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Sandalwood

Sandalwood

Botanical name: Santalum Album
Botanical family: Santalaceae

Note: Base

Part of plant used: Wood core

Origin: China, Egypt, Far East, Sanskrit

Description: Sandalwood is the closest smell to that of the human hormone smell.

History: The Greeks called it ‘food for the Gods’. Buddha’s in the East were carved with Sandalwood. It was burnt/fumigated before paying reverence to the ‘divine’.

Properties and Indications:

  • Strengthens the heart and gives some ‘stomach’
  • Protects the lining of the stomach
  • Decongests the venous system
  • Gynecological problems, particularly of an infectious nature such as thrush
  • Aphrodisiac – can help with frigidity and impotence
  • Chest infections – good for sore throats and coughs
  • Moisturizing and softening to the skin and especially good for dry and aging skins
  • Can help with acne

Personality:

  • For people who have rages, extreme/irrational anger
  • For people full of their own self-importance, such as bosses talking in a degrading way to their subordinates
  • Narrow minded people

Blending:

  • Benzoin, Black Pepper, Cypress, Frankincense, Neroli, Palmarosa, Patchouli, Myrrh, Rosewood, Vetivert, Ylang Ylang

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