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Cardamom Essential Oil

Cardamom Essential Oil is a beautiful and intriguing oil to explore for both aromatic and therapeutic blending.

Aromatically, Cardamom Essential Oil is a spicy-sweet middle note that blends well other spice oils, citrus oils, wood oils, and so many other oils. It's not an oil that I generally use as a single-note though many do enjoy diffusing it on its own. To me, Cardamom Essential Oil shines as a "team player" when blended with other oils. It makes an ordinary blend come to life.

Emotionally, Cardamom Oil is uplifting and energizing. It might offer promise to those challenged with stress, fatigue, depression or despair. Cardamom Oil is considered an aphrodisiac.

Cardamum Oil

Botanical Name: Elettaria cardamomum Common Method of Extraction: Steam Distilled Color: Clear Consistency: Thin Perfumery Note: Middle Strength of Initial Aroma: Medium

Aromatic Description: Spicy, woody, rich, sweet.

	Cardamom Seeds

Cardamom Oil Uses: Appetite (loss of), colic, fatigue, halitosis, stress. [Julia Lawless, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Essential Oils (Rockport, MA: Element Books, 1995), 63-67.] A number of sources also acknowledge that Cardamom Oil acts as an expectorant.

Constituents: Terpinyl acetate, cineol, limonene, sabiene, linalool, linalyl acetate, pinene, zingiberene. [Julia Lawless, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Essential Oils (Rockport, MA: Element Books, 1995), 138.]

Safety Information: Essential Oil Safety by Robert Tisserand does not indicate any special precautions when using Cardamom Oil. [Robert Tisserand, Essential Oil Safety (United Kingdom: Churchill Livingstone, 1995), 204.]

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