Hey, guys.
Dr. Josh Axe here, doctor of natural medicine and founder of draxe.com.
On this video I'm going to share with you all of the benefits of rosemary essential
oil, and how to use it.
I think it would blow your mind with what you're going to learn about all of the benefits
of rosemary oil.
I believe it's one of the most underutilized out there for supporting energy, adrenal health,
mood, detoxification, fighting cancer, and a whole lot more as I'll share with you in
this video.
So for starters, rosemary oil is the extracted component used through steam distillation
to extract the volatile oils from the rosemary plant.
So it's concentrating some of the therapeutic oils from rosemary through steam distillation.
What we get from rosemary oil are three main compounds camphor oil, pinene, such as alpha
and beta pinene, and cineole.
These compounds together really are what gives rosemary essential oil of all its incredible
benefits.
Let's jump here into step number one, or the number one benefit of rosemary oil, it's for
naturally thickening your hair, and supporting natural hair growth.
Now listen to this, if you know anybody who has thinning hair, or is losing hair, it typically
is caused by something in the body called DHT, or at least losing hair is cause by Dihydroxy
Testosterone.
Your body starts producing too much DHT.
Well the way to combat that is through taking certain herbal compounds that lower your body's
DHT response.
One of the number one herbs that does that is rosemary, or specifically rosemary essential
oil helps combat DHT.
So it actually can stop losing your hair in its tracks.
The other great benefit is, because of how it supports the thyroid, the adrenals, and
other organs in your body, it helps naturally thicken your hair.
If you're getting thinning hair, that's typically a result of emotional stress, it can be nutritional
deficiencies, it can be also stemmed from the health of your adrenals and your thyroid,
rosemary helps with those things specifically.
So again, here's what I'd recommend you do.
If you have thinning hair, or a loss of hair growth, you can take rosemary essential oil
in a capsule form, a drop two to three times daily, or get it in a supplement.
The other thing you can do though is make your own at-home hair thickening serum.
What you're going to do is do several drops of rosemary oil just on your scalp, about
5 to 10 drops, and just massage it into your scalp, leave it there for about 30 minutes
to an hour, and then you can shower off any time at night that you want to.
Or you can wear it throughout the day, but again, you want to massage that rosemary into
your scalp, do that one time every single day.
You can mix it with a little bit of a carrier oil, like an olive oil, but again rosemary
oil is best, and next best after rosemary is going to be cedarwood and sage.
All of those oils together help naturally thicken the hair, and I would recommend making
your own at-home shampoo with aloe vera gel, and rosemary oil.
Just those two things, using that as your natural shampoo, the best natural hair thickener
out there.
So rosemary is the number one essential oil for naturally thickening your hair.
The other great thing about rosemary oil, it is again the number one essential oil for
supporting brain health, and memory, and focus.
Now I had a professor come to me a few years ago, he said, "Hey, Dr. Axe.
I want to let you know I have a secret thing I do with my students to help them get better
grades on their exams."
I said, "Well, what do you do?"
He said, "I do a combination of rosemary oil, vetiver, and cedarwood, and I diffuse that
in my classroom."
But we know using rosemary oil is great for memory.
The way I'd recommend you use it is do about three drops of rosemary oil, rub it on the
temples, the scalp, and the back of the neck, but really right there on the temples is a
great place to rub on rosemary oil, directly on the skin.
You can also mix it with a little bit of olive or coconut oil, and sort of rub it on your
neck, head, and forehead, temple area, but again it is great for memory.
Use that once to twice daily, it's also great for children with ADHD.
If you have a child with ADHD I do a blend of lavender, rosemary, cedarwood, and vetiver,
rub it on their skin and body before they go in the classroom that morning, it's great
for ADHD, and for supporting focus there.
By the way, it's also been shown to be great for Alzheimer's and dementia, any type of
memory support.
If you have brain fog it's also fantastic.
So rosemary oil, great oil for that as well.
The other thing a lot of people don't realize about rosemary oil, it is incredibly beneficial
for reducing inflammation and pain.
Now part of that is due to the alpha pinene that's found in rosemary oil.
The other compounds they're all anti-inflammatory, the camphor and cineole, are all anti-inflammatory.
So if you struggle with arthritis, so you've got pain in your joints, or muscle pain, any
sort of joint or muscle pain, you can do a mixture of rosemary oil, with a little bit
of coconut oil, rub it directly on the skin.
And I like doing a blend of a warming and cooling oil, so you can also add in wintergreen
or peppermint oil.
So peppermint oil helps cool the area, rosemary helps reduce inflammation, and then ginger
oil helps warm the area.
So you can make your own at-home muscle rub, mixing those with coconut oil, to reduce inflammation
if you've got a painful joint or muscle there as well.
A few other great benefits, and these last two are absolutely huge, rosemary essential
oil has been shown to support liver and gallbladder detoxification.
In Chinese medicine it's called tonifying, or strengthening, an organ.
So if you're a person who knows you've been exposed to toxins, and you need to naturally
cleanse your body, using rosemary oil can be fantastic.
What I recommend is simply diffusing rosemary oil and smelling it, rubbing it on your neck,
or rubbing it on your neck and right over the liver-gallbladder area.
You're going to go down to your bottom rib here on the right-hand side, and you're going
to do about three to five drops of rosemary oil, and just rub it directly.
You're going to massage right below the ribs on that area for about 30 seconds, massage
that oil in.
It's a great way to naturally support those organs there, and detoxification.
In fact one of the things I love doing for the liver, is doing a mixture of lemon oil,
turmeric essential oil, and rosemary oil.
All of those oils are great for liver and gallbladder detoxification.
Last but not least, did you know that rosemary essential oil is one of the top two essential
oils for supporting the adrenal glands?
If you suffer with adrenal fatigue, chronic fatigue, low energy levels of any type, or
high cortisol levels, medical studies have proven rosemary essential oil can support
the adrenal glands and help balance out cortisol levels.
We know cortisol levels, if it gets too high, it's known as the aging hormone.
So by using rosemary oil daily you can actually age more slowly, and naturally support the
body.
Also if you've got adrenal fatigue, I would use rosemary oil.
I would do several drops on the low of your back, right around where your kidneys are,
which is where your adrenal glands lie, as well as on the front of your neck, and then
get a diffuser and diffuse rosemary oil as well.
It is absolutely fantastic for supporting the adrenal glands, balancing out cortisol
levels, and naturally boosting your energy levels.
In fact to boost energy I love doing a blend of peppermint oil with rosemary oil, simply
smelling those two together, rubbing those two together, diffusing those two together
is great for the body.
One thing I forgot to mention, rosemary oil is great for your heart health.
Because of its ability to reduce inflammation in the body, it can help naturally balance
out cholesterol levels, and even be effective at fighting diabetes.
And so rosemary oil, it's probably one of the less talked about essential oils.
I think lavender, and frankincense get more press, but rosemary oil is just as beneficial
as both of those, so I just want to encourage you, start adding some rosemary essential
oil into your home remedies every single day.
You can use it topically, you can diffuse it, and if used in small amounts, with working
with the physician, you can also use it internally.
When you're buying rosemary essential oil I would recommend look for certified organic,
look for one that has a supplement panel on the back so it can be used as a supplement.
But again, make sure you're buying a high-quality essential oil when using it, but again essential
oils can be so beneficial to transform your health.
They're natural plant-based compounds.
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I've got a lot of new videos coming out here in the future on more essential oils, herbs,
and natural remedies that can help you heal your body fast.
Hey guys, this has been me, Dr. Josh Axe, talking about the many benefits of rosemary
essential oil.