Spanish wild marjoram EO Organic
Origin: Spain
Product range : Essential Oils
Process : Water steam distillation process
Part used : Aerial parts
Aspect : Transparent
Color : Yellow Light
Application : Aromatherapy, Fragrance
Geographical origin : Spain
Certifications : Non applicable
- Details and product descriptionIntroduction:
Thymus mastichina is a perennial plant that grows in lands covered with thyme, bushes and undergrowths. It can reach 50 cm high, but in valley pasturelands it grows only to 35 cm high. The leaves are narrow, oval, ellipse-shaped lanceolate. The inflorescences are globe-shaped, with greenish bracts, like leaves. The corolla is whitish, with a calyx not very distinguished from its tube.
History:Thymus mastichina is an endemic species from the Iberian peninsula. Sometimes English names are confusing. For instance, sweet marjoram and Spanish marjoram are not closely related and cannot be substituted for each other, even though the names are similar. Sweet marjoram is Origanum majorana while Spanish marjoram is Thymus mastichina (Caniato, 1989). Thymus mastichina colloquially called sweet marjoram, has the reputation to have medicinal properties. It has been used for a long time in its country of origin as a herbal tea for stomach, as antidiarrhoeic, anticatarrhal, antibronchitic, antifebrile, antimigrainous, analgesic for menstrual pains, etc.
