Botanical name: Satureja montana
Part: flowering tops
Extraction method: complete steam distillation
Origin: Spain
Anny Schneider's Note
Winter savory is a very aromatic Mediterranean plant known for its digestive and carminative properties.
Its essential oil has the same properties, in addition to being bactericidal, warming, and tonic.
Internally, it is used in very low doses, diluted in 95% oil or vegetable fat, for local massage as an analgesic, or in cooking, where it is added at the end of cooking.
Origin of this essential oil
This organic essential oil of Winter Savory from Spain is distilled from the flowering tops of the plant.
Suggested uses
Winter savory essential oil can also be used for the preparation of phytosanitary treatment products mixed with white clay against pear rust.
Precautions for use
Keep out of reach of children, away from air, heat, and light.
- Possible skin irritation (dermocaustic) of the undiluted essential oil
- Possible neurotoxicity due to the inconsistent presence of methyleugenol
More information
Savory is a sub-shrub from Southern Europe and North Africa where the soil is calcareous.
It produces white or pinkish flowers in long clusters.
It was already used and recognized by Dioscorides and Galen as a warm and dry plant.
Main components of the essential oil
- Monoterpene phenols: carvacrol 35 to 45%, thymol 5 to 20%, carvacrol methyl ether 7%, thymol methyl ether
- Monoterpenes: paracymene 10%, gamma-terpinene 10% and alpha-terpinene, alpha-thujene, myrcene
- Monoterpene alcohols: thuyanol-4, alpha-terpineol, borneol
- Sesquiterpenes: beta-caryophyllene, ledene, beta-bisabolene
- Methyleugenol (traces)
