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Subject: Re:
[Livingontheland] when good food is not enough: MRSA,
mutating fungi,
candida
From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
Date: Tue,
March 02, 2010 7:29 pm
To:
livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Commercial promotions on this
list are fair game. That's the way it goes down.
First, nobody's
arguing all essential oils are bogus, or more ridiculous that food alone
heals every accident and illness - as implied below. Those are straw man
tactics.
Second, true believers find it easy to exaggerate and
embellish. Yes, aromatherapy goes back centuries, but the history of
distilled oils per se shows the process advanced very slowly and was limited
to very few sketchy recorded instances like the Persian Avicenna and
Hildegard of Bingen. There is no evidence of distilled oils ever being
widely used in past centuries. What there is, is a long history of herbal
medicine using plants for various ailments and conditions in almost all
cultures. That is simply not the same as essential oils as we know them
today. Modern essential oils and the distilling industry do not go back
thousands of years. See
http://www.aromaweb.com/articles/history.asp or many other
sources. The sellers of modern distilled essential oils cannot honestly
claim the long history of herbalism as the history of their distilled
essential oils. All advertisements for their products seem to claim all
herbalism as proof we need to buy their products. It's a long s
tretch to
think there's no false advertising there.
That book (I know which
book) claiming 1,000 Bible references to essential oils is misleading on
several counts. The distillation process used today wasn't developed until
the 20th century. Only a handful of oils were known at the time, and the
dozen or so oils in ancient Palestine were not distilled; they were simple
plant extracts much like extracts we find in the herbal supplements aisle
today. More importantly, their use was largely for religious ritual; not
meant for healing disease at all. The common mistake is taking a religious
book and trying to make it a medical textbook. Not all essential oils are
safe, topically or internally.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_oilSure
there are studies showing certain essential oils show antibacterial
properties in vitro, lab cultures. But I'll wait for double blind studies
showing they're effective in human trials and that the plants themselves
that they come from are not effective. I grow and use several mints and
other herbs myself - but only because there's a lot more than traditional
use to back them up.
paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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On 3/2/2010 at 5:38 PM Carrie Shepard
wrote:
>While I would love to believe that good food and herbs
were enough to
>keep us healthy, the truth is that that would be
neglecting at least 1,000
>references in the Bible to essential oils
and many more from Egyptian and
>Chinese sources just as old. There
have always been diseases and
>accidents from which food alone is not
enough to heal the person.
>
>Superbugs are a huge problem in
hospitals and healthcare facilities and
>school sports programs now.
>
>My own story is that I had radically changed my diet but not
recovered
>from mold and systemic candida. I learned how to butcher my
own chickens
>and goat and milk my own goats, grow my own foods, and
it was not enough.
>Thousands of dollars in herbal and whole food
supplements didn't touch the
>candida and mold in my head and didn't
help my numb heart. Watching a
>child starve to death after doctors
refused further care took its toll,
>but it's a beauty for ashes story
now.
>
> Young Living Raindrop oils and the oils in the 12
ancient oils of
>scripture healed my brain and heart...While some
foods can make a person a
>bit happier, they cannot impact the limbic
center the way essential oils
>do. Yes, trace amounts are to be found
in fresh herbs, but when a person
>is in a health crisis, they need
the concentrated form of the eo and
>sometimes a lot of
it.
>
>My husband has a co-worker with MRSA now and his niece
and nephew have
>MRSA, picked up from school sports. Do just a tiny
bit of research and
>you will find that the doctors have nothing to
offer these people but
>longterm fear of sudden organ failure from
mutating antibiotic resistant
>fungi, Ecoli, MRSA, and candida. Pubmed
has numerous research articles
>posted on the excellent results
recieved from many essential oils, but if
>we do not teach, how do the
people learn about it? You would not expect
>to go to a college
without paying for the classes, nor a massage therapy
>school, so why
would you want the teaching all for free?
>
>I'm told that MRSA
is now a huge problem in the foster care system, a
>number of young
children have died from it. They seem fine, develop a
>small abcess
somewhere and boom, they're gone. As a CARE Instructor, I
>now have
the opportunity to teach applied aromatherapy to nurses for
IACET
>credits, these nurses have the potential to save lives with
this
>knowledge, and protect their own.
>
>May wisdom
prevail,
>Carrie Shepard, CI
>
www.tulsacareintensive.eventsbot.com>
>
>
>
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