what medicinal purpose does clove oil have?

Answer 1

From Essential Aromatherapy:

Clove was used in ancient China as medicine. To fragrance their mouths, the courtiers would hold clove bud in their mouths when speaking to the emperors. the Romans prized clove as food flavoring and as medicine, recognizing it as an important aspect of spice trade.

Essential oil of clove is most used for warts, toothache, muscle pain, tired limbs, rheumatism, colds, flu, stress, diarrhea, chest infections, bronchitis, nausea, scabies, ringworm, and recovery from infections.

It's therapeutic properties are: antiseptic, antibiotic, anti-viral, anti-fungal, analgesic, anti-neuralgic, anti-spasmodic, anti-infectious, and anti-parasitic.

I use it on my knee when it acts up. I've also used it for toothache pain and parasites.

Answer 2

stimulating the muscles, digestion and immune system.
Clove bud essential oil may be used for deep, soothing, antiseptic cleansing of wounds, ulcers, athleteís foot, burns and cuts.

It is a stimulating tonic for painful, inflamed joints and may release breathing troubled by asthma and bronchitis. It has been suggested that the oil can repel insects and parasites both internally and externally if properly applied and some recent work has suggested that clove oil may kill house dust mites when diffused. Researchers in South Korea have done some successful preliminary work on eugenol, a major component of clove, as a counter-anaphylactic in rats.

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Answer 3

Be carefult o dilute Clove essential oil. Three drops to one teaspoon of carrier oil (almond, olive, etc). When not diluted, clove oil can be very caustic. I dropped some once on my floor and it ate a whole through the linoleum. Essential oils should not be taken internally.

Answer 4

Cloves are used mainly to support healthy digestive function and is thought to relieve digestive upsets, vomiting and nausea.

Oil of Cloves apparently reduces the sensation of bloating and gas pressure within the stomach that frequently troubles people with peptic ulcers and gastroenteritis. Clove is considered a warming herb that improves the assimilation and digestion of foods.

In Ayurvedic medicine, ancient healers used Cloves to heal respiratory ailments. The herb is said to clear excess mucus from the lungs and relieve asthma, coughs and colds.

Long used as a pain reliever, Clove oil is said to possess powerful analgesic properties. Eugenol, its active ingredient, comprises from sixty- to ninety percent of this herb and is thought to be responsible for its pain-killing properties. Oil of Cloves has been used around the world to relieve pain from toothache and dental treatments and remains one of the major pain relieving agents still used by dentists to ease periodontal disease and toothache. Used externally, Oil of Cloves also eases neuralgia and rheumatism.

Clove oil is considered by some to be one of the most powerful germicidal agents in the herbal kingdom. Its antiseptic, antibacterial properties help in the treatment of food poisoning by killing many types of bacteria, including pseudomonas aeruginosa, shigella (all species), staph and strep - all of which may be involved in food poisoning. Its disinfectant properties make it a fine mouthwash,

breath freshener and toothpaste ingredient.

Cloves are said to be antiparasitic, and its antimicrobial properties destroy intestinal parasites, thus supporting its traditional use by the Chinese in treating diarrhea and intestinal worms.

Reputed to have antiviral and antifungal properties, Clove oil is said to increase the efficacy of "acyclovir," a drug used to treat the viral infections underlying Bell's palsy, chronic fatigue syndrome and herpes. It is also thought to be beneficial in counteracting the fungus that causes athlete's foot.

Consuming Cloves is thought to produce an aphrodisiac effect.

Answer 5

Make some edibles. Get about 1/2 ounce of MJ and make some cannabutter than just get some pre-made brownie mix and use cannabutter instead of regular butter.

Answer 6

good 4 toothache.

well so my nan said.
:)