Uses and Benefits of Pogostemon cablin (Blanco) Benth

Perfume/cosmetics

Nilam are well known as an important element in perfume or cosmetics industry and the most important product for atsiry oil. Their leaves can produce essential oil. The uses of nilam oil in this industry because of their fixative character. Nilam oil has a strong and unique strength to fix with other aromatic. Thus, it can fix the aroma for a long time. This capability is not be found in others plants except nilam oil. Their demanding for the nilam oil is very high at international level. About 2/3 of the perfume products in the world was made up by this oil. Beside that, this oil also can be solute with alcohol and others esters oil.

Medicinal Purposes

Nilam oil have a great contributions in traditional medicine. It can be used as an antibiotic. It is because, this oil could be destroyed the microbs. Beside that, it can be used in cough medicine, headache, stomachache, fever and hyertensional diseaese. For the headache, the leaves will be soak in the plain water for a while before drinked.

The pure oil (100%) can be used after the snake or wild animal’s bite such as cobra. We need to put the oil at those part. This considered as an emergency treatment. There are no doubts about their benefits in skin treatments. It can be used as a skin lotion. Their roots could be extracted to make this particular lotions.

After that, their leaves also can be used in order to solve in hygenic problem. Many products of deodorants was used this plants. More over, we can used it in traditional ways either by drink the water or use the soaking water for bath. Some people also used this plant for diarrhea disease.


Pesticide/ insecticide

Nilam leaves can be function as a pesticide or insecticide. Many insects give harmful and uncomfortable condition in our life. There are many diseases because of these insects. There are many ways to solve this problem. Usually, the most popular ways is by using the insecticide which is available at the market. But, the effectiveness of the insecticide only for the short term.
However, instead of insecticide there are certain kinds of plants that can be used for this purpose. As simple example, nilam is the one of the best plant for used as an insecticide. Certain people used their oil to destroy the insects such as in cupboard, drawer and so on. At certain Asian country, the nilam oil used as an insecticide for moth.

Other uses

The nilam oil was categorised as a woody aromatic and exotic oil. This kind of oil were very useful for pshycoemosional aspect. It can work in order to raise our sensuality . The oil can create an aromatic condition in the room. This action will give a result in order to solve the insomnia symptom. So that, it was known as an alternative medicinal therapy. It is because of their oil could be used to reduce the depression, stress and others.

Beside that, the nilam oil can be used as a treatment agents for the clothes. Most of the cotton and silk clothes are very sensitive. Some people were used their leave’s water to make the clothes more deodrize. It can be used as a detergent or syampoo for the hair treatment. It wiil give the black and shiny hair. This oil also used as a flavour in food products but in low concentration.