Personal Use
Marjoram Essential Oil is one of my absolute favorite oils and one that is overlooked so often.
Marjoram essential oil is fabulous to help assist digestive issues. Actually, its aroma triggers the salivary glands to help kick start the digestive process! It is helpful to ease stomach cramps, nausea, indigestion and flatulence.
Marjoram Essential Oil is effective in pain relieving formulas as it helps ease stiff and overworked muscles. It is effective on its own or can be blended with other essential oils such as Central Plai, Birch and Black Pepper. It can be helpful with sciatica, palsy
Marjoram is outstanding in relieving emotional fatigue and depression. It is uplifting to the emotional body and has a calming and grounding effect on the psyche and spirit. It is a wonderful calming tonic.
Marjoram is a great antispasmodic due to its monoterpenol content. It quiets spasms in all the systems… respiratory system, digestive system and muscular system. It also supportive of the immune system.
It is also thought to be a circulatory stimulant. It is high in antioxidants and that is beneficial to the cardiovascular system. It is also thought to be a vasodilator, helping to widen the blood vessels. That in turn assists the blood flow and a reduction of blood pressure occurs.
Marjoram has an affinity with the skin. It has antibacterial as well as antioxidant properties so it is helpful with skin issues or skin infections, infected wounds or abscesses.
Common names - Pot Marjoram, Sweet Marjoram, Knotted Marjoram, Winter Marjoram, Greek Oregano
Traditional Use
Marjoram was used in tea to cure headaches, head colds, calm nervous disorders, respiratory distress and to clear sinuses due to its antimicrbia effect. Marjoram has also been used to comfort stomachaches and skeletal?muscular pains as well as improve circulation. Marjoram has antioxidant properties with fats and helps to retain color of carotenoid pigments.
In herbalism, marjoram is used for many gastrointestinal disorders and to assist with digetsion. Marjoram has been known to provide antiulcer activity and mucus protecting effects in gastrointestinal tract. It has also been shown to restore hormomal balance and reduction of DHEA-S when used on vaginitis and polysystic ovarian disease. For the circculatory system, marjoram exhibits anti-platelet and cardioprotective qualities.
Botany
Marjoram, (Origanum majorana), also known as Sweet Marjoram. It is a bushy herbaceous plant that typically reaches 1 - 2 feet in height. Marjoram is a perennial plant of the Lamiaceae family. By the way, the plants that belong to this botanical family are knwwn to have very aromatic essential oils in all parts of the plant. Marjoram leaves are opposite, whole, oval and petiolated (attached to the stem by petiole). The branching stems are densley covered with hairy ovate leaves arrange opposite each other in pairs. THe flowers are pale and are in small clusters. The plane is Native to India and the Middle East and then extended into the Mediteranian.
