Essential oils have often been described as the "life-blood" of the plant. They are the concentrated essences of flowers, fruits, herbs, and plants, and are many times more potent than dried herbs. They have been used for centuries. The ancient Chinese and Egyptians used them in their spiritual ceremonies as well as for healing. When King Tut's tomb was opened, 350 liters of oils were discovered in alabaster jars. Plant waxes had solidified into a thickened residue around the inside of the container openings, leaving the liquefied oil in excellent condition.
Essential oils are among the greatest resources in the world. They can enhance our lives physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. They are a system of medicine that is in harmony with us and our environment. Scientific research has proven that essential oils have potent medicinal properties. Unlike chemical drugs, essential oils do not remain in the body, and leave no toxins behind.
Not all essential oils are created equal. Many are little more than "fragrance oils", and many have solvents, petrochemicals and alcohol in them. Other factors are important; i.e., the time of day the plant is cut, the type of soil, climate, altitude and the distillation process. If distilled with solvents, or at a high temperature, with high pressure, you will not have a true therapeutic grade essential oil that includes all the necessary constituents. For example, Cypress requires 24 hours at a maximum of 245 degrees at 5 lbs. pressure in order for all of the active constituents and properties to be released from the plant.
True organic therapeutic grade essential oils, have the properties of being immune stimulating, anti-viral, anti-infectious, anti-bacterial, anti-microbial, antiseptic, anti-tumoral, and anti-fungal. Much research has been done documenting the benefits of essential oils. For example, in 1985 Dr. Jean Lapraz reported that he couldn't find bacteria or viruses that could live in the presence of the essential oils of cinnamon or oregano. Oils, such as peppermint, have been reviewed for their ability to block pain, reduce headaches (Gobel etal., 1995) combat indigestion, enhance mental alertness (Dember et al., 1994) induce weight loss (Hirsch, 1995) and kill and repel lice (Veal, 1996). Melaleuca (sometimes called Tea Tree) has been used to treat acne (Bassett et al., 1990) and combat fungus (Nenoff et al.,1996); lavender oil has been examined for its role in inducing relaxation (Hirsch, 1991), conteracting travel sickness (Bradshaw et al., 1998) reducing blood cholesterol (Nikolaevskii et al., 1990), and protecting blood vessels (Nikolaevskii et al.,1990). Clove oil has been researched as a dental antiseptic (Cai et al., 1996), antifungal agent (Covello et al., 1966), blood anticoagulant, and anticonvulsant (Pourgholami et al., 1999). Volumes of other research findings have been reported, particularly in utilizing essential oils with an oil treatment.
The benefits of essential oils can be experienced in several different ways. True therapeutic grade essential oils have frequency that has a positive effect on the body. Dr. Royal Rife found that disease has frequency. He found that certain frequencies can prevent the development of disease and that others would destroy disease. Substances with higher frequencies will destroy disease of a lower frequency. Essential oils frequencies range from approximately 52 MHz to 320 (Rose oil). In today's chemicalized, stress-filled world the frequency of essential oils can be an important factor in maintaining wellness. Essential oils also have a high rate of penetration. They will penetrate into the body when applied to the skin. Essential oils placed on the foot (with 76,000 nerve endings) will be distributed to every cell in the body in 21 minutes. They will even penetrate a finger or toenail to treat fungus (Melaleuca is good for this). The aromatic qualities of essential oils are well known. When tiny molecules of aroma are inhaled by the nose, these are trapped in the nose by hair like nerve endings that pass the aroma on to receptors that then carry the molecules to the Olfactory Bulb. From the Olfactory Bulb, the aroma molecules are transported to the limbic system in the brain. The Olfactory nerves react as other nerves in the body do, responding to electrical signals and impulses and dispatching information to the rest of the body. This is how and why some oils can produce increased antibody production, as well as endorphins. Often just inhaling Peppermint or Lavender will alleviate a headache.
In a time when "superbugs" and the flu are prevalent, diffusing essential oils can be a wonderful way to clean and purify the air. When diffused, essential oils will remove toxins from the air, increase atmospheric oxygen, increase ozone and negative ions in the house that inhibit bacteria growth, as well as being important for those in buildings with no fresh ventilation and/or technology such as computers and fluorescent lights. Essential oils, when diffused, also destroy odors from mold, cooking, cigarettes and animals and fill the air with a fresh, aromatic scent. Diffusers should be the type that disperses the essential oils into a micro-mist that remains suspended for several hour-- effectively reducing bacteria, fungus, and mold. Pot burners or the rings on light bulbs do not do this. In fact, they destroy the properties of the oils with their heating action. Once produced, essential oils are highly volatile (evaporate quickly) and need to be kept from temperature extremes.
If you tell a medical doctor that essential oils can bring about healing with no negative side effects, they won't believe you. This is because in medical school students are repeatedly told by their professors that all effective medicines have negative side effects, and if they don't, then they can't be effective.
