The essential oil of lavender aspic: Aromatic molecules: 1,8 cineole, linalool, camphor
Distilled part: flowering tops
This aerial plant likes southern European scrubland and calcareous soils, fears the cold, and features pale purple flowers arranged in loose spikes atop long stems. Flowering and picking are later than true lavender. The lavender aspic provides an essential oil qualified as emergency because it will be "miraculous" to relieve and heal almost instantly severe burns and wasp stings. To have needed it in these circumstances proves, if it is, that aromatherapy is indeed a medicine in its own right.
Traditionally renowned for its properties:
• moderate antibacterial • antitoxic • antiviral and immune stimulant • excellent fungicide • anticatarrhal, expectorant • analgesic, analgesic.