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Valerian Root Oil / Valerian Oil

Bella Mira Essential Oil : Valerian Root Essential Oil                   

Country Of Origin: Himalaya

Certification: Wild Crafted GRAS

Classification: Valeriana jatamansi Syn. V. wallichii  Essential Oil

Other Names: east indian valerian root essential oil, English valerian essential oil, German valerian essential oil, great wild valerian essential oil, Vermont valerian essential oil, vandal root essential oil, all heal essential oil, setwall essential oil, American English valerian essential oil, Garden valerian essential oil, phu essential oil, garden heliotrope essential oil

Found in Blends: Healing Rain

Interesting Facts: This particular variety of Valerian Root is in the same family as Spikenard!

Central nervous system sedation is regulated by receptors in the brain known as GABA-A receptors. Valerian essential oil may weakly bind to these receptors to exert a sedating effect. Valerian essential oil is the most widely used sedative in Europe, where over one hundred valerian preparations are sold in pharmacies. Valerian essential oil  is growing in popularity throughout the world because of its reputation for relieving anxiety and insomnia. Valerian Root Essential Oil has been used for nervousness and insomnia for thousands of years in Ayurvedic medicine in India and in traditional Chinese medicine. Valerian essential oil was a very popular sleep sedative in the United States until it was displaced by synthetic drugs after World War II. Valerian essential oil has a distinctive dirty sock smell.

Medicinal Use: Valerian Root Essential Oil has been highly esteemed since medieval times and use to be called "all heal". Valerian Root Essential Oil assists insomnia, nervous indigestion, muscle spasms, palpitations, heart pain, neuralgia, fevers, and migraine, as a pain reliever, dysmenorrhea, intestinal colic, rheumatism, restlessness, tension, agitation and panic attacks. Valerian Root essential oil has been known to help reduce high blood pressure.

Constituents: Actinidine, carotene, calarene, calarenol, elemol, jatamols A and B, jatamansic acid, Jatamansone, nardol, nardostachonol, norseychelanone, seychellane, seychellene, spirojatomol, valeranal, valeranone, virolin, angelicin, jatamansin, jatamansinol, oroselol.