|
|
| Botanical Name |
Roman Chamomile (Anthemis nobilis), Blue Chamomile (Matricaria chamomilia) |
| Essence |
A Traditional Remedy for Children |
| Function |
Chamomile comes in a number of varieties. Two varieties popular in Aromatherapy are Roman and Blue (German). Chamomile is regarded as a very soothing oil. It eases tension, anxiety, anger and promotes relaxation and peace. It has been applied as a calming remedy for children for decades. It is useful in regulating the menstrual cycle and is a skin tonic. Blue Chamomile contains more Azuline and is therefore more effective than Roman Chamomile. |
| Usage |
5 drops placed in a full bath is a wonderful tonic for the skin and senses at the end of the day. A couple of drops in a diffuser in a child’s room will calm and relax. A couple of drops in a basin of warm water used as a compress on dry and itchy skin will calm and rejuvenate. Blends well with bergamot, jasmine, neroli, and clary sage, lending a warm, fresh note when added in small quantities. |
| Aromatherapy |
Relaxing, replenishing, soothing, mildly antiseptic, calming, muscle relaxant, digestive |
| Caution |
Avoid during pregnancy. |
|
|
| Botanical Name |
Michelela champaca |
| Essence |
Exotic Floral Perfume Aphrodisiac |
| Function |
Used for blending parfumes. |
| Usage |
Add a few drops to unscented products to enjoy a great perfume, use alone or in combination with sandalwood or ylang ylang. Massage – 10-15 drops /60 ml of carrier oil to reduce swelling and pain in arthritis and rheumatic joints. Bath – 5 to 6 drops to a full tub, sit back and unwind. |
| Aromatherapy |
|
| Caution |
Avoid during pregnancy. Skin irritant, dilute before use. |
|
|
| Botanical Name |
Cymbopogon nardus |
| Essence |
An Effective Insect Repellent |
| Function |
Citronella is used by the Chinese for headaches, migraines and rheumatism. It can be used as an antiseptic to sanitize kitchen counters and chopping blocks. |
| Usage |
Diffused in a room the scent repels insects and bugs. Citronella candles on the lawn or patio can prevent unwanted pests as long tit is not too windy. A few drops in a diffuser will keep offending insects at bay. Can be used as an antiseptic to sanitize kitchen counters and chopping blocks, cutting boards. |
| Aromatherapy |
purifying, vitalizing. |
| Caution |
Avoid diffusion or inhalation by persons with heart problems, it increases the heart rate. It is widely accepted as an effective insect repellent and is found repugnant by some animals, and some people, too. |
_________________________________________________________________________________________
Featured Product:
Days of Joy and Clarity…
 For use in treating nervous disorders and emotional imbalances, St. Johns Wort will help stabilize moods, and ease symptoms of depression and insomnia, in both men and women. It can even increase energy levels in some people.
A totally unique way to apply herbal remedies directly to the cellular level, by way of your skin, your body’s largest organ. Carried by Twilight America’s Magic Oil and magnesium, the properties of St. Johns Wort are delivered directly to your cells for immediate absorption.
The Drops are much more effective than just the plain herb.
Martin Pytela, Health, January 23, 2012 8:39 am
Carrot Seed, Daucus carota
|
| Botanical Name |
Daucus carota |
| Essence |
A Tonic for the Skin |
| Function |
This popular skin care oil can nourish/revitalize/tone and tighten skin resulting in a vibrant facelift while encouraging new skin cell growth. Use to soften age spots, wrinkles. An aid to dermatitis, psoriasis, rashes and acne rosacea. Excellent purifier, cleanses the liver. As a diuretic, toxins are released which can be helpful to arthritis sufferers. |
| Usage |
Bath – mix 8 drops with 1/2 cup of Epsom salts to relax and detoxify. Skin/care – add a few drops to unscented products/face creams to soothe skin conditions. |
| Aromatherapy |
replenishing, nourishing, restoring |
| Caution |
Avoid during pregnancy. |
Cedarwood, Cedrus atlantica
|
| Botanical Name |
Cedrus atlantica |
| Essence |
Calming and Balancing |
| Function |
Cedarwood is used to calm during periods of nervousness and fear to provide stability to the emotions. It helps alleviate anger and aggression by grounding the emotions. It is an effective remedy for bronchial infections, a strong antiseptic that may be used for the treatment of kidney infections. The astringent properties assist with oily hair and dandruff. |
| Usage |
Diffuse – a few drops to assist breathing and clear nasal passages.
