Calamus Oil

DESCRIPTION
Calamus Oil is extracted from a red-like aquatic plant that has sword-shaped leaves & small greenish-yellow flowers. All parts of plant have peculiar, agreeable fragrance. Calamus oil is extracted from fresh roots or unpeeled dried root by steam distillation process. The extract is helpful as herbal medicine for treatment of nervous complaints, vertigo, headaches & dysentery.

COMMON NAMES
Calamus Essential Oil

BLENDS WITH:
Cananga, labdanum, cinnamon, olibanum, patchouli, oregano, cedar wood.

CONSTITUENTS
acorenone, isoshyobunine, b-gurjunene, b-asarone, calamendiol, a-selinene, a-calacorene, camphone, calamusenone and shyobunone, asarone

USES
Calamus essential oil is highly esteemed as aromatic stimulant & tonic that is often used for nervous complaints, headaches, vertigo and dysentery ailments. It is also used in herbal medicine as aromatic bitter and acts as carminative, removing discomfort caused by flatulence & checking growth of bacteria that give rise to this problem. Further, it is also used to increase appetite & benefit digestion. The solid form is eaten and is called the German ginger.
The tuber concentrate is used as a flavour for pipe tobacco. People in Europe add it to wine and the root is used as an ingredient of absinthe. In Lithuania people add this while making baked black bread. In Britain people used to cut the plant and use as sweet smelling floor covering in residences and churches. English cottages used this for thatching material for cottages. In Egypt people believed that it has aphrodisiac properties.
The plant and its parts are traditionally used as part of Indian and Chinese herbal medicines. It is used in the Sidha and Ayurveda medicines.