Mandarin

With quite a history dating back thousands of years to traditional Chinese medicine, mandarin is known to be the sweetest and the most calming of all citrus essential oils. Why? Mandarin essential oil is very mild and known for many healing properties. For instance, mandarin essential oil is useful in helping to reduce acne, brighten the skin, alleviate insomnia, reduce oily skin, diminish the appearance of scars and age spots and minimize stress and wrinkles. And that’s not all.

It holds even more more healing properties, such as helping with gut issues like leaky gut syndrome, acting an antiseptic, stimulating the lymphatic system and even relieving gas. 

Diminishes Acne, Stretch Marks and Scars

Mandarin oil may be able to help with acne, stretch marks and scars. Because it’s gentle, mandarin typically does not irritate your skin. It has the ability to help prevent infection of irritated skin by preventing bacteria and fungal development.

If you’re looking for how to reduce the appearance of scars, you can apply the oil combined with a carrier oil directly onto the scar and can try a blend, such as one drop lavender, one drop mandarin and one drop neroli with a little almond oil.

Reduces Pain, Anxiety and Nausea through Aromatherapy

Mandarin essential oil may be one of the best essential oils for anxiety and nausea. A study published in Complementary Therapies in Medicine examined the use and effectiveness of essential oil therapeutic interventions on pain, nausea and anxiety when provided by nurses to patients in acute hospital settings across a large health system. Ten Allina Health hospitals located in Minnesota and western Wisconsin did a study using the delivery of aromatherapy within their facilities.

The outcome was great, showing a change in patient-reported pain, anxiety and nausea. There were 10,262 hospital admissions during the study time frame in which nurses provided aromatherapy as a part of their patient care. There were several oils used, and while each had its strengths, the overall outcome was positive showing that mandarin essential oil provided improvements to the patients. (2) So if you’re looking to relieve nausea through aromatherapy treatment, try mandarin oil.

Relieves Pain

Studies have been conducted showing that the oils from natural plants, such as mandarin essential oil, are sources of molecules that may develop new analgesics and provide benefits when used to fight or reduce pain. There were noticeable characteristics, such as a pungent effect and tingling due to their possible role in the central nervous system.

In this study, mandarin essential oil was obtained and then purified. The purified mandarin was found to be similar to another type of known molecule that is capable of blocking pain. The terpenes, which are compounds found in mandarin essential oil, may be used to create analgesics in human therapy against pain.

Helps Combat Cancer

The effects of the essential oil of mandarin peel and limonene were studied on two human tumor cell growth lines. Both mandarin essential oil and limonene, a chemical found in the peels of citrus fruits and in other plants, were tested showing the inhibition of tumor growth of these cell lines. This could lead to the development of anti-tumor agents and the treatment of cancer through alternative medicine

Source: DrAxe.com