Cardamom Essential Oil

Description

Energetic Properties: Our Cardamom essential oil is from India and feels very sacred. Its sweet intensity opens the heart and mind, enhancing our generosity, wisdom and spiritual awareness. With its subtle sensuality, it helps us feel comfortable in our skin. Its spiciness helps us see and let go of fears, preoccupations and low self-worth and dispels stress and apathy. We use it for centering, meditation, emotional balance and to help us accept new thoughts. Its depth is useful for ancestral work and untying energetic knots. It opens the heart. It helps harmonize our subtle bodies. It helps us digest emotions and issues that have been waiting to be addressed for a long time. It brings us back to a place where emotions can be balanced and worked through.

We are able to face deep-seated fears and unhealthy reactions that are preventing us from loving ourselves and others. It helps us look at these unresolved themes in a new light and brings us into a place where we see things from a new angle and have fresh ideas about previously stagnant emotional material. Cardamom has a relationship to the heart and the sweetness of being loved, lovable, and loving oneself. This is why it is a good replacement for sugar. Cardamom puts us in touch with our true feelings regarding issues that are coming up and then it helps us to communicate these feelings from an open heart.

Smell: Sweet, spicy, thick (nearly textured), warming, balsamic

Perfumery Note: Top

Main Chemical Constituents: α-Terpinyl acetate, 1,8 –Cineole, Sabinene, α-Pinene, Myrcene, Linalyl acetate

Safety: Due to the 1,8-cineole in cardamom, do not use it near the face of young children as it could cause breathing issues (Tisserand). Do not put undiluted on the skin.

Adulteration and quality: Acording to Arctander, “adulteration takes place on a big scale.”

Citation: Noumi, E.; Snoussi, M.; Alreshidi, M.M.; Rekha, P.-D.; Saptami, K.; Caputo, L.; De Martino, L.; Souza, L.F.; Msaada, K.; Mancini, E.; et al. Chemical and Biological Evaluation of Essential Oils from Cardamom Species. Molecules 2018, 23, 2818. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules23112818

Arctander, S. “Perfume and flavor materials of natural origin”, Elizabeth, NJ, 1960

For more information about Cardamom, read our blog posts Cardamom heals the mental body , 6 Essential oils for anxiety, and the most recent blog post and a video about deeper work with this essential oil to digest trauma.