This English garden herb is highly regarded for its classic fragrance in soap, and potpourris, but lavender is also an important medicinal herb. Oil distilled from the flower has applications as a stimulant, tonic, headache relief, and for relief of intestinal gas. It is also used to quiet coughs and disinfect wounds. Applied as a compress, lavender oil provides relief from neuralgic pains, rheumatism, sprains, and sore joints.

Origin: France

Plant Part: Flowering top

Principal Constituents: Linally, Acetate, Linalool

Facts:

• Lavender essential oil is one of the most popular and the most frequently used essential oil.
• Classic sweet, balsamic, flowery, herbaceous, energizing and sharp fragrance. Used in pharmacology in the making of antiseptic ointments and perfumes.
• Originally, the oil from the flower was used to protect cloths and stored linens from moths. It was, and still is, used as a scent in air fresheners.

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