Make Muscle Cramp Oil with Gingergrass Essential Oil
An essential oil to help release muscle cramps
Gingergrass is great for getting our circulation going, helping our muscles feel flexible, and filling us with energy.
I especially like to use Gingergrass when dealing with a muscle spasm. Here is one of my favorite recipes for releasing muscle cramps using essential oils!
Gingergrass's "Ease Up" Muscle Cramp Oil
Massage oil promotes circulation, calms muscle spasms, and helps feel more flexible
Ingredients
1 oz (30 ml) Trauma Oil
8 drops Gingergrass essential oil (Cymbopogon martinii sofia)
4 drops Saro essential oil (Cinnamosma fragrans)
3 drops Cardamom essential oil (Elettaria cardamomum)
2 drops Geranium essential oil (Pelargonium x asperum)
Equipment
One 1 oz (30 ml) Amber Glass Bottle with Coned Cap
Directions
Pour the Trauma oil into the glass bottle.
Add the essential oils and tighten the cap.
Gently shake the bottle to combine.
If you've never used Trauma Oil, I think you're going to find it's the perfect carrier to make muscle cramp oil.
It's actually a combination of three herbs infused into a carrier (like olive oil): arnica, St. John's wort, and calendula. It's wonderful!
You can also use this as a warm-up oil.
Try it before your practice to help make muscle cramps less likely.
If you're going to use this before a class with others, you might want to apply it early enough that it has time to absorb into your skin so you're not too oily during your practice and so the essential oils don't smell too strongly for your classmates.
This muscle cramp oil recipe comes from my book, The Heart of Aromatherapy.
I published it with Hay House in 2017, and I had such fun writing it! I included 40 essential oil profiles and got to imagine each oil as a "person" a character with a hobby or job that illustrated its therapeutic benefits.
Here's part of what I wrote about Gingergrass . . .
Yoga helps Gingergrass feel so connected with life that it decided to do yoga every day in the middle of the town square. At first people smiled at little old Gingergrass, stretching into seemingly impossible yoga poses while everyone walked by and went about their days. As day after day passed and Gingergrass continued to show up for yoga, people began to join in!
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