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Medicinal Purposes

Dermatological Uses

Essential oils are popularly used to fight superficial fungal skin infection, such as dermatophytes and yeast.

Dermatophytes are a type of fungal infection that affects the skin, nails or hair. Research shows that this type of infection only poses a 10 to 20 percent risk of people acquiring it. Essential oils have proven to be effective to treat dermatophytes as they are more sensitive to essential oil exhibition. They can also prove as an alternative form of medicine as it is not as costly and does not pose as many side-effects as typical medicine.

Yeast naturally lives on the skin, but when faced with warm and humid conditions, it has a tendency to overgrow which affects the natural balance of yeast one can have in their body and cause infection. Due to certain strains of yeast such as candida developing a resistance to anti-fungal treatments like fluconazole, essential oils have been found to demonstrate activity against yeast organisms.

Pregnancy[edit]
The use of essential oils has yet to be reported to have any effect on the uterine muscle or be the cause of fetal death. Potentially toxic essential oils include; Aniseed Myrtle, Araucaria, Australian Lemon balm (lemon-scented ironbark), Basil oil, Bitter Fennel, Black seed, Blue cypress (Northern cypress pine), Buchu (diosphenol chemotype), Buchu (pulegone chemotype), Carrot seed, Cassia (Chinese or false cinnamon), Chaste tree (Monk’s pepper), Cinnamon bark, Costus, Dalmatian Sage, Feverfew (nosebleed or midsummer daisy), Genipi, Great Mugwort, Green Yarrow (Ligurian yarrow), Ho leaf (camphor chemotype), Honey Myrtle (Marsh honey myrtle), among others.