Spearmint Essential Oils

Properties, Characteristics and Uses
of Spearmint Essential Oils in Aromatherapy

Botanical name : Mentha Spicata.

Origin : USA.

Scent : Sweeter fragrance than peppermint.

Note : Top.

This essential oil is extracted from the leaves and flowering tops by steam distillation.

Blends well with Bergamot, Jasmine, Lavender, Rosemary Eucalyptus and Peppermint.

A more subtle oil than peppermint. Can be used for children.

Spearmint essential oil is characterized by a pale yellow to pale olive hue. The aroma it has is distinct for its warmth, lightly green-herbaceous tones. This essential oil is as potent as the freshly crushed herb of the same source. It has some similarity to peppermint but this specie is lighter and sweeter as well.

Benefits

Physical Benefits :

This essential oil though not highly recognized for any medical benefits it is highly regarded in aromatherapy as much as the other members of the mint family. This family of greens is used commonly in treating fatigue, pains caused by common headache to migraine, mental fatigue and exhaustion or just stress in general. It also treats disorders related to the digestive tract such as gas, constipation, loose bowel movement, colic, dyspepsia, vomiting secondary to nausea and liver related disorders.

This essential oil is also relevant to controlling bad breath.

For women especially lactating moms, this essential oil will help promote the production of milk for the infant. This also helps ease menstrual cramps and other difficulties related to ovulation.

Common respiratory ailments may also be treated with this essential oil type like colds, coughs, sinusitis, bronchitis and catarrh. This is good in easing itchiness and swelling of the skin as well cases like acne, wounds, dermatitis, sores and scabs. This essential oil has a notable quality of increasing cell regeneration, cell repair and it may also act as a local anesthetic.

No scientific evidence supports arometherapist's claims in the efficacy of spearmint in alleviating any of the quoted conditions they say it treats. Chemically, the substance extracted from Spearmint is different from that of Peppermint and Cornmint. It is incorrect to relate the efficacy of the other two mints from Spearmint as they do not share the same quality.

Also, the credit to the relief of pain and muscle strain is attributed to the massage and not the incorporation of the spearmint essential oil in the process.

Cautions

It is highly discouraged that this essential oil is used on women in gestation, parturition and lactation due to the lack of information pertaining to the toxicology and bioactivity. The use of this essential oil to massage women in gestation is not advised but may possibly be used not too frequently as an air freshener.

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