Massage – 10-15 drops /60 ml of carrier oil provides an effective chest massage for coughs.
Bath – 5-6 drops to cleanse and calm the emotions.
Hair care – add a few drops to unscented products. |
| Aromatherapy |
Antiseptic, digestive, astringent, calming, sedative, expectorant, harmonizing, encourages mediation. |
| Caution |
Cedarwood has abortive properties and should not be used by pregnant women. Other companies use Juniperus virginiana or Juniperus mexicana. |
_________________________________________________________________________________________
Featured Product:
More Vitamin C
Than Any Other Plant on Earth
Camu Camu Powder delivers antioxidants and phytochemicals, and has anti-mutagenic and antiseptic properties.
Camu Camu Protects!
- Prevents your eyes from macular degeneration
- Prevents cancer and liver disease
- Prevents depression
- Prevents infertility
- Prevents migraine headaches.
And so very important… Camu Camu strengthens your immune system.
Martin Pytela, Emotional Health, Health, January 20, 2012 8:35 am
Black Pepper, Piper nigrum
|
| Botanical Name |
Piper nigrum |
| Essence |
Stimulating Strengthening Warming |
| Function |
Black Pepper is very stimulating and strengthening to the nervous system. It eases frustration by providing stamina and warms the heart. A good oil to use before commencing sporting activities as it helps with muscular aches and pains by increasing blood flow to the muscles. It helps tired and aching limbs. Stimulates appetite, aids digestion and generally expels toxins. |
| Usage |
The powerful essential oil is best used in a blend as it could irritate the skin. Test before using directly on the skin. Mix 5 drops each of Juniper, Lavender and Black Pepper in a full bath of warm water this will eliminate chill and warm and relax the body.
Massage 10-15 drops/60 ml carrier oil on the stomach to aid indigestion. May be used in a diffuser to help lower high temperature. |
| Caution |
Do not apply directly to the skin. Avoid during pregnancy. |
Blue Cypress, Callitris intratropica
|
| Botanical Name |
Callitris intratropica |
| Essence |
Anti-inflammatory Perfume |
| Function |
This subtle, fresh, clean, woody fragrance. is the only known resinous, light blue wood essential oil in the world, from Australia. Anti-inflammatory. Healing properties make it a good base note for perfumes, skin care and hair care. A natural subtle colorant. |
| Usage |
Massage – 10-15 drops/60 ml carrier oil for muscular aches and pains. Adds a lingering scent to perfumes. Skin/Hair care – add a few drops to unscented products. |
| Aromatherapy |
healing |
| Caution |
Avoid during pregnancy. |
Featured Product:
Sea Minerals Support Balanced Nutrition
 Control Your Metabolism:
Organic Iodine feeds your thyroid gland, which controls metabolism and promotes maturation of the nervous system.
Disinfect Your Blood:
Iodine is also the main natural disinfecting agent in our body. Every 15 minutes, all of your blood goes through that small organ – the thyroid gland.
Prevent Cardiovascular Disease:
Laminarin is a polysaccharide that is helpful in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. It helps to balance coagulation of blood.
Detoxify From Heavy Metals:
Alginate is a natural absorbent of radioactive elements, heavy metals, and free radicals. It has the unique ability of binding heavy metals and radioactive elements to its own molecules. Because the Alginate cannot be broken down by bile or saliva and cannot be absorbed by the body, it is secreted from the body together with the heavy metals and radioactive substances.
Martin Pytela, Cellular Health, Nutrition, January 19, 2012 8:46 am
Birch (Sweet), Betula lanta
|
| Botanical Name |
Betula lanta |
| Essence |
Purifying |
| Function |
This intense, sweet, woody, wintergreen-like scent similar to root beer invigorates and refreshes the mind. An analgesic useful for inflamed tendons, arthritis, rheumatism, general muscle aches. Purifies the body by helping to release harmful toxins. As a diuretic this oil can help combat obesity, cellulite, edema. Boosts the lymphatic system. |
| Usage |
Hair care – add a few drops to unscented shampoo for dandruff and to stimulate scalp.
