Extracted from the distillate of the floral bud of the Clove. It has properties: antibacterial, fungicidal, carminative, antiviral, immune stimulant, hypertensive, anesthetizing and cauterizing.
Clove is a well - known spice used all over the planet both for its therapeutic properties and for its culinary use. The history of its trade has been a bloody one and both its cultivation and its trade were monopolized first by the Portuguese and later by the Dutch. The history of cloves at a therapeutic level is closely linked to oral hygiene. Today it is known, for example, that cloves are as powerful an anesthetic as benzocaine. It is also a fantastic analgesic, excellent anti-infection, and recent studies have highlighted clove essential oil as one of the best mosquito repellents, much more effective than citronella.