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Common Uses of Lemon Essential Oil  

Lemon essential oil is one of the most common essential oils, and certainly one of the most widely recognized essential oils.


Properly cold pressed lemon essential oil smells like a freshly cut lemon, because the oil is expressed directly from the rind of the fruit. 


Lemon essential oil can be used for many things, and many people associate the scent with freshness, and cleanliness as the oil was used in many cleaning products before the chemical constituents were isolated, and were synthetically created and substituted for the whole essential oil.


With the resurgence of aromatherapy's popularity in the late 1990's and again around 2010, lemon has been touted as a must have in your first aid kit, in your cleaning cabinet, and in your book bag or at your desk. 


Before we talk about how you may want to use this essential oil, let's talk about safety.  If you know us, we are always aware of the potential for misuse or improper use of essential oils and of the major adverse reactions people have had while using an essential oil, or an essential oil product without knowing how to do so safely.  If you're a client of ours, and if you've gone through our essential oil safety course, where you feel you could teach it to other people, please feel free to skip ahead, otherwise, we ask that you read this very important information.



Safety First


If you have any type of lemon allergy or sensitivity, using lemon essential oil is not recommended.


If you are pregnant or desire to use essential oils with children under 2 years old, please schedule a consultation prior to use.


If your lemon essential oil is more than 1 year old, and has been subject to the sun, heat, or frequent opening and closing, there is a good chance that it has oxidative, and its therapeutic properties have waned, oxidative oils will not smell like a freshly cut lemon, and are responsible for increased skin irritation.


If you have sensitive skin, and you'd like to apply lemon essential oil topically, please do a patch skin test placing 1 drop of the oil on the crease of the elbow or the inside of the wrist and wait for 15min to see if there is any reaction.  While doing this, keep a clean cotton cloth or towel near by and your choice of carrier oil such as olive oil, almond oil, or apricot oil.


If you see any redness or irritation apply the carrier oil to the skin, and blot up with the cotton cloth, continue with a second application and blotting, and a third until the irritation is relieved - DO NOT apply water to the area as it will only drive the irritant in further.


Topical application without dilution is only meant to help you with acute (sudden onset) of symptom for 7-10 days.  If you need to continue to use an essential oil after 10 days of an acute symptom, or with chronic symptoms, you'll always want to dilute the essential oil into a carrier, and the most common, and most widely recommended safe dilution ratio for people 18 years and older with healthy nonsensitive skin is 3% essential oil to 97% carrier substance.


Lastly, please note that Lemon essential oil does cause increased photo-sensitivity, this means that if you apply this essential oil topically you'll want to ensure that the area of the application is not exposed to UV light as it will be at increased risk for sunburn. 


First Aid Kit Use


Lemon essential oil is great to keep in your first aid kit, as it it antiseptic, and can be used for cuts, wound care to keep the area clean, and to help stop the bleeding.  Applying a drop of two of lemon to the laceration, or wound and then applying pressure will help to stop the bleeding while you're waiting to apply a bandage.


Keeping a bottle in your first aid kit, can help if you have someone experiencing an asthma attack, as the essential oil helps to clear congestion within the air way and open the air passages in a gentle, safe way.


It can also prove helpful for those experiencing arthritis, as a 1% dilution in a skin cream can be effective to help relieve the ache and pain of arthritic joints.


For the Cleaning Cabinet


Keeping lemon essential oil in your cleaning cabinet is wonderful as diffusing this essential oil while you're disinfecting surfaces will help to disinfect the air as this essential oil is anti-viral, antibacterial and anti-fungal.


If you're using unscented natural cleaning agents, you can add lemon essential oil to them in order to add antiseptic properties to your natural or homemade cleaner.


For the Book Bag or Desk


Perhaps the most widely used application of lemon essential oil is to diffuse it for inhalation whether you're at school or at work, this wonderful essential oil is perfect to help you concentrate, minimize distractions, help with confusion, as it promotes cognitive function, can increase memory retention.


Other Benefits


Within BCD Aromatherapy clients, we've used lemon essential oil to help people overcome anemia - as it helps to circulate the blood, and clears obstructions within the body.  We've used lemon essential oil to help people overcome edema or water retention in their ankles and legs.  We've used lemon essential oil to help people with painful gout affecting both grand toes.  We've used lemon essential oil to help get rid of intestinal parasites. We've used lemon essential oil to help people with allergies. We've used lemon essential oil to help with urinary infections.  We've used lemon essential oil to help with hair re-growth.  We've used lemon essential oil to help combat the continuation of dementia. We've used lemon essential oil to help with acne.  We've used lemon essential oil to help with cellulite. We have also helped clients use lemon essential oil to combat emotional imbalances such as fear, sadness, entitlement, and shame. 


