Lemongrass is a warm citrusy essential oil with a charming scent of a pleasant summer’s day. This essential oil is particularly high in anti bacterial, antiseptic, healing and soothing properties. That makes it a great hit for calming massage blends, toiletry products and healing remedies. Lemon and lemongrass oils are essential oils extracted from plants for their healing and soothing benefits. Although both types include the word "lemon," they come from completely different plants.
Lemongrass is a kind of scented grass that is originated in India. It has been extensively used in traditional Indian medicine for many years. Because of its herbal and medicinal properties, people also apply lemon grass to skin and body health.
Health benefits of lemongrass oil in aromatherapy, is one of the best essential oils and aromatherapy oils because of its fresh citrus fragrance. This dark yellow or amber oil is extracted through steam distillation from dried lemon grass. The oil composes of many chemical properties, such as mycrene, nerol, neral, geraniol, citronellal, and geranyl acetate, which are beneficial for various medicinal, herbal, and therapeutic purposes.
In aromatherapy, it is found to be good for muscle relaxation, depression, edema, digestion, fever, infections, blood clotting, nerve tonic, and fighting cancer. For example, its analgesic and sedative properties help to calm and relax muscles, reduce pain from ailments, as well as relieve jet lag and stress.
Lemongrass Essential Oil can be attributed to its many beneficial properties as an analgesic, antidepressant, antimicrobial, antipyretic, antiseptic, astringent, bactericidal, carminative, deodorant, diuretic, febrifuge, fungicidal, galactogogue, insecticidal, nervine, sedative and tonic substance.
As the name implies, lemongrass smells just like lemons, but it is milder, sweeter, and far less sour. This grass is used in countless beverages (including tea), desserts and other forms of culinary creations as a flavoring agent, where fresh lemon is not available or is not to be used because of its more potent flavor. It is widely used in Chinese and Thai recipes. It grows and spreads very fast like any other grass and fetches a good price in the market, which makes it a profitable and common item in organic and mainstream markets.
Benefit & Uses: Lemongrass can be used to relieve stress and calm nervous, in them stressful times. Lemongrass can revitalize the body and relieve the symptoms of jetlag and tackle nervous exhaustion and relieve stress-related conditions. Traditionally sport's therapists have used Lemongrass essential oil to help tone the muscle and relieve muscle pains by making the muscle suppler.
Lemongrass Essential Oil helps relieve pain in muscles and joints, as well as toothaches and headaches resulting from viral infections like cough, cold, influenza, fever, and various poxes. It also helps cure general body pain resulting from strenuous activities and athletics.
Lemongrass Oil boosts self esteem, confidence, hope and mental strength, and it uplifts spirits and fights depression. This can be very helpful to drive away depression due to failures in their career, personal life, insecurity, loneliness, stagnation, death in the family and many other reasons. This also relieves anxiety. As an antidepressant, lemongrass can be systematically administered to patients of acute depression who are undergoing rehabilitation after acute shock. Basically, take it with your tea and relax.
Lemongrass has antimicrobial properties which makes it an inhibitor of microbial and bacterial growth in the body, both internally and externally. It is also known to be effective in inhibiting bacterial infections in the colon, stomach, urinary tracts, wounds, respiratory system, and other organ systems.
The antiseptic properties of Lemongrass Oil make it a good application for external and internal wounds as well as an ingredient of antiseptic lotions and creams. The antiseptic properties of this oil do not let the external and internal cuts and wounds become septic.
Lemongrass Essential Oil can efficiently handle trouble people might have with excess flatulence. It not only helps to remove gas from the intestine, but also stops further gas from forming. Furthermore, it provides the excess gas a safe downward passage by relaxing the muscles in the abdominal region.
Lemongrass Oil increases urination, both in frequency and in quantity. This may sound not that important but it can be very beneficial for health. When a person urinates, fats are lost from the body, because 4% of the volume of urine is composed of fats. Obviously, the more you urinate, the more you lose fat. Urination also promotes digestion and inhibits the formation of excess gas. It removes excess water from the body and reduces swelling. It’s most important contribution is that it removes toxins from the body, not to mention its ability to reduce blood pressure. That is the reason that most pharmaceutical medications for lowering blood pressure induce frequent urination. Urination also helps clean out the kidneys.