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Frankincense

18 April, 2022


The essential oil or the spirit of Frankincense offers by its presence : Spiritual aspirations – Concentration – Spiritual consciousness – Disconnection of the mind – Memory – Perception of the here and now, of being and being – Rhythm and depth of breathing


Botanical name :  Boswellia carterii

Family :  Burserácea

Plant/part : Rubber/resin.

Extraction : Distillation by steam drag of the rubber/resin.

Habitat : Native to Somalia, Eastern Africa, Southern Arabia and also India


Botanical description

It is a tree with deciduous leaves, alternate, imparipinnada with ten pairs of leaflets and one terminal. The leaflets are toothed, oblong and with short petioles. The white or pink flowers are small and with short peduncles. They have 10 stamens and are grouped into axillary clusters smaller than the leaves. The corolla with five petals. The fruit is a drupe with three cells and a winged seed in each.


What Frankincense contains

How:

  • a-phellandrenes (up to 25%), a- and b-pinene (up to 15%), a-thujene (<15%), 1-limonene (<5%), sabinene (<7%), p-cymene (<10%), a-terpinene, camphene, myrcene
  • Sesquiterpenes (<10%) : b-elemeno (<5%), a-copaene
  • Alcohols (<10%) : cis-verbenol (<5%), 4-terpineol, a-terpineol, borneol, cis-sabinol, olibanol, trans-pinocarveol, farnesol
  • Ketones: verbenone.


Combinations with Frankincense

How:

Spruce – basil – camphor or ravintsara – bergamot – cinnamon – cardamom – cassia – cedar – coriander – cloves – coriander – elemi – wintergreen – geranium – helichrysum – jara or cistus – jasmine – ginger – lavender – lime – lemon – ho wood – mandarin – Roman chamomile – marjoram – lemon balm – spearmint – myrrh – orange – neroli – oregano – patchouli – palmarosa – black pepper – rosemary – rosemary – sage – sandalwood – thyme – grapefruit – vetiver – ylang ylang


Properties of Frankincense

How:

  • Allows you to have a better attitude
  • Calm pain and also decreases nervous excitement
  • Comforts
  • Destroys germs
  • Elevates the mind
  • Facilitates meditative states
  • Fight against tumors and also cancers, inflammation
  • Firming
  • Focus energy
  • Gives strength and also energy to the skin system
  • Harmonizes the central nervous system
  • Heals
  • Helps expectorate
  • Improves respiratory amplitude
  • Oxygenates the pineal glands as pituitary
  • Prevents microorganisms or infectious agents from spreading
  • Re-structures rhythms (biological, physical, immune, emotional and also psychic)
  • Regenerates uterine and skin tissue
  • Stimulates the activity of the nervous system and also the immune system


Indications for Frankincense

Body

How:

  • Aging of the brain
  • Allergies
  • Alzheimer’s disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease and also Parkinson’s disease
  • Aneurysm
  • Arthritis
  • Asthma
  • Bleeding
  • Brain injury
  • Bronchitis
  • Cancer
  • Catarrh
  • Chronic breathing problems
  • Colds
  • Coma
  • Concussion
  • Cough
  • Diarrhea
  • Diphtheria
  • Fibroids
  • Going beyond the blood-cephalic barrier
  • Gonorrhea
  • Hepatitis
  • High blood pressure
  • Improve vision
  • Inflammation
  • Jaundice
  • Laryngitis
  • Liver cirrhosis
  • Meningitis
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Nasal polyps
  • Nerve conditions, virus
  • Pneumonia
  • Prostate problems
  • Sciatic, headache
  • Severe immune deficiency
  • Staphylococcus as streptococcus
  • Syphilis
  • Tonsillitis
  • Tuberculosis
  • Typhoid

Skin

How:

  • Aging
  • Bite (snakes)
  • Eczema
  • Genital warts
  • Herpes
  • Infected wounds
  • Insect bites
  • Moles
  • Psoriasis
  • Scarring (prevention)
  • Sores
  • Tumor (lipoma)
  • Varicose ulcers
  • Wrinkles

Emotional psychic

How:

  • Affective shock
  • Anxiety
  • Clothes
  • Confusion
  • Distractions, dispersions
  • Hyperactivity
  • Impatience
  • Irritability
  • Limitations of the past
  • Mental fatigue
  • Miscarriage (after)
  • Nervous depression
  • Nervous tension
  • Obsessive and also tormented thoughts
  • Paralyzing mental state
  • Postpartum depression
  • Restlessness
  • Take some distance


Methods of use

How:

It can be applied pure (undiluted) when used topically. Apply directly to the area of interest or also to the reflection points. Also diffuse or inhale the aroma directly.

Place 1 or 2 drops under the tongue or also take the oil in capsules.


Precautions with Frankincense

How:

Not recommended during the first three months of pregnancy and also in children under 7 years.


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