Gifts of the Earth—Essential Oils
I am blown away by what I didn’t know about essential oils. For example, I didn’t know that 2 drops of peppermint oil can bring a baby’s temperature down in 15 minutes. Lavender and melaleuca oils can cure an ear infection in 1 day for only 64 cents versus a trip to the doctor for prescription antibiotics that take a week to do their job. How is it possible that I didn’t know essential oils not only are antibiotic, but they are also anti-viral? When the doctor says, tells me my flu symptoms are viral and there is nothing he can prescribe, I wonder how is it possible he doesn’t know about the anti-viral properties of therapeutic grade lavender, lemon, and melaleuca?
The powerful essential oil of oregano is anti-fungal and can remove warts and moles and cure athlete’s foot. You smell a little like spaghetti, but it’s worth it. Lemon essential oil is anti-cancer, anti-depressant, anti-septic, anti-fungal and anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-viral, and astringent. Allergies are no match for Lavender and Eucalyptus oils.
My sister-in-law thinks I am a witch the way my oil potion tamed her month-long, raging case of poison ivy. She was nearly in tears claiming she would have given a million dollars for that tiny bottle a month ago. She had used every pill and salve on the market to no avail.
Heartburn, high blood pressure, hives, hot flashes, headaches—nature delivers the healing frequency in the tiny molecules of essential oils. Snake bites, sore throat, sprains, staph infection, stomachache and stretch marks all can be treated with an essential oil protocol.
I didn’t know that a heavenly spelling oil named Frankincense can fade those annoying brown spots on my 50 year old face. Lavendar and Melaluca can stop the itch of a mosquito bite and Eucalyptus plus Lemon makes a great insect repellant.
The research is as old as the Pharoahs of Egypt and currently ongoing in major universities and hospitals around the world. Recent studies show that essential oils have sesquiterpenes that allow them to cross the blood-brain barrier delivering oxygen molecules to the brain cells. This makes them helpful with stroke recovery closed head injuries and brain disorders, Alzheimer’s and dementia.
Essential oils are more than just perfume—they are strong medicine. Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson and all the big drug companies spend endless amounts of money in the laboratory trying to synthesize the precious ingredients in essential oils. If they can synthesize it in the lab they can patent it, and sell it to us. But they can’t patent nature and their efforts fall short because of the infinite complexity of nature’s compounds.
I am learning that just like all computers are endeavoring to replicate the human brain, all of the over the counter medications and prescription drugs are attempts to replicate nature. Essential oils truly are gifts of the earth. Unlike synthetic medications they never expire and remain potent indefinitely. They have no side-effects.
I hate to admit it, but I guess I didn’t know about essential oils because big corporations don’t advertise them in 60 second commercials day and night on TV. No one is paying movie stars to endorse essential oils. I guess if the word is going to get out about the powerful natural medicine in therapeutic grade essential oils, it is up to me and you. Join me in learning more about essential oils.