ESSENTIAL OIL GUIDE - Bergamot

Bergamot essential oil got its name from Bergamot fruit, from which it is extracted. Although the Bergamot plant belongs to the aromatic mint family, its fruit somehow embodies the flavor much like that of citrus family hence it can be called mixed fruit. This inedible fruit is always as equal orange in size but has a yellow color like lemon. Although inedible, its rind used to extract bergamot essential oil which has a sweet smell and used in aromatherapy. Although it’s now common to find Bergamot plant anywhere in the globe, it originated from South-East Asia, Argentina. Morocco, the Ivory Coast, Brazil, and Turkey.

The chemical composition of Bergamot essential oil includes alpha-pinene, alpha bergapten, alpha-terpineol, limonene, linalool, geraniol acetate. Myrcene, beta bisabolene, geraniol, linalyl acetate, nerol, and nerol acetate. This combination gives out a sweet smell that makes Bergamot essential oil a suitable element of most perfumes. Secondly, Bergamot further possesses both medicinal and health-enhancing values that we shall discuss in the following paragraphs.

Bergamot essential oil is used by professional clinical practitioners in a vast number of ways. First and foremost, Bergamot essential oil helps stimulate hormonal secretion that helps maintain proper metabolic rate. By doing so, it extends in aiding the process of digestion and food assimilation which all combines to bring about the overall effect of optimized blood pressure. Secondly, Bergamot oil has been proven to prevent several infections both in the skin when applied directly and the digestion tract when inhaled as an aroma. Lastly, exposure to an aroma from this precious oil has also been proven to reduce sensitivity to pain. Bergamot oil is, therefore, a safer and less risky alternative in fighting headache and general body tiredness compared to common pills which thin the blood and lead to endless side effects.

Benefits of using Bergamot oil

• As relaxant and sedative. Flavonoids in bergamot oil act as relaxant by soothing nerves and reducing the nervous extension. This cure ailments associated with the high blood pressure and makes the body release hormone dopamine and serotonin to induce the feeling of relaxation and sedation
• Has a sweet calming effect that relaxes the body efficiently
• Excellent as a sleep aid
• Makes a quick healthy being, by relaxing nerves and muscles from cramps, convulsions, and pain, one get quick and easy relief

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