Grade Natural 100% Organic Lily essential oil for Healthcare

Lily of the Valley is popularly used in wedding rites as decorations or bridal bouquets. It has sweet scent and delightful blossoms that even royalties are spotted using it for their special events. But Lily of the Valley is not all aesthetic. It also contains in it compounds that give it a number of health benefits which made it a famous source of medicine since ancient times.

Lily of the Valley (Convallaria majalis), also known as May Bells, Our Lady’s Tears, and Mary’s Tears, is a flowering plant native to the Northern Hemisphere, in Asia, and in Europe. It also goes by the name Muguet in French. Lily of the Valley is a popular source of oil used in making perfumes. In fact, famous perfume makers such as Dior make use of lily of the valley scent as a base for their perfumes.

Although one might think that it is related to the common flowering plant lily, it is actually not a true lily. It belongs to the family of asparagus, Asparagaceae. Lily of the Valley is an herbaceous plant with glossy green leaves. Its small, bell-shaped white flowers grown in clusters in a leafless stalk. The plant also bears berries that are orange to red. This plant grows close to each other and is often used as ground cover. Lily of the Valley is classified as a poisonous plant if ingested or consumed by humans and animals because of its cardiac glycosides content.

Lily of the Valley Essential Oil has a sweet, floral, fresh scent which is also described to be light and very feminine. This oil is extracted from the plant’s flowers. The oil’s key components are benzyl alcohol, citronellol.

TRADITIONAL USES OF LILY OF THE VALLEY

Lily of the Valley has been mentioned in different stories and legends. Legend has it that the plant grew from where Eve shed her tears when she and Adam were evicted from the Garden of Eden. In Greek legend, the plant was gifted to Aesculapius, the great healer, by the Sun God Apollo. The flowers also symbolize the tears of the Virgin Mary in Christian stories, hence the name Mary’s tears.

The plant has been used since ancient times to treat different human diseases, including certain heart ailments. It was also believed to have a positive effect on a person’s memory. For some time, the plant was used to create a salve which relieves pain from sore hands. During World War I, it was used as an antidote for treating gas poisoning and treat skin burns. It was used as a sedative and a cure for epilepsy.

Writers in the past have written of Lily of the Valley as a treatment for fever and ulcers. It was also recorded to have some anti-inflammatory property which helped alleviate pain from gout and rheumatism and also relieve headaches and earaches.

Because of its beautiful flowers and sweet scent, it was widely used as a bridal bouquet, which is believed to bring fortune and luck to the newly married couple. Other believe the opposite, believing the flower brings bad luck and should only be used to honor the dead.

Lily of the Valley was also used to protect gardens and ward off evil spirits and as charms against spells from witches.