FRANKINCENSE
Botanical name: Boswellia carteri

Also Known As (AKA):  Olibanum

Therapeutic Benefit - Mind:  Frankincense is relaxing, regulating, and balancing. It relieves anxiety and anger. Frankincense brings inner peace.

Therapeutic Benefit - Body:  Frankincense is astringent, sedative, and anti-inflammatory. It helps aging skin, wrinkled skin, wounds, sores, and inflammation. Frankincense is an expectorant that clears the lungs of asthma, colds, and bronchitis. It is also an immune stimulant and good for arthritis and coughs. Frankincense is regulating for the hypothalamus and pituitary glands.

Therapeutic Benefit - Spirit:  Frankincense opens throat, crown and base chakras. It is used during meditation for peace and spirituality. Frankincense is said to be able to aid in astral projection and transformation.

Application Method:  Dilute 10 drops in 1 oz carrier oil, massage oil, or lotion and apply to skin or bath. Use 4 drops in 2 cups of hot water for a steam.

Action Word:  Revitalizing

Color Energy:  Purple - Relaxing

Fragrance:  Balsamic, pepper-like, spicy, sweet, fruity, woodsy, medicinal

Note:  Base Note

Color of Oil:  Light yellow

Major Chemical Constituents:  alpha-pinene, limonene, thujene, thujone

Common Adulterants:  Rarely adulterated

Blends well with:  Basil, Bergamot, Black Pepper, Camphor, Cardamom, Cedarwood, Chamomile, Cinnamon, Clary sage, Coriander, Frankincense, Galbanum, Geranium, Grapefruit, Ginger, Jasmine, Juniper, Lavender, Mandarin, Melissa, Myrrh, Neroli, Orange, Patchouli, Pine, Rose, Rosemary, Sandalwood, Vetiver

Botany:  A tree that is grown in North Africa and some of the Arab countries that produces an aromatic resin. The hardened resin is referred to as tears.

History:  Frankincense has been around for thousands of years. The Egyptians used it for embalming, and burning it at their altars and temples. It has been documented in the Old Testament, writings of Herodotus, and in Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia.