The origin of tea in Australia, belonging to Myrtaceae, and Melaleuca, green gray Melaleuca, cloves, eucalyptus and incense peachwood is the same family. Also known as Australian tea tree. Plant about three meters high, though regarded as a tea, it has nothing to do with tea. Australian tea tree branches slender, similar to tea leaves and new leaves, linear leaves, such as pine-like, containing essential oils; branches upright easy lignified; androecium majority, was born in the calyx tube, the flowering plants to be large-scale plant after childhood will bear fruit. N.S.W. originating in the northern part of the small river basins, growing on sandy riverbanks and on the rich by local rainfall. An Myrtaceae important characteristics of essential oils that they can be anti-infective.
Tea tree oil until 1923, a researcher at the National Museum of Australia in Sydney, chemist Dr. Pan Fode (Dr.Arthur Penfold) study found that tea tree oil is a strong bactericidal effect of natural fungicides, and was the most commonly used disinfectants - carbolic acid (Carbolic acid) compared to its germicidal effect is 13 times that of carbolic acid, and carbolic acid have not irritating. Into an experiment he found that tea tree oil has a unique safety and effect of smearing the skin on the body, it would not hurt the skin tissue cells, can be applied to the wounds to avoid infection. Then try it in the orthodox medical applications.
Tea tree oil contains a variety of alcohols, essential oils were pale yellow or colorless. Tea tree oil for the properties and use of knowledge, most of them originated from long-term use of indigenous Australian experience.
The use of tea tree oil mainly contains the following two situations:
1. Tea Tree Oil can be against microbial infection.
2. Tea tree oil is a powerful incentive immune system, when the body against microbes, the tea tree oil can increase the body's ability to fight.
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