Garlic Essential Oil (Allium sativum)
Overview
Garlic may also be referred to as Cultivated Garlic. It is typically processed in China using steam distilled as a method for extracting oil from the leaves and flowers/buds.

Essential Facts
- Aroma Description: Astringent, Green, Medicinal, Pungent, Strong
- Common Name(s): Cultivated Garlic
- Botanical Family: Amaryllidaceae
- Botanical Genus: Allium
- Chemical Family: Esters, Monoterpenes
- Perfumery Note: Middle/Base
- Countries of Production: China
- Indigenous Country: United States
- Cultivation: Organically Grown
- Processing Methods: Steam Distilled
- Part Typically Used: Leaves and Flowers/Buds
- Shelf Life: 4 years
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Ethically and sustainably sourced
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Organic
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Vegan
Essential Details
Benefits & Uses
May be benefitial for addressing the following ailments:
Appetite Stimulation
Arthritis
Insect Repellents
Insomnia
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Therapeutic Benefits of Garlic:
Analgesic
Anti-arthritic
Anti-bacterial
Anti-fungal
Anti-infectious
Anti-inflammatory
Anti-microbial
Anti-oxidant
Anti-parasitic
Anti-rheumatic
Anti-spasmodic
Astringent
Cicatrisant
Decongestant
Deodorant
Expectorant
Immune support
Immuno-stimulant
Mucolytic
Rubefacient
Sedative
Strengthening
Vermifuge
Energetic, Spiritual, and Emotional Qualities
Energetics and Chakras Qualites of Garlic:
1st Chakra - Survival and Support
7th Chakra - Higher Information
Clarity
Energizing
Grounding
Purifying
Articles
Garlic Articles or Publications:
- PubMed: The Most Frequent Herbs Proposed by Iranian Traditional Medicine for Alopecia Areata.
- PubMed: Lauric acid and myristic acid from Allium sativum inhibit the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra: in silico analysis reveals possible binding to protein kinase B.
- PubMed: Diversity evaluation based on morphological, physiological and isozyme variation in genetic resources of garlic (Allium sativum L.) collected worldwide.
- PubMed: Response of garlic (Allium sativum L.) bolting and bulbing to temperature and photoperiod treatments.
- PubMed: Medicinal plants used to treat TB in Ghana.
- PubMed: Assessment of in vitro and in vivo anthelminthic potential of extracts of Allium sativum bulb against naturally occurring ovine gastrointestinal nematodiosis.
- PubMed: Storage temperature controls the timing of garlic bulb formation via shoot apical meristem termination.
- PubMed: Applications of thin-layer chromatography in extraction and characterisation of ajoene from garlic bulbs.
- PubMed: Influence of pH, concentration and light on stability of allicin in garlic (Allium sativum L.) aqueous extract as measured by UPLC.
- PubMed: Low-temperature conditioning of "seed" cloves enhances the expression of phenolic metabolism related genes and anthocyanin content in 'Coreano' garlic (Allium sativum) during plant development.
- PubMed: Effect of porphobilinogen on the formation of garlic green pigments.
- PubMed: Antioxidant effect of garlic (Allium sativum) and black seeds (Nigella sativa) in healthy postmenopausal women.
- PubMed: Recent Research Progress on Garlic ( dà suàn) as a Potential Anticarcinogenic Agent Against Major Digestive Cancers.
- PubMed: Insecticidal, antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of bulb extracts of Allium sativum.
- PubMed: Effects of onion (Allium cepa L.) and garlic (Allium sativum L.) essential oils on the Aspergillus versicolor growth and sterigmatocystin production.
- PubMed: The Antidiabetic Effect of Garlic Oil is Associated with Ameliorated Oxidative Stress but Not Ameliorated Level of Pro-inflammatory Cytokines in Skeletal Muscle of Streptozotocin-induced Diabetic Rats.
- PubMed: Comparative study on the effect of chemicals on Alternaria blight in Indian mustard--a multi-location study in India.
- PubMed: Draft genome sequence of Streptomyces sp. strain Wigar10, isolated from a surface-sterilized garlic bulb.
- PubMed: Effect of selenium treatment on mineral nutrition, bulb size, and antioxidant properties of garlic (Allium sativum L.).
- PubMed: The relaxant effect induced by Allium sativum L. bulb aqueous extract on rat isolated trachea.
- PubMed: In vitro antioxidant activity of aged extracts of some Italian Allium species.
- PubMed: Effect of Terminalia chebula and Allium sativum on in vivo methane emission by sheep.
