* Topically, small amounts of opoponax can be blended with coconut oil on sore muscles and joints.
* In inhalation therapy, opoponax is employed to cleanse, purify and strengthen both physical and emotional systems. It is particularly useful to the throat and lungs in diffusion. Also a mild aphrodisiac, sweet myrrh can be diffused to recreate the essence of ancient temple rituals.
* Cancer : beta-Bisabolene from the Essential oil Extract of Opoponax exhibits cytotoxicity in Bresat Breast Cancer lines.
==References==
* ''Robert Tisserand and Rodney Young, Essential Oil Safety (Second Edition. United Kingdom: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, 2014), 370-37''1.