Juniper Berry Essential Oil
$21.00
10 ml
Botanical source: Pimenta dioica
Plant part used: The fruit
Origin: Dominica, Lower Antilles
Production: Wild harvested
Extraction method: Steam distillation of the fresh berries
Note: Pimenta berry comes from the pimenta tree, whose berries are also called allspice.
Fragrance profile: Warming, delicate sweet-spicy notes with a hint of sweet wood – a light, playful combination of clove and cinnamon notes.
Properties: Warming, invigorating, stimulating
Chinese medicine function: To tonify the Yang, warm the interior, resolve damp and strengthen the Shen
Complimentary blending: Sweet orange, Mandarin, Grapefruit, Bergamot, Cardamom, Cinnamon, Atlas cedarwood, Sandalwood, Clove, Frankincense, Saro, Ravintsara
For external use only. Properly dilute all essential oils in lotion or vegetable carrier oil before massage or other topical use. Keep out of reach of children. If you are pregnant, nursing, have any health conditions, or are taking medications, please consult your healthcare provider prior to using essential oils.
Fragrance energy: Spicy, pungent
Movement course: Rising
Warmth effect: Warm to hot
Tone effect: Restorative, stimulant
Channel tropism: Kidney, Spleen, Stomach, Large Intestine
Five-Element affinity: Water, Earth
In Chinese Medicine: A warming restorative stimulant, Pimenta Berry invigorates the Kidney and the Stomach-Spleen-Intestines, targeting the Lower and Middle Jiao. Among the strong stimulant oils it is the one best suited to topical work.
Chinese Medicine functions adapted from Peter Holmes, L.Ac., M.H., Channeling Fragrance. The full profile — treatment patterns, acupoint combinations and synergist oils — is in the book.
This has helped a patient with severe Reynaud's Syndrome. She soaked her hands daily with this oil this winter and reported loving the smell and feeling like it really helped. She came for weekly acupuncture sessions and her dark, blood deprived fingers returned to life within 2 months!