How Do Essential Oils Work? By Monique McLean on Friday, August 23, 2013 at 5:22pm Okay, so...if we are going to use these essential oils, we must know how they work...right? When I started using these oils back in November, I had to figure this out. Now, I find it HIGHLY entertaining that when I took a Motrin, or Tylenol, or allergy med, or sleeping med...I NEVER felt the need to know HOW and WHY it worked. I mean, I would pop that pill and be just fine...but for some reason if I was going to put something natural on me, well you better believe I had to know every fact there was to know about it. I wanted to know who the maker of this was, what he believes, is there any negative stuff out there about him, is this company a scam....I mean I searched it all out buddy. We humans are so silly, arent we? I mean, I TOTALLY didnt go research the founder of Motrin each time I popped a pill...but that was just my natural skeptic coming out in me with this whole Natural path I was thinking of going down. I mean natural MUST be unnatural...right? Oh, and unnatural (meds), MUST be natural. Man my mind was a little screwed up. Im getting there people, have patience with me. So, in my research, this is what I found out about essential oils. Essential oils are the vital fluids of plants, or, one may call it their life blood. The reason the word essential is used is because this is what is needed and necessary for this plant to have...wait for it.... life. Essential oils are made up of tiny tiny tiny (that means very small) molecules. These are so small that they can make their way into EVERY cell and basically administer therapy at THE MOST fundamental levels of our body. Not sure if you have been through any microbiology classes (many prayers were prayed over me to make it through that class), but if you have, then you have looked at cells through a microscope, Im sure. Its crazy to know that these oils go straight to that and go to work. Now, these oils are different, than say...your cooking oil. Fatty oils have molecules that are just fat, fat, fat, and they just cant make it into the cell to work. So, as you can see, these oils are DESIGNED to get into these cells. (Oh, I hope this isnt too scary, all this microbiology talk...Ill admit, it makes me break out in a cold sweat and I can smell the classroom right now, and see my teacher, and that test is in front of me that I made a D on).....sorry, I got a little worked up...lets move right along. What I find VERY intriguing is that essential oils were inhaled, applied topically, and ingested by people of Biblical times. I mean, this isnt something some long haired, hippy driving a VW van made up in the late 60s. I mean...its in the Bible folks. Like, they brought it to baby Jesus. Yep, frankincense...its an essential oil. That rocks my world. You know, God doesnt make mistakes. How cool when He created plants, He KNEW that their makeup would bring healing to us. Blows my mind. When God was creating the world, He said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. I firmly believe that when the Lord SPOKE those things and they were so, His very power went into those plants. Please, dont roll your eyes at me. Thats just what I believe. Bottom line is, I think these oils are a TOTAL God thing. I believe AND have seen them bring healing to my family and SO many of my friends. I will not debate you on the whole is medicine bad and of the Lord, Im not saying that, Im simply saying, I believe these oils were given to us STRAIGHT from God, and Ive seen them work. Lets move right along. So, now that we know how we got them, and how they can make it into the body to begin working...HOW do they work? I TOTALLY knew you were going to ask that. Man you are inquisitive. Okay, take a deep breath, there are about to be some BIG microbiology words dropped here. I need to go find my bottle of Peace and Calming, hold on one sec, Ill be right back....OKAY, lets dive in. Remember me saying that the molecular structure of the essential oils were tiny, tiny, tiny? Well, because of this, they are VERY concentrated. One little drop contains like 40 million-trillion molecules (and that is not me exaggerating, its a fact). We have 100 trillion cells in our body and that is A LOT, but just one drop of an essential oil contains enough molecules to cover every cell in our body with 40,000 molecules. So saying all that to say, you do NOT have to use TONS of these oils to get results, some times less is better. Too much of the oil can actually make it not work as well at times because it overloads the receptor sites. Molecules are made up of compounds. Oh, boy, here we go, put those thinking caps on. Let me tell you about three different compounds that are found in different essential oils. They are Phenols, Monoterpenes, and Sesquiterpenes. Lets talk about Phenols first. Im not going to bore you with the make up of phenols, but I do want to focus on what they do. Phenols create conditions where unfriendly viruses and bacteria cannot live. Their most important feature, is that they clean the receptor sites on the cells. If your receptor sites arent clean, cells cant communicate, and then we know what lack of communication gets you, now dont we? Well your body ends up malfunctioning and guess what...sickness results. The following essential oils contain phenols, and you will see the percentages. Anise (90%) Clove (80%) Basil (70%) Oregano (70%) Thyme (48%) Calamus or Cane (30%) Cinnamon (25%) Cassia (8%) Ummm, I want me some of that. Okay, lets move on to Monoterpenes, shall we? Monoterpenes are found in most essential oils and they offer a variety of healing properties. However, HANDS DOWN, the MOST important ability of this compound is the fact that they can REPROGRAM miswritten information in the cellular memory, or DNA. If you have improper coding in your DNA, what happens? Cells malfunction and diseases result, including ones such as cancer. Below are a few of the oils that have monoterpenes in them. Grapefruit (92%) Angelica (80%) Frankincense (77%) Cypress (77%) Galbanum (75%) Pine (60%) Rose of Sharon (54%) Juniper (54%) Spruce (50%) Myrtle (37%) Hyssop (30%) Peppermint (11%) This is just so interesting, isnt it? Finally, lets end with Sesquiterpenes. These molecules deliver oxygen molecules to cells. Just like hemoglobin does in the blood (stay with me now)...These bad boys can ERASE or DEPROGRAM miswritten codes in cellular memory. WHAT? They are thought to REALLY be great for fighting cancer. The main issue with cancer cells is that it contains misinformation and sesquiterpenes can delete that. That all goes down at the same time that oxygen carried by these molecules create an environment where cancer cells cant reproduce. So its like a DOUBLE WHAMMY to the cancer cells. One disables and the other stops growth. CRAZY. Heres a list of some of the oils containing sesquiterpenes. Cedarwood (98%) Vetiver (96%) Sandalwood (95%) Patchouli (85%) Ginger (70%) Myrrh (60%) Spikenard (50%) Black Pepper (47%) So basically all three of these compounds are made to simply restore the body back to its natural state of balance and health. That is just CRAZY INSANE, but I love it. I will hurry up and end this post, because I have a feeling your brain is on overload. I want to leave you with a verse. Proverbs 21:20 says, Precious treasure and oil remain in the house of the wise. After ALL the research I did when trying to decide if essential oils were right for me, I deny that essential oils are TOTALLY legit and that I SO wanted to be in the house of the wise. I pray for wisdom and discernment ALL the time, and if being wise is having my home filled with these oils...well bring on the oils baby. Fill it up! All factual information from this post came from Healing Oils of The Bible by David Steward Ph.D.
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