Black Pepper essential oil has a spicy, pungent aroma with warm woody notes. Warming and stimulating, historically it has been used to ease muscle and joint pain and it is often used in blends for sports massage.
- Latin Name
- Piper Nigrum
- Family
- Piperaceae
- Note
- Base-Mid
- Extraction
- Steam distillation
- Constituents
- Monoterpenes, Thujene, Pinene, Camphene.
- Origin
- India
Historically this oil has been used to help treat stomach and digestive issues, also Malaria, Dysentery and Cholera.
