As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.......
I place this here for a reference and a note that every nation has it's own oils which if taken the time to press, crush, boil of distill will inherit a most interesting concoction of remedies, if people would just make them from sages to rose hips.
Most of the oils the west use are from the east indies and into India. It is interesting that the American skunk is frowned upon, but the same anal odor of the civet ends up in perfumes as do deer glands.
So for my reference, these are the aromatic Asian oils.
Lemon Grass: This you know as citronella. It is a wonderful anti insect odor. The grass is distilled and the oil is skimmed off the top. It dissipates readily and is why it is infused into candle was in order to preserve it's effect.
Clove oil: Sorry but this comes from the leaves of the cinnamon tree and not from cloves at all. It is distilled in the same manner as lemon grass.
Cinnamon oil: The cinnamon tree is interesting in you do not want a tree at all, but a bush. These saplings are cut to the ground every year and in the same year twigs appear to 6 feet of growth as thick as a human finger. The bark is then peeled for cinnamon, which is a perfect anti bacterial.
50 pounds of bark will produce approximately 5 ounces of oil.
Margosa oil: This comes from the tree by the name. It is an insect repellant like citronella and is placed in wounds to keep flies out. It has healing properties which make it especially attractive.
The trunk exudes a gum. The bark is bitter and used as a tonic and the seeds yield an aromatic oil.
Castor oil: There is not much required in this to explain it is the bean of this giant plant that produces the oil used in so many ways. Homeland frowns on it as the produced powder of the castor produces a toxic poison.
Mee oil: This is produced on an apricot sized fruit of the same tree. The oil is used in lamps.
That is about it, except for hemp oil and others which have fallen out of the public domain in not being commercially produced.
Oils and infusions have great value. The Italian processes for olive oil and the American processes for rape, soy, sunflower and corn have produced a vast array of cooking oils littering the shelves.
You might be surprised in the need of something to drive off insects how the evergreen oils or lemon oils give relief......oh that is right industry uses them to freshen homes, so North America does have aromatics too, but people never stop to consider them.
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