Cabreuva
CABREUVA ESSENTIAL OIL - Precious Heartwood Note!
Size: 5 ml violet glass bottle
Source: Brazil
Production method: Steam distilled from plantation grown trees
Botanical name: Myocarpus fastigiatus
Note: Cabreuva is a beautiful heart wood with natural color and hardness, harvested and marketed as “mahogany” flooring.
When we find ourselves over-thinking or running excess mental energy, inhaling Cabreuva essential oil can help restore balance and calm the mind. Its aroma is deep and mellow, with a pleasing woodsy, smoky base note that blends very well with most oils.
Cabreuva is very grounding, like most tree oils. It stabilizes us in the present moment, and supports and balances the Earth element. Inhaling it helps us feel regenerated when we are feeling emotionally drained.
Homeopathic Properties
• Anti-bacterial • Anti-carcinogenic • Anti-inflammatory • Anti-microbial • Anti-oxidant • Balsamic • Bronchodilator • Emollient • Expectorant • Hypotensor • Tonic: testicular and prostate
Uses
Internal–inhalation, diffusion
External–topical application, massage, bath, application to points and energy centers
Aromatic Profile
Top Note: Soft, delicate, sweet, woody notes
Heart Note: Sweet, balsamic, woody, delicate floral undertone
Base Note: Sweet, woody, balsamic
Classification: Base note or fixative
Tenacity: High
In natural perfumery, Cabreuva essential oil is used in a wide range of perfume formulations with its sweet, woody notes, making floral notes such as rose and lily of the valley, amber bases, precious wood notes, and oriental perfumes. It blends well with many oils, including angelica, benzoin, jasmine ruhs and absolute, pink lotus absolute, palo santo fruit, tuberose absolute.
Observations and Anecdotal Information
On an energetic level, Cabreuva is nourishing to an overtaxed emotional body. It comforts nervous tension and stress, and restores depletion in the spleen and pancreas energy meridians.
Cabreuva essential oil has hormone balancing effects on men and women. It acts as an aphrodisiac for some, and can help stabilize hormones during PMS and menopause.
It is often used as a treatment for acne, as it is antimicrobial and healing to the skin. It is also used for treating burns, surface skin infections, and regenerating scar tissue.
Cautions
- Avoid use with pregnant or lactating mothers, and infants.
- Generally recognized as safe in normal doses.
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