Winter is gradually setting in, the days are shorter, and seasonal germs and viruses are making their appearance. Essential oils can help you prevent winter ailments, limit damage and even relieve certain ailments. Stimulating our immune system, boosting our morale, these concentrates of active ingredients with powerful chemical properties can be of great help to prevent and relieve the various seasonal ailments.

In the following lines, I present 4 essential oils that I like for their efficiency and speed of action as well as one last one as a bonus.

Your ideal winter kit with aromatherapy

I strongly encourage you to choose organic quality products.

It is important to remember that the use of essential oils is not recommended for pregnant womenbreastfeeding mothers and children. Certain precautions should be taken for people with allergies or asthma. Moreover, they should never be used pure or near the eyes and mucous membranes.

For more informed and personalized advice, I invite you to contact an aromatherapist, naturopath, doctor or pharmacist. Furthermore, only a physician is qualified and authorized to make a diagnosis and to decide on the taking and/or stopping of any drug treatment.

Origanum Compact Origanum Compactum

It is the most powerful anti-infectious essential oil both because of its extensive area of action (respiratory,gastrointestinal, urogenital, nervous, blood, lymphatic) but also because of its broad spectrum of action: bactericidal, virucidal, fungicidal, parasiticidal. It is also a general tonic as well as immuno-stimulant.

A true natural antibiotic without the inconvenience of the latter, compact oregano essential oil does not disrupt the quality of the gut microbiota.

Our advice for using Oregano compact:

At the slightest sign of cold, 1 drop diluted in a teaspoon of liquid honey (acacia) to be taken away from meals.

Hyssop Officinale Hyssopus officinalisvar Decumbens

The hyssop officinale of the variety "decumbens" is very interesting to relieve congested bronchial tubes, sinusitis, rhino-pharyngitis as well as all the affections involving an overproduction of mucus.

Our advice for using hyssop officinale:

In addition to an adapted lifestyle, you can dilute 1 to 2 drops in a little vegetable oil to be applied in massage on the thorax.

Peppermint Mentha piperita

The peppermint essential oil is tonic and stimulating. Great ally to alleviate digestive disorders such as nausea, vomiting, liver weakness, indigestion, motion sickness and even migraines of hepatic origin, it can accompany you the day after parties and meals too copious and watered ...

Our advice for using peppermint:

Smell the bottle directly. Apply 1 drop on each temple or internally with 1 drop in a teaspoon of honey.

Be careful, peppermint essential oil is cooling: do not massage the body with it at the risk of cooling yourself!

Ceylon cinnamon (Bark) Cinnamomum Verum

The essential oil of Ceylon Cinnamon Bark prevents and relieves intestinal ailments (gastroenteritis, stomach flu ...)

Our advice for using Ceylon cinnamon:

In critical periods, you can dilute 2 drops in a vegetable oil. Then massage your belly or 2 drops to incorporate in a culinary preparation (compote, dessert, smoothie bawl ...). Remember to mix well.

Essential oils of your choice

I like to recommend that people who come to me for a consultation choose an essential oil that smells good to them, without trying to find out its properties. The smell has an incredible power in the reminiscence of distant memories. Scents open the doors to the unconscious and emotional memory by stimulating specific areas of our brain. To smell a perfume that you like, to diffuse it in your home or in a dedicated room, to apply it to your body, to meditate with it is a gift that you give yourself. If you feel good, your body will be fine.

Spirit and Body being linked, by acting on one, we act on the other. That is why I warmly invite you to find your essential oilIt is important to take the time to take care of yourself.

Whether inhaled, diffused, applied locally pure or diluted, internally in a spoonful of honey or incorporated into dishes, essential oils are precious and powerful products despite the tiny quantity used. Their power of action is immense and can act on the physical as well as the emotional sphere.