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Celery Seed Essential Oil Benefits and Uses in Aromatherapy

Celery seed essential oil benefits include calming and strengthening the nervous system, which helps relieve stress and create a feeling of well-being.

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Basic Celery Seed Facts

Plant family: Apiaceae.

Production: Steam distilled from the seeds of the plant.

Aroma: Spicy, warm.

Perfume/Aromatic note: Middle.

Is celery seed safe to use during pregnancy? No, according to various sources. Consult a professional.

Is celery seed safe for children? Ages 2+. Consult a professional for details.

Cautions: If the oil becomes oxidized, it can cause skin sensitization.

Main components:

(+)-limonene 68.0–75.0%
beta-selinene 2.0–12.5%
alpha-selinene 2.0–12.1%

Note: Celery leaf essential oil is also available and has a different composition. The leaf oil may be used to adulterate the seed oil. Source: Essential Oil Safety, 2nd Edition

Celery Seed Essential Oil Benefits

The benefits of celery seed essential oil address hypotonic/weak and congestive/damp terrain where toxins have accumulated, according to Aromatica: A Clinical Guide to Essential Oil Therapeutics, Vol. 2. Celery seed has detoxifying and diuretic effects.

This essential oil may help relieve the pain of arthritis, gout, rheumatism, neuralgia, and sciatica. Other benefits often attributed to celery seed essential oil include:

Circulatory system: Helps relieve varicose veins, heavy legs, congestion, and hemorrhoids.
Digestive system: Strengthens the digestive system, stimulates and helps decongest/detoxify the liver, relieves intestinal cramps and spasms, and helps reduce flatulence, indigestion, constipation, liver congestion, and jaundice. The oil may especially be useful for stress-related digestive conditions.
Nervous system: Helps relieve nervousness and depression. The oil is a restorative for chronic conditions with chronic fatigue, loss of stamina, debility, and burnout.
Reproductive system: Helps relieve cramps and spasms in the uterus, encourages and regulates menstrual flow, and increases production of breast milk (used in a compress).
Skin: Helps detoxify the skin, making the oil useful for managing psoriasis and fading age/pigmentation spots.
Urinary system: Helps relieve cystitis and other urinary infections due to the oil's combined diuretic and antiseptic action. Helps detoxify the kidneys.

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Mental and Energetic Benefits of Celery Seed

Celery seed is a cleansing, grounding, refreshing oil that clears negative energy, supports mental clarity and intuition, nurtures spiritual growth, and fosters peace and relaxation, according to Stillpoint Aromatics.

Spiritually, use celery seed oil with the intention to increase your ability to tap into the universe to gain wisdom, knowledge, and surprising information you can use in your spiritual practices, according to The Essential Guide to Aromatherapy and Vibrational Healing. Mentally, use the oil when working on a creative project to help you tap into information needed to complete the project—especially useful for writers, musicians, and inventors.

The grounding properties of celery seed make it useful for bringing mental clarity for psychic work, astral travel, and prophetic dreaming, according to Mixing Essential Oils for Magic. Other celery seed essential oil benefits include increasing divination skills and stimulating creativity.

Celery Seed Essential Oil Uses and Blends

Use suggestions from Rocky Mountain Oils:

In homemade skin care products, the essential oil may help reduce puffiness, prevent breakouts, exfoliate dry and dull skin, and reduce the appearance of red spots and scars.
In first aid balms, the oil may help prevent infection and heal skin irritations and bug bites.
For a post-workout massage oil, blend 5 drops celery seed in 1/2 teaspoon carrier oil. You can also use this blend on stiff joints or on your abdomen to help relieve menstrual cramps or digestive issues such as stomach aches, gas, or bloating.

The Complete Guide to Aromatherapy (Third Edition) suggests blending celery seed with these essential oils:

To help relieve arthritis and rheumatism pain: ginger, kunzea, pine, or rosemary.
To help relieve indigestion: coriander seed, ginger, sweet orange, or rosemary.
To help relieve congestive conditions: grapefruit, juniper, lemon, or rosemary.

Muscle and Joint Pain Relief

4 drops celery seed essential oil
6 drops clary sage essential oil
8 drops copaiba essential oil
2 tablespoons carrier oil

Massage a little of the blend over affected muscles and joints twice a day. Source: 150 Ways to Use Essential Oils

Upset Tummy Relief

4 drops celery seed
3 drops ginger essential oil
4 drops peppermint essential oil
9 drops sweet orange essential oil
Sweet almond oil

Drop essential oils into a two-ounce squeeze bottle. Fill the bottle with sweet almond oil. Shake to mix well. Massage a teaspoon onto the abdomen.

Source: Eden's Garden

Menstrual Pain-Relief Compress

In a small bowl, combine:

1/2 cup hot water
10 drops celery seed essential oil
10 drops lavender essential oil
10 drops Roman chamomile essential oil

Put a small towel in the water and let it absorb all the liquid.
Place the towel over your lower abdomen.
Cover the towel with a plastic bag or plastic wrap.
Leave the compress on for at least 30 minutes while you relax.

Adapted from Penny Price

Cellulite and Fluid Retention Lotion

To help reduce cellulite and fluid retention, use this blend after a bath when your skin is warm.

6.5 tablespoons unscented lotion
20 drops celery seed essential oil
20 drops geranium essential oil
20 drops juniper berry essential oil

Blend all the ingredients in an 8-ounce glass pump bottle. Adapted from Penny Price.

Positivity Diffuser Blend

3 drops celery seed essential oil
2 drops sweet orange essential oil
2 drops lemon essential oil
2 drops grapefruit essential oil
1 drop peppermint essential oil

Use according to your diffuser's instructions. Source: Stillpoint Aromatics.

About the Author

Carol Wiley is a retired massage therapist and freelance writer. She uses her deep interest in aromatherapy and essential oils to research their benefits and uses and bring you summaries and blends with links to more resources.

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