Latin names : Zanthoxylum rhetsa, Zanthoxylum budrunga, Zanthoxylum limonella, Fagara rhetsa, Fagara budrunga French names : Clavalier de l'Inde, Zanthoxyle rhetsa Other English names : Zanthoxylum Extracted from : dried fruit pods
Style up any Sichuan dish with one drop of mulilam oil! Dips, soups, meat or tofu dishes will suddenly become more exotic.
Those who have indigo children at home know how paradoxically they react to calming oils like Lavender: Mulilam gives them the energy they need to stabilise themselves and then calm down.
Stressed and tired ? Here is an antidote that boosts and gives pep (also pepper oil from which the word "pep" comes from).
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The plant, its legend and its botany
Surprising bushy trees, mulilam. They belong to the large family of rutaceae of which only citrus are usually used... They have thorns. Real, beautiful, large, not just any small thorn that would slyly slip under a nail, no! Real spines, several centimetres long. But above all they are wider than long indeed.
Their fruits are very friendly. Small fruits no bigger than a bean of pepper that grow in small clusters. In fact, looking at them, we realise and remember they belong to the same family as citrus. Indeed, these little balls resemble mini-blood oranges. Only
external difference: Something has not shrunk down compared to citrus: the small pockets of essential oil on the
surface.
Yes: they have kept these small vacuoles of essential oil that give it its nice smell. Present all over the small fruit, they look too big and spoil its general appearance. Even more than on Combava.
But then what a smell! How strong and powerful! Such a scent is released! Simply
touch one of the little fruits and you'll be plunged into its peppery odour generously and delicately shared by this tree.
Its
local name is pronounced "rhetsa", hence the second part of its Latin
name, while the first part comes from the Greek word "xanthones"
and "xylon" which mean "yellow wood." To a broader extent than only mulilam, this name is borne by all its family, thought the wood is not really used.
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Energetic properties
Mulilam has a strong energy which gives one directions both powerfully and calmly Brings strength Brings energy, the impulse to carry on Helps those who do many things at the same time to cope better Brings serenity, not through calming and relaxing but through reminding one that what has been started can be finished Soothes indigo people (both children and adults) Reduces emotional flows due to emotions being stored and locked inside Helps to digest emotions due to external events
Monoterpene alcohol (terpinene-4-ol ~ 25% alpha-terpineol) Non-aromatic aldehydes (neral and geranial) Monoterpenes (limonene, sabinene (rarely up to 60%), paracymene, terpinene, a little percentage of each) Ketone: none Furanocoumarins: none
No other contraindications within physiological dosage. The pungent molecule present in the fruit and the spice cannot be found after distillation
of the essential oil: There is no hydroxy-alpha-sanshol. Neither are the alkaloids present in the bark. Keep children out of reach. Children and pregnant women: no other contraindications within physiological dosage.