Massage – 10 drops in 60 ml carrier oil for muscular aches and pains. |
| Aromatherapy |
|
| Caution |
Skin irritant. Use sparingly. Avoid during pregnancy. |
_________________________________________________________________________________________
Featured Product:
 ORMUS Oils Crowning Glory
This ORMUS Oil formulation is specially blended with essential oils that act on hair follicles to stimulate hair growth.
Factors affecting hair loss are complex and can include stress, hormone balance, nutrition, heredity, medications, age, and lifestyle factors. ORMUS and this special blend of essential oils help to mediate some of these factors to help reverse hair loss.
Physical Benefits
The ORMUS and essentials oils in Crowning Glory ORMUS Oil stimulate hair growth by increasing circulation in the scalp, increasing the availability of oxygen, antioxidents, and nutrients to the cells, balancing the skin oils, and supporting and strengthening the immune system. The essential oils also provide antibacterial and antinflammatory benefits.
Spiritual Benefits
The ORMUS in Crowning Glory ORMUS Oil strengthens the light body, thus supporting and perfecting the physical body. ORMUS helps one to feel more connected, raises conciousness levels, and helps one to realize their Higher Self.
In 1998 a Scottish study using this essential oil blend was conducted by Isabelle C. Hay and colleagues from the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. They took 86 people with alopecia and divided them into two groups. The first group was given a formula of lavender, thyme, cedarwood, and rosemary in a carrier of grapeseed oil to massage into their scalp daily. The other group was given just the carrier oil with no essential oils added. At the end of seven months, the study showed that 44% of the people who used the essential oil formula had improvement in their alopecia. And their formula did not even include ORMUS!
Martin Pytela, Health, January 18, 2012 9:06 am
Bergamot, Citrus bergamia
|
| Botanical Name |
Citrus bergamia |
| Essence |
Calming Relaxing Refreshing Uplifting |
| Function |
Bergamot is used to calm and relax anxiety and fear and to provide stability to the emotions. It has an uplifting and refreshing effect on depression and physical or psychological exhaustion. It is a strong antiseptic and may be used as a mouthwash or for skin infections. It has been used to reduce fever when applied as a compress, to assist people stop smoking. It assists with regulating the appetite and could help anorexia. |
| Usage |
Bergamot essential oil is derived by cold-pressing the peel of the bergamot fruit. It blends well with other oils, such as cedarwood, geranium, neroli, and chamomile. Compress – apply to reduce fever. Diffuse – 4 drops to assist respiratory problems and kill bacteria. Bath – 5 drops mixed in a carrier oil/bath salts/dispersant to soothe your worries away while providing your problem skin with a healing treatment. |
| Aromatherapy |
Emotional imbalance, anxiety, stress, depression, fever-reducing, relieving cramps, clarifying |
| Caution |
As with most citrus Essential Oils, Bergamot is photosensitive. Do not apply directly to the skin. |
Featured Product:
Fast action to help prevent emotional outbursts.
 Each aura infusion is carefully harmonized to trigger a profound shift in your physiology.
Your subtle fields control your emotions. Your emotions control your thinking. Your thinking controls your physiology. Your physiology controls your existence.
Here is a tool that lets you shift your reality easily and effortlessly.
Calming effects to assist the transformation of anger, impatience, frustration and irritation into energy that can be used constructively. Fits great with adolescents in the house, living in a group home, conflict resolution meetings, divorce proceedings, and even autistic kids.
Uses
- Calm anger
- Calm impatience
- Decrease frustration
- Prevent outbursts
- Transform anger
- Stabilize nerves
- Tantra work
- Anger management
- Getting along
Martin Pytela, Emotional Health, Health, January 17, 2012 9:30 am
Basil, Ocimum basilicum
|
| Botanical Name |
Ocimum basilicum |
| Essence |
A Tonic for Fragile Nerves |
| Function |
This familiar herbal oil alleviates depression, sharpens the senses, encourages concentration. Use to calm hysteria, nausea, vomiting. Alleviate headaches/migraine. Allergies, sinus congestion, asthma, flu, acne. |
| Usage |
Add a few drops in skin and hair care products. Dab on insect stings and bites. 10-15 drops in a 60 ml container of carrier oil massaged on the stomach will assist controlling vomiting and nausea.
