“Aromatherapy” is a word coined by Rene-Maurice Gattefosse, Ph.D., in 1920, who was a French cosmetic chemist. While working in his laboratory, he had an accident that resulted in a third degree thermal burn of his hand and forearm. He plunged his arm into a vat of lavender oil, thinking that it was water. To his surprise, the burning slowly decreased and then stopped within a few moments. Over a period of time, with the continual application of lavender oil, the burn healed completely without a trace of a scar. As a chemist, he analyzed the essential oil of lavender and discovered that it contained many substances referred to as chemical constituents or chemical properties. As a result of this, Dr. Gattefosse determined that essential oils contained tremendous healing properties.
The therapeutic benefits of essential oils are well documented—research abounds and is ongoing in the scientific and medical community. The United States National Library of Medicine (PubMed) website (with more than 14 million medical abstracts from peer-reviewed journals) featured 3,780 abstracts about essential oils as of May 2004.
Why is it valuable? In this day and age, we are bombarded with multiple types of stresses in our every day existence: body stresses such as inadequate nutrition and accumulation of toxins within the body; emotional stresses such as relationship issues to increased traffic to worry about the economy; spiritual stresses such as wondering what my purpose here is to what happens when I die.
The good news is that we can look to nature’s beautiful plants to help us regain balance and harmony in all aspects of our life through the use of therapeutic grade essential oils. Aromatherapy has been used for centuries and there are records dating back to 4500 BC describing the use of aromatic substances for religious rituals, in spiritual temples, for embalming and medical applications. The Romans purified their temples and political buildings by diffusing essential oils and used them in steam baths to invigorate the body and prevent disease. There are over 200 references to aromatics and ointments throughout the Old and New Testaments of the Bible in which the oils were used for anointing as well as healing. During WWI, essential oils were used in France for their antibacterial and wound-healing properties in both civilian and military hospitals.
Today, with the appearance of new diseases caused by unknown microbes including viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites, the use of these oils is appropriate and, possibly, critical to our health. – Terry Shepherd Friedmann MD
SMELL EVOKES MEMORIES
How do we get oils quickly into the system? Through the sense of smell from the olfactory nerve to the limbic lobe which includes the amygdala (where emotional memories are stored) inside the brain. The amygdala can also directly activate the hypothalamus which is our hormonal control center. When you breathe an oil into the system through the nasal cavity, it is first picked up by the neurons that hang down from the olfactory, right between the eyes at the top of the sinus cavity. Those oil molecules are carried within milliseconds into the center of the brain. Now they have found that through the inhalation of essential oils into the mid-brain system, antibodies will be secreted instantly and also endorphins and neurotransmitters. Now we’re seeing a direct response on the immune system from the inhalation and topical application of essential oils like none other. When we smell a substance, we react first and think later because of this direct link to the amygdala. The fragrance of an essential oil can directly affect everything from your emotional state to your lifespan.
Essential oil molecules behave like ligands, carrying information to cells, communicating with cellular DNA, in order to bring balance, wellness and healing. Receptor sites are the doorways on the surfaces of cells through which ligands communicate to the DNA inside. Receptor sites have locks that can be opened only with the right keys. The right ligands and essential oil molecules carry keys that fit only certain cells. This is how hormones and other ligands get to the right places and deliver the right messages. Receptor sites are so sensitive they can detect the most minute differences in a molecule.
In research at Vienna and Berlin Universities, it was found that sesquiterpenes (molecules within essential oils) can increase levels of oxygen in the brain by up to 28% which means an increase in the level of activity in the limbic system. Using essential oils such as cedarwood, melissa, sandalwood and frankincense which have high levels of sesquiterpenes, can have a huge impact on the emotions and attitudes, learning, energy levels as well as hormone balance and immune function.
FREQUENCY
The effectiveness of essential oils cannot be fully understood without some discussion of frequency. Frequency is a measurable rate of electrical energy that is constant between any two points. Every living thing has an electrical frequency.
Bruce Tainio of Tainio Technology in Cheney, Washington, developed new equipment to measure the biofrequency of humans and foods. He used this biofrequency monitor to determine the relationship between frequency and disease. Measuring in megahertz, it was found that:
- processed / canned food had a zero MHz frequency
- fresh produce measured up to 15 MHz frequency
- dry herbs from 12-22 MHz
- fresh herbs from 20-27 MHz
- Essential oils started at 52 MHz and went as high as 320 MHz, which is the frequency of Rose oil.
For years, research has been conducted on the use of electrical energy to reverse disease. Scientists in the field of natural healing have believed there has to be a more natural way to increase the body’s electrical frequency which led to the research and subsequent discovery of electrical frequencies in essential oils. Clinical research shows that therapeutic grade essential oils have the highest frequency of any natural substance known to man, creating an environment in which disease, bacteria, virus, fungus, etc., cannot live. A healthy body typically has a frequency ranging from 62 to 78 MHz, while disease begins at 58 MHz. Truly, the chemistry and frequencies of essential oils have the ability to help us maintain an optimal health frequency.
Patients felt better emotionally when oils were diffused in their rooms. It seemed that within seconds, these patients were more calm and less anxious with little exposure and inhalation. Certain oils acted within 1–3 minutes; others acted within seconds. It is fascinating to think that an oil applied to the bottom of the feet could travel to the head and take effect within one minute!
