Pelargonium graveolens (geranium)
Pelargonium graveolens (geranium) is known to stimulate the adrenal cortex and helps to balance the nervous system, while lifting depression, relieving anxiety, PMS and menopausal symptoms and has a regulatory effect on the hormonal system, clearing sluggish and oily skin, and assisting with healing.
Chemical constituents: a-pinene, myrcene, limonene, menthone, linalool, geranyl acetate, citronellol, geraniol and geranyl butyrate.
The therapeutic properties of geranium oil are:
• antidepressant,
• antiseptic,
• astringent,
• cicatrisant,
• cytophylactic,
• diuretic,
• deodorant,
• haemostatic,
• styptic,
• tonic,
• vermifuge
• vulnerary