5 element healing anointing oils
Experience the mind-body-spirit healing of essential oil blends created to balance the Five Elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water.
Created by Kirsten Cowan L.Ac and Denise Cicuto L.Ac, each blend is made in a limited edition during the season of its power. Each element has a Yin blend to nourish and strengthen it, and a Yang blend to calm, drain and sedate it. Packaged in a 10 ml rollerball bottle for easy application. Five element healing anointing oils are available from Denise Cicuto by mail and at her acupuncture clinics.
Learn more about how we created them and how to use them here. The anointing oils come with informational cards that have acupoint suggestions and individual essential oil indications.
Fire element
NOURISH Fire: Tonify and nourish the Fire element with the warm and comforting blend. Traditionally, Fire element deficiency dysfunctions include sensations of cold, back pain, fatigue, depression, inability to feel emotions, brain fog, difficulty verbalizing emotions and needs.
Ingredients: Organic sunflower oil, essential oils of sandalwood, frankincense and clove, vitamin e.
CALM Fire: Cool and calm the Fire element with this cool and expansive blend. Traditionally, Fire element excess dysfunctions include insomnia, agitation, restlessness, heat sensations, tongue sores.
Ingredients: Organic sunflower oil, essential oils of ylang ylang, bai zi ren (arborvitae seed) and lime, vitamin e.
Wood element
NOURISH Wood: Tonify and nourish the Wood element with this rich and soothing blend. Traditionally, Wood element deficiency dysfunctions include insomnia, dryness, eye strain, anxiety, headaches, lack of confidence and timidity.
Ingredients: Organic California olive oil, essential oils of bai zi ren (arborvitae seed), carrot seed, vetiver, vitamin e.
MOVE Wood: Clear and sedate the Wood element with this expansive and uplifting blend. Traditionally, Wood element stagnation and excess dysfunctions include anger and irritability, depression, menstrual dysfunction, headaches and stress.
Ingredients: Organic California olive oil, essential oils of bergamot, chai hu (bupleurum), rosemary, pinon pine, atlas cedarwood, vitamin e.
Earth element
NOURISH Earth: Tonify and nourish the Earth element with this grounding blend. Traditionally, Earth element deficiency symptoms include difficulty setting intentions and manifesting what we want in the world, weak digestion and bloating, fatigue.
Ingredients: Non-GMO rice bran oil, essential oils of ginger (CO2 extracted), cang zhu (black atractylodes), vetiver and rosemary, vitamin e.
MOVE Earth: Move and clear Earth element excess and stagnation with this warm and expansive blend. Designed to address Earth element problems like brain fog, worry and overthinking, nausea, sinus congestion, pain in the body due to dampness.
Ingredients: Organic sunflower oil, essential oils of mu xiang (saussurea), rosemary, ginger, patchouli, vitamin e.
Metal element
NOURISH Metal: Strengthen the Metal element with this protective and restorative blend. Traditionally, Metal element deficiency symptoms include shortness of breath, catching colds often, loneliness, and tendency to sadness.
Ingredients: Organic almond oil, essential oils of cedar, piñon pine, geranium, thyme linalool, vitamin e.
CLEAR Metal: Breathe deeply with this blend designed to address Metal element excess symptoms like cough, chest congestion, sore throat, constipation, grief, and difficulty letting go of things that no longer serve us.
Ingredients: Organic almond oil, essential oils of cedarwood, fir needle, bai yu lan (magnolia leaf), eucalyptus, vitamin e.
Water element
NOURISH Water: Unusual essential oils of schisandra berry and biota seed with cedar and geranium offer deep comfort to ancient pain as well as soothing help with Water element imbalances like insomnia, exhaustion and burnout, night sweats and fearfulness.
Ingredients: Organic jojoba, essential oils of atlas cedarwood, wu wei zi (schisandra berry), bai zi ren (biota seed), bourbon geranium, vitamin e.
CLEAR Water: Fragrant and spicy blend including cinnamon, clove and Chinese cedarwood deeply warms the primal fire of the body to clarify waterlogged spirits and balance Water element issues like low libido, low back pain, water retention in the lower body and lack of drive and purpose.
Ingredients: Organic jojoba, essential oils of nan mu (Chinese cedarwood), rou gui (cinnamon bark), clove, may chang, vitamin e.
(Product photos and descriptions by Kirsten Cowan.)