I've dabbled in a few essential oils for the past year. Until lately, my use of these essential oils has been limited to breathing water mist that's infused with them. When I sleep, I would breathe them in. While it feels good, I have this feeling that I'm not really deriving much benefit from using them, but this is mainly based on my feeling. Yet I always have this feeling that a lot of the essential oil goes to waste. Most of the mist from the diffuser doesn't go directly to me, but is spread around the room. So, maybe why I don't get these benefits, other than the feel good effect, is that the method of delivery is simply ineffective.
Last October, I went on a farm tour in Taiwan for 4 days. I went to a quasi-farm that makes essential oils ( I call it quasi as most of the essential oils they sell are imported from elsewhere). They showed me to use the essential oils by rubbing them with both my palms, and cupping my palm over my nose, and breathing them slowly. I already knew from reading about essential oils that a good, if not the best, way to use essential oils is through breathing them in, as this is a good way of getting these oils into the bloodstream. So, ever since that time, I've started using essential oils this way (with a few exceptions, like oregano, which needs to be diluted in a carrier to dilute them, as they burn the skin and the mucosa when undiluted). But it wasn't until yesterday that I began to think of not doing it half-heartedly, but with a belief that it could be a significant part of my healing process.
I came across an review on supplements and meds that could work on destroying biofilms based on a periodontal bacteria, p. gingivalis, and having learned last year that my hypertension is likely to have its roots in periodontal bacteria in my vascular system, I took a great interest in this article. I am trying out all the meds and supplements I can get my hands on now:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5405727/pdf/zjom-9-1300366.pdf
I've been trying many of them, and my approach has been as methodical as throwing the kitchen sink at them, Not quite really, as I have to research each substance to be sure I know how it helps in terms of its mechanism of action, before I use it. It's too early to tell whether I'm improving, as it's been only about two weeks, and I'm giving it time for the effects to kick in.
Back to the essential oils: Of all the essential oils recommended, I've only managed to find one, which is cilantro essential oil. The rest of the oils are just so hard to find, such as shiitake essential oil. But I've got some other oils already that are anti-microbial just the same, so I'll just make do with them: eucalyptus, tea tree, cassia cinnamon, ylang-ylang, and a blend called Warrior, an immune defense blend (consisting of oregano, frankincense, clove bud, lemon, cinnamon bark, eucalyptus, and rosemary) from HopewellOils.com
Starting today, I'm going to do 2 rounds of inhaling of these oils - one in the morning, and the other before I turn in at night. I'm keeping tabs on my blood pressure, my heart rate, my blood glucose, and my temperature each day, and see how these stats improve. I'll also make note of slight changes in the slight arthritic pains in my hip and my knee, the lushness of my hair, my energy fluctuations during the day, and the quality of my erections.
And as the hard-to-find oils become available, I'll incorporate them into my daily essential oil breathing routine.
It had to take a trip to Taiwan to open my eyes to this way of using essential oils. It makes sense to me, but I wonder why this isn't as popular as the diffuser method. After all, isn't this more bang for the buck? Granted, it's more time consuming as you have to be cupping your palms around your nose and breathing in the essential oils.
Lastly, I read on another thread that there's concern on essential oils (EO) being estrogenic. I'm not going to question that claim; I'm accepting that as a warning to not overdo this, and to be on guard against the side effects. And I have pregnenolone and progesterone on hand to balance things, just in case. At the same time, though, I feel that this is a case of trading one devil for another, and I may just be choosing the lesser devil. An ongoing bacterial infection, low-grade in my case, is stressful. It may be estrogenic already in its effects. So the risk in using EO is balanced by the estrogen-lowering effect of lowering bacterial infection thru its use.
Please share comments and advise in case I have missed something. Thanks.
Last October, I went on a farm tour in Taiwan for 4 days. I went to a quasi-farm that makes essential oils ( I call it quasi as most of the essential oils they sell are imported from elsewhere). They showed me to use the essential oils by rubbing them with both my palms, and cupping my palm over my nose, and breathing them slowly. I already knew from reading about essential oils that a good, if not the best, way to use essential oils is through breathing them in, as this is a good way of getting these oils into the bloodstream. So, ever since that time, I've started using essential oils this way (with a few exceptions, like oregano, which needs to be diluted in a carrier to dilute them, as they burn the skin and the mucosa when undiluted). But it wasn't until yesterday that I began to think of not doing it half-heartedly, but with a belief that it could be a significant part of my healing process.
I came across an review on supplements and meds that could work on destroying biofilms based on a periodontal bacteria, p. gingivalis, and having learned last year that my hypertension is likely to have its roots in periodontal bacteria in my vascular system, I took a great interest in this article. I am trying out all the meds and supplements I can get my hands on now:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5405727/pdf/zjom-9-1300366.pdf
I've been trying many of them, and my approach has been as methodical as throwing the kitchen sink at them, Not quite really, as I have to research each substance to be sure I know how it helps in terms of its mechanism of action, before I use it. It's too early to tell whether I'm improving, as it's been only about two weeks, and I'm giving it time for the effects to kick in.
Back to the essential oils: Of all the essential oils recommended, I've only managed to find one, which is cilantro essential oil. The rest of the oils are just so hard to find, such as shiitake essential oil. But I've got some other oils already that are anti-microbial just the same, so I'll just make do with them: eucalyptus, tea tree, cassia cinnamon, ylang-ylang, and a blend called Warrior, an immune defense blend (consisting of oregano, frankincense, clove bud, lemon, cinnamon bark, eucalyptus, and rosemary) from HopewellOils.com
Starting today, I'm going to do 2 rounds of inhaling of these oils - one in the morning, and the other before I turn in at night. I'm keeping tabs on my blood pressure, my heart rate, my blood glucose, and my temperature each day, and see how these stats improve. I'll also make note of slight changes in the slight arthritic pains in my hip and my knee, the lushness of my hair, my energy fluctuations during the day, and the quality of my erections.
And as the hard-to-find oils become available, I'll incorporate them into my daily essential oil breathing routine.
It had to take a trip to Taiwan to open my eyes to this way of using essential oils. It makes sense to me, but I wonder why this isn't as popular as the diffuser method. After all, isn't this more bang for the buck? Granted, it's more time consuming as you have to be cupping your palms around your nose and breathing in the essential oils.
Lastly, I read on another thread that there's concern on essential oils (EO) being estrogenic. I'm not going to question that claim; I'm accepting that as a warning to not overdo this, and to be on guard against the side effects. And I have pregnenolone and progesterone on hand to balance things, just in case. At the same time, though, I feel that this is a case of trading one devil for another, and I may just be choosing the lesser devil. An ongoing bacterial infection, low-grade in my case, is stressful. It may be estrogenic already in its effects. So the risk in using EO is balanced by the estrogen-lowering effect of lowering bacterial infection thru its use.
Please share comments and advise in case I have missed something. Thanks.
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