Tsuga essential oil is not very well known. It belongs to the pine tree family and it is very similar to pine oil in usage and strength. The tree is also known as hemlock, and its needles were used in antiquity to make poisons such as the poison drunk by Socrates when he took his own life.
Tsuga {Tsuga canadensis}
Botanical Family: Pinaceae
Extraction: Steam distilled from needles and twigs of the conifer tree commercially known as hemlock