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| The essential oil is distilled from the feathery, narrow bright green leaves. Tea tree's major contribution to the herbal pharmacy is its broad spectrum of antimicrobial activity. Often called a "first aid kit in a bottle", it is ideal to take along on camping trip or anytime you are traveling. Tea tree is also an all purpose remedy for respiratory infections, acting as an anti-infective agent and strongly stimulating the body's own immune system.
Personal Experience: Tea tree oil is a must have at my house,it gets used for something nearly every day. We use it at the first sign of a scratchy throat and sniffles a few drops in warm water as a gargle. I also add tea tree to the hand soap dispenser to kill germs, and combine tea tree with vinegar and baking soda for cleaning. A sure fire cure for any nasty skin fungus infections too.
Related Species
Niaouli Melaleuca quinquenervia
Cajeput Melaleuca leucadendros |
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Preparation Methods :Essential Oil
 Remedies using : Tea Tree
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Useful for hot spots, flea and insect bites, minor abrasions, sunburn, and other skin irritations. Not for use on cats.
|  Organic FidoDerm SprayContains: Distilled water, organic Aloe Vera, Calendula extract, ethanol USP, and essential oils of Tea Tree, Lavender, and Carrot Seed. |
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 The standard composition of tea tree oil is more than 30 percent terpinene and less than 15 percent cineole. This balance makes it much less irritating than oils such as eucalyptus, and small amounts can be applied neat to the skin. The aroma of the oil is warm, spicy, medicinal and volatile. It is occasionally used to scent spicy colognes and aftershaves. It blends well with lavandin, rosemary and nutmeg oils.
Niaouli, Melaleuca quinquenervia, is much like tea tree in its antiseptic properties, but with a much milder, fruity aroma. The oils powerful stimulating effects make it a great daytime, engergizing blend when fighting off a cold. Niaouli is often mixed with juniper, lavender, lemon, lime, myrtle, rosemary, Scotch pine and sweet fennel to prepare many different mixtures for many different ailments.
While Cajeput is the sister tree to Tea tree and Niaouli the important difference is that Cajeput is skin-irritant and as such less suitable for external use. Burmese mix cajeput oil with camphor for gout. Indochinese use the oil for arthritis and rheumatism, inhaling the oil for colds and rhinitis. Cambodians use the leaves for dropsy. Indonesians apply the oil externally for burns, cramps, colic, earache, headache, pain, skin disease, and toothache. |
 Tea tree oil is beneficial for genital infections such as herpes, vaginitis, trichomonas, and Candida lbicans and can be applied as a suppositories (available at health food stores) or douches. (Dilute with water) | | To help protect your throat and nasal passages against germs while traveling, place a few drops of tea tree oil on a cotton handkerchief, store in a plastic bag and periodically inhale the scent. | | disinfect showers and tubs frequently with tea tree oil to - great for killing fungus infections |
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To treat skin abrasions first clean the affected area with warm water with 5 drops of lavender diluted in a bowl. Apply one neat drop of lavender, or tea tree and leave to heal. |
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Mosquito or chigger bites |
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For quick relief from mosquito or chigger bites, rub tea tree oil on them. Tea tree is generally safe to apply directly to skin, but do an allergy test first. |
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Pimples |
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For the occasional pimple, apply 1 drop of tea tree oil directly to acne spots. |
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Skin abscess |
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Apply tea tree oil to prevent and treat infection and reduce inflammation |
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| Potential skin irritant, do not ingest |
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Koehler's Medicinal-Plants 1887
Small tree; small soft, narrow leaves, and cream colored bottlebrush flowers. Native to the New South Wales area of Australia.
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 The leaf of the tea, or ti, tree has a long history of use by the indigenous peoples of Australia. They treat skin infections, cuts and wounds by making a poultice of the leaves. |
