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1. Essential Oils - Plant Medicine for Wellness
2. Eat Vegetables for Health and for Your Heart
3. It is not the Lactic Acid that Causes Sore Muscles
4. Neuropathy, why the pain, the tingling and then numbness?

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Essential Oils - Plant Medicine for Wellness

There have always been healers using the benefits of essential oils by making poultices, salves, and medicinal teas from the raw plants.

Plant medicine was the only medicine used for thousands of years until the pharmaceutical industry began to provide other options in the 1880s when they discovered “petrochemicals” (a chemical obtained from petroleum and natural gas) and started to manufacture pharmaceutical drugs.

It was only in 1937 that it was given the name “Aromatherapy” and this name is a bit misleading. I know I paid no attention to it and felt I didn’t need fragrances – probably due to not liking the tar-based perfumes I so often smell on others. I really didn’t understand the idea of using smells to enhance my health.

But the medicinal power of plants is now becoming popular and I now understand why.

Additionally, they can be used in many combinations and they are safe.

Do you understand what essential oils are?

What is an essential oil?

An essential oil is the extraction of a plant’s “aromatic essence”. Plants have their own reason for making these essences.

Some plants use the oil to attract pollinators or to repel predators. It wards off insects and rodents and defends that plant from bacteria or viruses. In others, the oil discourages competitive species from growing too close. An essential oil can even serve as an antimicrobial system, keeping the plant protected and pest-free.

Essential oils can be used to manage pain, improve sleep quality, reducing stress, anti-inflammatory, improving mood, and soothing sore joints plus it has positive effects on the immune system and central nervous system.

Essential oils are created by glandular structures in the plant, either on the surface or internally. If you touch a lavender leaf, for example, you can smell the essential oil on your fingertips from the oil glands on the surface of the leaf. With a plant like eucalyptus, you have to break open the leaf to access the aromatic compounds.

When it comes to using essential oils for wellness, it’s often more practical—and accessible—to work with a concentrated essential oil than the raw plant itself.

What can be addressed with Essential Oils?

There is evidence that it can be used for:

Help for people who feel stressed or anxious enabling them to relax.
Stress or anxiety
Calming effects that lowers activation of the sympathetic nervous (responsible for fight or flight response. It addresses physical symptoms such as sweaty palms or a racing heart.
Mood
Muscle pain
Joint pain
Respiratory infections
Digestive upset
PMS or menopause symptoms
Skin problems or disorders, including bites, rashes, bruising, cellulite or acne.
Blood sugar fluctuations
Fatigue

Those with insomnia, anxiety, or even restless leg syndrome and hot flashes that strike during the night have been known to benefit from sleep-inducing essential oils.

Certain essential oils have antiseptic properties that help cleanse the air of bacteria, fungus and mold that can contribute to respiratory problems, such as congestion, coughing or sneezing.

Research shows that using citrus oils in aromatherapy practices can help improve overall immune function and reduce fatigue associated with depressive states. It’s been found that aromatic oils, such as orange and lemon (those with a citrus fragrance),

Essential oils that can help you overcome sinus infections, allergies, colds, the flu or coughs, and fatigue.

Diluted essential oils can be spritzed onto the skin or scalp to reduce acne, dandruff, cellulite, toe fungus, itching, inflammation from bites, and rashes or to improve wound healing. They have antibacterial, antiseptic, antifungal and other cleansing qualities.

To help soothe tight or tense muscles, achy joints, inflamed tissue injuries, or pain from headaches, a combination of different aromatherapy oils can be inhaled or applied to the troubled area.

A few of the studies done:

Results from one study published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing found that patients who received essential oils therapy reported significantly greater improvement in their mood and perceived levels of anxiety and felt less anxious and more positive immediately following the therapy.

One study published in the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care found that aromatherapy helped hospice patients decrease pain, anxiety and depression, and promote an increased sense of well-being.

An  International Journal of Neuroscience study involving 40 patients experiencing depressed moods and mental fatigue found that aromatherapy positively affects alertness, competency on testing (in this case regarding math problems) and improves overall mood.

A 2015 study published in the Journal of Basic Physiology and Pharmacology found that turmeric (Curcuma longa) and ginger (Zingiber officianale) essential oils, which are widely used in Asian countries as traditional medicine and food ingredients, have strong gastro-protective activities, including anti-ulcer potential.

How are essential oils made?

There are two main ways to collect a plant’s essential oil. All methods require a deep understanding of how and when to harvest plant material for maximal yield of the best and most powerful aromatics.

The oldest and most common method is,

Steam distillation

The most common method of producing essential oils is steam distillation of the essential oil of the plant.

Expression

Citrus oils are obtained by expression (also known as cold-pressing or expeller-pressing, the former being a temperature-controlled process).

How to use essential oils

Essential oils have been used for centuries. There’s still much research to be done on the healing potential of essential oils, it’s clear that they are powerful.