Many of our clients love the scent of lemon essential oil, and they like to simply diffuse it to remind them of sunny summer days.  Some great diffuser recipes you can try to simply bring this wonderful aroma to your home that also have some great added benefits are:


3 drops of frankincense, 2 drops of vetiver and 1 drop of lemon to help you with over thinking and pre0occupations with details

3 drops Scots Pine, 1 drop lemon, 1 drop rosemary to help your memory and stop forgetfulness

3 drops lemon and 2 drops jasmine to unburden you and bring more humor into your life

2 drops rose, 2 drops palmarosa and 1 drop lemon to help create an atmosphere of vulnerability and trust

3 drops lemon and 2 drops juniper berry when you want to increase your energy

3 drops of lemon and 2 drops of geranium when you want to purify the air from viral infections

2 drops grapefruit, 1 drop cedarwood and 1 drop lemon to balance energy


Let us know how you like to use lemon essential oil!  If you share a diffuser blend, be sure to tell us how you feel, or what it reminds you of while you have it running.

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Taking a Look at Powerhouse essential Oil Blend

Please note, this article was previously posted in a Might Community - and as I transfer content from there to here, the dates and times may not correlate!  Forgive me for that incongruent aspect.

As the new year is upon us, and we are experiencing winter “in full” and the virus threat is still very much with us here, it’s understandable that no one wants to find themselves catching a cold, or coming down with anything.


Last fall I posted about doTERRA’s OnGuard essential oil blend, and now I’d like to introduce you to Lotus Garden Botanical's Powerhouse.  This is an immune system booster blend that really truly knocks things out, especially when we’ve experienced long term illness, or are already recovering from other physical challenges, or if we’re dealing with other health and wellness conditions that compound with the symptoms of an additional illness.


I have several clients who I would recommend to use doTERRA’s OnGuard as a preventative, and then use Lotus Garden Botanical’s Powerhouse when they actually come down with something to more properly support them as they recuperate and recover. Like OnGuard, it can be used in a multitude of ways, aromatically by inhaling the distilled or passively diffused vapor, as a steam inhalation, or inhaled directly from the bottle. It can also be used topically, applied to the bottoms of the feet, the back of the ear lobes, along the neck and chest - ensuring proper dilution as several of the Essential Oils that make up this blend can be irritating to the skin. It can be used with a dispersant to be added into bath water (not to exceed 6 drops essential oil) body lotions (ensuring proper dilution ratio not to exceed more than a .5% strength to minimize possibility of skin irritation as there are some strong essential oils in this blend). Under the supervision of an Aromatherapist it can also be taken internally via capsules at the proper strength for a predetermined amount of days. These are just some of the most common ways this blend is used, other applications can be discussed based on the symptoms that you’re having.


The reason this blend is so effective when working with people who are coming down with an illness, is because the vast majority of the single essential oils used to make up this blend help us when we are overwhelmed, fatigued and exhausted.  They support our adrenal gland function, boost our immune system response, help to move and regulate fluids within the body, and have a broad range of both antibacterial properties and antiviral properties.


Powerhouse by Lotus Garden Botanicals contains: 

  • Lemon Eucalyptus
  • Oregano
  • Clove Bud
  • Thyme ct thujanol
  • Rosemary ct cineole
  • Sage (Dalmatian Sage)
  •  Palmarosa
  • Lavender


Lemon Eucalyptus

Lemon Eucalyptus (Corymbia citriodora syn. Eucalyptus citridoraI) is made up of primarily the aldehyde monoterpenoid citronellal and the monoterpenols citronellol and isopulegol.  It also contains d-limonene, a monoterpene, and small amounts of esters and ketones.


This chemical profile allows Lemon Eucalyptus to be ideal to ward of infection while calming the nervous system as well as to stimulate the liver. It promotes strength of the immune system, and emotional balance.


This Essential Oil also helps us handle feelings of being unprotected, exposed, enmeshed in unhealthy relationships/situations, it helps us recognize poor boundaries and restore the body’s natural energy.