Diffused in a room will clear the head and assist with concentration. |
| Aromatherapy |
clarifying, uplifting, energizing, strengthening, refreshing. |
| Caution |
Do not use during pregnancy. Use this oil sparingly it may irritate the skin and seem overpowering. |
The reduction of many chronic conditions has been attributed to the properties of Holy Basil (sometimes known as Tulsi).
Many Uses for Holy Basil
Natural Antiseptic
Antimicrobial, antiviral and antifungal to guard against colds and flus.
Respiratory Problems
Helps all disorders that are related to your throat and lungs.
Skin Conditions
Cleanses your skin, treats acne, prevents and reduces pimples & rashes, and treats eczema.
Calms Tension, Headaches and Body Pain
Helps to calm your body and relax your mind. Used to treat stress and anxiety, emotional tension and depression. Natural pain killing properties and helps release muscle spasms, hence it’s relaxing.
Abdominal Disorders
Improves digestion, prevents gas and has some mild laxative effects to treat constipation. Also helps improve appetite.
Inflammation
Suppresses any kind of inflammation throughout your body.
Heart and Cardiovascular Diseases
Traditionally used to lower cholesterol and the risk of heart disease, stroke and arthritis.
Provides strength and blood supply to your heart muscle.
Holy Basil, also known as Tulsi, has been used for thousands of years in Ayurveda for its diverse healing properties. It is mentioned by Charaka in the Charaka Samhita, an ancient Ayurvedic text.
Tulsi, which is Sanskrit for “the incomparable one”. Marked by its strong aroma and astringent taste, it is regarded in Ayurveda as a kind of “elixir of life” and believed to promote longevity.
Traditionally, tulsi is taken in many forms: as herbal tea, dried powder, fresh leaf, or mixed with ghee. Essential oil extracted from Karpoora Tulsi is mostly used for herbal cosmetics, and is widely used in skin preparations due to its antibacterial activity.
Martin Pytela, Health, January 16, 2012 9:28 am
Ancient History
 Essential oils are the oldest and some of the most powerful therapeutic agents known to man. They have a long history of use in healing and in religious ceremony throughout the ancient world, as well as their use as fragrance.
Some, particularly frankincense, are cited repeatedly in many Judeo-Christian and Muslim religious texts. They were used to cure every ailment “from gout to a broken head.” Others, such as myrrh, lotus, and sandalwood oils were widely used in ancient Egyptian purification and embalming rituals. Still others, such as clove and lemon, were highly valued as antiseptics hundreds of years before the discovery of modern antiseptics.
Aromatics, as they were called, were some of the most prized treasures of the ancient world – they were traded for gold, silver, and even slaves.
To understand how valuable essential oils were in ancient Egypt, records show that when Tutankhamen’s tomb was opened in 1922, 350 liters of oil were discovered in alabaster jars. Amazingly, the plant waxes had solidified around the openings of the jars, sealing and preserving the oils!
The National Geographic reported in October of 1985 that almost 1,000 years before Christ, dynasties of the ancient world were fighting over the lucrative incense market. Caravans of 3,000 camels transported costly frankincense along the Frankincense Trail, a 2,400-mile-long road that stretched from southern Arabia to the coast of Israel.
It appears that the ancient Egyptians were the first to recognize the therapeutic potential of essential oils. They created fragrances for personal use as well as for ritualistic and ceremonial use in the temples and pyramids. In 1817, the 870 foot long Ebers Papyrus, dating back to 1500 B.C., was discovered. It listed over 800 herbal prescriptions and remedies. Many mixtures were composed of myrrh oil and honey. Myrrh was most often used for embalming, due to its effectiveness in preventing bacterial growth.
Modern Rediscovery
The modern rediscovery of the value of essential oils is attributed to French cosmetic chemist, René-Maurice Gattefossé, Ph.D. In July of 1910, a lab explosion set him aflame. After extinguishing the flames, he discovered that his hands were quickly developing gas gangrene. But just one rinse with lavender essential oil stopped the horrible process. Healing began the next day.
