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Melissa Oil / Lemon Balm Oil Bella Mira Essential Oil : Melissa Essential Oil
Country Of Origin: India Certification: Organic GRAS Classification: Melissa Officinalis essential oil Other Names: sweat balm essential oil, lemon balm essential oil, Found in Blends: Gabriel, Expectation, and Muse Interesting Facts: Melissa essential oil is commonly adulterated (co-distilled with Lemon balm herb with lemon oil or citronella oil, etc.). Charlemagne once ordered melissa planted in every monastery garden because of its beauty. The name is Melissa from the Greek word signifying 'bee,' indicative of the attraction the flowers have for those insects, on account of the honey they produce. The word Balm is an abbreviation of Balsam, the chief of sweet-smelling oils. Melissa was highly esteemed by Paracelsus, who believed it would completely revivify a man. Melissa essential oil was formerly esteemed of great use in all complaints supposed to proceed from a disordered state of the nervous system. The London Dispensary (1696) says: 'An essence of Lemon Balm, given in Canary wine, every morning will renew youth, strengthen the brain, relieve languishing nature and prevent baldness.' John Evelyn wrote: ' Lemon Balm is sovereign for the brain, strengthening the memory and powerfully chasing away melancholy.' Lemon Balm steeped in wine we are told again, 'comforts the heart and drives away melancholy and sadness.' Formerly a spirit of Balm, combined with lemon-peel, nutmeg and angelica root, enjoyed a great reputation under the name of Carmelite water, being deemed highly useful against nervous headache and neuralgic affections. Medicinal Use: Melissa essential oil is very soothing, relieves tension, and is, with rose and neroli, one of the major oils of the heart energy center. Melissa essential oil has powerful antiviral constituents, anti-depressant, anti-spasmodic, nervine, insect repellant, tonic for muscles spasm, fatigue, calms circulation (strengthens and slows heart, lowers blood pressure) eases palpitations due to crisis, unusual stimulation, excitation or fear. Melissa essential oil is beneficial for insomnia, migraine, nervousness, neurasthenia, anxiety, cold sores, herpes, fungal infections, wounds (stops blood flow), asthma, bronchitis, chronic coughs, colds (with headache), rapid breathing, shingles, emotional shock and grief. Melissa essential oil blocks attachment to thyroid cells by the antibodies that cause Grave's disease. Melissa essential oil also blocks thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) from further stimulating the already hyperactive thyroid. Melissa essential oil is especially helpful in herpes outbreaks. In a double blind study patients using melissa essential oil on active herpes sores; healed in an average of 2 days with little or no scarring. Melissa essential oil also prevents the spread of herpes. Melissa essential oil is very beneficial in Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). Melissa essential oil stops the pain and spasms associated with IBS. Constituents: citral, linalool, eugenol, citronellal, geraniol
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