When I was in medical school one professor emphasized this point in a colorful, graphic manner with specially prepared slides. In each slide specific drugs were depicted as evil looking demons or goblins. As he presented each picture, he explained, "Although ugly and capable of doing harm, these 'demons' are also the bearers of some good. So long as the benefits outweigh the risks, we use them," he summarized. "We have no choice," he continued, "because if a drug has no dangers, then it can have no benefits. That's just the way it is. And that's why it is essential that only qualified physicians be allowed to prescribe medicines," he concluded.
Actually, the professor was telling the truth. Within the restricted practice of allopathy (MDs) the only real medicines are physician prescribed pharmaceuticals. Such medicines always do have negative side effects. All of them. No exceptions.
Hence, doctors are trained to accept the bad with the good as the price of effective medicine.The Danger is in the drug itself. The dangers of prescription drugs are intrinsic to the drugs, themselves. No matter how careful the physician in prescribing and how compliant the patient in following doctor's orders, even then deaths and damages occur. In fact, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, more than 100,000 Americans die every year, not from illegal drugs, not from drug overdoses, not from over-the-counter drugs, and not from drug abuses, but from properly prescribed, properly taken prescriptions. In this country, more people die from doctor's prescriptions every ten days than were killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Why is this so? Why do allopathic drugs always have undesirable effects (along with their apparent benefits) while one can find healing with natural products, such as essential oils, with no undesirable effects? Here is why.
It is illegal to patent any natural product. The way to big profits in the medicine industry is to create an unnatural substance that never before existed in nature, then patent it, and obtain a monopoly. Hence, the molecules of pharmaceutical drugs are all strange to the human body. In all the history of humankind, such molecules were never encountered or taken into any human body. Hence, the body does not easily metabolize them. God never made your body to accept and deal with these chemicals and antibiotics. Hence, you can find traces of prescription drugs in your body that were taken in childhood, decades ago.
On the other hand, natural molecules, such as those found in essential oils, are easily metabolized by the body. In fact, your body was created to handle them. When an essential oil molecule finds the receptor sites it was designed to fit and conveys its information to the cell, or participates in other therapeutic functions, it then goes on its way to the liver and the kidneys and moves out of the body. Its benefits have been conveyed and its job is complete.
By contrast, the unnatural molecules of man-made drugs attach themselves to various tissues, disrupting normal function, for years while the body tries to figure out what to do with them. Meanwhile, they wreak mischief with our bodily functions and even our minds.
Drug versus Oils
Drugs and oils work in opposite ways. Drugs toxify. Oils detoxify. Drugs clog and confuse receptor sites. Oils clean receptor sites. Drugs depress the immune system. Oils strengthen the immune system. Antibiotics attack bacteria indiscriminately, killing both the good and the bad. Oils attack only the harmful bacteria, allowing our body’s friendly flora to flourish.
Drugs are designed to send misinformation to cells or to block certain receptor sites in order to trick the body into giving up symptoms. But drugs never deal with the actual causes of disease. They aren't designed for that purpose. While they may give prompt relief for certain uncomfortable symptoms, because of their strange, unnatural design, they will always disrupt certain other bodily functions. Thus you always have some side effects.
Oil molecules send information to cells and cleanse receptor sites so that they bring your body back to natural function. Oils are balancing to the body. Drugs are unbalancing to the body. Oils address the causes of disease at a cellular level by deleting misinformation and reprogramming correct information so that cells function properly and in harmony with one another. With drugs, misinformation is fed into the cells so that some temporary relief may be obtained, but there is never any true healing. Drugs only trade one kind of disease for another.
Because essential oils properly applied always work toward the restoration of proper bodily function, they do not cause undesirable side effects. They are feeding the body with truth. Drugs feed the body with lies. While no amount of truth can contradict itself, it doesn't take many lies before contradictions occur and the body suffers ill effects.
Sixteen Doctors Speak Out
Not all physicians are caught up in the idea that the only good medicines are ones that can also be harmful. Here are some comments by physicians, themselves, on the practice of medicine. "The cause of most disease is in the poisonous drugs physicians superstitiously give in order to effect a cure." Charles E. Page, M.D.
"Medicines are of subordinate importance because of their very nature, they can only work symptomatically." Hans Kusche, M.D.
"The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine." William Osler, M.D.
"If all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea, it would be bad for the fish and good for humanity" O.W. Holmes, M.D. (Prof. of Med. Harvard University)
"Drug medications consist in employing, as remedies for disease, those things which produce disease in well persons. Its materiamedica is simply a lot of drugs or chemicals or dye-stuffs—in a word poisons. All are incompatible with vital matter; all produce disease when brought in contact in any manner with the living; all are poisons." R.T. TraIl, M.D., (lecture to members of congress and the medical profession, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.)