His discovery was quite accidental — he had plunged his arm into a vessel that he assumed was water. But it actually contained pure lavender oil (Lavendula officinalis). With regular application of lavender oil, the wound healed without a scar. When he investigated the chemistry of the oil, he discovered that some of its chemical components had tremendous healing properties.
Essential oils are highly concentrated natural plant extracts; a drop or two can produce significant results. An entire plant, when distilled, might produce only a single drop of essential oil. That is why their potency is far greater than dried herbs. Pressing or distillation extracts the subtle, volatile liquids (meaning they evaporate quickly) from plants, shrubs, flowers, trees, roots, bushes, and seeds, that make up essential oils.
Essential oils are the life-blood of the plant, protecting it from bacterial and viral infections, cleansing breaks in its tissue and delivering oxygen and nutrients into the cells. In essence, they act as the immune system of the plant. That is why they are so essential to the plant — without them, plants could not survive.
In the human body, they have a similar action — such as transporting valuable nutrients to the cells; increasing oxygen intake, and digesting toxic waste in the blood. This is because the three primary elements – carbon, hydrogen and oxygen-are common to both human beings and essential oils. This shared chemistry makes essential oils one of the most compatible of all plant substances with human biochemistry.
Martin Pytela, Health, January 13, 2012 8:38 am
 In nature, serrapeptase is produced by a bacteria that lives in the intestinal tract of the silk worm. There is absolutely no way to extract enough serrapeptase from nature to support the world’s consumption of serrapeptase. What is actually used to meet the global demand for serrapeptase is serratia peptidase. Serratia peptidase, is a proteolytic enzyme isolated from the non-pathogenic enterobacteria Serratia E15. This bacteria is cultured to produce, through batch fermentation, the necessary amount of serratia peptidase to meet global demand. At this point, however, the actual silk worm has nothing to do with the enzymes that make it into our (or anyone else’s) products. And thus, silk worms are not harmed.
This organic material (insect enzyme protein) is not a human food, not a drug, not a medicine by itself. It is a harmless protein needed in the silkworm life cycle to open an escape port for the mature pupa to take up life as an adult silkworm. It breaks apart only dead tissue. Taking as little as 10 mg. half an hour before a meal three times a day can assist the immune system. If you are not sick, it can be used as a preventative measure against the ill effects of a diet rich in partially hydrogenated fats.
To determine whether you are the victim of hydrogenated fats, read the labels of everything you eat that has a label. If the words ?partially hydrogenated? appear anywhere on the label, you are ingesting the single most effective means of coating your entire cardiovascular system of arteries and capillaries with patching plaster (cholesterol) and calcium (artery hardening). The degeneration of your blood delivery system is everywhere in your body- from the scalp to the soles of your feet, especially including the hair thin capillaries in your brain.
Probably the easiest way to get a stroke, or series of strokes (that may go unnoticed), is to eat candy bars all day, and slather margarine on everything instead of bovine milk butter. Hydrogenated fats are also called ?trans-fatty acids.? Biochemistry literature is soaked in research proving beyond argument that trans-fatty acids are anti-nutrition toxins that cannot be digested normally and directly cause hardening of the arteries throughout the body.
Hydrogenation is the chemical process of superheating a vegetable oil in the presence of hydrogen with nickel as a catalyst. An extra hydrogen atom is injected into each molecule of vegetable fat. This stiffens the otherwise liquid vegetable fat. Between the super heat and the extra atom, a never before seen non-food ingestible is created.
If you take serrapeptase as suggested here, add in a 1/4 teaspoon (1 gram) of calcium ascorbate (which is the real vitamin C) crystals dissolved in distilled water along with at least 500 milligrams (1/8 teaspoon) of any bioflavonoid (such as quercetin) at the same time you ingest the serrapeptase. This will trigger growth of healthy new tissue as the old crud is dissolved out. Moreover, it will detoxify a variety of toxins that will be freed from the plaque to float around looking for a new home inside your pipes.
