Garden marjoram essential oil
Botanical name: Origanum majorana

Chemotype and indications
Identity card
Name: Garden or Shell Marjoram
Botanical name: Origanum majorana
Distilled part: Flower
Botanical family: Lamiaceae
Origin: Morocco
Chemical composition:
- Monoterpenes (40%): Cis Sabinene, Gamma Terpinene
- Monoterpenols (50%): Linalool, Terpineol
- - Phenol Methyl-Ethers
- - Sesquiterpenes
Physical properties and therapeutic indications
- Anaphrodisiac
- Analgesic
- Antiseptic
- Canker sore
- Osteoarthritis*
- Cardiac arrhythmia*
- Asthenia*
- Bactericidal
- Bronchitis
- Colic
- Colitis*
- Diarrhea
- Dysmenorrhea
- Dyspnea (with feeling of oppression)*
- Dyspepsia
- Enterocolitis
- Flatulence
- Gastritis*
- Hypertension*
- Gastric infection
- Insomnia*
- Ortho- and parasympathetic neuroregulator
- Migraine
- Thyroid regulator*
- Rhinitis*
- Rheumatism*
- Nervous spasms with breathing difficulties, oppression*
- Tachycardia*
- Ulcer*
- Vasodilator
Emotional, psychological properties and therapeutic indications
- Anxiolytic*
- Calming*
- Convulsive movements
- Nervous spasms with breathing difficulties, oppression*
- Stress*
- Nervous overwork
- Tranquilizer
- Agitation*
- Depression
- Hysteria
- Nervousness
- Neurasthenia*
Additional information
Hazard: Toxic EO in high doses; In high doses: soporific, narcotic; May cause epileptic seizures; Avoid in case of heavy periods; Sensitive skin: risk of allergy; Prohibited for pregnant women during the first 5 months of pregnancy; babies; children
Miscellaneous: It is usual to consider Garden Marjoram EO as calming.
Discoveries on the energetics of EOs attribute to it stimulating properties.
The nervous person in the decompensation phase, as well as the person of “nervous character” who has lost sleep, is chilly, agitated, has lost weight… will recharge thanks to terpenes, at the level of the psycho-neuro-endocrino-immune axis.
This recharging accomplished, the person will manifest a deep, real calm, and not the “false pretense” brought by the molecules of allopathy.
For others: Garden Marjoram EO can prevent them from sleeping, if this EO is applied after 4 p.m.
Suggestion for treating Dupuytren's disease:
1 drop of Garden Marjoram + 1 drop of Italian Helichrysum
Apply: 2 to 3 drops of the mixture 1 to 2 times/day depending on the severity of the case.
Legend: * powerful,** very powerful;*** extremely powerful (power value for the associated pathology)
Reference and bibliographic source: Lily BAYER and Dr Hervé STAUB, (2013) “In-depth treatise on Phyto and Aromatherapy”, Ed. Grancher. p. 572.
INDICATIONS IN AROMATHERAPY AND THE USE OF ESSENTIAL OILS DO NOT CONSTITUTE A MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS AND DO NOT REPLACE THE ADVICE OF A DOCTOR OR MEDICAL TREATMENT!