"Every drug increases and complicates the patients condition." Robert Henderson, M.D.
"The greatest part of all chronic disease is created by the suppression of acute disease by drug poisoning." Henry Lindlahr, M.D.
"Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine." Richard C. Cabot, M.D. (Mass. Gen. Hospital)
"Medicine is only palliative, for back of disease lies the cause, and this cause no drug can reach." Wier Mitchel, M.D.
"Medical practice has neither philosophy nor common sense to recommend it. In sickness the body is already loaded with impurities. By taking drug - medicines more impurities are added, thereby the case is further embarrassed and harder to cure." Elmer Lee, M.D., Past Vice President, Academy of Medicine.
"Our figures show approximately four and one half million hospital admissions annually due to the adverse reactions to drugs. Further, the average hospital patient has as much as thirty percent chance, depending how long he is in, of doubling his stay due to adverse drug reactions." Milton Silverman, M.D. (Professor of Pharmacology, University of California)
"What hope is there for medical science to ever become a true science when the entire structure of medical knowledge is built around the idea that there is an entity called disease which can be expelled when the right drug is found?" John H. Tilden, M.D.
"We are prone to thinking of drug abuse in terms of the male population and illicit drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and marijuana. It may surprise you to learn that a greater problem exists with millions of women dependent on legal prescription drugs." Robert Mendelsohn, M.D (author of book, "Confessions of a Medical Heretic.)
"Why would a patient swallow a poison because he is ill, or take that which would make a well man sick." L.F. Kebler, M.D.
"Drugs never cure disease. They merely hush the voice of nature's protest, and pull down the danger signals she erects along the pathway of transgression. Any poison taken into the system has to be reckoned with later on even though it palliates present symptoms. Pain may disappear, but the patient is left in a worse condition, though unconscious of it at the time." Daniel. H. Kress, M.D.
"The necessity of teaching mankind not to take drugs and medicines, is a duty incumbent upon all who know their uncertainty and injurious effects; and the time is not far distant when the drug system will be abandoned." Charles Armbruster, M. D.
Conclusion
So there you have it, why oils heal and drugs don't. Let's hope Dr. Armbruster is right, that "the time is not far distant when the drug system will be abandoned." Pharmaceutical companies and their physician drug dealers could market and sell natural products with genuine healing capabilities, but most won't. There isn't any money in it.
In my opinion, changing the medical system toward more natural and spiritual forms of healing is impossible. The system can't change. It must be replaced. Those of you who have opted out of the system in favor of essential oils and their physical, mental, emotional and spiritual benefits are among the pioneers who are replacing the system.
And for those of you who have taken prescriptions drugs over long periods of time, essential oils are your best friend because they can cleanse the residues of these drugs from your system once and for all and help restore your body back to its natural healthy state.
SOURCE:
The article above was first published in the e-newsletter entitled,
THE RAINDROP MESSENGER, Vol 1, No. 8, September 2003.
Jessica Berman | Washington 01 April 2010
Researchers say oils distilled from plants are highly effective against drug-resistant bacterial infections and could prove to be an inexpensive way to combat super-bugs found in hospital settings.
For hundreds of years, different cultures have used so-called essential oils from plants to treat a variety of illnesses from arthritis to skin infections and sore throats.
Now, researchers at the Technological Educational Institute of Ionian Islands in Greece have found that plant oils are a powerful weapon against multi-drug-resistant staphylococcus aureas or MRSA, a bacterium that causes hospital-acquired infections and is dangerous because it frequently does not respond to a range of antibiotics.
Effemia Eriotou is a professor at the Institute in charge of the research project involving plant oils to treat multi-drug-resistant staphylococcus aureas. "We didn't know that essential oils were going to have that a great anti-microbial activity. And it's really amazing that they are killing all these bacteria and yeasts as well," Eriotou said.
In laboratory experiments, the research group tested a variety of essential oils from eight plants, including thyme, basil, peppermint and cinnamon. Eriotou says they all had some anti-bacterial activity, but essential oil from thyme - a spice frequently used in Mediterranean cooking - killed almost all of the bacterium in a petri dish within an hour. Almost as effective was cinnamon oil.
Eriotou says researchers tested essential oils against drug-resistant staph after seeing what happens when the spices are added to foods. "They do not have any bacterial growth in those cheese[s], whereas when we tested different cheese types in the lab, we did have bacteria. When we have those plants in there, we see no harmful bacteria. And that's how we got started with this whole work," Eriotou said.
Eriotou says scientists don't know why essential oils, particularly oil from thyme, are so effective against drug- resistant staph. It's possible, according to Eriotou, that the oils are made by plants to protect them from disease.
Eriotou doesn't think the oils in concentrated forms are dangerous to humans, but that's something they want to figure out.
The research on essential oils was presented this week at the Society for General Microbiology meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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