Ingredients

Ancient Oil is comprised of the following natural ingredients.

Natural Menthol/Peppermint Oil
Peppermint is the source of the commercially and medicinally important menthol.  It is the menthol in peppermint that is primarily responsible for the herb’s beneficial effects, and the oil of peppermint contains anywhere from 50 to 78 percent menthol.  Menthol is an anodyne (to ease or lessen pain) used, especially locally in neuralgia (an acute pain radiating along the nerve branches) and rhinitis (inflammation of the nose).
 
Echinacea
The American Indians are credited with discovering that the roots of the Echinacea contain medicinal properties. Echinacea contains a substance called caffeic acid glycoside which reacts with other substances in the body’s cells and facilitates the wound healing process. In folk medicine, this unidentified substance was used as a “blood purifier”, to cure a wide variety of ailments: rheumatism, streptococcus infections, bee stings, poisonous snake bites, dyspepsia, tumors, syphillis, gangrene, excema, hemorrhoids, and a host of pains and wounds.

Rosemary
Rosemary has long been included in many herbalists stores of remedies. Applied externally, an ointment made from the oil of rosemary is reputed to benefit sufferers of rheumatism, sores, excema, bruises and wounds.

Artemisias
We use only one of hundreds of varieties.  Artemisias was one of only two herbs ever used as currency (the other was frankincense.)  Research indicates that Artemisias is referenced several times in the Bible and was used by Roman soldiers.  In America, Artemisias was widely used by American Indians.
Artemisias was used as an antiseptic, antispasmodic, carminative, sedative, stomachic, tonic, and stimulant. It has been given to those suffering from poor circulation and rheumatism. “The oil acts as a local anesthetic when applied to relieve pains of rheumatism, neuralgia, and arthritis” reports herbalist John Lusk. Used in this way, the oil exerts antifungal and antibacterial activity. It may, however, cause dermatitis in some people. The active principle of Artemisias, thujone, when taken internally in large amounts is a convulsant poison and narcotic. 

Aloe
The skin-saving properties of aloe have both folkloric and scientific backing. Reports of its healing effects on burns, sores and poison ivy abound. Scientists have found that aloe has anesthetic, antibacterial, and tissue restorative properties.
For its skin-healing properties, it is an ingredient in ointments used to relieve sunburn and burns from X-ray treatment of cancer. Aloe is also used as an antiseptic and protective coating on abrasions, blistered skin and cold sores.

Hemp Oil
Hemp Oil is used for penetration.

Soy Oil
Soy Oil is used as a carrier.

Materials taken from
Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs, copyright 1987, by Rodale Press, Emmaus, PA.
Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Copyright 1961, by G&C Merriam CO., Springfield, MA.