DESCRIPTION
This essential oil is extracted from ginger, which is a rhizome of Zingiber officinale plant. It is a tuber and can be consumed wholly as a delicacy and also used as medicine or spice.
COMMON NAMES
Root Ginger
BLENDS WITH:
It can easily blend with bergamot, frankincense, sandalwood, neroli, rose, and ylang-ylang.
CONSTITUENTS
It contains a-pinene, camphene, b-pinene, 1,8-cineole, linalool, borneol, y-terpineol, nerol geranial, geranyl acetate, neral, geraniol, b-bisabolene and zingiberene.
USES
Ginger is used as delicacy and as spice in various food preparations. The oil of ginger has some therapeutic properties and finds application in various herbal medicines.