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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

What is an Essential Oil

Essential oils are a big part of what I do to stay healthy without using modern medicine.  My belief is that you do everything you can before you go to the doctors.  I haven't taken medication for something in many months, and even then it's rare.  I however am not a doctor, so you do what you need to when you need.  Just my personal belief our bodies are miraculous and have many healing abilities if given the right tools to heal.  Essential oils are among the many tools in my tool box.  Here are are few of my go to resources on essential oils!  They are brand specific so for doTERRA

And for Young Living

These are the two best brands in the industry in my personal opinion, but there are many great brands out there, these are just my personal favorites.
What is an essential oil?  It is the volatile liquids that are distilled from plants and their parts.  I could give you the chemistry lesson here, but really who wants that? and for that matter how many understand that?  Not this girl, I like things simplified.  So the basics are when you have an essential oil the plant has been taken and through a few different methods depending on the plant but mostly distillation (meaning they boil it and take a higher concentration of the good stuff out) they get the oils out of different parts of the plants.  So oils are very concentrated parts of the plant, so an oil will have more healing benefits than an herb usually as it is a more concentrated part of the beneficial parts of the plant.

Why Essential oils?
  • They have such small molecules they are quickly absorbed through the skin and can be found in the blood stream within 60 seconds of applications.
  • Fat soluble
  • An essential oil can "affect every cell of the body within 20 minutes and then be metabolized like other nutrients"1
  • They contain oxygen
  • Stimulate immune system
  • Antioxidants
  •  Depending on the oil they can be Antibacteria, antiviral, antifungal, and detoxifying
  • helps to detoxify
  • They can pass the blood brain barier to help with problems such as Alzheimer's, Lou Gehrig disease  
Look for more posts on essential oils, how to use them, and what they are great for.

1 Modern Essentials 3rd Edition, abundant Health, Spanish Fork, UT
  
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