Oregano

Oregano (Origanum vulgare) Essential Oil is mostly made up of phenols including carvacrol and a mixture of monoterpenes, monoterpenols and sesquiterpenes. This chemical profile makes this essential oil ideal to use as general tonics, to stimulate the cortisone glands and help to both kill off microbes and prevent them from multiplying.  It is also good to stimulate the digestive system and to promote circulation of the blood and the fluids within the body. It also makes it a good anti-inflammatory agent that promotes the respiratory system and relieve muscle soreness.


This essential oil also helps us with feelings of being overly prideful, obstinate, stubborn, materialistic, controlling and being too attached to negative things in one’s life. 


Oregano Essential Oil has strong bactericidal properties, and should only be used for a maximum of 14 continuous days in order to not upset the stomach’s microbiome if taken orally.  It is also a known skin irritant, and should only be used on the skin if appropriately diluted. 

Clove Bud

Clove Bud (Eugenia carophyllata) Essential Oil should not be confused or used interchangeably with Clove Leaf (Eugenia carophyllata) Essential Oil, as they contain different chemical profiles. Eugenia carophyllata Bud Essential Oil contains primarialy phenols including Eugenol (50-95%), Isoeugenol, Methylchavicol and Methyleugenol; as well as esters, sesquiterpenes, oxides, ketones and montoerpenols.


This chemical profile allow this Essential Oil to be useful when we feel discouraged, apathetic, hopeless, have low self-esteem or poor self-confidence, when we have low motivation or will power, when we feel vulnerable, helpless or oversensitive. It helps when we have physical and mental fatigue, and are debilitated (I don't know about you, but that totally sounds like me when I'm sick!)


Using this Essential Oil can help us feel more motivation, self-confidence, gain security, and stability. It is widely used to help the body when it is weakened, and when it is cold - the circulatory system is stressed, and is only keeping the core hot, while the extremities can feel cold or even numb. It's properties help restore the thyroid and return normal metabolic function. It also stimulates the adrenals to increase stamina and decrease hypertension. It too helps with the lower GI tract helping our food move along through the intestines and colon to decrease constipation.


Eugenia carophyllata Bud Essential Oil is a strong spasmolytic, which means it stops muscle spasms which disrupt the GI system from its normal function, and helps also with acute muscle spasms and aches and pains often felt while we're "under the weather." It is used as a broad-spectrum anti-infective agent that stimulates the immune system and the lymphatic system to move fluids through the body and detox the body from infected cells and microbes. It is a strong antiviral, broad spectrum antibiotic, and anti-fungal.


Clove Bud Essential Oil is rarely used by itself, and should never be used topically without adequate dilution, Tisserand & Young in Essential Oil Safety recommend a topical strength of no more than .5% based on the higher range of Eugenol content in order to avoid skin sensitivity.

 Thyme ct. Thujanol

Thyme ct thujanol (Thymus vulgaris ct. thujanol) has a chemical profile that roughly half monoterpenols including trans-thujanol, and monoterpenes including myrcene.  It does not contain phenols so it should not be confused with other chemotypes of thyme. This chemotype of thyme essential oil works in synergy with the Lemon Eucalyptus in order to provide a synergistic effect.


Thyme essential oils in general also helps us with feelings of rage, anger, bitterness, resentfulness, emotional bondage and unforgiveness. 

Rosemary ct. Cineole

Rosemary ct. cineole (Rosmarinus officinalis ct. cineole) is made up of a large combination of chemical families including oxides with the largest component being 1.8 cineole which can make up over half of this essential oil, it also contains monoterpenes with up to 1 third of the essential oil containing alpha and beta -pinenes, monoterpenones with up to a fifth of the essential oil containing camphor, sesquiterpenes including beta-caryophyllene, terpenoid esters, alcohols.  This chemical make up allows Rosemary ct. cineole essential oil to be ideal to use in situations where we want to stimulate our nervous system and our circulatory systems.  


When we’re dealing with respiratory distress as it is a great expectorant, decongestant and how it clears mucus from the system. These effects are boosted by its antimicrobial properties, and its ability to move fluids through the system to reduce inflammation and calm the nerves. Rosemary essential oils like Thyme have multiple chemotypes, so it’s important that when you’re using this oil by itself, or when it’s used in a blend or formulation you know which chemotype you have as they each have different primary chemical constituents which can have a much different effect on the body (and some are safer to use than others.)


In general, emotionally, rosemary essential oils help us to process through feelings of confusion, problems adjusting to transitions, and to help us when we have limited perspectives, and difficulty learning the lessons we’re walking through.

