Helps treat dry, aged or mature skin. Spiritually its excellent for the heart chakra and also for the solar plexus and base chakra. No precaution needed. The major constituent of this essential oil is methyl salicylate which is the main property of aspirin. Its a analgesic, anti-inflammatory and fever reducer.
Birch oil is also a diuretic and blood cleaner, and is locally warming.
Birch needs to be handled cautiously,as the analogy to aspirin suggests, but has afew valuable applications in aromatherapy. Its good for all kinds of muscular pain,being a strong analgesic and a mild rubefacient. In rheumatism and arthritis it helps to drain the toxins which are the cause of pain. It help in the treatment of cellulite where other E. oils have not succeeded. In inflammatory conditions Birch is good for tenosynovitis.