Extracted by steam distillation from the sommita flowering of Hyssopus officinalis L. (issopo, hyssop), small plant arbustive perennial of the Lamiaceae widespread in the areas asciutte and roccious of the Mediterranean northern and of the Asia central, where grows on soils calcarei soleggiati. L'issopo and citato 29 times in the Bibbia (Salmo 51: 'purificami with the issopo and saro undiluted'), and tuttora used in the liturgia ebraic for the purification ritual. In the medicina monastic medieval era one of the rimedi principal for the diseases polmonari. The phytochemical profile is dominated by iso-pinocamphone (25-45%) and pinocamphone (20-35%) — ketones monoterpenic biciclic with documented neurotossicita convulsivant — with beta-pinene, limonene and germacrene-D. THE pinocamphone are the responsible of the action spasmolitic bronchial and of the properties anti-asmatic of the issopo, but are also neurotossic to doses high (convulsioni epilettiformi). In aromatherapy si usa with large caution: max 0.5% topical, contraindicated during pregnancy, epilepsy, children and anziani. Recommended for asthma, bronchitis spastic, cough dry. Heart note herbaceous, lievely mentholated and aromatic.

Bacino of the Mediterranean, Asia Minor

Leaves and flowering tops

Steam distillation

• Quest'essential oil giova in case of diseases which riguardano the testa einervi, agendo contemporanealy as sedative and stimulating.
• IS excellent for people anemic and convalescent.
• IS useful in the asthma, in the cough chronic, in the laringite and in all the disorders respiratory of origin nervous, with a effect distensive on the acceleration of the respiro (for inhalation and massage).
• Applicato in compressa fredda, this oil is useful in case of traumi, ecchimous and contusioni.
• Riequilibra the blood circulation and is recommended sia in the presence of hypotension which of hypertension arterious.

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