- PubMed: Protective effect of Allium neapolitanum Cyr. versus Allium sativum L. on acute ethanol-induced oxidative stress in rat liver.
- PubMed: Extracts from the history and medical properties of garlic.
- PubMed: Direct, residual and direct + residual effects of sulphur in garlic (Allium sativum)-maize (Zea mays) cropping sequence.
- PubMed: A new peroxidase from garlic (Allium sativum) bulb: its use in H2O2 biosensing.
- PubMed: Unlocking variability: inherent variation and developmental traits of garlic plants originated from sexual reproduction.
- PubMed: Expression of garlic leaf lectin under the control of the phloem-specific promoter Asus1 from Arabidopsis thaliana protects tobacco plants against the tobacco aphid (Myzus nicotianae).
- PubMed: An ethnomedicinal survey and documentation of important medicinal folklore food phytonims of flora of Samahni valley, (Azad Kashmir) Pakistan.
- PubMed: Evaluating yield quality and quantity of garlic as affected by different farming systems and garlic clones.
- PubMed: Evaluation of antioxidative properties of Allium species growing wild in Italy.
- PubMed: Ectopically expressed leaf and bulb lectins from garlic (Allium sativum L.) protect transgenic tobacco plants against cotton leafworm (Spodoptera littoralis).
- PubMed: Effect of low storage temperature on some of the flavour precursors in garlic (Allium sativum).
- PubMed: Effects of oral administration of some herbal extracts on food consumption and blood glucose levels in normal and streptozotocin-treated diabetic rats.
- PubMed: A new thermostable peroxidase from garlic Allium sativum: purification, biochemical properties, immobilization, and use in H2O2 detection in milk.
- PubMed: [Ultracytochemical localization of enzymes and DNA analysis during the development of garlic].
- PubMed: Effect of certain bioactive plant extracts on clinical isolates of beta-lactamase producing methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- PubMed: Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic studies on the mannose-specific lectin from garlic.
- PubMed: Effect of herbal molluscicides and their combinations on the reproduction of the snail Lymnaea acuminata.
- PubMed: Production and characterization of an interspecific hybrid between leek and garlic.
- PubMed: Sperm immobilization activity of Allium sativum L. and other plant extracts.
- PubMed: Screening of traditionally used South African plants for antifungal activity against Candida albicans.
- PubMed: Mitigation of thyroxine-induced hyperglycaemia by two plant extracts.
- PubMed: Effect of single and binary combinations of plant-derived molluscicides on different enzyme activities in the nervous tissue of Achatina fulica.
- PubMed: Efficiency of mannose-binding plant lectins in controlling a homopteran insect, the red cotton bug.
- PubMed: Molluscicidal activity of Lawsonia inermis and its binary and tertiary combinations with other plant derived molluscicides.
- PubMed: The reversible two-state unfolding of a monocot mannose-binding lectin from garlic bulbs reveals the dominant role of the dimeric interface in its stabilization.
- PubMed: Hyperaccumulation of cadmium by roots, bulbs and shoots of garlic (Allium sativum L.).
- PubMed: Effect of single and binary combinations of plant-derived molluscicides on reproduction and survival of the snail Achatina fulica.
- PubMed: Antifungal potential of some higher plants against Fusarium udum causing wilt disease of Cajanus cajan.
- PubMed: Chemical and Genetic Evaluation of Somaclonal Variants of Egyptian Garlic (Allium sativum L.).
- PubMed: Developmental Regulation of Lectin and Alliinase Synthesis in Garlic Bulbs and Leaves.
- PubMed: Isolation, characterization and molecular cloning of the mannose-binding lectins from leaves and roots of garlic (Allium sativum L.).
- PubMed: Disinfection Alternatives for Control of Ditylenchus dipsaci in Garlic Seed Cloves.
- PubMed: Alliin lyase (Alliinase) from garlic (Allium sativum). Biochemical characterization and cDNA cloning.
- PubMed: Interspecific hybrid between Allium cepa and Allium sativum.
- PubMed: New mannose-specific lectins from garlic (Allium sativum) and ramsons (Allium ursinum) bulbs.
- PubMed: [Toxic effects induced by the repeat administration of Allium sativum L].
- PubMed: Acute antihypertensive effect in conscious rats produced by some medicinal plants used in the state of São Paulo.
- PubMed: [Allergic contact dermatitis caused by garlic, Primula, Frullania and Compositae].
- PubMed: Screening of indigenous plants for anthelmintic action against human Ascaris lumbricoides: Part--II.
- PubMed: Purification of the alliin lyase of garlic, Allium sativum L.