Why I do what I do
Some of you know this story but for those that are unaware here is my story; not too long ago I was going thru life a bit stressed but muddling thru, Then in October of 2008 I started a series of emergency and non-emergency operations, 3 in 11 months. Now today I have had 4 surgeries and 11 hospitals visits. Coming out of this was hard, memory issues, health problems, I finally put my foot down and said enough is enough!! How do I clean up?
My girlfriend invited me to check out this essential oil thing. Well I knew that oils are good for you and I have used them for years. There had to be an answer for me within the oils I just had to find it! And find it I did. It didn't take long for those around me to see the difference. Before I “started cleaning house” I could not enjoy eating out because everything effected my tummy and I mean everything. So to keep this story short, I have not seen the doctor, sans annual checkups, in two plus years, I look and feel younger and I can enjoy spicy food once again.
Essential oils have been around since before 2700 bc, when the Chinese used herbs and aromatic plants. The Christ child received frankincense and myrrh at his birth and there are over 180 references to essential oils in the bible.
What are essential oils? They are a volatile liquid extracted from plant parts. Essential oil is a contraction of the original “quintessential oil.” an Aristotelian idea that matter is composed of four elements, fire, air, earth, and water. The fifth element, or quintessence, was then considered to be spirit or life force. Distillation and evaporation were originally thought to be processes of removing the spirit from the plant; (this is also reflected in our language as the term “spirits” has been used, and still is today, to describe distilled alcoholic beverages i.e. brandy, whiskey). Of course, we know that, far from being spirit, essential oils are physical in nature and composed of complex mixtures of chemicals.
According to Dr. Brian Lawrence “for an essential oil to be a true essential oil, it must be isolated by physical means only. The physical methods used are distillation (steam, steam/water and water) or expression (also known as cold pressing, a unique feature for citrus peel oils). There is one other method of oil isolation specific to a very limited number of essential oil plants. This is a maceration/distillation. In the process, the plant material is macerated in warm water to release the enzyme-bound essential oil. Examples of oils produced by maceration are onion, garlic, wintergreen....”
Although some are suspicious or dismissive towards the use of essential oils in healthcare or pharmacology, essential oils retain considerable popular use and are growing in popularity.
Studies have shown that certain essential oils may have the ability to prevent the transmission of some drug-resistant strains of pathogen, specifically Staphylococcus, Streptococcus and Candids and are now being researched in so many more arenas for their support. But to take this one step further, both over the counter and prescription medications have been derived from plant beginnings. For example, the common aspirin (also known as acetylsalicylic acid or ASA) product and the medical use of it and related substances stretches back to antiquity, though pure ASA has only been manufactured and marketed since 1899. Medicines made from willow and other salicylate-rich plants appear in Egyptian pharonic pharmacology papyri from the second millennium BCE. Hippocrates the father of modern medicine referred to their use of salicylic tea to reduce fevers around 400 BCE, and were part of the pharmacopoeia (an official publication, of medicinal drugs with their effects and directions for use.) of Western medicine in classical antiquity and the Middle Ages. The native Americans used the willow tree for medicinal purposes for many years.
So you see the oils are not something new and are the basis for many chemically reproduced medications used today.
So why else do I do this, to be able to show other hoe they too can support their body for a healthier and happier body.
So for those of you that are concerned about “going green”, make your body green to because removing only the chemicals we breathe is only the beginning.
Now that you have an understanding of why I do what I do, stay tuned, you never know what might come.
