Thyme Essential Oil 10ml

£ 3.25

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21 Incredible Health Benefits Of Thyme Essential Oil

Thyme essential oil has many benefits and people use it for improving skin health, and circulation and strengthen the immune system. The amazing health benefits of thyme essential oil are explained below.

Circulation: One of the stimulating components of thyme oil can help to improve the circulation in your body, which increases healing and blood flow to extremities and areas that need oxygenation. This can also protect the heart and lower your chances of blood clots, while also helping to keep you active.

Immune System: Some of the volatile components of thyme oil, such as camphene and alpha-pinene, are able to strengthen the immune system with their antibacterial and anti-fungal properties. This makes them effective both inside and outside the body, protecting the mucus membranes, gut and respiratory system from potential infections. The antioxidant properties of this oil also help reduce free radical damage.

Cicatrisant: This is a tremendous property of thyme essential oil. This property makes scars and other ugly spots on your body vanish. These include the surgical marks, marks left by accidental injuries, acne, pox, measles, and sores.

Skin Health: Topical application of thyme oil is very popular on the skin, as it can heal wounds and scars, prevent inflammatory pain, moisturize the skin, and even minimize the appearance of acne. The mixture of antiseptic properties and antioxidant stimulants in this oil can keep your skin looking clear, healthy and young as you age!

Antispasmodic: Millions of people around the world suffer from coughs, cramps and aches due to spasms. Spasms are unwanted and excessive involuntary contractions which may take place in the respiratory tracts, nerves, muscles, intestines or other organs and may result in coughs, convulsions, epileptic or hysterical attacks, cramps and muscular aches, abdominal and intestinal aches, and even spasmodic cholera.

Antirheumatic: There are two main reasons behind rheumatism, arthritis and gout. The first is improper or obstructed circulation and the second one is an increasing concentration of toxins like uric acid in the blood stream. Thyme essential oil can sort out both of these problems. Since it is a diuretic, it increases urination and helps in the removal of toxins from the body. Being a stimulant, it stimulates or activates circulation and thereby sorts out this problem in a separate way. The anti-inflammatory properties of thymol are well known, and in some varieties of thyme oil, up to 70% is thymol. This powerful compound can help ease the pain of your joints and promote better range of motion, while also promoting blood flow to those areas, making you feel stronger and more in control of your arthritic symptoms.

Bactericidal: The same Caryophyllene and Camphene, along with a few other components, give thyme essential oil antibacterial properties. This inhibits bacterial growth within and outside of the body. It kills bacteria as well as keeps them away from the organs in the body. This is particularly beneficial in curing bacterial infections like B-Colitis, renal colic, bacterial infections in the genitals and urethra, intestines, and respiratory system as well as the external exposure of wounds. Thyme essential oil is a good antiseptic and safeguards wounds and sores against infections.

Tonic:  Thyme essential oil also tones up the circulatory system, heart, digestive system, nervous system, muscles, and skin while fortifying them and boosting immunity.

Cardiac: This is a very important and useful property of thyme essential oil in today’s context, when heart troubles are growing at an alarming rate. This oil is very beneficial for the heart. It keeps the valves functioning properly, while being an anti spasmodic, it relaxes the arteries and veins and thereby reduces stress on the heart. Furthermore, it strengthens cardiac muscles and tones up the heart, since it is a tonic. Basically, thyme essential oil is good for every part of heart health.

Carminative: Gases that build up in the stomach and intestines are not as innocent as they appear. Their effect is not limited to unpleasant odors alone. They can rob you of your appetite and sleep, raise your blood pressure, pose a threat to your heart, give you severe stomach aches, cramps, vomiting, headaches and nausea. In certain extreme cases, excessive gas can even put your life in danger too. Therefore, gas must be handled with care and treated in a timely manner. Thyme essential oil, being a carminative and an antispasmodic, forces the removal of gases through downward movement (upward movement is very dangerous) and does not let them build up again.

Diuretic: Those who are suffering from an accumulation of water in the body due to chronic renal failure or from growing concentration of toxins and salts in the blood are sure to benefit from this essential oil. It increases urination and helps in the removal of excess water, salts and toxins from the body. This helps reduce weight, lower blood pressure, reduce fats and improve digestion as well.

Emenagogue: Women should be very interested in this property of thyme essential oil. Women are always searching for something that can give them relief from obstructed and painful menstruation, irregular periods and premature menopause.  They have found their answer in this oil. It opens obstructed menses, gives relief from the symptoms like abdominal pain, fatigue, nausea, depression and low blood pressure that is associated with menstruation. It can also delay menopause, thereby keeping women healthy, happy and fertile. Thyme oil is known to have certain hormone-balancing properties, and can stimulate the production of progesterone. For women who are going through menopause or have already made the “change”, regular use of thyme oil can help them keep their hormonal levels under control.

Expectorant: When you are suffering from colds and coughs, you need to find an expectorant. Thyme essential oil is a great one! It helps cure infections that cause cough and cold and drains congestion, thereby giving relief from coughs and colds.

Hypertensive: You might raise your eyebrows about this medicinal property and may not see it as a benefit. However, this property is very beneficial for those who are suffering from low blood pressure. Those type of people run the risk of falling unconscious at any time, and feeling sluggish. This oil can normalize their blood pressure by raising it, which is just as important sometimes as lowering it.

Stimulant: It stimulates circulation, digestion, nervous responses and the secretion of hormones, thereby stimulating the whole metabolism.

Energy: The stimulation of circulation and the metabolic boost provided by thyme oil adds up to a noticeable energy boost after using this oil. If you regularly suffer from fatigue during the day, even if you have a good night’s sleep, even inhaling the aromatic compounds of thyme oil can give you an energetic push.

Detoxify the Body: Linalool is one of the most common components in thyme oil, and it also has a number of antioxidant and detoxifying effects on the body. Most importantly, it can stimulate healing and regeneration in the liver, and helps to detoxify the liver more rapidly.

Anxiety: Thyme oil is a popular aromatherapy oil for numerous reasons, but primarily due to its stress-relieving abilities. Inhaling thyme oil, or topically applying some diluted oil to your temples, chest or neck can help lower your overall stress levels and leave you feeling energized in a positive way, rather than an anxious one.

Bechic: If you have been suffering from coughing symptoms for a long time and antibiotics cannot help you anymore, then you might want to give this essential oil a try. Unlike when using potent antibiotics, you need not risk your kidneys, heart, liver, stomach and eyes with this oil. This is capable of curing infections in the chest (lungs, bronchi, larynx and pharynx) and stopping coughs.

Vermifuge: Thyme essential oil kills worms. You can try it on intestinal worms like round worms and tape worms, as well as maggots in open sores and hook worms, which are notoriously difficult to eliminate.

Insecticide: It can keep away insects and pests and also eliminate them if it becomes necessary. It can be effectively used to keep away parasites that feed on the human body like mosquitoes, fleas, lice, bed-bugs, and flies, as well as insects that attack food grains and clothes like beetles and moths.

Other Benefits: It acts as a memory booster and an antidepressant. It helps to increase concentration and helps to cure sinusitisbronchitisanorexia, cellulite, eczema, athlete’s foot, dermatitis, insect and animal bites, stings, laryngitis, pharyngitis and other infections. Finally, it can be used to eliminate bad breath and body odor.

A Few Words of Caution: It is an irritant to some people, as well as a hypertensive substance that increases blood pressure.

Therefore, it should be avoided during pregnancy and those with elevated blood pressure. It also may cause allergic reactions in some cases.

Blending: The essential oil of thyme blends well with the essential oils of Bergamot, GrapefruitLemon, Lavender, Rosemary and Pine.