Peach Kernal Oil

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Hi Butch

Herewith some info below your message, gleaned from various sources, which I

have used for educational purposes. Hope it's of interest.

Len Price also mentions it in his book: " Carrier Oils for aromatherapy &

massage " - ISBN 1 874353 02 6.

This is a lovely fixed oil to use, in my experience.

The trees in full [but fleeting] blossom are a glorious sight to behold. I have

a tall, double-blossomed flowering variety in my garden that flowers riotously

during November/December in the region of the Southern hemisphere where I live,

which more than compensates for the lack of fruit. As the blossoms begin to age

one can stand below the branches, tug on them, and be

showered in a soft pink cascade of petals - a whimsical bit of fun that has

become ritual for me each year.

Bye for now.

Sandi

 

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" butch owen " <butchbsi

 

Friday, May 16, 2003 1:52 AM

Peach Kernal Oil

 

 

> Hi y'all,

>

> Anybody know anything about the above? Or use it? Comments?

>

> Feller from Africa wants to produce it and asked me lots of questions.

> I know nothing about this CP oil .. never sold it and have no intentions

> of selling it.

>

> Any replies would be appreciated.

>

> Y'all keep smiling, Butch http://www.AV-AT.com

 

PEACH KERNEL OIL

Latin Name: Prunus persica

Family: Rosaceae

 

The plant and its environment

Prunus has been cultivated from time immemorial in most parts of Asia, and

appears to have been introduced into Europe from Persia, as its name

implies. At what period it was introduced into Greece is uncertain. The

Romans seem to have brought it direct from Persia during the reign of the

Emperor Claudius. The Peach is included by Hooker and other botanists in

the genus Prunus, its resemblance to the plum being obvious. Others have

classed it with the almond as a distinct genus, Amygdalus, and others again

have considered it sufficiently distinct to constitute it a separate genus,

Persica. When growing naturally, it is a medium-sized deciduous tree, with

spreading branches of quick growth and not long-lived. The leaves are

lance-shaped, about 8-10cm long and 3-4cm broad, tapering to a sharp point,

borne on long, slender, relatively unbranched shoots, and with the flowers

arranged singly, or in groups of two or more at intervals along the shoots

of the previous year's growth. The blossoms come out before the leaves are

fully expanded, and are of a delicate, pink colour. They have a hollow tube

at the base, bearing at its free edge five sepals, and an equal number of

petals, usually concave, and a great number of stamens. They have very

little odour, but are rather showy. The fruit is a drupe, like the plum,

having a delicate, thin outer downy skin enclosing the flesh of the peach,

the inner layers becoming woody to form the large, furrowed, rugged stone,

while the ovule ripens into the kernel or seed. This is exactly the

structure of the plum and apricot, and differs from that of the almond,

which is identical in the first instance, only in that the fleshy part of

the latter eventually becomes dry and leathery, and cracks along a line

called the suture, which is merely represented in the peach by a furrow on

one side.

 

The Oil

Colour: pale orange

Texture: similar to apricot kernel

Odour: almost odourless

Absorption: slowly absorbed into the skin

Use: up to 10% in blends.

Shelf life: about 6-9 months

Price: above average

 

Method of Extraction

Cold pressing of the kernels yields the oil used aromatherapeutically.

 

Vitamins, nutrients, and other contents

Chemically similar to sweet almond and apricot kernel oils.

 

Therapeutic uses of various parts of the peach tree - internal

As for almond and apricot oils, it is indicated as a laxative and

cholesterol lowering agent. The leaves, bark, flowers and kernels have

medicinal virtue. The bark and leaves have demulcent, sedative, diuretic

and expectorant actions. It was traditionally also used in whooping cough,

ordinary coughs and chronic bronchitis. The fresh leaves were stated by the

older herbalists to possess the power of expelling worms, if applied

outwardly to the body as a poultice. An infusion of the dried leaves was

also recommended for the same purpose. Culpeper informs us that a powder of

the leaves " strewed on fresh bleeding wounds stayeth their bleeding and

closeth them. " A syrup and infusion of peach flowers was formerly a

preparation recognised by apothecaries, and praised by Gerard as a mildly

acting efficient purgative.

 

The syrup was considered good for children and those in weak health, and to

be good against jaundice. A tincture made from the flowers has been said to

allay the pain of colic caused by urinary gravel.

 

Culpeper recommends the milk or cream of the kernels applied to the forehead

and temples as a means of procuring " rest and sleep to sick persons " and

says " the oil drawn from the kernels and the temples annointed therewith

doth the like. " He also states that " the liquor that drops from the tree,

being wounded, added to coltsfoot, sweet wine and saffron, is good for

coughs, hoarseness and loss of voice, " adding that it " clears and

strengthens the lungs and relieves those who vomit and spit blood. "

 

Therapeutic uses - external

Emollient, nourishing, protective, peach oil also relieves pruritis and

eczematous skin conditions. It is suitable for dry, sensitive, and ageing

skins.

 

Snippets of Interest

Italian folklore has it that if fresh peach leaves are applied to

warts and then buried, the warts will fall off by the time the buried leaves

have decayed.

Culpeper concludes: " If the kernels be bruised and boiled in

vinegar until they become thick and applied to the head, it marvellously

causes the hair to grow again upon any bald place or where it is too thin. "

Imagine that!

 

PEACH

When first introduced it was called Malus persica, or Persian Apple. The

expedition of Alexander probably made it known to Theophrastus, 392 BCE, who

speaks of it as a Persian fruit. It has no name in Sanskrit; nevertheless,

the people speaking that language came into India from the Northwest, the

country generally assigned to the species.

 

In support of the supposed Chinese origin, it may be added that the

Peach-tree was introduced from China into Cochin-China, and that the

Japanese call it by the Chinese name, " Too " . The Peach is mentioned in the

books of Confucius, fifth century BCE, and the antiquity of the knowledge of

the fruit in China is further proved by representations of it in sculpture

and on porcelain. It is said to have been first cultivated in England in

the first half of the sixteenth century. Gerard describes several varieties

as growing in his garden, and speaks of a 'double-flowered peach,' as a

rarity, in his garden.

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hi y'all,

 

Anybody know anything about the above? Or use it? Comments?

 

Feller from Africa wants to produce it and asked me lots of questions.

I know nothing about this CP oil .. never sold it and have no intentions

of selling it.

 

Any replies would be appreciated.

 

Y'all keep smiling, Butch http://www.AV-AT.com