Black+Spruce

= Essential Oil = **Other names:** Epinette noire (French) **Appearance:** a mobile clear fluid with a fresh conifer scent with deep earthy, musty undertones **Production areas:** Eastern Canada **Extraction:** Steam distillation of the twigs and needles **1 kg. Oil yield from:** 80-120 kg of the black spruce twigs and needles
 * Botanical Source:**Picea mariana (Coniferae, Pinaceae – pine family)

Therapeutic nature
**Safety status:** Non-toxic, slight skin irritant and sensitizing potential (esp.from old oils from delta-3 carene content) **Perfumery status:** A head note of medium intensity and poor tenacity **Fragrance category:** top tone with pungent-camphoraceous and rooty notes **Tropism:** Neuroendocrine, respiratory, reproductive, digestive, muskulo-skeletal systems First, Fourth and Fifth chakra **Essential Quality:** Strengthening, stimulating

Psychological functions
**broad-spectrum neuroendocrine restorative/regulator (adaptogenic?):** Chronic adrenal/thyroid/thymus/ovarian (and other endocrine) deficiencies with low vitality, low stamina and endurance, fatigue; neurasthenia, chronic stress, convalescence **Immune enhancer:** low immunity with frequent or chronic infections; all immunodeficiency disorders (including CFS, FM, AIDS) <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**pituitary-adrenal restorative (regulator?):** metabolic disorders in general, adrenocortial imbalance, anaboli and catabolic deficiencies with weight loss, debility; chronic asthma <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Pituitary-ovarian restorative (regulator?):** dysmenorrhea, PMS, menopausal syndrome, frigidity <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Respiratory restorative, expectorant, antiseptic:** acute and chronic lower respiratory infections, weak lungsw, chronic cough, chronic chest congestion <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Immunostimulant anti-infective:** colds, flu, bronchitis; chronic and recurring infections in general <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Antifungal:** intestinal fungal infections, candidiasis <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Antiparasitic:** intestinal oparasites, including lamblia, ankylostoma <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Prostate decongestant:** prostate congestion/hyperplasia, prostatitis <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Analgesic, Anti-inflammatory:** Rheumatic and arthritic conditions, aching joints <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Spasmolytic, arterial stimulant:** muscle cramps, stomach cramps, asthma

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Topical functions
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Skin care:** dry skin type <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Skin stimulant:** dry eczema, dry lifeless skin, acne <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**misc.:** for breast enlargement

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Chinese Medicine Functions and Indications
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Qualities:** Pungent, rooty <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Temperature:** Neutral <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Meridian tropism:** Lung, Kidney, Chong, Ren <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Movement:** Ascending <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Essential functions:** To tonify Qi and Blood, and strengthen the shen

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">1) Tonifies the Qi, strengthens the Lung and lifts the mind <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">--Qi deficiency with mind weakness with fatigue, low endurance, frequent infections, chronic stress, low motivation, disconnection, low emotional response, depression <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">--Lung Qi deficiency with mind weakness with mental and physical fatigue low motivation, sadness, withdrawal, cough, shallow breathing

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">2) Tonifies the Kidney, fortifies the Yang and lifts the mind <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">--Kidney Yang deficiency with mind weakness with low stamina, mental and physical fatigue, backache, weak knees and legs, low libido, fearfulness

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">3) Tonifies the Kidney and Lung, and relieves coughing and wheezing <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">--Lung and Kidney Yang deficiency with chronic cough, wheeze, chest tightness

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">4) Nourishes the blood and regulates menstruation and menopause <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">--Blood deficiency with dysmenorrhea, long or irregular cycles, amenorrhea, PMS, menopausal syndrome

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">5) Dries damp-cold in the Large Intestine and the lower warmer <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">--Large Intestine damp-cold with diarrhea, irregular bowel movement <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">--Lower warmer damp-coldd with prostate congestion, difficult dribbling urination

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">6) Dispels wind-damp, relaxes the tendons and relieves pain <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">--Wind-damp-cold obstruction with rheumatic pain (esp. in the upper parts), joint cramping