[[File:Elemi.jpg|thumb|Alt=Elemi|250px300px|left|Elemi]]Other Names : Canarium commune, Canarium indicum, Canarium luzonicum, Elemi de Manille, Élémi, Élémi de Manille, Elemi Oleoresin, Elemi Resin, Manila Elemi, Oléorésine d'Élémi, Pimela luzonica, Résine d'Élémi.<br>Elemi oil is extracted from the resin of the elemi tree, scientifically called Canarium luzonicum, and also known as Manila elemi. A tropical tree from the Phillippines, the . The elemi can grow up to 115 feet tall, and exudes the pale yellow resin when it sprouts leaves—which can grow to nearly a foot long. Related to the trees that produce frankincense, elemi was sometimes used in the place of frankincense when the latter became very expensive.
==Special Precautions and Safety of Elemi==
* Elemi Essential Oil can be irritating to certain skin types. Therefore, it should not be applied on skin of babies.* Tisserand and Young state that Elemi Oil may contain methyleugenol. Their dermal maximum recommendation based on the possibility of 0.3% methyleugenol content is 6.7%. They warn about avoiding * Avoid use of the oil altogether when if it has oxidized.
==Benefits and uses of Elemi==
Some of the health advantages of Elemi Essential Oil could be related to its properties as an antiseptic, analgesic, expectorant, stimulant, and tonic substance.
* Tonic : A tonic is something which tones up the body. many individuals remember being given every day doses of tonic within our childhood. Our parents would state that it absolutely was required for keeping us free from diseases and that we would rapidly grow up if we took those tonics. These were right! A tonic works well for the development as well as proper functioning of the body by toning up all of the organic systems functioning within the body, like the respiratory, digestive, cardiovascular, circulatory, neural, excretory, nervous, and endocrinal systems. Additionally, it enhances the defense mechanisms of the body.
==referencesReferences==
''Robert Tisserand and Rodney Young, Essential Oil Safety (Second Edition. United Kingdom: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, 2014), 272.''
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