Shi Chang Pu Essential Oil, 5ml (Organic)

Shi Chang Pu’s aroma is bright and sharp with a clean, bitter lemon-like scent. It’s effect rises into the brain bringing a heady expansion which sharpens and focuses the mind and the senses. This essential oil os produced by CO2 extraction.

Organic, steam distilled Acori tatarinowii Rhizoma

Acorus, Grass-leaf sweet-flag

“Stone flourishing reed” 

According to Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Divine Framer’s Materia Medica) Shi Chang Pu is classified as a “superior grade” herb. The text says, “It mainly treats cold damp impediment and cough and counterflow qi ascent. It opens the heart portals, supplements the five viscera, frees the nine orifices, brightens the eyes, and sharpens the hearing. Protracted taking may make the body light, improve memory, prevent confusion, and prolong life. Its other name is Chang Yang (flourishing Yang).”

Shi Change Pu’s main actions in more modern times, to open the sensory orifices, revive consciousness, pacify the spirit, and harmonize the Middle Jiao are attributed to its ability to vaporize phlegm, transform dampness, and remove turbidity.

Shi Chang Pu is said to improve sensory and cognitive functions to treat forgetfulness, tinnitus, deafness, dizziness, and dulled sensorium as well as seizures, stupor, muted consciousness, aphasia, and delirium. Diffusing and inhaling is the recommended method for this purpose as aroma affects the brain and spirit very directly and internal ingestion of Acorus essential oil with its *asarone component is controversial. See below). For emergencies, direct application of Shi Chang Pu to Jing Well points might also prove helpful. To benefit the eyes for ulcerations of the cornea, essential oils of Shi

Chang Pu, Ju Hua (Chrysanthemi flos), and Hu Po (Amber) have been recommended, diluted and applied to appropriate acupuncture points.

TCM Category: Opening orifices

Channels entered: Heart, Stomach

Note: Base

Major Chemical Components: Phenols (Phenylpropanoids): β-asarone ~60%-80%, α-asarone ~3-14%, eugenol, elemicin [27], eusarone, sekishone. Sesquiterpenes: caryophyllene, humulene. Aldehyde: asarylaldehyde.

*NOTE - Asarone is controversial. Although it accounts for much of this herb’s, mental and neurological benefits, it is also thought to have carcinogenic properties when taken internally in large, sustained doses.