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ESSENTIAL OILS
by Jim Lynn
Healing! ... What a powerful, captivating word. It has a kind
of magic quality all its own. And for good reason, with so
much pain and suffering in the world today. People want (NEED)
healing more than anything else in their lives.
Healing is why essential oils are so captivating. In fact, The two
have gone hand-in-glove together throughout history. Known as
healing oil, golden oil, precious oil, or anointing oil, essential oils
are mankind's earliest known medicine. That Holy Scripture
admonishes us to use them as "medicine," makes them all the
more compelling... (Ezekiel 47:12, James 5:14).
But why essential oils? What is it that sets them apart from
other forms of "medicine"? Why are we surprised to be learning
about them now? And why does the human body respond so
favorably to them, perhaps unlike any other known substance?
A Natural Healing System...
From both a sectarian and spiritual viewpoint, there is
balance and order displayed throughout the universe. Wherever
disorder occurs, when some element of nature is forced off
balance, a natural system is at work to restore balance and
order. This holds true even in death. To the atheist, death means
a renewal of matter. To people of spiritual faith, death signals the
"ultimate healing" as the soul returns to God (Ecclesiastes 12:7).
In terms of health, our bodies are said to be "in balance" or
in a state called "homeostasis" when healthy, and out-of-balance
or "imbalanced" when diseased. But the break-down of
homeostasis from balance to imbalance, from health to sickness,
doesn't just happen, it is a "process" that may take years to
develop. And all during this time, the body is working to fight off it's
attackers, repair itself and works to re-establish balance. And so,
there are degrees of wellness and disease.
The human body is a marvel to behold. It is equipped with a
natural healing system that is capable of defending against and
defeating any micro-organism that invades it, while working to
restore any damage caused by the invader. We have organs that
work collectively to protect us called an "immune system." But
actually, the body's healing system involves much more than
specific organs, tissues and cells. The healing system itself
involves every aspect of our being, from DNA up to and including
the interaction of our mind.
Our healing system is constantly at work, so much so we
normally take our health for granted. But once our healing system
becomes "compromised," once it begins to suffer from lack of care
(i.e. mal-nourishment, injury, mental state)...pathogens are
increasingly unchallenged to take-up residency within the body.
Once a virus or bacterium gets a stronghold within the body,
it is referred to as "chronic." But the chronic condition is only
symptomatic to the real problem, which is a weakening of the
body's natural healing system. That there are people seemingly
immune to contracting AIDS, cancer, diabetes, yeast infections,
epstein-barr, arthritis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and all manner
of common ailments verifies the existence of a virile, natural
healing system at work.
Treatment Versus Healing...
Modern conventional medicine instills the belief in doctors
that health requires outside intervention, while advocates of
complementary (alternative or natural) medicine believe that
health results from living in harmony with natural law. Compared,
the focus of conventional medicine is to identify the external agents
of disease and develop weapons against them; while natural
medicine is focused on finding ways to increase the potency in the
body's natural healing system. Conventional medicine is more
interested in treatment, while complementary medicine is more
interested in healing. Treatment comes from outside the body,
while healing is something that occurs from within. The word,
"healing," means to make whole, or for our purposes...to restore
balance.
Conventional medicine can diagnose and treat disease, but
frequently the patient does not get well. This is because the
focus is on treating a symptom rather than on healing the cause
of that symptom. In such cases conventional physicians may tell
their patients to either go home to die, or to be prepared to
live the rest of their lives in a chronic state of illness. That
patients have been known to fully recover, in spite of being
written off, only mystifies conventional thinking.
Given the two choices, natural complementary medicine offers
the best hope for restoring and retaining balance (optimum health),
because this is how nature (or God, if you are of spiritual faith)
best equipped our bodies to respond. Your body has the miraculous
ability to heal itself, and nurturing your natural healing system is
what keeps you healthy.
Essential Oils...
Essential oils are among mankind's best hopes to achieve and
optimize healing and health. Nature would be askew, out of
balance, without them. From a spiritual perspective, it makes
complete sense. The reasoning goes that God would not have
placed His most beloved creation (man) here on Earth, without
providing the means for him to heal his body should he become
diseased or ill...And knowing that man would fall ill, that's exactly
what God did. He provided man with "medicine" and placed it in the
plant kingdom for safe keeping.
Thousands of years before you and I walked upon this earth,
fathers and mothers, patriarchs and matriarchs were "anointing"
their children and families with oils extracted from plants. The
word "anoint" has several connotations, but in context it simply
means "to apply." Anointing the head and body with plant oil was
a common hygienic practice for our early ancestors. In fact, the
knowledge of the healing power in plant oils was so well known,
so accepted, references to them in early writings occur
frequently as though they needed no explanation (see Mark 6:13).
