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The Mediterranean cypress, also known as Italian, Tuscan, Graveyard cypress, or pencil pine. These are the species of cypress native to the eastern Mediterranean region, in northeast Libya, southern Albania, southern coastal Croatia (Dalmatia), southern Greece, southern Turkey, Cyprus and also a disjunct population in Iran.

Cupressus Sempervirens is described as a medium-sized coniferous evergreen tree to 35 m (115 ft) tall, with a small, rounded, woody conic crown with level branches and loosely hanging branchlets. It is very long-lived in some trees and reported to be over 1,000 years old.

Benefits and its Uses:

Cypress Essential Oil can be obtained through steam distillation of young twigs, stems, and needles. Cypress is a needle-bearing tree of conferous and deciduous regions.

The extracted essential oils contain a lot of components such Alpha Pinene, Beta Pinene, Alpha Terpinene, Bornyl Acetate, Carene, Camphene, Cedrol, Cadinene, Sabinene, Myrcene, Terpinolene and Linalool, which can be attributed as an astringent, antiseptic, antispasmodic, deodorant, diuretic, hemostatic, hepatic, styptic, sudorific, vasoconstricting, respiratory tonic and sedative substance.

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Item added 28 November 2020

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