Wintergreen essential oil

Discover organic Wintergreen essential oil, 10 ml from Dr.Valnet.

Why use organic wintergreen essential oil from Dr. Valnet?

Wintergreen essential oil Dr.Valnet is traditionally used to improve the following situations:

• Inflammatory pain: rheumatism, osteoarthritis, arthritis, tendinitis (tennis elbow, etc.), stiff neck.
• Muscle pain: tired and painful muscles, sprains, strains, cramps.

How to use Dr.Valnet wintergreen essential oil?

Manual

Oral route: no

On the skin: after skin test

It can be used almost pure, in localized anointings, on less sensitive and reactive skin. Otherwise, in dilution of approximately 20 to 30% of essential oil in a vegetable oil.

In broadcast: no

In body care: It is the essential oil for athletes. Diluted in Arnica oil, before and after exercise.

IMPORTANT: Respect the instructions and precautions for use, dosages. Perform a skin test at the bend of the elbow to avoid the ever-possible risk of allergy. Apply a drop and wait 24 hours for a possible skin or other reaction. Watch out for your eyes!

For any therapeutic use of essential oils or internal use, use during pregnancy, during breastfeeding, for young children, consult a specialist doctor. For more information and therapeutic uses, consult a specialist doctor.

It is recommended to ensure that you have a varied and balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle. Keep out of reach of children. This product is not a medication.

What is organic wintergreen essential oil from Dr. Valnet?

Some notions of botany

Gaultheria is a genus comprising numerous species of shrubs in the Ericaceae family, native to Asia, America and Australia.

Native to the forests of Canada and the northern United States, wintergreen (gaultheria procumbens) or wintergreen is a small shrub measuring 15 to 30 cm high that grows in dry and arid soils. It has an underground stem which transforms into aerial branches. Its thick, lanceolate, glossy, dark green leaves are evergreen. Its white or pale pink flowers in the shape of small bells are located at the base of the leaves and become small, fragrant and edible red berries.

Native to the forests of the Himalayas, fragrant wintergreen (Gaultheria frarantissima) is a shrub 1 to 3 meters high. It is the source of an essential oil similar to that extracted from Gaultheria procumbens, characterized by a very high content of methyl salicylate (>95%).

A little history…

Traditionally, the Inuit and Indians of Canada chewed and infused its leaves to treat many winter ailments, reduce fever but also and above all to relieve muscle and joint pain.

Wintergreen was spotted by Jean-François Gaulthier (1706-1756), a French botanist in the service of the King of Quebec in the 18th century, who gave it its name.

Its leaves were used as a substitute for tea, notably during the American War of Independence. Hence its nickname “winter tea”.

In the middle of the 19th century, the American William Proctor, "father of American pharmacy" and the French chemist Auguste Cahours carried out in-depth studies of wintergreen and discovered its great richness in methyl salicylate which served as a basis for the preparation of salicylic acid, precursor of acetylsalicylic acid, better known by the trade name aspirin.

Composition of the product organic Wintergreen essential oil, 10 ml from Dr.Valnet.

Distilled part	leaves
Chemotype	methyl salicylate
Distillation	with low pressure water vapor
Origin	Nepal
Yield	167 kg for 1 kg of EO