Skin care: Bactericidal, deodorizing, skin stimulating, sore remedial and scar remedial. In Australia eucalyptus oil is used in sore instillations in post operative compresses and to dry out operation ventricles. Antivirus and fungicidal – effective on ring worm, herpes around the mouth and other virus eruptions as chickenpox, shingles and different types of fungus. Cooling and local anaesthestic on irritations, skin lesions, singes and insect bites. Massage: The eucalyptus oils have been used a lot in muscle oils ever since they showed up in Europe. They enhance the blood circulation locally, which is useful by inflammations and when the muscles are tense or pain, for example before and after exercise, by rheumatic pain, bone-ache. Eucalyptus can also be used by sprains and wrenches, for example in the form of compress. Expectorant cold massage on chest and throat. The oils are easily affiliated by the skin; they are absorbed in the body in about 30 minutes and are then exudated largely by the lungs. Bath: Steam bath or hammam by cough, cloggy nose, pneumonia, tuberculosis, sinusitis, flu, cold headache, chronic bronchitis. Such steam baths were common before especially by asthma, but some people dissuade from them today since they can irritate delicate mucous membranes. Internal use: Different spices of eucalyptus has been used in a long time in Australia by airways illnesses; one has for example imbibed the smoke from the leaves and smoked them against asthma. All varieties of eucalyptus has expoctorant, cough conveying, light cramp resolving and antiseptic effect, among other things on tuberculosis bacilli, fungus and virus, inclusive flu A-virus.

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