
Medicinal uses
According to advocates of
alternative medicine, lavender oil can be used as an
antiseptic and
pain reliever to be applied to
minor burns and
insect bites and stings. It is also said to treat a variety of common ailments, such as
sunburn and
sunstroke.
[3] It can also be used in
massage oil mixtures, which may be effective in the relief of
joint and
muscle pain, or in chest rub mixtures for the relief of
asthmatic and
bronchitic spasm. It is also said to treat
head lice when used in a
hair rinse mixture, or on a
fine comb to eliminate
nits. Some say lavender oil may have played a role in the reduction of advanced
mammary tumors in lab rats. Read More Here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_oil