Unhealthy Substances Cause Frequency Changes
In one test, the frequency of two individuals – the first a 26 year old male and the second a 24 year old male – was measured at 66 MHz each. The first individual held a cup of coffee (without drinking any), and his frequency dropped to 58 MHz in 3 seconds. He put the coffee down and inhaled an aroma of essential oils. Within 21 seconds, his frequency had returned to 66 MHz. The second individual took a sip of coffee and his frequency dropped to 52 MHz in the same 3 seconds. However, no essential oils were used during the recovery time, and it took 3 days for his frequency to return to its initial 66 MHz. One surprising aspect of this study measured the influence that thoughts have on the body’s electrical frequency.
The Significance of Frequency
When molecules of essential oils are inhaled, swallowed, applied to the skin, or internalized into your body in any way, they resonate with your bodily tissues at the frequencies intrinsic to their molecular spectrum as well as their resultant harmonic and beat frequencies. This increases your own natural electromagnetic vibrations and restores coherence to your electric fields to produce healing and maintain wellness. Frequency resonance is only one of more than six processes by which therapeutic grade essential oils can heal and benefit your health.
Each essential oil has a frequency and each of our organs and body parts have a frequency. The frequency of an oil will attract a like frequency in the body. Lower frequencies become a sponge for negative energy. The frequency is what stays in the body to maintain the longer lasting effects of the oil.
- LOW frequencies of oils make PHYSICAL changes in the body.
- MIDDLE frequencies make EMOTIONAL changes in the body.
- HIGH frequencies make SPIRITUAL changes in the body. Spiritual frequencies range from 92-360 MHz.
Oils Respond to Words, Thoughts and Prayer
We respond to the thoughts and prayers of others, whether we are aware of it or not, and so do essential oils. In some of Bruce Tainio’s work, essential oils were measured before and after being bombarded with negative thoughts: their frequencies went down by 12 MHz. When positive thoughts were aimed at the oils, their frequencies went up by 10 MHz. When the oils were prayed over, their resonant frequencies went up by 15 MHz. Oils amplify intent. And intent will move molecules of oil to where they can best serve to heal. This is why prayer and anointing with essential oils work so well when combined together.
Fundamental Frequencies of People and Things
(frequencies given in Megahertz)
Healthy Human Brain 71-90
Healthy Human Body (overall) 62-68
When you have cold symptoms 58
When you have flu symptoms 57
When you have candida infection 55
When you have Epstein Barr Syndrome 52
When you have cancer 42
When one begins to die 25
Processed or Canned Foods 0
Fresh Produce (depending on how fresh) 10-15
Dry Herbs 12-22
Fresh Herbs 20-27
Therapeutic Grade Essential oils 52-320
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Adapted from Reference Guide to Essential Oils by Connie & Alan Higley 2002. The data published here was obtained by Bruce Tainio of Tainio Technology, Cheny, Washington. Also see Freedom Through Health by Terry Friedmann, MD, where he discusses the healing frequencies of essential oils. Also The Chemistry of Essential Oils Made Simple by David Stewart, PhD, DNM.
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Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils Penetrate
The penetrating characteristic of essential oils greatly enhances their ability to be effective. Essential oils will penetrate into the body when applied to the skin and will stay in the body about 20 minutes to 2 hours and leave no residuals. The effects and frequency are accumulative when the mental attitude changes. Oils go where the need is present and are activated in that area. Testing on the thyroid, heart and pancreas showed that the oils reached these organs in 3 seconds! The quickest way the body absorbs the oils is by inhalation first and application to the feet or ears, second. The oils also cross the blood brain barrier; they piggy-back the energy waves to get into the cells.
All the essential oils deliver cell wall penetrating oxygen, and it is the unhealthy cells that need the oxygen for the road back to health. When the cell wall thickens, oxygen can’t get in – life expectancy of a cell is 120 days to 4 months. Cells divide making 2 duplicate cells, and if it is diseased, it will make 2 new diseased cells. When we stop the mutation of the cells and create healthy cells, we stop the disease. Therapeutic grade essential oils can restore cells to normal in 7 seconds.
Restore Harmony
Therapeutic grade essential oils are truly the missing link in health care today because of their ability to re-energize, restore harmony and balance in the cells as well as the emotions. I am also excited about the oil’s ability to combat new mutations of bacteria and viruses in the future as more and more researchers are continuing to conduct studies on the effectiveness of essential oils to eradicate illness as well as maintain health and vitality. Inhale some lavender to soothe your nerves or inhale peppermint to clear your sinuses or cool you down in the summer heat or ingest orange essential oil to inhibit cancer cells and allow nature to heal your wounds. It is time to return to the wisdom of the plants to assist us in living a fulfilled life of joy and harmony with ourselves, each other and all creatures.
NOTE: all uses of oils discussed pertain to the use of therapeutic grade essential oils only.
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Ref: The Chemistry of Essential Oils Made Simple by David Stewart, PhD, DNM; Essential Oils Desk Reference by Essential Science Publishing; Young Living Essential Oils.
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Diana is passionate about helping people attain health and vitality providing natural solutions through the use of therapeutic grade essential oils and re-establishing our connection to spirit and has been trained in a variety of healing modalities since 1997 from massage to craniosacral to energetic modalities. She is the founder of Pillars of Light Center in Winter Park and can be reached at 407.399.8562 to discuss which oils would benefit your life. Please visit her web site for more information or to purchase therapeutic grade essential oils. Are you ready to thrive? Invest in your health and well-being and start your successful business in the wellness industry.