So cherished for their ability to heal and so desired for
health, essential oils were at one time considered more precious
than gold. Royal households traded slaves, gold and silver,
anything of value to possess them. A strong commerce once
ensued around them, and men fought over the territory that grew the
plants they knew could heal and keep them healthy.
Over the centuries, the knowledge of essential oils was all
but lost. When the library at Alexandria in ancient Egypt was
burned and destroyed, hundreds of thousands of scrolls containing
this knowledge were destroyed with it. Today, we are just now
stepping out of the dark ages, in terms of re-discovering just how
powerful and important essential oils really are to our health and
well-being.
Research Studies Uncover...
With more and more research underway, we now know that
essential oils are much like the blood of humans, that they are
the transporters of the fundamental nutrients, vital elements and
chemical constituents necessary to feed and support life in plants.
They have the unique ability to penetrate cell walls to transport
oxygen, nutrients and many other vital elements directly to the cell
nucleus.
In a manner mystifying to science, essential oils "synergize"
with the body's natural healing system, working cooperatively in
ways yet unknown. Researchers frequently isolate individual
chemicals or "chemotypes" found in plants to formulate a synthetic
"medicine." But researchers also acknowledge the effect of
synthetic medicine is not the same as when all the many
chemotypes present in the plant are allowed to work with the body.
This is because the body needs the full compliment of chemotypes
within the oils to restore and keep balance.
We know that essential oils are terminators of disease-causing
micro-organisms, So deadly, they can kill them by proximity alone
(This is due to the oil's volatility). Such notorious characters as
staphylococcus, pneumococcus, meningococcus, hemolytic
streptococcus, typhus bacillus, diphtheric bacillus, anthrax
bacillus, Kock's bacillus, many kinds of mold and a plethora of
other pathogenic micro-organisms, are all suseptible to the killing
power of specific essential oils.
Perhaps most exciting...There is no known documented evidence
of any pathogenic micro-organism (virus and bacterium) developing
a resistance to essential oils! That is, No micro-organism has been
known to mutate to become immune to the oils. This can only
mean one thing...Essential oils are the perfect match to support
and nourish our body's natural healing system. They are proving to
be the missing link modern man has searched for to bring about
healing and vitality.
Disease and ailments will forever be with us. But ours is not
a destiny of pain and suffering...Unless we remain ignorant of
God's blessing. We are recepients of a wonderful gift...The gift
of our creator's medicine chest, essential oils!
Begin a Legacy of Health...
Let me urge you to share this wonderful message with your
family and friends. Take the time to learn about essential oils.
Make them part of your household. Unlike synthetic drugs, they
are freely available without medical prescription. Learn the
ancient practice of anointing, and begin a tradition of anointing your
family daily with essential oils. There is a treasure house of health
waiting for you. ***********************************
Opinions expressed here are those of individual contributors.
This publication does not verify or endorse the claims of
contributing writers. EOO does not endorse any one company
or product, but we do endorse quality.
The information provided in EOO is for educational purposes only
and is not intended as diagnosis, treatment, or prescription of
any kind. The decision to use, or not to use, any information is
the sole responsibility of the reader.
THE ABOVE DISCLAIMER is made to protect the editor's gluteus
maximus from the wrath of pharmaceutical and medical cartels
protected by regulatory law. For what it's worth, Essential Oil
related therapy predates the American Medical Association and
Food and Drug Administration by at least 6,000 years. You decide!
PHARMACEUTICAL dispensed drugs are toxic failures not fit for
human consumption. According to JAMA (Journal of the American
Medical Association), Prescribed drug-caused deaths rank 4th on
the list of causes of death. 1994 statistics show 106,000 people
died from unintended drug side-effects. This would be considered
criminal by any other civilized standard.
Dr. Julian Whitaker, M.D., Medical Editor for "Health and
Healing," estimates 18 million more people have survived toxic
side effects from these same drugs prescribed by their
doctors...Over 2 million of them were bad enough to be
hospitalized in 1994 alone. Chemical Drugs and the so-called
"health" system that promotes using them are part of the
problem, not the solution.
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE for your own health, not the AMA, FDA
or your physician. If your physician prescribes a drug for
"treatment," ask him or her what known side-effects exist.
If he or she downplays any risk, ask yourself this question...
Is playing Russian roulette with drugs worth risking your life?
It can and does happen...106,000 deaths every year!!
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