Essential Oil --Hedychium Oil

Hedychium Oil
Steam distilled oil from the roots of  Hedychium Spicatum. This plant is distributed in Western himalayas at an altitude  of about 3500-7500 Feet above sea level. The Essential Oil is obtained by steam distillation of rhizome.The common name is Kapoor Kachri Oil. In Japan it is called Sanna Oil. Due to its woody,spicy & peculiar odour like roots, it is used in Perfume Formulations. Cobatine Fragrance which won award in 1994 in Europe was the flower fragrances of this plant. It blend well with Jasmine, Tuberose et, to give it warm and spicy odour. This oil is one of the important component of Heena Atter being used in tobacco flavour and incense sticks etc. The rootstock is acrid, bitter, pungent,heating, astringent, useful in inflammations,asthma, pains, foul breath, bronchitis, hiccough, vomiting, tridosha, diseases of the blood.

Steam distilled oil from the roots of Hedychium Spicatum.