Here are a few easy, effective ways to use essential oils in your daily life:

Inhalation and diffusion

Inhalation is one of the easiest ways to use essential oils in your home. You can use a diffuser, sprinkle oils on the shower floor as you bathe, or drop them into a tissue and inhale them. There’s mounting evidence to show that certain inhaled essential oils can help with conditions like migraines and anxiety.

Topical application

There is evidence to support the use of lavender essential oil as a pain reliever, anti-inflammatory and topical antibiotic making it very handy to keep around for burns and bug bites.

Essential oils can also be applied to the skin in the form of skin care products. Of course, not all oils are appropriate for skin care, and the concentration is important, so make sure you’re getting oils from a company with an educated formulator.

Household cleaning products

Some essential oils, like lavender, cinnamon, geranium and thyme have powerful antibacterial properties, making them excellent choices for DIY home cleaning products.

The Key

The key to achieving results from essential oils is to use pure, therapeutic-grade oils rather than those with synthetic ingredients or synthetic fragrances. The effectiveness of essential oil practices always depends on the quality of the oils used.

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We are currently researching the best oil to use. There are a lot of cheaper versions out there and quality is what you need for plant medicine.

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Eat Vegetables for Health and for Your Heart

Vegetables are important for your health in many ways. But some vegetables are good for you heart.

About this, there is an article by Dr. Mercola

To read the entire article which includes which vegetables improve what see Dr. Mercola's article

Best Vegetables for Your Heart

It is not the Lactic Acid that Causes Sore Muscles

I've heard about lactic acid build up and needing to do this or that to relieve it. However, here is a fresh look at muscle soreness from Dr. Eric Berg, D.C.

It is not Lactic Acid

Neuropathy, why the pain, the tingling and the numbness?

Neuropathy has many symptoms. It may start with a tingling feeling and end up with numbness. It can be a pricking, or burning sensation, loss of reflexes and muscle shrinkage, abnormal sensations, or sensitivity to touch. Its worse symptom is pain, sometimes so excruciating that a person would amputate rather than continue the pain.  

It is called many names such as paresthesia, neuritis, neuralgia, dysesthensia, hypoesthesia, hypesthesia, hypalgesia, hypealgesia and hyperesthesia due to its many different kinds of symptoms. 

But, what underlies all these symptoms?

They are created by a specific type of nerve damage. This nerve damage can come from too much sugar in the blood (the reason it is a side effect of diabetes). It can be caused by exposure to chemicals such as cancer treatments, poisons, alcoholism, or a side effect of some medications. It can be the result of kidney or liver failure, infectious disease or nutritional deficiencies especially B vitamins. The reasons are many; the damage they produce is the same.

What creates the problem is damage done to the outer lining of the nerve cell.  Cells have coverings much like an electrical wire has an insulation of plastic. Have you ever seen a wire whose insulation is damaged – the electrical current doesn’t flow correctly. It can send electricity out from the area where it is damaged, it can stop the flow of electricity or it can damage what it's supposed to be supplying electricity to.

A damaged nerve covering does the same thing. It can send out “sparks” that cause tingling, it can stop the flow resulting in numbness. It can create feelings of hot or cold or sensitivity due to crossed signals. It can definitely cause pain especially as the damage gets worse.

The idea is to fix this outer covering. This is called the myelin sheath. What is needed are specific B vitamins. The only question is how to get these B vitamins in sufficient amounts so that the body can actually build healthy nerves. Isolated B vitamins that are sold at the health food stores or local drug stores get washed out of the system too quickly to fix the damage. It would be hard to take enough of this type of nutrients to make a difference. You can’t get it from vitamins made in a laboratory.

What is needed is a whole food supplement with methylcobalamine and benfotiamine and other B vitamins that the body can use to build healthy nerve cells. That is one of the functions of the body, to build health. But it does need specific nutrients to do its job.  

Nutrients are what a body runs on. A car runs on gas. If you drive the car down the road, it uses up a steady amount of that gas. If you take that same car and speed down the freeway, you will use up a lot of gas. When you take a body “out on the freeway”, or put it under physical stress, it uses up a lot more nutrients. Thus, getting the right supplements in the right amount is important.

Just as a car won’t drive without giving it gas a body can’t or function correctly or build health without the proper nutrients it needs to “drive”. In the case of neuropathy, it needs these B vitamins.

Neuropathy can be a side effect of many things.  Although most often it is caused by too much sugar in the blood - Diabetes - there are many factors. Chemotherapy and some drugs have neuropathy as a side effect and it can be caused by surgery damaging the nerves - there are others.

For more information about neuropathy.

Success in Handling the Nerve Damage of Neuropathy

We got lots of different people who got nerve damage from many different reasons who have written up what happened to them.

Go here for their stories   

Read about getting relief by building healthy nerves.

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