Organic Rosemary Essential Oil
This beloved herb is celebrated in folklore, literature, medicine, and several monarchies. Shakespeare’s Opehlia petitions Hamlet: “There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance, pray you love, remember”. This bears tribute to long associations between rosemary and memories of loved ones. Springs of rosemary were common at graves and funerals for centuries, and have been found in Egyptian tombs from 3000 BC. Modernly ANZAC Day – Australian and New Zealand Army Corps Day – honors fallen soldiers with rosemary pinned to lapels. Rosemary was also customary at European weddings, where it was worn by the couple or given as gifts. The world’s pioneering botanists stumbled early onto rosemary’s benefits. Dioscorides’ book De Materia Medica, long the standard in herbalism, recommends rosemary for “warming faculties”. Nicholas Culpepper, foundational to modern pharmaceuticals, reported benefits to bodies’ natural heat and used rosemary as a cure-all for colds, forgetfulness, and headaches. In a fam