Uses:
Physical actions and uses: Analgesic, fixative. Used in sacred ceremonies to purify and remove negative energy. Used as a base note in perfumes.
Mental uses: Encourages acceptance and forbearance in difficult circumstance.
Emotional uses: Perseverance.
Spiritual uses: Encourages greater awareness of spiritual reality and acceptance. Helps secure boundaries. This gives you the ability to defend yourself or avoid the psychic predators in the future. Buddha Wood cleanses the field and your environment so that you can feel safe and at peace with the divine.
Applications: Perfumery, bath, massage, diffuser, blending, fixative
Directions:
Use in oil burner: add a few drops to water.
Possible skin irritant; Test on small area of skin and dilute if necessary, before use.
NOT TO BE TAKEN INTERNALLY
Botanical Name:
An evergreen and often resinous shrub to small tree ( 3-8 meters) in height. Grows in may areas predominantly found on Western slopes and plains of New South Wales, Queensland, and South Australia. Exhibits dark, rough bark, with hairless leaves that are bright green and aromatic. The scented wood is burnt for its pleasant aroma.
Oil Characteristics:
Buddha Wood occurs in the arid areas of New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia. The tree, very common in Western Queensland, is often confused with Santalum lanceolatum known as Australian sandalwood. The logs, after reduction to shavings, yield from 2-3% of a dark coloured viscous oil with a pleasant and characteristic odour. The oil, though dark in colour and neither a substitute nor an alternative for true sandalwood oil (Santalum album L.), possesses marked blending and fixative qualities.
Chemical Characteristics:
Its main components are three closely related sesquiterpene ketones - eremophilone; 2-hydroxyeremophilone; 2-hydroxy-2-dihydroeremophilone - none of which have ever before been discovered in nature. Chemcially related to Agar Wood.
Class: Ketone. Almost 100% ketones. Eremphilone, hydroxyeremophilone, hydroxy dihydroeremophilone
Chemical Profile:
Its main components are three closely related sesquiterpene ketones - eremophilone; 2-hydroxyeremophilone; 2-hydroxy-2-dihydroeremophilone - none of which have ever before been discovered in nature. Chemcially related to Agar Wood.
Class: Ketone. Almost 100% ketones. Eremphilone, hydroxyeremophilone, hydroxy dihydroeremophilone
Physical Properties:
PARTS PROCESSED: Wood and Bark
PROCESSING METHODS: Steam Distillation
COLOR RANGE: Dark Copper Red
Analgesic, fixative. Used in sacred ceremonies to purify and remove negative energy. Used as a base note in perfumes.
Production Method:
Steam Distilled
Remarks:
There are several reports on the biological activity and ethnopharmacology of E.
mitchellii in the literature. The plant has been used by the aboriginal people for the
treatment of rheumatism (Low, 1990). Kerr (1951) demonstrated that the wood oil was
virtually non-toxic as a fly spray but when incorporated with the pyrethrins it had an
adjuvant action. Kerr observed that the wood oil produced a marked increase in fly
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mortality in comparison to the pyrethrins alone. More recently Wilkinson and
Cavanagh (2005) have reported on the antimicrobial activity of the wood oil against C.
albicans and five different bacteria. The undiluted oil showed inhibition against
Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella typhimurium, Alcaligenes faecalis
and Candida albicans, no inhibition was observed against Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Warnings:
No formal testing. Avoid use with pregnant women, children, and infants. May cause irritation to sensitive skin.
Caution should be taken when using Essential Oils. Do not use any oils without consultation from a qualified aroma therapy practitioner. All Essential Oils should be kept out of the reach of children.
