Thursday Mar 28, 2024

Perilla Essential Oil Components Uses and Health Benefits

When you hear the word “transformer”, what do you think of? If you’re an engineer, you’ll probably think of an object that belongs in an electric circuit. If you’re a movie fan, you’ll probably think of Optimus Prime and the Auto-bots. But if you’re a Chinese or Japanese herbalist, the first thing that’ll come to your mind will probably be Perilla essential oil. For ages, Perilla essential oil has been considered a “transformer” in Japanese and Chinese medicine. It has the ability to cure countless illnesses and improve numerous conditions.

That’s probably why it got that title, meaning it transforms you from a state of sickness to a state of health. This oil is quite impressive and so are its uses. It can lower your sensitivity to allergens, act as an antioxidant, prevent and treat some kinds of cancer, reduce inflammation, relieve stress, and improve/boost your nervous system. It’s truly one of a kind. You won’t find many essential oils that can do all of that.

How does Perilla essential oil look and smell?

     You’ll definitely fall in love with Perilla essential oil’s peppery, minty fresh aroma. It’s subtle, not too strong, with a slightly woody, herbal fragrance. It’s absolutely divine. This aroma is the result of its unique combination of certain volatile oils. They’re the reason Perilla essential oil is so often used in the perfume industry and added to different kinds of cosmetics.

What are the main ingredients of Perilla Essential oil?

     Perilla essential oil contains tons of different chemical compounds that are responsible for all of its miraculous effects. It would be hard to single out the most important component but perhaps the most valuable of them are limonene, perillene, beta-caryophyllene, myristicin, linalool, citral, beta-farnesene, perilla ketone, l-perillaldehyde, perillyl alcohol, and rosmarinic acid. What can these compounds do? Let’s find out.

Lowers your sensitivity to allergens

     Perilla essential oil can make you less sensitive to certain allergens. Normally, when you’re allergic to something, let’s say pollen grains for example, your body reacts negatively as soon as it’s exposed to the slightest amount of it. Every person shows different symptoms but the most common symptoms of an allergic reaction are itchiness, irritation, swelling of different areas of the body, and narrowing of the bronchi, which results in a feeling of suffocation. This happens because your body releases a huge amount of histamine as a result of exposure to said allergen. So what is Perilla essential oil’s role in all of this? It reduces the amount of histamine released. Perilla essential oil is basically a natural antihistaminic that can be an effective substitute for some types of antihistamine medication. In fact, with consistent use, you might be able to significantly lower or even get rid of your allergy altogether.

The only reason you might be allergic to something that other people aren’t is that your body releases an abnormal amount of histamine when exposed to that something. Luckily, Perilla essential oil gets rid of all that excessive histamine, which means your body will show no signs of allergy whatsoever. Basically, Perilla essential oil reduces or gets rid of your allergy, making you just like everyone else.

 

Antioxidant Properties

     Perilla essential oil has several components that are responsible for its unique antioxidant properties. Unlike most antioxidants you’ll find on the market, Perilla essential oil is a natural, cheaper alternative. It helps protect your skin, lungs, heart, and pretty much all your organs from the harmful effects of little tiny molecules called free radicals. Free radicals are very reactive oxygen molecules that have one goal: oxidizing and destroying your cells and tissues. Perilla essential oil stops them in their tracks. Its powerful chemical components hunt down these free radicals, wherever they may be hiding in your body, and neutralize them.

 

Anticancer Benefits 

     Perilla essential oil has been proven to effectively prevent cancer. It has two vital compounds, roamarinic acid and luteolin, which have exhibited impressive anticancer effects. How does it work? Well, cancer is basically a cell that woke up one day and decided “I want to be immortal”. Cancer cells basically refuse to die, which is something that all cells in are body are programmed to do after some time, to be replaced by younger, stronger cells. But for cancer cells to stay alive, they need an endless supply of nutrients, don’t they?

