PART OF PLANT – Resin from Frankincense Tree.

EXTRACTION – Steam Distilled.

Tranquilizing – anti-anxiety / slows and deepens breathing / anti-insomnia /  may calm asthma / muscle relaxant.

Anti-wrinkle – Frankincense contains powerful anti-aging phytochemicals.

Anti-inflammatory – calms infections of the: bladder / vagina / boils / ulcers.

Eases bursitis, swelling on the joints, water on the knee, tennis elbow, housemaid’s knee, swollen bursa, and swelling from arthritis.

Mucus reducer – dries wet, runny mucus. (Note that Frankincense has the opposite effect to Eucalyptus. Eucalyptus fluidifies stagnant, thick mucus, and makes it runny.)

SPECIAL – may lessen heavy menstrual periods / may ease nausea.

PRECAUTIONS – avoid in the first trimester of pregnancy.

History of Frankincense

The history of Frankincense is well documented in the Bible, where it is mentioned 17 times (http://www.threemagi.com/frankincense.html).

Ancient Egyptians ran a flourishing trade in Frankincense, and this was proven in 1922 when they opened King Tutankhamun’s tomb, after 3,000 years, finding Frankincense in the tomb.

It has not been proven that the ancients used it as an essential oil. Frankincense drips from the tree’s bark, and can be collected, and diluted in oil. This, however, is a crude form of essential oil, as the real frankincense essential oil must be steam distilled, to extract its molecularly fine properties, which are fine enough to pass through the pores of the skin, and into the bloodstream.

It was prized, nevertheless, as a massage balm, and was used extensively as an incense.