The use of essential oils has a long and rich history. The Bible mentions 33 species of essential oils and they are mentioned more than 250 times in the old testament alone. With over 1,000 uses:
- Maintaining wellness
- Emotional cleansing
- Acquiring healing
- Enhancing spiritual worship
- And more
Egyptian temples were dedicated to the production and blending of oils, and hieroglyphics on the walls have recorded their recipes. The earliest distillation dates back to 1700 BC.
What are essential oils?
Essential oils are the regenerating, oxygenating, and immune defense properties of plants. Essential oils contain the oxygen molecules that transport nutrients to the cells of the body. They have a bio-electrical frequency that is several times greater than that of herbs or foods.
Essential oils are substances extracted from a single botanical source; they are 70 times more concentrated than what is found in plant form. Essential oils are taken from leaves, bark, peel, and flowers.
How are they extracted?
- Steam distillation
- Chemical solvents
- Cold pressing
Why consider using essential oils for yourself and your family now?
- No risk of body toxicity
- Save office visits
- Save time
- Save money
- Save your health
- Inexpensive
- Work quickly
- Replace most medicines
Essential oils have the highest ORAC scores of any substance in the world. For example, one ounce of clove oil has the antioxidant ORAC value of 10,786,875 ! This would be like eating 450 lbs. of carrots, 120 quarts of blueberries, or 48 gallons of beet juice. Incredible! And…
- They are absorbed quickly through the skin and can be detected in the blood within 20 seconds. Yes…seconds!
- Many essential oils pass freely through the blood-brain barrier. Essential oils are actually dispensed from pharmacies in Europe.
Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC)
ORAC is a standardized test adopted by the U. S. Department of Agriculture to measure the Total Antioxidant Potency of foods and nutritional supplements. This standardized test was developed by Dr. Guohua Cao, a physician and chemist at the National Institute on Ageing in Baltimore, Maryland. It provides a very precise way of establishing the Free Radical destroying or neutralizing power of a particular food, supplement, or compound. The ORAC unit has become one accepted industry standard for measuring antioxidants. The antioxidant test combines a measure of both the time an antioxidant took to react and also its’ antioxidant capacity in a given sample. The ORAC unit then combines them into one measure, making it the first in vitro assay method for measuring total antioxidant potential. It is easily expressed as per 100 grams of sample.
The recommended daily antioxidant dose should add up to 5000 ORAC units each day. It is clear that one has to be quite selective in the foods chosen to achieve this.
What are the benefits of using essential oils?
- They are regenerating
- They are oxygenating
- They contain the immune defense properties of the plant
- They are lipid-soluble, allowing them to penetrate cell walls
- They have the ability to affect every cell of the body within 20 minutes, and are then metabolized like other nutrients
- They contain oxygen molecules that transport nutrients to starving human cells; disease begins when cells lack oxygen
- They stimulate the body’s immune mechanisms. They can be powerful antioxidants
- Some essential oils have been shown to destroy all tested bacteria and viruses while simultaneously restoring balance to the body
- They can detox cells and blood
- They can be effective in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, MS, etc., as they have the ability to pass the blood-brain barrier
- When diffused, they can purify the air; removing metallic particles and toxins; increasing atmospheric oxygen; increasing ozone and negative ions, inhibiting bacterial growth; destroying odors from mold, cigarettes, animals, etc.
- They possess bioelectrical frequencies several times greater than the frequencies of herbs, food and even the body. Clinical research shows that essential oils have the potential to raise the body’s frequency.
Many essential oils are:
- Antibacterial
- Anti fungal
- Anti infectious
- Anti microbial
- Anti tumoral
- Anti parasitic
- Anti viral
- Antiseptic
This article written by: Ruth Ota; taken from article written by: Dana Clay Young, PhD