That’s why one of the first things that cancer cells do to survive is stimulate angiogenesis, which is the formation of new blood vessels, around the cell. This guarantees that more blood reaches the tumor, carrying all the nutrients it needs to stay alive. So how does Perilla essential oil fight the cancer? By cutting off this endless supply of nutrients.

The chemical compounds in Perilla essential oil have been proven to inhibit the angiogenesis process. This means fewer nutrients reach the tumor. Fewer nutrients mean less growth and proliferation. Eventually, the cancer just withers and dies. Perilla essential oil does this with most types of cancers but the ones researched and clinically proven to be vulnerable to Perilla essential oil are lung, kidney, and skin cancers.

Perilla essential oil doesn’t just treat cancer, it can also prevent it. How, you ask? Well, remember the whole story about the antioxidant properties of Perilla essential oil? There was one juicy piece of information that I left out. Antioxidants can prevent cancer. That’s because free radicals, when allowed to reach a certain limit, can eventually cause cancer. This happens quite frequently with skin.

You ever hear people say that too much exposure to sunlight can lead to skin cancer? Well, here’s the truth: it’s not the sunlight that causes cancer. It’s the free radicals that are formed due to excessive sunlight exposure that cause the cancer. Luckily, Perilla essential oil can fight these free radicals and get rid of them before they accumulate enough to cause any form of tumor. Of course, that doesn’t mean you should forget about sunscreen and just stay out all day in the sun. You still have to be careful. But you can relax a bit, knowing that Perilla essential oil has your back if you forget your sunscreen every now and then.

 

Anti-inflammatory Properties

     Perilla essential oil has some impressive anti-inflammatory properties. If you’re someone who suffers from psoriasis, eczema, dermatitis, or any other kinds of inflammatory skin conditions, you can definitely benefit from Perilla essential oil. It soothes and relaxes skin, starting with its outer layer, the epidermis, all the way down to the more deeper cellular levels.

Let’s say you don’t have any skin irritation, redness, swelling, or any kind of skin disease whatsoever. Can you still benefit from Perilla essential oil’s anti-inflammatory properties? Of course you can. It works wonders on all kinds of muscle tension, joint pain, and inflamed cartilages. People with arthritis simply love Perilla essential oil. No matter what type of arthritis you may have, as long as there’s some sort of joint or muscle inflammation, Perilla essential oil will sort it out for you. No more waking up in the dead of night or feeling like the pain is weighing you down all day. Perilla essential oil soothes it all away.

What’s the secret behind these anti-inflammatory properties? You already know. Remember when we said that Perilla essential oil had antihistaminic effects? Well, guess what? Histamine is one of the strongest inflammatory mediators in our bodies. So by stopping histamine in its tracks, Perilla essential oil can effectively quell the inflammation that is causing us pain, irritation, and discomfort.

Wait, there are two Perilla essential oils? Which one do I choose?

     When you go out and buy Perilla essential oil, there are two different oils you might encounter and probably be confused between: Perilla seed oil and Perilla leaf oil. Both come from the same source which is the Perilla plant, but as you’ve probably guessed, they’re extracted from different parts of it. Both oils generally have the same components, which means they both have the same uses, but one of them has a little something extra. The Perilla essential oil that is extracted from the plant seeds contains a very important Omega-3 fatty acid called alpha-linolenic acid.

There are only 2 essential fatty acids in the whole world and one of them is alpha-linolenic acid. The reason it’s called “essential” is because our bodies can’t synthesize it on its own. We have to include it in our diets if we want to utilize its health benefits. It can help lower blood pressure, reduce the risk of prostate cancer, protect against diabetes, prevent strokes, stimulate the gut, improve kidney function, and lower the risk of infection. It’s also very important for your cardiovascular system and can reduce the risk of heart diseases and blood clots.

Not many food items contain alpha-linolenic acid, but luckily, Perilla essential oil is full of it. Just make sure you get the seed oil, not the leaf. However, if you don’t find the seed oil, don’t worry, the other one still does all the amazing things we talked about earlier. Try Perilla essential oil today and the next time someone asks you about a transformer, that’ll be the first thing you think of.

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