Information on Essential Oils and Aromatherapy

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Besides having a reliable source for essential oils, reliable information about the oils is an integral part of any aromatherapy work.  Answers to questions like "How does aromatherapy work?" and "What's the latest research on essential oils?", properties of the oils, and so forth are very important.

However, the question of how aromatherapy works is too broad to deal with adequately on this website.  In addition, the FDA severely restricts the information that can be presented here.  And so, basic background information is about the best we can do here.  For the nitty-gritty of essential oil use, you really need a few solid resources.  One of the best you can find is the Essential Oils Desk Reference, published by Essential Science Publishing.

Aromatherapy information you'll find on this website

Articles posted on this website will answer some of your basic questions:

Essential Oil Basics:

• What is aromatherapy, really?
• What are essential oils?
• Properties of essential oils that help to explain how aromatherapy works, including their:
• fragrance,
• frequency, and
• chemistry.
• What does therapeutic-grade mean? And why is that important?

Quality Issues of Essential Oils:

• Why some essential oils are so cheap compared to others.
• The production methods used by Young Living, by which they make truly great essential oils.
• How you can know if your oils are truly therapeutic-grade.
• The AFNOR standard for essential oils.

Using essential oils effectively:

• Ways to use essential oils and some safety guidelines.
• Which oils are generally considered safe for consumption (GRAS).
• What a session with the oils would look like.
• Direct inhalation, a simple and effective way to enjoy the many benefits of an essential oil's fragrance.
• RainDrop Technique.
• Vita-Flex Technique.

Two of the most powerful aromatherapy applications, the RainDrop Technique and Vita-Flex Technique will super-charge your essential oils experience.  Limited information about these applications is available on this website; for a fuller description, go to Health-Essentials.info.  Better still, you can get a printed description in the Essential Oils Desk Reference, and in video form in the References section of this website.

Health-Essentials.info also provides a lot of other useful information on essential oils, aromatherapy and other health-related topics.

 

Diffusing Essential Oils:

• Why diffusing essential oils is such a great idea.
• Why scented candles and oil burners are such a bad idea.

Other aromatherapy information:

• The history of aromatherapy
• What healthcare professionals are saying about Young Living.

Gary Young: the man behind the oils:

• Gary's story, and how essential oils helped him to recover from a crippling logging accident, to become one of the leading authorities on the medicinal use of essential oils.
• Watching the Quackers: The Truth About QuackWatch.  This is a response, written by Dr Terry Friedman, to the hit on Gary Young from a website run by QuackWatchers.  He, along with most of the other leaders in alternative or complimentary health, have been targeted by this group, which has smeared them with a host of lies and misrepresentations.  If you have seen this website and have doubts about Gary Young, you should take a look at this article.
• Gary's Notes from Equador.  Gary has also begun work in Equador, where he has been doing research on new essential oils and teaching in a university, doing cutting-edge clinical work and setting up new Young Living farms.  This is his January 2007 update on this work.

NingXia Red^®: the premiere super-antioxidant juice

• Brunswick Laboratories (Wareham, MA) study: an independent study of the antioxidant capacity of Young Living's NingXia Red^®.  This study demonstrates that Berry Young Juice^® (recently renamed NinxXia Red^®) has a significantly higher ORAC score than any of the leading function berry juices.  Take a look, and be amazed.

The importance of water to aromatherapy and a nutritional program

• Is Your Water Poisoning You?
• The Reality of Water

One of the things I've found to be extremely important with the use of essential oils or dietary supplements is water.  Your body is largely water, and you need to renew its stores regulary to maintain proper hydration.  You've heard that for years, and it may seem hardly worth mentioning, but it really is critical to your health, and bears repeating.

• Water helps to carry nutrients to and into the cells of your body.
• Water carries wastes out of the cells and is critical to flushing toxins out of the body.

The problem here is: The water we drink creates its own problems for health.  There are two reports that shed some light on this.  But, for the best answer to the problem with water that I've found — at the end of a long search for a viable source of water for me, personally — is in hexagonally-structured water.