Totilo - Therapeutic blending with essential oil : decoding the healing matrix of aromatherapy

Therapeutic Blending with Essential Oil

Copyright 2013 by Rebecca Park Totilo

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Contents

CHAPTER ONE

the leaf thereof is for medicine.

- Ezekiel 47:12

Aromatherapy is a branch of alternative medicine that uses specific aromas from essential oils that have curative effects. The healing art of aromatherapy traces back to 4,000-5,000 BC when the Egyptians, Greeks, Hebrews, Romans, and Persians burned herbs and flowers for medicinal purposes. Today, many are rediscovering those ancient healing practices as a path back to divine health.

The truth regarding the healing properties of essential oils has long been neglected and misunderstood by most in Western society. While most aromatherapists in the US still relegate essential oils to the support of the psyche studies continue to uphold the antibacterial and antiviral effects of essential oils. True Medical and Clinical Aromatherapists around the globe are saying, The most effective use of essential oils for health is the combating of infectious illness.

In Tarah Michelle Cech, NDs online post Essential Oils Antiviral Effects, she writes, Interest is growing regarding the immune-supportive effects of essential oils, and particularly their antiviral actions. The worlds leading aroma-medicine practitioners consider protection from infectious diseases one of aromatherapys most effective applications. Many essential oils have demonstrated antiviral effects, through multiple pathways: By preventing virus replication, through improving the efficiency of our white blood cells, and by changing electrical potential of our cell walls.

Within each plants oil is the complex makeup of 200-800 chemical constituents. Because of the variability and unpredictability of these constituents, pathogenic microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses are unable to build up a resistance in their efforts of mutation against essential oils. Synthetic drugs that are made by isolating one or two constituents are no match for bacteria or a virus which can easily adapt and mutate against rendering the drugs useless. There are simply too many constituents within an essential oil for a virus to adapt to.

In addition, many essential oils prove to be more effective than antibiotics and possess the intelligence to leave the beneficial bacteria untouched. Chemist and Aromatherapy Practitioner, Dr. Kurt Schnaubelt states, essential oils have a 95% success potential against infections.

In an internet article entitled, Essential Oils: For Cold Care And A Strong Immune System , the author writes, Because of their chemical composition, essential oils can be easily absorbed into the human body, passing through cell membranes, then into the bloodstream due to their lipophilic nature (a structure in alignment with the lipid components of the bodys cell walls). Essential oils can protect us from microbes in many different ways, from keeping the space around us naturally microbe-free, to readying our immune system for defense, to destroying the microbes once theyve entered our bodies.

Simply by diffusing essential oils into the atmosphere, the oils eliminate microbes in the air, thus reducing the concentration of live pathogens you may be inhale or touch at any time lessening the load on your immune system. Second, most essential oils, especially the strong antimicrobial ones, have an uplifting effect on the psyche and a sharpening effect on the mind. And finally, essential oils can fortify your own immune system to prevent you from catching an illness in the first place with some studies that have shown mammalian cells having increased resistance to microbial invaders after exposure to essential oils.

While essential oils powerful weapon of antimicrobial compounds equips us against viral pathogens that attempt to invade the body, most aromatherapists agree essential oils are not wonder drugs. Conventional medicine has its place, and should certainly be employed when it will provide the best results. Alternative medicine, such as aromatherapy offers a suitable resolution in relation to its therapeutic value and can be effective if used sensibly and with sound judgment.

CHAPTER TWO

Essential oils are a fragrant, vital fluid distilled from flowers, shrubs, leaves, trees, roots, and seeds. Because they are necessary for the life of the plant and play a vital role in the biological processes of the vegetation, these substances are called essential because they carry the life-blood, intelligence, and vibrational energy that endow them with the healing power to sustain their own lifeand help the people who use them.

Since essential oils are derived from a natural plant source, you will notice that the oil does not leave an oily or greasy spot. Unlike fatty vegetable oils used for cooking (composed of molecules too large to penetrate at a cellular level), essential oils are a non-greasy liquid composed of tiny molecules that can permeate every cell and administer healing at the most fundamental level of our body. Their unique chemical makeup allows them to pass through the skin and the cell membranes where most needed. When applied to the skin, they immediately are absorbed and go straight to action. (Note: Be sure to check with the safety guidelines in Chapter 7 before applying any essential oil to the skin.) Because of their structural complexity, essential oils are able to perform various functions with just a few drops diffused in the air or applied to the skin.

Modern medicine has attempted to replicate the chemical constituents and healing capabilities of essential oils, but cannot. Man-made pharmaceuticals lack the intelligence and life-force found in the healing oils. Most synthetic prescriptions have several undesirable side effectseven some that are detrimental.