Medicine Out Of The Earth

medicines out of the earth You do not need to have worked with essential oils on a daily basis over many years to come to the realisation that nature has provided mankind with a tremendously powerful and diverse medical material.

Moses, Aromatherapy & Holy Anointing Oil
The holy anointing oil that God directed Moses to make from flowing' myrrh, sweet cinnamon, calamus, cassia and olive oil, would have been a powerful anti-viral and antibiotic blend. Cinnamon is a powerful anti-viral and antibiotic agent as well as being anti-fungal. Myrrh is an effective antiseptic and one of the best cicatrisants – that is, it stimulates cellular growth - and its healing effects on open wounds, ulcers and boils was legendary even before Biblical times.

Over 300 Essential Oils - Medicinal Use
There are about three hundred essential oils in general use today by professional practitioners, but the average household could fulfil all its likely needs with about ten essential oils to create a basic aromatherapy care kit. Each oil has its own medicinal use and other properties. Modern-day research has confirmed centuries of practical use of the essential oils, and we now know that the aromatherapy pharmacy contains, apart from its anti-viral, anti-bacterial and anti-fungal qualities, essential oils which are antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, anti-neuralgic, anti-rheumatic, anti-spasmodic, anti-venomous, antitoxic, anti-depressant, sedative, nervine, analgesic, hypertensol, hypertensol, digestive, expectorating, deodorising, granulation-stimulating, circulatory-stimulating and diuretic, and much more besides.

Using The Essential Oils
One of the most satisfactory aspects of using essential oils medicinally and cosmetically is that they enter and leave the body with great efficiency, leaving no toxins behind. The most effective way to use essential oils is not orally, as one might think, but by external application or inhalation. The methods used include body oils, compresses, cosmetic lotions, baths - including sitz, hand and foot baths, - hair rinses, inhalation (by steam, direct from the bottle or from a tissue), perfumes, room-sprays and a whole range of room methods. Although under supervision the essential oils can be prescribed for oral ingestion this is in fact their least effective mode of entry because it involves their passing through the digestive system, where they come into contact with digestive juices and other matter which affects their chemistry.

The flexibility of medicinal use makes the essential oils of special benefit to patients whose digestive system has, for whatever reason, been impaired. Unlike chemical drugs, essential oils do not, as far as we know, remain in the body. They are excreted through urine and faeces, perspiration and exhalation. Expulsion takes three to six hours in a normal, healthy body and up to fourteen hours in an obese or unhealthy body. The method of excretion differs from oil to oil.

For example, sandalwood essential oil and juniper can be detected by their aroma quite clearly in urine. Garlic, on the other hand, even if applied to the skin, will be passed out of the body through exhalation, whereas geranium, which is a beneficial circulatory oil, will be detected in the perspiration.