Wintergreen essential oil

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

Why use Dr. Valnet's organic Wintergreen essential oil?

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

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

How to use Dr. Valnet Wintergreen essential oil?

Instructions for use

Oral route: no

On the skin: after skin test

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

Broadcasting: no

Body care: This is the essential oil for athletes. Diluted in Arnica oil, before and after exercise.

IMPORTANT: Follow the directions and precautions for use and dosages. Perform a skin test on the crease of the elbow to avoid the risk of allergy, which is always possible. Apply one drop and wait 24 hours for a possible skin or other reaction. Be careful with 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 maintain a varied and balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle. Keep out of reach of children. This product is not a medicine.

What is Dr. Valnet's organic Wintergreen essential oil?

Some notions of botany

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

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

Native to the forests of the Himalayas, wintergreen (Gaultheria frarantissima) is a shrub growing 1 to 3 meters tall. It is the source of an essential oil similar to that extracted from Gaultheria procumbens, characterized by a very high methyl salicylate content (>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 discovered by Jean-François Gaulthier (1706-1756), a French botanist in the service of the King of Quebec in the 18th century, who gave it his name.

Its leaves were used as a substitute for tea, particularly during the American Revolutionary War. Hence its nickname "wintergreen."

In the mid-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 very high content of methyl salicylate, which served as the basis for the preparation of salicylic acid, a precursor to acetylsalicylic acid, better known under the commercial name aspirin.

Product composition: organic Wintergreen essential oil, 10 ml from Dr.Valnet.

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