Martin Pytela, Health, January 12, 2012 8:42 am
by Dr. Michael T. Murray
Introduction
 Proteolytic enzymes (or proteases) refer to the various enzymes that digest (break down into smaller units) protein. These enzymes include the pancreatic proteases chymotrypsin and trypsin, bromelain (pineapple enzyme), papain (papaya enzyme), fungal proteases, and Serratia peptidase (the “silk worm” enzyme). Preparations of proteolytic enzymes have been shown to be useful in the following situations: Cancer, Digestion support, Fibrocystic breast disease, Food allergies, Hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis), Hepatitis C, Herpes zoster(shingles), Inflammation, sports injuries and trauma, Pancreatic insufficiency, Multiple sclerosis,Rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune disorders, Sinusitis, asthma, bronchitis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Proteolytic enzymes in cancer therapy
Proteolytic enzymes have a long history of use in cancer treatment. In 1906, John Beard, a Scottish embryologist, reported on the successful treatment of cancer using a pancreatic extract in his book The Enzyme Treatment of Cancer and its Scientific Basis. Proteolytic enzymes have been promoted by numerous alternative cancer practitioners for many years, but most recently by Nicholas Gonzalez, M.D., who is evaluating the benefit of proteolytic enzymes in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer in a large-scale study, funded by the National Institute of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, with collaboration from the National Cancer Institute. This larger trial is a follow-up to a smaller study that showed dramatic improvements in these patients. [1]
What clinical research has been done with proteolytic enzymes in cancer?
The clinical research that currently exists on proteolytic enzymes suggests significant benefits in the treatment of many forms of cancer. [2] Specifically these studies have shown improvements in the general condition of patients, quality of life, and modest to significant improvements in life expectancy. Studies have consisted of patients with cancers of the breast lung, stomach, head and neck, ovaries, cervix, and colon; and lymphomas and multiple myeloma. These studies involved the use of proteolytic enzymes in conjunction with conventional therapy (surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiation) indicating that proteolytic enzymes can be used safely and effectively with these treatments. Proteolytic enzymes are not recommended for at least two days before or after a surgery as they may increase the risk of bleeding. Proteolytic enzymes have been shown to be quite helpful in speeding up post-surgical recovery and relieving a complication of surgery and radiation known as lymphedema.
Martin Pytela, Health, January 11, 2012 8:19 am
 Natto, a fermented soybean derivative, a soy cheese that has been a staple in the Japanese diet, contains an important enzyme named Nattokinase, that helps maintain healthy blood. Blood has a sticky quality that helps it clot and stop the bleeding from wounds. When a wound occurs, blood platelets rush to the wound site and cause a series of reactions that produce strands of fibrin. These fibrin strands form a thin, web-like structure that covers the wound and stops the bleeding.
Research has established that these fibrin strands are the main cause of sluggish blood, so researchers next began looking for a substance that would act to maintain healthy levels of fibrin. That breakthrough discovery was Nattokinase, a natural, food-based supplement that supports healthier fibrin levels so that blood flows at a faster rate, reducing blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
What Is Nattokinase?
Nattokinase is a potent fibrinolytic enzyme extracted and highly purified from a traditional Japanese food called Natto. Natto is a fermented cheese-like food that has been used in Japan for over 1000 years for its popular taste and as a folk remedy for heart and vascular diseases. Natto is produced by a fermentation process by adding Bacillus natto, a benefical bacteria, to boiled soybeans. The resulting nattokinase enzyme, is produced when Bacillus natto acts on the soybeans. While other soy foods contain enzymes, it is only the natto preparation that contains the specific nattokinase enzyme.
The Discovery of Nattokinase
Doctor Hiroyuki Sumi had long researched thrombolytic enzymes searching for a natural agent that could successfully dissolve thrombus associated with cardiac and cerebral infarction (blood clots associated with heart attacks and stroke). Sumi discovered nattokinase in 1980 while working as a researcher and majoring in physiological chemistry at University of Chicago Medical School. After testing over 173 natural foods as potential thrombolytic agents, Sumi found what he was looking for when Natto was dropped onto artificial thrombus (fibrin) in a Petri dish and allowed it to stand at 37 C (approximately body temperature). The thrombus around the natto dissolved gradually and had completely dissolved within 18 hours. Sumi named the newly discovered enzyme “nattokinase”, which means “enzyme in natto”. Sumi commented that nattokinase showed “a potency matched by no other enzyme.
Martin Pytela, Health, January 10, 2012 8:21 am
| | |
