Niaouli

The niaouli ( Melaleuca quinquenervia ) is a tree of the family of the characterized Myrtaceae originating in New Caledonia, like the majority of the species of the kind Melaleuca by sheets persistent, odorous, being placed in a vertical plan and by a very thick but soft clear bark and exfoliant themselves like paper.

One extracts from the sheets of niaouli an essential oil used in Phytothérapie, which was marketed under the name of goménolée oil.

Used in ornament in many tropical regions, the niaouli often became a invading exotic species, disturbing in particular the ecosystem S marshy as in the Everglades, in Florida.

It is used in Aromathérapie where its essential Huile (formed to approximately 10% of Viridiflorol) is regarded as relieving congestion lower extremities. The essential oil of the chémotype cinéole (Melaleuca quinquenervia will cineolifera) contains surroundings 40% of 1,8-cinéole (oxide terpenic), alpha-terpineol 10% (monoterpénol), beta-caryophyllene 5% (sesquiterpene) and 8% of viridiflorol (sesquiterpénol); its therapeutic properties are multiple: Antibactérienne activates on the hulls Gram-plus, antiviral, cutaneous radioprotectrice, stimulative immunizing, anticatarrhale and expectorante, inter alia properties of which that of relieving congestion venous and lymphatic. This essential oil is contra-indicated in the first three months of the pregnancy and must be used with an informed therapeutic council.

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