An Essential Oil to Watch: Lemongrass

This month, in American Spa they had a spotlight on the essential oil Lemongrass.  You’ve probably been exposed to it already.  That delicate citrus scent in your calming tea is most likely coming from lemongrass.

Lemongrass has been around for a long time.  It has been used for centuries in traditional Chinese medicine.  Ayurvedic medicine uses it to relieve cough and nasal congestion.  Even now, new uses are being found.  It has become more widely used in spas for site-specific pain relief and in 2006 research out of Ben Guiron University in Israel found it was killing cancer cells.

I think it’s safe to say that that Lemongrass is really going places.