Sage (Dalmatian Sage)

Sage syn Dalmatian Sage (Salvia officinalis) essential oil is made up heavily by ketones including alpha thujone, beta thujone and camphor, and alcohols like borneol and linalool with a small amount of monoterpenes, oxides and sesquiterpenes.  This chemical profile allows Sage to be very effective at being antiviral and to protect healthy cells while the body is fighting off infection via viruses. It helps our liver function and to move mucous out of the body while supporting the respiratory system while relieving inflammation.


This essential oil also helps us conquer feelings of depletion, fear, procrastination, and helps to eliminate brain fog and cloudiness of thought.

Palmarosa

Palmarosa (Cymbopogon martini) essential oil contains a lot of alcohols with the vast majority being geraniol and small amounts of linalool, as well as esters like geranyl acetate which can be up to a quarter of the essential oil.  


This chemical profile allows Palmarosa to be suitable in times when we need a broad-spectrum bactericides that are anti-infectious and to stimulate and warm the skin and the circulatory system which is ideal in cases of long term illness, or when the body is dealing with multiple stressors at once as it’s balancing and soothing to the body as a general tonic which also offers pain relief and reduces inflammation.


Palmarosa essential oil helps us when we have feelings of being withdrawn, lapses in loyalty, isolation and stagnation, and overzealousness.

Lavender

Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) essential oil has a chemical profile of almost half esters with mostly linalyl acetate, and almost half alcohols with the majority of those being linalool, as well as small amounts of sesquiterpenes and monoterpenes, oxides, ketones and aldehydes. This makes lavender essential oil a very balancing essential oil which can stimulate as well as calm the body, with a broad spectrum anti-microbial effect.


Lavender essential oil helps us to over come feelings of rejection, tension; as well as sensations of being unheard, unloved, unseen with fear of self-disclosure and being emotionally dishonest.

Powerhouse is a potent blend of essential oils that allow us to really address illnesses that debilitate us, or illnesses that we encounter while we are already recovering from another illness, a surgery or acute injury. It helps us move strong feelings of exhaustion, depression, stagnation, and asks us to be emotional transparent with ourselves and others.


How to Use

Lotus Garden Botanicals has formulated this blend so that for most people they can use 1-2 drops of Powerhouse without dilution on the bottoms of their feet 3-4 times a day for up to 10 days, for those who have sensitive skin, and for use past the initial 10 days, this Essential Oil blend should be diluted down to a 3% strength in an appropriate carrier oil, that is 24 drops to 1oz of a carrier oil. This diluted formulation can be applied up to every hour as needed until symptoms are alleviated and unless you have extremely sensitive skin, this formulation should be safe to use on the bottoms of your feet, back of ear lobes, and along your neck and pulse points. (Note, if you have sensitive skin, do not apply this oil straight or "neat" to your skin, always dilute to 5% in a carrier oil and do a patch skin test to the insides of your wrists or crease of your elbow if no irritation appears in 15 min you can apply as described)

You can also use this essential oil in a diffuser or in a personal inhaler this is most useful if your illness constricts the breath or is causing a lot of mucus congestion.  To diffuse, add up to 6 drops of Powerhouse in your diffuser and sit within six feet of the diffuser inhaling the aroma for at least ten minutes.  To use in a personal inhaler, drop 30 drops of Powerhouse in a bowl, and allow the cotton wick of the inhaler to absorb the drops.  Using a tweezer place the cotton wick into the glass jar of the inhaler, and screw on the metal lid.  Then place the inhaler into its case.  Un-cap the inhaler and breath in the aromatics for 3-5 minutes every hour as needed until symptoms resolve.


Please note, some of the essential oils within this blend have contraindications if you're on certain medication or have certain medical conditions.  Please schedule a consultation prior to using to ensure your safety.


If you'd like to see if Lotus Garden Botanical’s Powerhouse blend can help you, or if you have questions regarding how to best use it for yourself, please schedule a consultation.


I'll be showcasing Aromatic's International's Lil Sniffle's blend as our seasons continue to turn, as well as looking at the traditional Thieves blend which has been used in traditional medicine prior to the discovery of penicillin for centuries as a ward against illness.


We are all part of the body of God, and are called to support one another through our suffering.  I pray that this information can help decrease the amount of time you or your loved one is afflicted by the next cold that comes through your home. Especially if one of you are already going through a another highly stressful situation.

 

Have a blessed day and oil away!


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