Method: Steam Distilled, Organic

Aromatherapy Applications: 
Use as a soothing aid for indigestion, wind, and colic, especially in children, for which it is still current in the British Herbal Pharmacopoeia. 

Characteristics: 
A colorless or pale yellow mobile liquid with a powerful, sweet-spicy aroma. It blends well with elemi, mints, caraway seed, nutmeg, spice and citrus oils. 

Principal Constituents: 
Carvone, limonene, pinene, terpinene. 

General Actions: 
Antispasmodic, bactericidal, carminative, digestive, emmenagogue, galactagogue, hypotensive, stimulant, stomachic. 

Safety: 
Generally non-toxic, non-irritant, nonsensitizing. 

Primary Therapy Agent: 
Griping pains. 

Secondary Therapy Agent:
Colic, amenorrhea, lack of nursing milk.